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Croydon
My first time visiting this site and a message from "Simon" prompted me to add a message. I too remember with fond memories the old Parish Church Infants School. I remember my first day to Facing the church was a pathway on the left leading to ...Read more
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Windmill Road, Brentford 1945
My parents, Nora & Harold (Jock) Palmer, lived at 112 Windmill Road, Brentford where I was brought up, along with my twin brother David and older brother Michael. Later we were joined by sister Janis and brother Jeremy ...Read more
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Growing Up In Mitcham
I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more
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Horrible Place
We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home from ...Read more
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The Pond And The Common And The Lido
Although we lived in Balham, many hours were spent on the common and the pond en-route to the open air swimming pool. I can remember with fondness, especially during the summer holiday, as money was in ...Read more
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Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
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The Gamekeeper At Rousdon Manor Peek Estate
Hi, I am Louise Brown of Australia. My grandmother Ellen Maud Edwards (married name Jefferis) lived with her parents Samuel and Alice Maud Edwards (Searle), at the cliff Cottage on the Peek Estates around the ...Read more
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Cinemas In Croydon
I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, but ...Read more
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Happy Days In Coulsdon, 1947 To 1955
Born in Purley Hospital in 1947, we lived in Bramley Avenue for the first 2 years of my life, but of course I have no memories of that. We then moved to 30 Grove Wood Hill, which is off Woodcote Grove Road. I had a ...Read more
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The Visitation Convent Bridport Dorset.
For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring at ...Read more
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A classic view of the Stamford skyline from the water meadows.
Cleanliness in the 12th and 13th centuries was certainly next to Godliness.
Bognor, further east along the coast beyond Selsey Bill, grew up from a small fishing village and is one of the earliest Sussex sea-bathing resorts.
Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.
Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.
Cleanliness in the 12th and 13th centuries was certainly next to Godliness.
The Royal Infirmary, with its high dome and clock face, lords it over Piccadilly.
Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.
Mixed bathing (even for children) was forbidden.
Bathing machines, tents and cabins were rented out by George Johnson & Son until 1912.
The huge carriage works (right) have long since gone, to be replaced in the 1980s by the entrance to the Tesco supermarket development.
We are looking back from Bath Square, with the General Post Office on the right.
This used to be the path where fishermen carried pilchards and herrings to trade for local produce.
A charming view showing Huntcliffe with the pier in front.
The High Street used to be the main Norwich to London road.
Langford's tents have now taken the place of Dendy's bathing machines.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a frequent visitor to Bridge of Allan when the town was a popular Victorian spa complete with pump room and baths.
Bathing machines are lined up near the sea wall.
The buildings in the foreground are part of the recently completed Spa complex.
Bathing machines can be seen in abundance in this view.
Children play with their toy yachts in the dedicated Children's Corner at Ventnor.
It never happened, because of the limited suitability of the sea bathing available.
By the late 1920s, not a bathing machine graces the water's edge in this view of the crowded Margate Sands, looking towards the Harbour with the Pierhead Lighthouse.
Children bathe in a brook on a hot day in Stanwell.
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