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A Year To Remember
How well I remember arriving at Wells-next-the-Sea from Leicester as a new bride. My husband was a former high school pen-friend who was now in England serving in the U.S Air Force, having been in the country from his ...Read more
A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1951 by
A Month Not In This World, An Inmate Of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield
It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked about ...Read more
A memory of Macclesfield
All The Fun Of The Fair
Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more
A memory of Holbury in 1960 by
Broughton Astley C Of E Primary School
Born in Mill Lane in Broughton Astley on 3rd May 1926, I started school at B/Astley C of Primary in 1931 as a five year old. We would be 'called to school' by the ringing of the bell housed in the ...Read more
A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by
Lead Works
1965. Wes and me got back from the Smoke wi nought and needed a job, he got started at the leather works on Scotchy Road and I got started at the Lead Works which is now the site of the Arena. There were two sides to this place, the lead ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
The Bawdeswell Plane Crash The Willows And The Rectory
Although I was just a little lad I can remember seeing the smoking debris of All Saints Church after the Mosquito crashed on it. I was staying in "The Willows" which is opposite the church ...Read more
A memory of Bawdeswell in 1944 by
Childhood And Marriage
I went to Sunday School here from 1949, and I sang in the church choir from 1950 until 1960 alongside my Nan.I was also allowed to learn to play the organ, the church has (had?) a wonderful organ, 2 keyboards and foot operated ...Read more
A memory of Stokenham in 1949 by
My Great Grandfather Was Born In Newtown Linford 1879
Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854 Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England Died: 1913 Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England Daniel was dis - owned by his ...Read more
A memory of Newtown Linford in 1860 by
A Time Warp That Is Thorne
Green Top School - Mrs Bell, headmistress and Mrs Downes (many a child was leathered by her) and I can still hear her screaming nearly 60 years on - bless her. Lessons out on the grass in summer, school dinners by the gate ...Read more
A memory of Thorne in 1960 by
Stonejar
Hello there David. "Old" Stonejar Morgan from Woodville road was a mining instructor in No. 2 Pit in the Blackvein seam at the Marine Colliery. Between them the team of 8 instructors taught all aspects of coalmining, albeit very old fashioned ...Read more
A memory of Cwm in 1955 by
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An older chapel at Alderholt fell into ruin during the reign of Charles II.
The sides are covered with the remains of bell pits, ancient open-cast mines where people have dug for coal since the 13th century.
