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Air Raids
These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we heard a ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1940 by
Oakmere
I have found a painting of Oakmere House, Potters Bar dated 1935. I believe the house is now a Beefburger Resaurant. There is a clearer view of the house from across the lake, there is the large pine tree & smaller trees on the right ...Read more
A memory of Potters Bar in 1930 by
Holes, Hoardings & Hythe Ferry
On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar was ...Read more
A memory of Southampton in 1954 by
The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey
heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed by ...Read more
A memory of Laleham
Farm Trailers
I went to school at St Mary's down Horncastle Road and we would sit by the Maud Foster and wait for the trailers of peas to go by on their way to the canners by Bargate Bridge, then grab arms fulls of pea vines then sit and eat them at the side of the road - we always ate our veg!
A memory of Boston in 1959 by
Vague Memories Of Waterlooville
I was born at the Bransbury Nursing Home, Jubilee Road, Waterlooville, during the war in December 1943. I lived with my grandmother Eva Hill (nee Redman) and my mother, Joyce Hill (nee Lewis) at 56 Hambledon Road ...Read more
A memory of Waterlooville by
Holiday In Heavon
I remember travelling by coach to Edgeworth with my aunt and grandmother to stay at this lovely old house for a week that seemed like forever, in about 1943. I now find that this old house is called Duntisbourne Abbotts ...Read more
A memory of Duntisbourne Abbots in 1943
High Street Monkeys
Can anyone tell me the name of the Public House that was situated in High Street Burton, opposite side of the road to The Burton Mail Offices (before the Bargates was built), around mid to late 1950's? There was an ...Read more
A memory of Burton upon Trent by
Old Memories
I was born in Spring Hill nursing home in 1933, corner of Hill Lane and Howard Road, and I used to take short cuts via the bomb site on the way to school, sometimes I would find a coin or two. We lived near the Dell football ground ...Read more
A memory of Southampton in 1944 by
Rounders In The Road
I was brought up in Brewood, in the cottage which is called South View and later next door in what is now 38 Shop Lane. There were four children in our family, I had two older brothers and a younger sister. Our friends came from ...Read more
A memory of Brewood in 1945 by
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One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.
One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.
Bargate was originally built to guard the main road into Southampton.
This picture shows Bargate facing south.There were once seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.Walk the walls today and only five can be seen.
Bargate was originally built to guard the main road into Southampton.
In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.
This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.
This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.
This photograph, taken in what is known as Above Bar, shows Bargate facing south.
This view looks north along Godalming Road with the 18th-century White Horse pub on the right, its Bargate stone walls painted white.
Up until the 1930s, specially designed trams with dome-shaped tops to fit the arch travelled through Bargate.
By the time this photograph was taken, the buildings either side of Bargate had been demolished to allow traffic to pass freely round each side of it.
Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott RA, it was built in 1866 in bargate stone lined with chalk.
This photograph, taken in what is known as Above Bar, shows Bargate facing south.
Up until the 1930s, specially designed trams with dome-shaped tops to fit the arch travelled through Bargate.
This early 20th-century photograph shows Bargate at its best.
Bargate was originally built to guard the main road into Southampton.
The five- bar gate marks the present entrance to Hillside Road whilst opposite is to-day`s Stoneyfield Road.
Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.
Up until the 1930s, specially designed trams with dome-shaped tops to fit the arch travelled through Bargate.
This early 20th-century photograph shows Bargate at its best.
Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel
This is the bridge over the main Wey, built in dark brown greensand or Bargate stone with timber fence parapets.
This very substantial bargate stone building - five storeys and a basement - was originally a private house, but became a prep school known as Silvesters, the headmaster's name.
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