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Now O'connell Street
The street was officially renamed O'Connell Street in 1924 after Daniel O'Connell as Ireland moved forward as a free state! Nelsons Pillar seen in the distance (middle) was destroyed in the early morning on the 8th of March 1966 by ...Read more
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A Brief Memory Of My School Days At Duncton
The first School I ever went to was Duncton Primary, I loved this school. Our Headmaster was Mr Salsbury who we nicknamed Mr Strawberry due to a strawberry shaped wort he had on the back of his head. He was an ...Read more
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Old John Barley Corn....
Known as the 'John Barley Corn' children because at the Staithe where they all used to play, there is an inlet. In the 1920s, when boats came past, the children would sing 'Old John Barley Corn if you throw us a penny we will sing ...Read more
A memory of Belaugh in 1920
Lord Nelson's Relations
I have discovered that my relations were related by marriage to Lord Horatio Nelson. He had a 2nd cousin called Bartholomew Nelson whose widow Lydia married my ancestor James Whitby, a builder from Kings Lynn. James owned a ...Read more
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My First Kiss
My name was Sheila Moore and I lived in Nelson Road, Crouch End, Hornsey. I went to Rokesley Infants and Junior School until 1958. My best friends were Linda Firkins and Jant Miller but the kiss was from a boy called Gordon Thickbroom. I often wonder if he changed his name
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Park House Farm
My wife and I spent one year ( circa 1953 ) living in an apartment at Park House Farm where Tony Warner raised sugar beets and pigs. The Manor House was built on a Roman foundation which then formed the basement of the building. ...Read more
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Great Haseley
I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an inside ...Read more
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Happy Days
I was born in 1953 and lived in Nelson until 1978 when I moved to Scotland with my husband. I've lived in Hampshire for 26 years now. I used to live in High St and from the early 60s in Ashgrove Tce, by the bus station. The ...Read more
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Matchams House 1960's
With a large family of Uncles and Antys we were very fortunate to have our Grandparents live in Matchams House. Wednesdays always being a special day as it was market day in Ringwood with one bus in the morning and one ...Read more
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Fun On The Ferry
Around about l956/57 we would all go to dances or parties in Southampton and of course, from memory, the last bus home to Hythe/Holbury/Fawley/Calshot was about 10.30p.m. Inevitably we girls missed it so there was a mad dash ...Read more
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Marsden.There was another Marsden just a few miles up the line in Yorkshire, so a railway official gave the station the name of the inn that was next to the station.This inn was called The Lord Nelson
The inn was called the Lord Nelson, after the famous admiral.
The western one is architecturally less interesting, but there are statues of Wellington and Nelson on the green: Wellington's moved here from the market-place in 1937, Nelson's in 1856.
The western one is architecturally less interesting, but there are statues of Wellington and Nelson on the green: Wellington's moved here from the market-place in 1937, Nelson's in 1856.
The 14ft-high column was erected in 1842 to honour Admiral Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.
Nelson’s column was not the first choice of monument to embellish Trafalgar Square - a Colonel Trench had proposed a great pyramid to dwarf St Paul’s.
This is arguably the most famous public open space in the world, commemorating Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Nelson's column was not the first choice of monument to embellish Trafalgar Square - a Colonel Trench had proposed a great pyramid to dwarf St Paul's.
Littleham became fashionable during the Georgian period when such notables as Lady Nelson, who was estranged from her naval hero husband, came to live in the village.
In the village lived Horatia Nelson, daughter of Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton.
An open-topped tram is on its way to Nelson, whilst a young man in an apron, probably a tradesman, is walking in the direction of Burnley.
The O'Connell and Nelson monuments are prominent.
The young Nelson attended the grammar school here.
The boats of today would have seemed modest in size moored alongside the men-o'-war of Nelson's navy.
The Nelson Monument is in the background.
In Nelson's day the entire British fleet could anchor within the sheltering arms of the bay.
In Nelson's day the town was known simply as 'Dock' or 'Plymouth Dock', only acquiring its present name in 1824.
Horatio Nelson, who commanded here, was wont to remark that she was the finest 64-gunner in the fleet; he fought some of his earliest naval battles in that remarkable ship.
The main claim to fame of the church in the background is that Nelson's parents were married there.
He was also involved with the building of Nelson's Column, the Houses of Parliament, and railway lines all over the world.
Lord Nelson spent some time here in 1801, and noted in his diary what a pretty place it was.
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a hero to the merchants of Liverpool.
Horatio Nelson was at school in Downham Market in the later 18th century; a fellow-pupil was George Manby, inventor of the life-saving rocket.
A view looking south towards St Nicholas' church of 1821 and the adjoining Three Cups Hotel, part of which dates from the early 16th century.Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed there.
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