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Born On Sutton Flats
I was born on Sutton Flats (now demolished) Pendleton in 1941. My first vague memory was sitting under a table with a blanket draped over it and a lit candle (must have been an air-raid on at the time). My first real memory was a ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Those Were The Days!
I attended Redditch County High School from 1962-69. This is a picture of the senior block and one of the quadrangles. All the corridors connecting the classrooms were open to the elements, even in winter, so the rain, snow and hail came in ...Read more
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Life Above Corals Coal Shop
my parents moved to an empty flat above the coral coal shop in bank street.my Father worked for corals coal as a delivery driver.The flat was an extra bonus i was born in Dover 1954 and when we left there we moved to a place ...Read more
A memory of Ashford
Lyons Corner House
I remember the coffee shop too. We always had to rush past as Mum couldn't bear the smell of fresh roasting coffee. We would go into Lyons and I would always have a sausage roll with my drink. Happy days.
A memory of Bromley by
We're My Roots Lay
I was born in Kelstern 1954, the house I was born in my gran and grandads was next door to the school, sorry to say neither of these exist today, but times move on as they say. My grandparents were Bert and Margery Vickers. My ...Read more
A memory of Kelstern by
Belgians In Birtley.
Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more
A memory of Birtley by
War Time In Shirley
I was born in Croydon in 1936, and lived In West Way, Shirley. My mother could not bear to part with us, so we lived at home all through the war. A bomb was dropped into the garden next door. After six months it was discovered it had ...Read more
A memory of Shirley by
Flete House
The memories that Mary Impey has voiced bear a resemblance to my own. I have always had a memory from very young of being in some sort of establishment with the panelled walls Mary mentioned and rows of babies' cots and even the sun ...Read more
A memory of Pamflete Ho
The People Of Kilfinan
The year my mum and dad got married in Kilfinan Church. My mum was born and brought up in Kilfinan Post Office where my granny, Mrs Maclachlan was the post mistress for many of my childhood years. I don't actually remember the ...Read more
A memory of Kilfinan in 1951 by
The Black Bear
In the late 50's early 60's my aunty Doreen and uncle Harold Willbye ran the Black Bear in Biggleswade. I loved going there, the old pub with stables out the back was fantastic as were the walks with their dog Dusty down by the ...Read more
A memory of Biggleswade in 1960 by
Captions
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Overlooking the Market Square is the Black Bear Inn.
The area in front of the Bear Hotel has now been extended into the road to provide space for outside tables.
In the distance we can just glimpse the Georgian facade of The Bear Hotel.
and the pedestrian crossing marked with belisha beacons in the middle of the photograph, show little indication of the enormous weight of motor traffic which this section of the main High Street had to bear
Below the Town Clock the blackened sandstone of Holy Trinity Church bears witness to the effects of industrial pollution.
A hundred years earlier in Eckington there were another five inns and taverns in the town: the Rose and Crown, the Duke of York, the Coach and Horses (whose landlord Jas Robinson was also a spring knife
They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.
This view shows the King's Head, which bears the date 1697.
The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.
It is interesting to note the variety of eating places in this photograph; at least two bear the title 'Ye Olde...' - a familiar designation for many business establishments during the 20th century.
The two porches bear the inscription '1656 GPITS' and 'TCI'.
The clock was added in 1909, and the hall bears the motto of the Savile family: 'Be Fast'.
Even in 1903, the un-made-up road surface bears mute witness to the substantial amount of horse-drawn traffic it carried daily.
Belfast is pleasantly situated at the end of the lough that bears its name.
In the last century the landlord of the Britannia kept a pet bear, which regularly escaped to wander round the village!
The bell on the sign bears the motto 'I call for the living, I toll for the dead, I scatter the lightning'.
This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.
His tomb bears an anchor tied to a cross with the epitaph 'And so He bringeth them into the haven where they would be'.
Here we see yet another half-timbered inn, the Red Lion, bearing testimony to the importance of the town in medieval and coaching days.
This is a typical lodge house of the Ailesbury Estate variety; it bears Gothic features such as the ornate barge-boards and detailing to the eaves.
The Saxon crosses are just behind the Black Bear pub on the left, which has the date of 1634 just above the entrance.
The bell on the sign bears the motto 'I call for the living, I toll for the dead, I scatter the lightning'.
There is a classical-style bridge of steel and stone there now, decorated with Bocking's armorial bearings.
Here we see yet another half-timbered inn, the Red Lion, bearing testimony to the importance of the town in medieval and coaching days.
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