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Mabledon Estate.
My mother, Joyce Clark (formerly Smith) born in 1924, recognises this photograph of Quarry Hill. Her father William Smith was the sawyer for Mabledon Estate (on the right) and was responsible for felling the trees on the right of the ...Read more
A memory of Tonbridge in 0 by
Alice Eastwood Nee Colthup
My great aunt Alice was a teacher at Five Ashes village school in the early years of the 20th century. She was born in New Brompton, Kent on 29.8.1879 and died 23.12.1966 and is buried in the village. She married Fred ...Read more
A memory of Five Ashes in 1900 by
Eastwood Nottinghamshire
I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more
A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by
Family Of Fowler
Not a memory but an historical fact. I have traced my family back to Leigh circa 1750. The patriarch was Anthony Fowler, a carpenter from Bishops Cleeve. He married Mary Attwood of Bishops Cleeve in 1749. They had 10 children, ...Read more
A memory of The Leigh by
Appledore Avenue
I lived at 99 Appledore Avenue, Barnehurst from 1956 - 1975. My school friends from Appledore were David and John Owen, Steve Beard and his lovely Jordy family, Christine , Jennifer and Alan Jones. My next door neighbours were Mrs ...Read more
A memory of Barnehurst by
Astwood Bank Co Op......Remember It?
It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more
A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by
Great Times Playing In The Fields.
I was born in Greenford on 1st Oct 1943 (25 Greenway Gardens) We were bombed out & were evacuated to various places. It must have been after the war we moved to 7 Laughton Rd in Northolt. We didn't live there ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1946 by
Bromley High Street
I remember the coffee smell as one wandered up the high street. Someone on this memory board has asked what was it called. It was called: Coffee Importers, because that was what they did. You could buy beans or have them ground there ...Read more
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Smallholding In Eastwood Road
This memory is my mum's - in the 1940s she remembers her dad taking her (on his motorbike with mum in the sidecar) to a smallholding on Eastwood Road in Rayleigh - she thinks probably to buy 'day-old chicks' (her ...Read more
A memory of Rayleigh in 1940 by
Cottages Eastwood Road
I remember the cottages which were very near the road,coming down Eastwood Road from High Street. I regret no photos but remember the last one farthest from the High Street was used as a Cobblers workshop and the buses that ...Read more
A memory of Rayleigh in 1940 by
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A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous.
A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous.
All those families moving into Astwood Bank`s new houses in the 1960s needed facilities, and the community does have a fair range.
The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.
Unlike most churches, it has no tower to mark its position, and few people passing through Astwood Bank will even realise it has a church.
Unlike most churches, it has no tower to mark its position, and few people passing through Astwood Bank will even realise it has a church.
Astwood Bank developed in linear fashion along the Ridgeway, which is now the main road to Pershore and Evesham.
All those families moving into Astwood Bank's new houses in the 1960s needed facilities, and the community does have a fair range.
The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.
Astwood Bank developed in linear fashion along the Ridgeway, which is now the main road to Pershore and Evesham.
Ashwood Dale is just one of the names given to the deep limestone valley of the River Wye as it winds between Bakewell and Buxton.
Eastwood Grange c1955 This is Eastwood Grange, but on the outskirts of Ashover are the remains of Eastwood Old Hall, built by Sir Thomas Reresby and blown up in 1646 by Parliamentarian troops
Lover's Leap in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, is one of several in the Peak which recall a long-forgotten romantic tragedy.
At this corner stands a war memorial to the Eastwood men who served in the Sherwood Foresters regiment during World War I.
Local historian John Eastwood records that a 13ft-long mermaid is said to have been washed up here in 1757, 'its head partly human and partly that of a hog, its extremity that of a fish.'
Eastwood is, of course, famous as the birthplace and home of D H Lawrence.
On the right is Eastwood's musical instruments shop — it appears to be on Briercliffe Road, but it is actually at 119 Colne Road.
