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The Fairway
I was born at 28 The Fairway in 1946. There was (is) a wide grassed area down the centre of the road making it a kind of dual carriageway. In the years following the 2nd World War there were, "Pig bins", on several sections of the grass ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
Binsted School
I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me of ...Read more
A memory of Isington in 1958 by
White House
My grandfather, Thomas Haskard, was proprietor of the White House inn for 25 years until his death in 1951. I spent many happy holidays there with my brother, Roger, and my three cousins lived in a house just across the road. I still bear a ...Read more
A memory of Ambergate by
Great Place To Live
I lived in St Johns Road for my first 23 years, Being born in 1942. For a couple of early teenage years, I did a 100 paper round in the streets around my home, and still get the shoulder pain! This paid for my Thursday Speedway, and ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
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Celebrating 75 Years
My parents met in Bray when my mother worked at the Hinds Head Hotel and my father sang in St. Michael's choir. She served the thirsty singers! This was back in the late 1930's. Born and raised in Bray parish I was confirrmed and ...Read more
A memory of Bray by
My Mum Nbsp Annie Spreadbury
My mum was born in Wintney Hartney near Binsted and went to school here. These are her memories. The school was staffed by nuns (maybe two). She remembers that one of them was very handy with the cane on knuckles! But ...Read more
A memory of Isington in 1930 by
Memory Lane /Am I Getting Old?
So nice to read all the great reminders of my childhood.I too went to Rokesley Infants,Crouch End Juniors and Crouch End Secondary School.1945/1955.One establishment that seems to have been forgotten is the 'Bread an' Drip ...Read more
A memory of Crouch End by
Wembley In The 1950's
I remember the lovely fresh bread smell from Aldridges the bakery at the Triagle, the Grove Fish and Chip shop's marvellous rock salmon and chips cooked in beef dripping of course, Killips department store's dumb waiter, learning to ...Read more
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M2 Bridge Worker In St. Bart's Hospital
I remember being in St. Barts Hospital in 1961 or 1962, aged 11 or twelve, to have my appendix removed. At that time there was a construction worker recovering from a very serious injury received while working ...Read more
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The hospital was named the Inwood Cottage Hospital after Daniel Inwood of Binsted, who left £1500 on condition that this name was adopted.
This splendid church was conceived by Sir Edmund Beckett, who as well as being a barrister and amateur architect designed the clock mechanism of Big Ben. St
This splendid church was conceived by Sir Edmund Beckett, who as well as being a barrister and amateur architect designed the clock mechanism of Big Ben. St
Another of the stunted carved crossheads in St Buryan's churchyard.
This dramatic lighthouse, although not named in the book as Godrevy, is said to have been the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's famous novel 'To the Lighthouse', which she wrote while staying in St Ives
Sumptuous in detail, with uniform repetitive arrangement, the monuments in St George's Chapel are awe-inspiring, to say the least.
Catherine of Aragon's Balcony is in St Georges's Chapel.
around the corner from Mevagissey, this charming view places the little cove and hamlet in their context admirably, with the outline of Black Head in the distance and a few fishing boats on the water out in St
This rather stern-looking gentleman wearing his best frock coat and gaiters is Isaac Waylen, Town Crier and School Attendance Officer between 1889 and 1911, who lived in St Martin's.
Today Currys trades from an edge-of-town superstore in St Georges.
The memorial in St Giles dates back to 1841; it stands on an island in the road and was designed by George Gilbert Scott.
Music lovers come to visit the grave of the composer Frederick Delius, who is buried in St Peter's churchyard.
The big tree in St Mary's churchyard has gone, and the wall has been rebuilt further back from the pavement.
Here we see an assortment of old holiday cruisers tied up at the quay in St Ives.
This tree can be found in St Mary's churchyard.
The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.
Following Newark's surrender, the Parliamentarians smashed the bowl of the 15th-century font in St Mary's; it was eventually replaced around 1660.
In St Helen's Square, what had been a Guildhall Chapel and then a public house was demolished to make way for the building of a residence for the Lord Mayor.
In St Helen's Square, what had been a Guildhall Chapel and then a public house was demolished to make way for the building of a residence for the Lord Mayor.The result was this charming abode.
On the right, next to the last parked vehicle, was the town's main post office before the current one was built in St John's Square.
This monument was formerly inaugurated in 1863, and stands at the end of Westgate Street in St Mary's Square.
On the western approach to the town, St Andrew's Church, in St Andrew's Road, was built in 1862.
The profits from his Sunnybank Mill at Helmshore were lavished on house building in St Anne's.
surroundings, its building materials include examples of a geological oddity: blocks of iron cemented gravel-stone (Fericrete), which is also to be seen in the base of Manor Farm barn, Harmondsworth and in St
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