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Lost Opportunity?
I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home for ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
Shop Names
'The Hayward' sign was outside 'Haywards Cafe & Restaurant' which flourished until the 1960s when it successively became 'Delmontes', 'Pieros', 'La Ferola' and now 'The Blue India'. Going down the right hand side of the Broadway ...Read more
A memory of Haywards Heath
Relations Of John Wraite Mary Post
In 1841 John & Mary Wraight's son William married Sarah Curling Baker the daughter of Thomas Baker & Eleanor Hunt from St Margarets at Cliffe. Her stepsister, Eleanor Hunt's daughter by her first marriage to ...Read more
A memory of Guston in 1860
Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories
As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now be ...Read more
A memory of Hatch End by
Visiting Salford Circa 1955 60
My Grandparents Henry and Alice Dorning lived on Brighton Street which on trying to trace the existence of has proved to be a struggle. I remember visiting them with my parents at the age of 5-9 years of and at the time was ...Read more
A memory of Salford
No.1 Jetty And The Tsmv New Prince Of Wales 1, S.M.N.Co.
This twin screw motor vessel at the Jetty belonged to our family company, the Southend Motor Navigation Co. Ltd. She was built for the company in the 1920's by the local Hayward's Boatyard, ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1950 by
Working In Clyffe Pypard
I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a job ...Read more
A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by
The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
Are Made Of This
I was born in Windlesham down Broadley Green, 30th June 1973. I have memories that make me smile from ear to ear, playing in the corn fields, going to the jumble sales up Chertsey Rd Hall, playing man hunt up the rec. Fruit and ...Read more
A memory of Windlesham in 1973 by
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As you can see from this picture, Broad Street is anything but.
This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their
At East Runton you could walk out along broad stretches of beach and enjoy digging for fossils in the soft cliffs, a pastime made popular by the Victorians.
The Long Bridge over the broad waters of the River Taw was certainly built by 1300, but it may be a hundred years or more older.
Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.
One of the reasons why Robin Hood's Bay proved to be a popular haunt for artists is the picturesque cluster of red-roofed cottages perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs.
The broad straight streets tell of land recovered from river and docks.
