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Map of Dumfriesshire
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Growing up in Purley
When I lived in Purley, there weren't many stores. I can remember when Sainsbury's opened across from Purley Fountain. There was a toy shop in the High Street called Morgan's. I stole a whistle from there when I was not very old. I can remember it to this day. It was yellow plastic with one of those pea things in that made the whistling noice. I must have taken it home but I was soon on my way back to Morgan's to return the whistle and apologise for stealing it!
We lived in Dale Road and there was a row of shops along the Godstone Road. A greengrocer's, Mr King's the grocers, Mr Nicholls newsagents, Mr Burrough's the tobacconist and ...read more here
A memory of Purley contributed by Liz Williams
Swimming at Reedham Orphanage
I went to Whyteleafe Grammar school. At the time it was an all girls grammar school. We used to go on a coach to swim at Reedham Orphanage. I didn't know how to swim and I can remember to this day, telling Miss Edwards, the phys ed. teacher who was very strict, that I had read in a book that if you put your shoulders under the water, you would be able to swim and I asked if this was true! She said why didn't I try it and see! I can't remember if it worked. All I can remember is that it was an indoor pool but it had leaves and stuff in the ...read more here
A memory of Purley contributed by Liz Williams
Royal Family travelling through Reedham Train Station
I remember standing on the station platform to see the Royal Family pass through on the Royal Train. I have no recollection of where they were travelling to and I'm a bit hazy on the year.
We all wore our best clothes and stood waving. The train slowed down as it passed through the station. Then about 3 or 4 days later we did the same on the other side.
Myself and my two sisters, Janet and Eileen Hall were all at Reedham Orphanage. We were at Reedham from 1935 to about 1947/48.
A memory of Purley contributed by Chris Wallis
Unchanged Northwood !
We moved to Northwood in 1978 and the shops in Green Lane were pretty much like this view. Maybe there were yellow lines on the road to stop parking! Just beyond the lorry on the right of the picture was a small department store which I recall had a toy department downstairs - our young son David bought a stuffed toy rabbit there in 1980. He will be 31 next month (February 2008) and I think we still have that rabbit tucked away in a cardboard box for our granddaughter Annalise to play with! Further down the road on the right is Oaklands Gate - a short cul-de-sac leading to the library and the Methodist Church. In the late 1970s the ...read more here
A memory of Northwood contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Mill Hill & Dumfriesshire books
Arts and Crafts-style buildings, and the churches of St Michael and All Angels and the Sacred Heart and St Mary Immaculate set the pace and quality at this new Mill Hill, away from the old centre but close to the railway. A reminder of the area’s agrarian ancestry is to be found in Goodwyn Avenue, where the early 18th-century Lawrence Farmhouse stands, now indifferently converted to offices.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Well-designed bollards and street signs front a typical road-house at the junction of the Great North Road with the lesser east-west Elstree to Chipping Barnet Road. It is difficult not to feel a certain nostalgia for this grassy, almost rural roundabout.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect on a pre-dual carriageway Great North Road. There are tree-lined verges of considerable width, and two or three cars and cyclists little knowing the madness of dual carriageway traffic engineering that is just around the corner.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Watford Way, running down to the North Circular Road from the M1 motorway, looks definitely under-used in 1960. It would have been pleasant enough to live alongside a relatively up-market road of wide verges and young trees, illuminated by attractive street lighting. Today traffic streams in all directions, and residents sit looking out from behind noise-reducing double-glazed windows.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony. The shop front of W H Smith & Son is well-designed, and Barclay’s Bank used a reticent, yet confident, typescript on their fascias. A precursor to the deterioration in town and village centre design is to be seen in the refenestration of the first floor to W H Smiths.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".