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Netherthong In The First World War Part 2
Throughout the course of the First World War many local organizations raised money to send parcels to local soldiers. This was particularly relevant at Christmas and the presents included shirts, socks, ...Read more
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Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting
Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more
A memory of Lemington in 1944 by
Trevor
I have many many fond memories of Trevor. I grew up there as a child but was moved away from there at the age of 11. I lived across the road from the community centre, No 45, Julie Roberts used to live next door and my best mate Vincent ...Read more
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Wattlefield Rangers F C Season 1913 1914
Following research regarding my Grandad, Alfred Robert Howlett I have a photograph of Wattlefield Rangers F C season 1913 - 1914 with some names on the back of the photo. Back Row L-R 1) Assistant Trainer / ...Read more
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Binsted When I Was A Child 1950 60s
SUMMER IN BINSTED I remember summer! It was more than one week in May I remember it lasted six whole weeks I remember summer! It started with a train journey - I remember great clouds of steam! Haymaking, ...Read more
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Family Roots And Residal Local English Branches Of The Tree
My great-great grandfather and grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from Belmont in the late 1840's or early 1850. Their names are Thomas Spencer and Nancy McJunkin. ...Read more
A memory of Belmont in 1860 by
Rawmish Crags
We used to go ont crags on nature rambles from Rosehill School. At weekend it were our battlefield, we used firebrecks as trenches and fought WW2. If we got beat we'd run tot roman banks and ambush others.
A memory of Rawmarsh in 1960 by
Childhood Walk
This could be my mother and me! I was 5 in 1951 and remember visiting the pond to 'feed the ducks'. The common became a wonderful playground durig my childhood, everything from 'the wild west' to 'army battlefields'. It was ...Read more
A memory of Tooting Bec Common in 1951 by
Lowry Street, Shieldfield And Cyril Vervaet
My mother, Margaret (Peggy) GRAY lived with her family at 7 Lowry Street from 1923 to 1942 when she went to Manchester and met my father during the war. Her mother was Lizzie Gray, father Jimmy Gray and ...Read more
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There Was Always The Ghost Stories...
In 1973 having just left school that summer, I started my State Registered Nurse training with tutor Miss Wilmot at this Southernhay Hospital. Being a 'young lady' from Bristol my new colleagues and I were expected ...Read more
A memory of Exeter in 1973 by
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Peaceful Abberley might have become one of the notable battlefields of England and changed the course of history, had not the elusive Glyndwr slipped back across the Welsh Marches.
Perhaps they served in the Boer War; in eight years' time these men would be at war again in the battlefields of Europe.
It is forbidden to visit the battlefield today because it is occupied by a Ministry of Defence depot.
Their second and somewhat longer visit in 1918 was spent at the army ordnance depot; here they met the workers who, during the war, had processed 36 million items of clothing reclaimed from the battlefields
This is the battlefield - a small, probably balding, grass square.
Fairfax's New Model army assembled here before descending to the battlefield.
It is a suggested site for the battlefield of Mount Badon, where the legendary King Arthur defeated the invading Saxons in the year 520.
In earlier times, war had only affected the soldiers and sailors directly involved and people who happened to live on or near the battlefield, or the route of the marching army.
