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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
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
1973 Demolition Year For The Market Buildings
I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side of ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton
Clarence Street, Pontypool
I moved to the Avana cake shop on Clarence Street when I was 9 years old from The Wern, Old Furnace, Nr Pontypool. My mother became the manageress of the cake shop. My father loved the iced jam cream slices! I went to Park ...Read more
A memory of Pontymoel in 1954
The Old Odeon.
If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1962 by
Schooldays In The 40s And 50s
I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm and ...Read more
A memory of Matching Green by
A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane
My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first walk ...Read more
A memory of Wickford by
School Holidays In Wartime Shutford Nr Banbury Oxon
My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more
A memory of Shutford in 1944 by
Lead Works
1965. Wes and me got back from the Smoke wi nought and needed a job, he got started at the leather works on Scotchy Road and I got started at the Lead Works which is now the site of the Arena. There were two sides to this place, the lead ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Hummed To Sleep By A Factory
We used to live on what was called The Avenues on the Rylands estate. This was situated behind the Princess shopping parade, so called after the name of the local flea pit where all the kids went to Saturday morning ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1961 by
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The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it.
The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it.
The 17th-century topographer Aubrey noted 'Old Harding of Blandford in Dorsetshire, where I went to schoole, was the only country glasse painter that ever I knew.
The baths and the old work are seen here, with the remains of the hypocaust system used for distributing heat from the furnace.
The Great Western Railway replaced it with an arched viaduct 40 years later, but the old piers still remain alongside.
The baths and the old work are seen here, with the remains of the hypocaust system used for distributing heat from the furnace.
Note that on the left-hand side of the road the old trees are now obliged to sink their roots in tarmac.
A big part of the old Wealden Ironworks was based here, and a man-made furnace pond was dug.
The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for boring cannon.
One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for
All around here there were clay mines used for the steel furnaces.
But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for
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