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Growing Up In Fareham
I was born in Brighton Sussex. After travelling from station to station, as my father was in the RAF (I'll miss out that part of the story), My mother Eileen,sister Shirley & I moved to Fareham after the 2nd WW, I was 9 yrs ...Read more
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War Time
My parents, Eddie and Doris Blackstone, stayed with the people who ran the post office during the war. I would have been about seven years old then and I can not remember the name of the people. In 1955 when I was doing my training ...Read more
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Kittens In The Barn
I was wearing my little red wellingtons which squelched when I put them on. They came well over my ankles but my legs still got splashed if I wasn’t careful. Sometimes I stamped on purpose into the puddles in the ruts made by ...Read more
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Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
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Life On The Farm At Kettlethorpe
We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of the ...Read more
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The Barber Shop
This photo was taken around 1960 as my father (who can be seen in the photo, cleaning the bedroom window) bought number 11, St Paul's Street in 1958 and did not open the barber shop for over a year. I was 5 years old when we moved in ...Read more
A memory of Stamford in 1960 by
Miners Rows Crawfords And Mc Crones
My Mum, Elizabeth Crawford married Dad and went to live in London.....I was brought to Kirkconnel at a month old and baptised in the Parish Church......every year we came up with Dad's motor bike and sidecar to ...Read more
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Arnherst House
In the 1911 census my great grandparents lived in this house - Arnherst House. John & Alice Upstone; John was a postman. Their son, John Alfred, married Lilian Blackstone Adams (from Foest Row). Then they moved to London ...Read more
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Childhood
My father was the village policeman until 1958 and we lived in the Police House which doubled as a Police Station (there was a counter for public use at the front of the house). We left for Corby in 1958 when I was 6. My memories are ...Read more
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How About Some Name Dropping?
I was born in Hawkhurst at some ungodly hour on October 5th, 1949 at the Little Fowler's nursing home, which is why I probably inherited some of its smuggling influence! At that time my parents were ...Read more
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Blackstone Rock, a great outcrop of sandstone rising sheer from the river, is shrouded with trees.
This was changed in 1901 to black hull (white above sponson level), buff funnel with a black top, and white saloons and paddle-boxes.
Other nature trails in the district are Blackstone Riverside Park, Bewdley; Hartlebury Common at Stourport-on-Severn; Habberley Valley Nature Reserve; and Kingsford Forest Park.
Here we can see clearly the banded masonry along the south front, which was designed to impress, and the Eagle Tower, the Queen's Tower, the Chamberlain's Tower, and the Black Tower.
The church, rebuilt in 1769-77, contains the tomb of Sir William Blackstone, Oxford's first professor of law, who presented St Peter's with a clock from Horseguards in London.
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
Judge William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England, paid for the spire of St Peter's Church, which we can see here in the background.
Modesty still appears to dictate the fashions of bathing attire, with black, one-piece, thigh-length bathing costumes being the order of the day for both sexes.
Castle Priory, which was built for Judge William Blackstone, Recorder of Wallingford, in the mid 18th century, has again reverted to being a private house.
The horse and cart are standing outside the showrooms and warehouse of the local engineering firm of Blackstone & Co.
Above the door can be seen their shield of six annulets which, in heraldry are painted black on a shield of gold.
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