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Rochester Dwellings.

I used to live in 10 U Block. I was born in 1935 and now at 87, I live in Katsuura, Japan. When the war broke out in 1939 I was evacuated to Dukes Wood Boarding School in Hexham. An excellent school where I received an excellent ...Read more

A memory of Walker by John Curran

Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Laleham Ghost

I was sitting on the riverbank seat at the end of Blacksmiths Lane with another girl and three boys, we were laughing and chatting one summer evening at about 8pm. Suddenly and simultaneously, we saw a hooded monk like figure dressed in ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1962 by Susan Baker

Days Gone By

Stumbled across this site and have enjoyed the memories of old barking and the shops it had, thought that I should add my recollections and fill in a few blanks from the sixties and seventies, so starting from the Bull Pub and Heading ...Read more

A memory of Barking by andycairns

Happy Youth

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned in ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

My Days In Rosedale Abbey

My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by fichrist

Upney Lane

I was born in the Cottage Hospital in Upney Lane in 1950 and lived in Beccles Drive (Glenny Estate) until I married in 1976. My grandparents lived at 26 Upney Lane, next door to Mr and Mrs Welch (Vera Lynn's mother and father). I can ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1953 by Susan Mitchell

Prefabs In Ripple Road Dagenham 1947 To 1959

I was born in Upney hospital in July 1947 and lived in a prefab at 703 Ripple Road. Opposite was a bone/scrap yard and along the road the Ship & Shovel pub. I went to Campbell and Dawson schools and ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Maureen Morris

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small listening ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Dukeshouse Wood Camp School Hexham (Part One)

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

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Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill And Bridge 1890

This view was taken looking east from Bridge Street past the bridge across the mill stream (the river itself is out of shot a hundred yards away to the right), which was dug for the abbey in the 10th century

Caption For Abingdon, The Lock From Downstream 1890

Two hundred yards upstream from photograph 26987 is Abingdon Lock.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey C1900

Here we see the west front of the abbey, with a lonely horse-bus passing the Crimean memorial.

Caption For Studley Royal, Fountains Hall C1885

All the stone used in the building came from the ruins of the abbey, a hundred yards away.

Caption For Selby, Old Toll Bridge 1918

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

Caption For Selby, Old Toll Bridge 1918

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

Caption For Abingdon, The Boat House 1890

Stevens's Boatyard on the east end of Nag's Head Island also incorporated the landing stage for the Crown and Thistle Hotel in Bridge Street, some hundred yards away from the river.

Caption For Heysham, St Peter's Church, South Side 1892

We are looking at the leeward side from the entrance to the church- yard.