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Cheadle In The Second World War
I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more
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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
Ex St Roberts Catholic School Harrogate
Born in Waterloo Street, Harrogate, in early 1940s. Attended above school until left in 1956. Started work at J.S.Driver, grocers on Beulah Street, Stan Wood manager. Remember 'Syncopated Sandy,' playing ...Read more
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Bolton Hall
My grandparents lived at the co-op in Bolton. My grandad was the manager there in the 1930 s. Their names were Percy and Irene Ibberson. Later they moved to Wath, to the big shop in the centre. My mother, Lilian, worked at Bolton ...Read more
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Good Old Days In Salford
I was born in Salford, one of six children to Edith Casey and Ken Casey, their other children consisted of Linda, Alan, Barry, Ken, Paul and of course myself. We lived at number 50 Bury Street which was off Ellor Street. My ...Read more
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Hounslow Cinemas
Doreen Jewess, Pat Bezant, Pat Sharman, Rita Bolton and myself would often walk from Midsummer Avenue past the little park at the top, past the horse trough at the Wellington where the trolley buses turned round and carried on past ...Read more
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A Great Place To Live And Grow Up
Moved up in about 1945/46 into a prefab, our first home., I was about 1 year old so cannot remember the move. I used to help the prisoners of war build the roads, I had a wheelbarrow. We lived at 133 Castle Hill ...Read more
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Crathorne Arms
I lived in Hutton Rudby but we had family friends in Crathorne, the Gibsons. They lived in Rose Cottage opposite the post office and village shop. I use to work on weekends for Redvest Bolton, a local farmer and landlord of the ...Read more
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Nursing Training At 'jimmy's'
My mother, Doreen Hall (Nee Bilton), related these memories to me: I started nursing at St James’ Hospital, Leeds (Jimmy's) in 1948. I was 17 years old, the only one straight from school. I didn’t need any ...Read more
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Church Hill
In 1958 when I was 3 year old, we moved from a small flat on the London Road, near the bank where my father was branch manager (TSB), to Belton Road off Church Hill. I watched our new house being built on a sloping plot of land. My ...Read more
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Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.
Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.
The Great Hall at Castle Bolton had been converted to a restaurant for visitors when this photograph was taken.
Originally built in 1790 for Sir John Legard, Storrs Hall was purchased in 1806 by Col John Bolton, a local philanthropist, who from 1808-11 transformed it into the fine Georgian mansion we
Smithill's Hall occupies a site where, according to tradition, a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin was consecrated in AD793 and the wandering court of King Egbert, father of Alfred the Great, was
Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.
Bolton Hall Estate own most of the property here; no new houses have been built, nor is there employment other than in agriculture.
One of the lasting impressions of Bolton that many a visitor has is of the grand Town Hall, with its portico of Corinthian columns and tower topped off with a French cap.
The Town Hall was modelled on that at Bolton, and was completed in 1883, though it was damaged by fire in 1901.
The tower, unusual architecturally for this part of Britain, is thought to have been influenced in style by King Henry VI during his stay in Bolton Hall. King
It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.
It is thought to have been influenced in style by King Henry VI during his stay in Bolton Hall. King
Near the Wharfe and overlooking the 1592ft Simon's Seat, Appletreewick was the resting place of monks on their journey between Bolton Abbey and Fountains Abbey.
Bolton Hall, where once King Henry VI stayed in hiding, has now gone, but the gateposts can still be seen opposite the church.
This village was built around an ancient defence tower, later rebuilt into Bolton Old Hall.
The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons
It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.
Henry VI is said to have lived here in Bolton Hall for a year or so while hiding from the Yorkists in 1464 after losing the Battle of Hexham.
Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire; with its village green next to the church, and an old inn across the road, it is just how we all imagine an old English village ought to look
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