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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
A memory of Daresbury Firs by
Dukeshouse Wood Camp School (Part Two)
My recollection of a dance that was arranged in the sports hall made me and another lad George Bishop decide to abstain from the proceedings as I think at the time, in fact I am sure about myself that I was very ...Read more
A memory of Hexham in 1940 by
Old School
If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1960 by
Unchanged Lerryn
Lerryn is a place that one almost wants to keep secret so that it does not become a popular destination. It has barely changed in a hundred years. A beautiful and unspoilt village in a steep sided valley, Lerryn lies at the tidal head ...Read more
A memory of Lerryn in 2004 by
Newmarket Hospital
I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my unprotected ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by
Our Early Life
We lived my Dad (Roly Inman) Mum (Topsy Inman) with me Michael, and Roger in Shotover up the rough lane off the road by the grass triangle and near the school. I remember Miss Swithenbank who used to teach and lived in ...Read more
A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by
My Days At Ongar Secondary School And After
I attended Ongar Secondary School from 1945 to 1949. Some of the students I remember were Keith Mills (we were longtime friends, he passed away 2005), Len Shuttleworth, Hugh Brace, Brian Buttle, Jim ...Read more
A memory of Chipping Ongar in 1949 by
Ccefn Fforest
My memories of Cefn Fforest were of Whitson marches in your new clothes and having sore feet where your new sandles rubbed your feet raw. Along with 'Thomas The Milk' was Pughs Farm who had a horse and cart delivering the milk ...Read more
A memory of Cefn by
Anyone Remember Newton Street?
My friend used to live in Newton Street, her mum was Mrs Brooks I just sent my friend the Gorton book, I don’t think Newton Street is there any more but someone might remember it. She went to Yew Tree school mid 1940s, these ...Read more
A memory of Gorton by
'the Patch' A House At East End Of Overstrand, 1920s
Francis Frith must have been standing almost on the doorstep of a grand-looking house called 'The Patch' when he photographed 'Overstrand, Hotel East 1921' (Ref 71000). In 1916, 1921, 1923 and 1924 ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand
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We are now in seaside, holiday Lincolnshire; we start in Skegness, whose skipping sailor symbol and slogan 'Skegness is so Bracing' is very well-known.
Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort, famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate
It is on an extremely windswept location with not a tree or bush in sight, but no doubt the sea views and bracing air were deemed beneficial to guests.
Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
The chap in the braces (left) does not look particularly warm.
Lowestoft can be bracing any time of year...
On what is evidently a cool day, the visitors of the 1960s are nevertheless enjoying the traditions of a day by the sea - a trip round the bay and a bracing stroll to the lighthouse.
There is little doubt that sufferers from tuberculosis benefited from the kind climate and bracing sea air.
Here residents from the hydropathic establishments could avail themselves of a pre-dinner constitutional and take in the bracing sea air.
It was a focal point of this popular coastal resort, providing a short bracing walk over the briny and a welcome meal afterwards.
He is dressed in the typical attire of the day; hats and braces were a common sight at this time.
Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
The good weather, fresh air and regime of long bracing walks probably did a great deal to alleviate their condition.
Fowey's most famous son, the writer Quiller Couch, relished the bustle and colour of Fowey's August regatta, claiming there could be no better place to enjoy the bracing sea air.
A bracing walk along the promenade is part of the holiday at a seaside resort such as Penzance.
Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands.
Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.
On what is evidently a cool day, the visitors of the 1960s are nevertheless enjoying the traditions of a day by the sea - a trip round the bay and a bracing stroll to the lighthouse.
Lowestoft can be bracing any time of year...
The landscape is far more rugged, and the climate less mild; local writer Charles Kingsley described the weather as combining 'the soft warmth of south Devon with the bracing freshness of the Welsh mountains
Taking the treatment cost £2.5s.0d a week, though a number of guides hinted that the local bracing air had perhaps as much medicinal value as the waters.
Taking the treatment cost £2.5s.0d a week, though a number of guides hinted that the local bracing air had perhaps as much medicinal value as the waters.
Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
It is quite a stocky, neo-Perpendicular building, with a west tower, nave and south aisle; the interior has single-framed roofs, and arched braces to the high collar beams in the chancel.
