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Happy Days
My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I could ...Read more
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Hainton
I hope, I think I am the first to write - I lived in Hainton 1951/54. Our dad worked on the farm just up the road (Stockman). I went to the little school in Hainton. Headmistress - Mrs Slingsby. Do not remember her deputy, but Miss Officer ...Read more
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Edgecoombe, Selsdon 1957 61
I remember Selsdon well as my family lived at 68 Edgecoombe, the long road on the opposite side of the wood at Selsdon not to be confused with Selsdon Woods. We had two ways to get to Selsdon shops. Through the woods opposite ...Read more
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Growing Up In Mitcham
I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...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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Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.
I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more
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A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more
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Those Were The Days!
I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more
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Little Boy's Heaven
In 1961 or 1962, as a small boy of 5 or 6 my mum, brought me to Hednesford to visit her grandmother, my great-grandmother, Emily Chetwyn. A diminutive lady, we, the children, called her little nana. I believe she lived in the end ...Read more
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My Childhood In Coldharbour
In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village. My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite ...Read more
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The Barclay Family of Bury Hill gave the Nower to the people of Dorking on the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
Built on a hill, Downham Market has extensive views over the River Ouse and the fens.
Butter Row School, in the foreground, stands detached some distance from the community it served.
Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.
An earlier view of the entrance to Dovedale, again showing the donkeys, and the slopes of Butser Hill rising to the left of the photograph, with the crags of Thorpe Cloud to the right.
The picturesque village of Buriton stands in the shadow of Butser Hill, and by the pretty, tree-fringed pond lies the church, with its 13th-century tower watching over the tranquil scene.
The Butter Market was used to sell not just butter but any other commodities that the farmers' wives could sell while their husbands attended the main markets in the town.
A mile to the north of the stadium, Barn Hill takes about itself an air of rural contemplation as the camera looks out to the surrounding hills.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.
This view captures well the disparate suburban nature of Cobham's High Street before we reach the most attractive River Hill and Mill Road, which stretch along the banks of the River Mole
A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.
The village, seen from Okeford Hill with Piddles Wood beyond (left), was estate-owned until April 1966, when it was auctioned by Sturminster Newton estate agent Arthur Richards.
A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.
The waters from the Malvern Hills nearby were then, as now, much better known.
The Second World War had been over for about ten years, and better times were on the way - and so there were traffic direction signs and advertisements for travellers.
old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
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