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Still Confused !
Around 3/4 yrs of age- 1948/49 - I came across my first foreign work men coming off the boats at Woolwich. The men wore a rough looking outfit - blue in colour - as I recall. Upon asking my father who they were and where they came from ...Read more
A memory of Woolwich by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Crossing The Moor
My secondary education was completed after spending 4 years at Irvine Royal Academy. The school was broken into two buildings known as the old school (pictured) and the new school in Kilwinning Road. Classes were conducted between both ...Read more
A memory of Irvine in 1969 by
The Carpenters Of Boxford
I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her ...Read more
A memory of Boxford in 1930 by
Going To The Shops...
As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
My Early Years In Longton 1870s To 1940s
I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between them ...Read more
A memory of Longton by
Ellis Street, Crewe
Although I was born in Nantwich (1956), in the Barony hospital, I grew up in Crewe until the age of about twelve. We lived in Ellis Street, which then, if memory serves me right, only had three houses, even though we were in number 8! ...Read more
A memory of Crewe by
Campsbourne Junior School Around 1960
I attended Campsbourne Junior School between 1958 and 1961. I arrived during the 2nd Year at the age of 8, having moved from St Michael's School in Highgate. I was placed in the top stream and my class teachers were ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey by
Harworth 'old' Village
The large Horse Chestnut tree to the right was very popular when conkers were in season with boys searching the ground and throwing whatever came to hand at the tree to try and dislodge the nuts that were temptingly out of ...Read more
A memory of Harworth in 1964 by
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
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The Wayside Cross, as the memorial was originally known, stands at Fiveways and names the 36 Colehill men who died in the Great War.
The church was sited on the main road, convenient for reforming Broken Cross, then an area of evil reputation.
The short granite cross base with a carved interlace design has inscribed on the other side 'Doniert rogavit pro anima', which translates as 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.
It is a double-pile brick building with five bays of cross casement windows and stone dressings.
It is a double-pile brick building with archetypal cross-casement windows and stone dressings.
It is a double-pile brick building with five bays of cross casement windows and stone dressings.
The rough-hewn granite chapel built over the well, with its broken finials and simple capitals, is of the 15th century, and was restored in 1864.
Eccles Cross is on the very right of the picture in front of the District Bank.
The medieval cross near the tree on the left is still a broken remnant at this date.
The medieval cross near the tree on the left is still a broken remnant at this date.
Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.
Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.
Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.
Folkestone harbour had been purchased by the SER in 1843, and was developed as a cross-channel port with services to and from Boulogne.
By 1848 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway were keen to promote Brighton as a cross-channel port; they funded the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Co, though it was soon found that Newhaven
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