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Colerne In The Second World War Continued
Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at ...Read more
A memory of Colerne in 1940 by
Broad Parade Shops
My parents bought a house in Willow Walk, which is on the right of the photographer, in August 1954. At that time there were no shops, no pavements, just muddy concrete roads. We were the first to occupy a house in the road, ...Read more
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Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
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St John's Gate Broad Street
St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more
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18 Happy Years
We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more
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Evacuation
We were evacuated to North Molton during the Second World War, I remember going to the school and being billeted in various homes, one on the hill near a baker's shop - what lovely smells. I also remember the Lysander plane that ...Read more
A memory of Swimbridge in 1940 by
Childhood Memories
I was born in Hereford County Hospital in 1945 and together with my twin sister was bought back to Broad View, Llangrove where I lived with my Mum and Dad and older brother from 1945 until I got married in 1965. My Dad had ...Read more
A memory of Llangrove in 1950 by
Chelmsford, Tindal Street, 1919
This shows the view looking up Tindal Street from the London Road end. In the centre of the photo you can see a sign sticking out. This you can just make out is the Spotted Dog public house which was there until ...Read more
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The Odeon
Every Saturday morning my brother Frank and sister Lorna and I were there for the children's matinee so much fun. We were born during WWII and I remember how close our neighborhood was and the Odeon was part of it. When I got a little ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by
Shandon Rhu School
I came across this by chance - I was at school with you, Fraser. I remember coming to an amazing birthday party at your house where your mum had put on an incredible spread, including a plate of Kit Kats which seemed like such a ...Read more
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This mainly 13th century church, with its broad tower and slim spire, has fine stalls and misericords, as well as some modern mosaic work.
We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street.
Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left.
The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.
Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.
Broad pavements and a dirt road characterise this turn-of-the-century view.
Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.
On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.
Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland.
Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre.
Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.
Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.
The young coxswain in the skiff has misjudged her three-point turn, and is wedged between the quayside and the cruiser.
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
This breezy walk is one of the finest in the western counties, and promenaders enjoy broad vistas of the sea and boats plying between the fishing villages of Mounts Bay.
This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.
During the early 1920s, Broad Street was a busy part of Reading, bustling with cars, trams and shoppers.
Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.
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