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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
Eunice Blakely Nursing At Bretby In 1956
In August 1956 I went to Bretby Hall as a Cadet nurse, in 1957 I became a student nurse but sadly had to leave in January 1958 because i developed Dermatitis .We spent so much time cleaning the wards, the trollies ...Read more
A memory of Bretby by
Beacholme Camp
I remember vaguely seeing trolley buses and motor buses which were converted into living accomodation, even a tram car with the upstairs windows painted out,that would have been the sleeping quarters I would imagine, and at the ...Read more
A memory of Humberston in 1949 by
Coronation Day In Shillingstone Plus Other Memories
I can remember Coronation Day in Shillingstone, the weather was not settled and there were showers, I can remember watching the crowning of the Queen on a TV which was in Mrs Fudge's house at ...Read more
A memory of Shillingstone in 1953 by
Oakhanger , Hampshire Names Of Areas Of Land
The Roughs- behind Oak Farm on the Bordon to Oakhanger Road Cranes - land around Oak Farm - named, it’s believed, as a family called Cranes worked/owned the land Monkey Island - an area of land on ...Read more
A memory of Oakhanger by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
The Bathing Hole
The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy Reynolds, ...Read more
A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by
Woolmongers Farm, Nine Ashes, Nr Blackmore, Essex
Is there anyone out there who remember a farm called Woolmongers Farm at Nine Ashes. It was built over by a new estate at sometime. Anyone remember it and if so do you have any memories of it or he Chalkley family who lived in it?
A memory of Nine Ashes by
The Blackmore Family
A little more information on the Blackmore family, they moved from Ide to become the licences of the Sturt Arms, I would say around 1880, Albert was born 1886 and his sister Alice in 1874. Miss Lillian Wreford sold Albert ...Read more
A memory of Down St Mary in 1940 by
Trevor Living There Practically All My Life
Further to Gary's memory I was the Julie that he lived next door to but my surname was Evans. For practically all of my life I have lived in Trevor and still see many of the people that I grew up with. ...Read more
A memory of Trevor in 2009 by
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This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred.
Here we see paddlers belonging to the Weymouth, Bournemouth & Swanage Steam Packet Co with the 'Premier' nearest the camera and the 'Victoria' behind her.
Among the old boys of Blundell's are Jack Russell, the famous hunting parson of Swimbridge, Archbishop Temple, and the author R D Blackmore, who was sufficiently impressed to send his most famous character
The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace.
The excellent quality of the buildings at Marnhull shows that this part of the Blackmore Vale was wealthy from agriculture.
It is now well-known for its formerly 'secret' government nuclear bunker.
The high plateau has been the gallops on which jockeys have put their horses through their paces since the days when Fred Archer and Black Tom Oliver raced into the history records in
R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.
This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred.
This small historic black-tarred weatherboarded post mill with an open trestle is powered by two common and two spring sails, and is turned to the wind manually by a tail pole.
John Blackmore was rector of St Mary the Virgin, and it was here that his grand- son Richard set the scene for the tragic marriage ceremony of Lorna Doone to John Ridd in his famous novel
Cattell's Mill is a black-tarred weatherboarded smock windmill on an octagonal single-storey brick base.
The lovely old parish church of Ibberton is on a slope of the chalk downlands around the Blackmore Vale.
Teddington's population grew from around 1,000 inhabitants in mid-Victorian times to over 25,000 just a century later.
The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace.
R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was moved to describe the walk to Lee as `one of the finest in England`.
Blackmore is a typically well kept Essex village.
A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation.
In this 1960s view of the top of Cheap Street can be seen the White Hart public house; the area known today as Blackmore Vale was previously called the Vale of the White Hart.
The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over the Blackmore Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside.
