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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
Reedham Orphanage
My father died just before I was born and my mother had to put my brother and I into Reedham orphanage. I was still on a potty as I remember complaining that I was now old enough to go on the toilet and have some privacy. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1956 by
Tilshead In The Last Century!
Tilshead was the place where I was born and have lived in for a long time. It is a quiet village of around 400 or so people. There was and still is a post office. There was a pub called The Bell but is now a private ...Read more
A memory of Tilshead in 1966 by
Grosvenor Road And Urmston, Always A Place In My Heart.
I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more
A memory of Urmston by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Memories Of A Young Girl.
Was born in Waterhouses 76 years ago at North Terrace, enjoyed the freedom of playing out in the street and fields . my father worked down the mine like all the other men and boys, my mother stayed home and cooked and ...Read more
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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more
A memory of Harborne in 1940 by
Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
A memory of Weston Green by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
A memory of Market Harborough by
Children's Convalescent Home Charnwood Forest 1949
I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves
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The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.
The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.
Those of riper years were drawn to the village pub, The Black Horse, reached like a reward after climbing the steep rise on which it stands.
The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.
We are looking towards Back Lane.
Like Neston, Parkgate saw increasing trade as a port once the River Dee around Chester began to silt up.
The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.
This view is of the east portal to the tunnel - it looks like any other canal bridge apart from the rusticated arch into the blackness.
We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.
Here, however, is a reminder of what it used to be like, with ships being fitted out on both sides of the river.
Here, however, is a reminder of what it used to be like, with ships being fitted out on both sides of the river.
The majestic 14th-century St Patrick's Church was not completed until after the Black Death, which wiped out half the village's population.
It also recalls the tragedy wreaked on the countryside by the Black Death and plague in the form of a graffito, '1350, wretched, fierce, violent - the dregs of the people survive to tell the tale'.
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