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My Memories Of Broadstone
My earliest memories of Broadstone stem from about 1937 when I was five years old. We lived in Southbourne at the time and frequently went to Broadstone at weekends to visit my "aunt Flo" and her family who lived at Lower ...Read more
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It's Not How It Was Back Then... Some Nostalgia For The Fifties And Early Sixties.
My parents ran a shop on the Broadway from the late nineteen forties until the early fifties, I think. It was a general store and – as far as I know – a seed merchant’s. I ...Read more
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Camping At Broadstone Warren With The 3rd Sevenoaks
I was a Cub and Scout Leader with the 3rd Sevenoaks Scout Group in the 1970's and remember a hot summer camp in 1975 at Broadstone Warren. It was at the end of July and we took the younger ...Read more
A memory of Ashdown Forest in 1975 by
Happy Days!!
I moved to Broadstone with my parents at the tender age of 2, and we lived in Sidney Road, off York Road. It was 1950, and ,of course there was no Waterloo Estate at that time, so York Road ended when it came to the railway line and the ...Read more
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Cordite Factory And Broadstone
Hallo, my grandfather Frank Sherwood worked at the factory in 1939, and the family lived in the Broadstone area. Does anyone have any memories to share about the factory of the Sherwoods?
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The First Holiday At Potter Heigham
We hired a riverside chalet called 'La Dak' on the Martham side of the river, there were two families sharing. I remember there was no car access to the chalet so we had to park the cars next to the bridge ...Read more
A memory of Potter Heigham in 1968 by
Reflections Upon The Changing Face Of Stafford Since 1964
It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more
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Memorys Of Poole
1947 - I was born in Garland Road and can remember going to Blundles store. We moved to the Waterloo Estate when I was 4, we lived in 10 Wavell Avenue. In the 60's we used to go to a church youth club in Broadstone there were around 30 ...Read more
A memory of Poole in 1962 by
Wharfdale Road
I arrived in Parkstone "Heavenly Bottom" in 1950 (ish) after travelling all around Britain as dad was in the army. We came to England from India where my parents served in the army in 1945 to live in Glencoe Road for a while, then ...Read more
A memory of Parkstone in 1964 by
Ince Street Haeton Norris
I went to All Saints School in 1958,cant remember the teachers name, but can remember writing on our blackboards whilst see collected the dinner money and penny bank money.I can remember Miss Simpson and Mr Ireland, no ...Read more
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A sign on the nearest shop - now Broadstone Insurance - advertises Broadstone Athletic Club.
Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream.
The view shows how most of Broadstone looked before the heathland was engulfed by housing estates in the 1960s and later.
Dangerous Bend' sign (left) says it all, though anyone trying to find the hairpin today will need to take a small detour off the straightened B3074 Higher Blandford Road between Corfe Hills and Broadstone
Here, at Broadstone, are all the shops that would have been needed for a weekly grocery shop.
A round of golf on the wild heathland course at Broadstone, just inland from Bournemouth.
The International Stores (left) are now Harris and Nash's electrical shop and Broadstone Discount Stores.
Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton
The broad, stone-built jetty included sheds as shelter for passengers, as well as loading and unloading facilities, and trains could also back onto the pier, as we see in our photograph.
There are windmills all over the Norfolk Broads. To
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