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Massie Harper Licensee.
In my early teens I spent the war years living in this hotel, when my grandfather was the licensee. I believe he held the licence from 1874 to 1943 - a time record I suspect but I cannot confirm this. He was well known in his ...Read more
A memory of Congleton by
My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My grandfather ...Read more
A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1952 by
Eric Smith''''s Greengrocer''''s 21 Lordship Lane Se22
My Dad, Eric Smith, opened a Greengrocer's shop at number 21 Lordship Lane in 1962. At that time there was a traditional butchers shop one side and a grocery shop the other side. Opposite was a piano ...Read more
A memory of Dulwich in 1962 by
First Memories
My father, Richard (Dick) Cherrington was the village policeman in Nether Wallop during World War 2 and I was born in the Police House in the village in August 1944. My first memories ever were of an apple tree in our garden which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1947 by
Nurses Hostel
Started out as isolation hospital for scarlet fever(?) Used as nurses hostel for nurses from Cliveden, they were taken by coach, was at the back of site, backed onto Aspros( later Sara Lee?) factory, they built Westgate School on e ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham by
Learning To Swim On The Rye
I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London Road ...Read more
A memory of High Wycombe by
Jimmy Brown 1925 To Present
My dad Jimmy Brown was born in Greengairs in 1925, he lived with his family in Hill view. He's still going strong and turns 97 next birthday. Is there anyone who knows him as he's the last man standing in his family.
A memory of Greengairs
Lost Father
Hi mine is not a memory but wanting to say my birth father was at Blandford Camp he was training to be a physical trainer his name Brian he never knew I existed as he left the camp before he knew my birth mother was pregnant. They met ...Read more
A memory of Blandford Camp by
My Great Grandfather Mother And Father's Link
My parents often told me this story. My Great Grandfather was John Roberts. His son, my father, Thomas Glyndwr Roberts and my mother Myra Roberts (Evans) as young children were playing on the swings in ...Read more
A memory of Blaenllechau by
The Leeds And Sunderland Cup Final
I watched so many cup finals on black and white television when I was a boy never dreaming of the day that I might actually be there. But it happened in 1973! Would you believe my neighbour was a long retired football ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1973 by
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In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.
John Bright`s father Jacob built a cotton mill at Greenbank in 1809 and John became a partner when he was aged 16.
The village is named after five ash trees on the green.
There are two villages called Ash in Kent.
The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.
John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim and Ramillies, and ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill, may have been born at Ashe House in 1650.
A small boy watches the antics of the Frith cameraman as he positions his camera for this picture of the main road to Sheffield.
Seen on countless calendars, this view of Derwent Water from Ashness Bridge, on the narrow road up to Watendlath, is always popular.
Seen on countless calendars, this view of Derwent Water from Ashness Bridge, on the narrow road up to Watendlath, has long been popular.
Once this area was the entrance to Ludlow's market, with traders paying tolls at the nearby Tolsey (or toll booth).
This fisherman is in reflective mood as he sits on his boat, the 'Dewdrop', and looks out over the fast-expanding township of Grange-over-Sands.
Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).
The long white building has its roots in the 15th century.
A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.
The archway frames the old coach road from London.
Mountain Ash was then a thriving colliery, but the entire South Wales coal industry has been much reduced in subsequent years.
With the camera a relatively unknown instrument in those days, the photographer invariably attracted a gaggle of village children as he went to work.
Castletown lies within the island's carboniferous limestone area.
This fine 14th-century gate rose from the ashes of the Norman one, burnt in the great riots of 1272.
This fine 14th-century gate rose from the ashes of the Norman one, burnt in the great riots of 1272.
Filling stations are no longer allowed to have their pumps directly adjacent to pavements, but in the days of the dependable ash-framed Morris Traveller, it was pretty much the norm.
Leland the traveller recorded that only one tower and a little stonework from the castle remained at the time of his visit.
The people of Gloucester would call Robert Raikes 'Bobby Wildgoose' as he walked down the road - he always looked grand.
This view shows the beach complete with bathing tents.
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