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Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx
Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more
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Bramcote Hospital
I was there in 1982 or 83 (can't remember that clearly) for maybe 6 months. I was 8. I have similar memories to other commenters of the people who stood out there. There was a school on site. The P.E. teacher, made us run ...Read more
A memory of Bramcote
Eunice Blakely Nursing At Bretby In 1956
In August 1956 I went to Bretby Hall as a Cadet nurse, in 1957 I became a student nurse but sadly had to leave in January 1958 because i developed Dermatitis .We spent so much time cleaning the wards, the trollies ...Read more
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Car Project.
The Morris car depicted in the photograph was overhauled and bodied by my late father, Arthur Parker, in 1951-2. He had removed the body from a c1937 Morris 8 van, overhauled the mechanics and the chassis, and built from scratch a new ...Read more
A memory of Duston in 1951 by
Council Workers
Does anybody remember Tam Ritchie and his band of merry men ? They were the council workers based at Dunivard Place always good for a laugh ! Tam lived in an old caravan which I think Marco Galli has rotting away in his yard at ...Read more
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Growing Up In Finchingfield
My family Ken and Joan Blake owned the Church Hill Stores (opposite the Church) from 1945 to the early 50's then we lived in the village until 1957. I have many memories of my time in Finchingfield and many faces and ...Read more
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My Banbury Grans Village
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. She ...Read more
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Growing Up In Milford
My mother was in the WAAFs during WWII. She met my father (an American G.I.) at a dance in Henley. They married in 1944 and after the war, my mother traveled to the United States as a war bride. I was born in Nebraska in April, ...Read more
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Startime Records
I used to spend many an hour in Startime with headphones on listening to what was new. In 69 I went there on my dinnertime from Gilbey's to buy the new Stones album Let It Bleed. There was a queue right round the Market Square doing the ...Read more
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In Memory Of F.A. Brake, Born 1895
This is where we played as kids - all eight of us! Our grandad was born in one of the houses on the bottom left-hand side. He lived there all his life and my father plus my eldest brother, sister and my nephew was born ...Read more
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Furthermore, we can see a row of horse-drawn brakes, which shows that the tourist trade was expanding.
This is gripped by wheels that ensure the car stays on the rails, and by brake shoes that provide additional braking on the line's severe gradients.
Note the cabs and brakes alongside the Scott Monument.
She carried prisoners to Australia.The horse-drawn brakes in the foreground were used by sightseers.
The esplanade Hotel (left) stands on the north side of the Promenade; horse-drawn brakes wait for passengers from either the beach or the hotel, bound for the railway station in the town centre.
This view is towards Milford Hill.The Co-op is next to the Cathedral Hotel, with a shooting-brake parked outside.This is the 'new' Co-op, replacing the original which burnt down in 1937.
This view is towards Milford Hill.The Co-op is next to the Cathedral Hotel, with a shooting-brake parked outside.This is the 'new' Co-op, replacing the original which burnt down in 1937.
When the trams first ran in 1901, only one had brakes strong enough to use the hill, so passengers had to change at the top.
The horse-drawn brakes in the foreground were used by sightseers - a trip round the harbour was an essential ingredient of a Ramsgate holiday.
As late as 1948 the Corporation secured a £200,000 loan from the Ministry of Transport for 35 new four-wheeled trams with all-metal bodies and fitted with air brakes, the first of which was delivered in
As late as 1948 the Corporation secured a £200,000 loan from the Ministry of Transport for 35 new four-wheeled trams with all-metal bodies and fitted with air brakes, the first of which was delivered
Still the biggest single employer in Chapel, Ferodo was founded by local man Herbert Froode (of which 'Ferodo' is an anagram) who first developed a brake block for horse-drawn carts and later successfully
A horse-drawn furniture van is drawn up outside the house beyond the horse brake.
According to Eric Parker, scores of visitors to Leith Hill would alight at Holmwood railway station and be taken by horse-drawn brake to the foot of the hill - the rest of the
In front is a weird Morris Eight, with timber framed shooting brake character, a veteran of the 1930s.
This memorial to Admiral Blake stands in front of the Regency Market House.
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.
The library was donated by the town's other benefactor, Thomas Blake, in 1873 – it is located towards the bottom of Broad Street.
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
Here residents from the hydropathic establishments could avail themselves of a pre-dinner constitutional and take in the bracing sea air.
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.
The chap in the braces (left) does not look particularly warm.
There is little doubt that sufferers from tuberculosis benefited from the kind climate and bracing sea air.
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