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Sunday Mornings
My mother in law, then Marie Elizabeth Burston born 1921 in Wales, whilst in service at Hartlebury House used to go to church every Sunday morning. The postman played the big organ. Every morning she had to give him and the gardener ...Read more
A memory of Painswick in 1930 by
Happy Memories
I wonder if any remember the Bull and Bush 1960's Recall Steve Barr , Johnny Page Waldemar Hasko Trevor Deacon , Barmaids Carmel and Duffy . Also Girls Sandra who married Graham, Gaynor ,Jette and others. Would particularly like ...Read more
A memory of Hampstead by
Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978
I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were all ...Read more
A memory of Lancing by
Phil Munton
Hi, I've recently discovered this while doing research on a book I am writing and was interested to hear how many people from Selsdon remember their childhood and, in most cases, enjoyed the village as I knew it as a good place to grow up. I ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon by
Caddys
My grandma lived in Batley Carr and we lived in Leeds. I can remember visiting Dewsbury as a little girl with Mum and Dad. There was a market in Dewsbury on a Saturday and I can remember visiting an ice cream parlour. I was delighted to be ...Read more
A memory of Dewsbury
Growing Up In Greenford In The 1960s And 1970s
Here are some random memories: Lists Bakeries on Greenford Broadway. Lovely aroma, tasty bread. The paper bags all used to have the slogan 'Good Flavour Always Finds Favour'. The covered market near ...Read more
A memory of Greenford by
Family Evenings Out.
I cannot remember the exact years, about 1950, when my Mother and Father used to take me and my cousin for a walk from our house at Lensbrook Cottage through six fields (which is a public footpath), and arrive at ...Read more
A memory of Blakeney in 1950
Help Needed
I'm looking for a man called David from Great Barr who used to drive an ice-cream van with his brother in the 1970s. He is believed to be married with two boys, possibly in his 60s or 70s now. Any information, however small, would be gratefully accepted. Thanks.
A memory of Great Barr
Abridge In The 1950's
I moved to Abridge in 1950 when I was ten years old. My parents bought the white cottage on the London Road, which had a wooden building next to it. This very soon became The Poplar Cafe, my mother’s dream of riches! I attended ...Read more
A memory of Abridge in 1955 by
Snowing And Floating
Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and ...Read more
A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by
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Some inns of that name sported splendid antlers as inn signs, as at Goosnargh.
This view is taken from the east, with the Tudor-style chimneys in the distance and the tall two-gabled building on the right, W H Smith, in a simple Jacobean style dating from the 1920s.
Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.
A market town situated on the edge of the Fens, Downham Market's buildings are often constructed from carr-stone, an attractive rust-coloured sandstone characteristic of Norfolk.
Shirley became a location for a number of industries, and two buildings in particular stand out.
The imposing 18th-century Hackness Hall was built here on the site of an old priory to the designs of John Carr's assistant Thomas Atkinson.
Many of the thatched cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's
Around the charming green we can see the old school (centre), later a billiard hall, now restored as a private house.
The old water fountain on the right tells us: 'Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but who drinketh of the water that I give him shall never thirst.'
At the heart of Bishop Alexander's town was the large market place into which the Fosse Way was diverted, although none of the buildings in this view are medieval.
We go back into Hawley Lane and arrive at Hawley School, with Vicarage Lane to the right, just past the school buildings.
We go along the Frimley Green Road, and arrive at Frimley Green, with Wharf Road to the left of the picture.
Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.
The village is viewed from the inland side of Burton Cliff, looking north-eastwards from above Dove Inn and Southover, to St Mary's Church (right).
In any case, it was an ideal place to catch travellers to and from Birmingham, as well as anyone bold enough to travel the notorious Chester Road.
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