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Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Daresbury Firs And Other Memories
Brought up in the Square I have happy memories of playing in Daresbury Firs. The blue bells were always marvellous in the spring! I used to help my stepdad (Roy Forster) collect leaf mould for his vegetable ...Read more
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Weekends At Chapel Row
I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it was ...Read more
A memory of Bucklebury by
My Childhood In Coldharbour
In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village. My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite ...Read more
A memory of Coldharbour in 1959 by
Early Years
I was born at 37, Ravenshill Road in 1955. I can remember a man on a bike sharpening knives and scissors on a grinding wheel attached to the front, also a man with a pony and trap would take you for a ride round the block for a penny. ...Read more
A memory of West Denton by
Memory Lane
I was at Brownrigg from 1963 to 1966, I was in Pennine dorm, Lorna Herron. I remember Bent Toe, he had to be put down at the school, a girl called Diane was really upset about that. I remember gathering bracken on the fells for the ...Read more
A memory of Bellingham in 1965 by
Early Memories Of An Ascotonian
I was born at 40 Bracken Bank (off Fernbank Road) in June 1953. I attended Ascot Heath Primary School on the original site in Fernbank Road, from 1958 until 1964. I remember Richard Dale from these days, although I am ...Read more
A memory of Ascot in 1960 by
Holiday In Carbost June 2008
My friend and I spent a very enjoyable holiday in Carbost this year - pity there are no old photos of the place. We stayed in the Old Inn, and later on in the Langal guesthouse, as the Old Inn was ...Read more
A memory of Carbost in 2008 by
Visiting Ferndown
(Not just 1955, probably most of the 1950s.) When my mother was a little girl, she was looked after by a nanny, who in her later years lived at Fairways, a bungalow at the end of Carroll Avenue. In the 1950s when I was very young, ...Read more
A memory of Ferndown in 1955
Life On Kingwood Common
I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just 'The ...Read more
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Some parts of Victoria Park were left as woodland, and bracken, silver birch and oak thrive.
A new vicarage was being built for the new vicar, the Rev Andrew Bracken Hargrave.
In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.
The element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.
The soil is thin, sandy and infertile, but it suits slow-growing oak trees, birch and bracken.
The soils around are sandy and specked with bracken and gorse.
Beyond is Will's Neck, the highest point in the Quantocks at 1261 feet, its bare bracken-clad flanks now clad with trees advancing higher up from the valley.
A violently hot summer was recorded for this year, and this open space with its bracken and ferns was subjected to fires.
This view is in the Sherwood Forest Country Park, an area of 450 acres with many of the best surviving ancient oak trees amid silver birch, younger oaks and bracken.
Essential to its character is the rich landscape of semi-natural acidic grassland, with areas of bog and bracken, wetland, woodland and ancient parkland trees.
Even today, when the bracken on the Beacon dies down in the autumn, the terraces tilled by farmers of long ago can still be seen.
