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472 memories found. Showing results 51 to 60.

Early Years In Park Road

Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. ...Read more

A memory of Tanyfron by Ann Evans

St. Mary's High School

I'm wondering if anyone remembers St. Mary's High School in Western Road. I attended the school when I was very young in 1946-9, before my family emigrated first to Canada, then to the USA. My best friends were Zena O'Shea, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1949

Ward End Park

I can remember the boat shed in the park and where the swings used to be. There was a cafe-cum-ice cream seller in the white house and the most beautiful greenhouse full of strange plants that to a child looked very scary. ...Read more

A memory of Washwood Heath

School And Before

I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by John Mac Dougall

The Odeon

Every Saturday morning my brother Frank and sister Lorna and I were there for the children's matinee so much fun. We were born during WWII and I remember how close our neighborhood was and the Odeon was part of it. When I got a little ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Jennifer Bibb

My Dads Shop

I always remember my dad's tuck shop in Idle, we were the end cottage on Albion Road next to the school. I was only 5 years old when we moved away but it's funny how memories, even at such a young age, stay with you. I remember walking ...Read more

A memory of Idle in 1963 by Christine Collins Nee Furby

Pwll Y Crochan Woods

My late father was born in Colwyn Bay and his father and some of his relatives resided in Grove Park.  Every year my parents and my siblings had to visit the relatives, especially one we called Aunty Polly who I think was ...Read more

A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1947 by Susan Jones

Early Memories

My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by Anthony Kerrison

The Real Winters Of The 1940s

I recall, with the occasional shudder, the freezing cold winters of the 1940s. I spent Saturday evenings earning a couple of shillings (that's 10p to you youngsters!!) working from 4.30pm to 6.00pm selling ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1948 by Neil Mac Gregor

Childhood Memories

My Granny & Papa lived in the shepherds house in Kettleholm. William and Margaret Morrison. I loved to go and visit them or sleep over. I have lots of memories playing there as a child, watching my Papa bowling, or my dad, ...Read more

A memory of Kettleholm by Marjory Mitford

Captions

169 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Bowling Green C1955

Sited imperiously overlooking the bowling green is the fine Victorian residence Merevale; its foundation stone is dated 7 September 1893.

Caption For Port Sunlight, Bolton Road Bowling Green C1965

Bowls is a quintessentially English sporting activity, and it appealed to the founder of the project.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1960

Parish boundaries cross and re-cross with those of Myerscough and Barton - one boundary cuts through the bowling green of the Roebuck Inn, as it was known in earlier days.

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1960

Tennis courts and bowling greens and other sports facilities, which were funded by Chigwell Urban District, were made available for local people.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Morecambe, The Tower From Central Promenade C1950

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park 1895

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds.

Caption For Bingley, From Altar Row 1894

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

Caption For Oving, Post Office C1955

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens.

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.

Caption For Littleborough, Lake Hotel Cafe C1950

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling

Caption For Newark, The Ossington Coffee Palace C1965

As well as the coffee tavern, the building provided clubrooms, a library and a bowling alley to distract the citizens from the Demon Drink.