Launceston
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The picture house.
How many people remember the picture shows which were held in a hut at the top of the hill. I was one of the London evacuees billeted at Minions, and some of us would walk to the pictures and back again - how far was that! We were at Upton Cross school and I can recall the class being told to bring a lunch to school one day as Mr Bartholomew, our teacher, was to take us up on the moors, I think towards Sharp Tor, to see a bomb crater. Relations of the elderly couple I lived with owned Addicroft Mill, they were George and Ethel Pike, and we loved going there. I believe the Mill was bought at one ...read more here
A memory of Rilla Mill contributed by Eileen Banks
Bluecap
I remember well the Saturday Night Dances at the Bluecap Hotel in the 50's & 60's, now pulled down. The Bull's Head was more up-market. I lived at St Dominick and remember the Cattle Market. I was going to Callington Grammer School when King George V1 and family came to open the Royal Cornwall Show at Callington we all had the day off to go to the Show. There was a Youth Club where we played table tennis etc. and learnt to dance. I have nothing but fond memories of Callington.
A memory of Callington contributed by Brian Furse
Burraton Post Office
Hi Bob. I remember your mother behind the Post Office counter. Your cat used to regularly attack our dog as we passed your front gate on the way to Burraton Park. We both went to Saltash Grammar School in the late fifties. I lived with Mrs Richards at 382 New Road a matter of a couple of hundred yards away near what used to be called the Coronation Inn and later was renamed the Rodney. Roger's shop was further down New Road from us. I believe it is now a Spar Store.
A memory of Burraton contributed by Raymond Guy
Memories.
My mother ran Burraton Post Office from 1950 to about 1990 and sold Frith postcards. The cows are being driven by Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, whose farm was about 300 yards behind the photographer in Liskeard Road, Burraton. The farm was called 'The Elms'. The farmhouse is still there, but is now an old peoples' home called The Elms. The farmland has been built on.
A memory of Burraton contributed by Mr Bob Drew
Extracts From Launceston & Cornwall books
The oval Butter Market was designed by George Wightwick, who simultaneously designed the Lower Market House, which still stands in Market Street and is now an arcade. The Butter Market also provided advertising space for all sorts of businesses, from Treleaven’s outfitters to the Great Western Railway.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
The granite doorway is thought to have come from the ruins of St Thomas’ Priory. The stag that sat above the doorway was taken down during renovations and mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. The gas lamp that lit the entrance is now gone, but the holes for its bracket are still visible.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
Dunheved College, as it was first known, was founded in 1870 by two bankers called Dingley and Pethybridge. The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street. It was here that Plymouth Argyle played their first game in September 1885 — the club had been founded by five Dunheved College Old Boys. Argyle lost 2-0, and have continued in much the same vein since.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen’s Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle on its hill 500 feet above sea level. To the left is the tower of St Mary Magdalene. This view remains almost unchanged today, but with one very important exception: the spire of the Central Methodist church, built in 1870, was demolished in 1984, changing the skyline for ever.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle. The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road. In the foreground, the area right of the road is now a new estate, and opposite is a 1930s brick terrace. The little stone building on the left still stands, and is used as a store.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".