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Saint Claires Convent/Pantasaph
I was there in the convent along with my 2 sisters from 1955 to 1959. I truly sympathise with the children who experienced the terrible suffering as we did whilst placed there. My auntie was a friend of the nuns and ...Read more
A memory of Pantasaph by
George Ambrose Ex Gurney Valley And Eldon Lane.
lovely to read claire keller story.i new her father,grandfather and great grandfather.wonderful family everyone of them.the place they walked to i can tell was grange hill farm it powers down on to eldon ...Read more
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Wartime Bristol
Born in Avonmouth in 1931 my earliest memories are living in Hallen and collecting firewood at a pub being demolished in the village, there was a military camp nearby protecting a substantial underground fuel tank storage site. Next we ...Read more
A memory of Hallen by
Visit To Aunties
I remember being quite excited when Mum (Jessie Beattie} and I would take the bus from Blantyre to Glasgow and then another to Lennoxton to visit my father's sister Mary Richmond {nee Blair} and my 3 cousins Jean, Claude and Samuel. ...Read more
A memory of Twechar in 1956 by
The Changing Joys Of Tenby.
I was born in the Flat above Lloyds Bank, Tudor Square, Tenby, Feb 1950 and recall being raised there. I recall the amazing views of the changing colours of the harbour and recall the church bells and chimes of the steeple ...Read more
A memory of Tenby in 1950 by
The Beach Huts
We spent many lovely holidays here and my lasting memory is of our first job was to race down to the beach and see 'Dick' Davies and sort a beach hut for our 2 weeks stay, they were a little piece of calm when the weather was rough, ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand in 1972 by
Stacking Timber
In the war years my father drove a lorry or a tractor for May & Hassle timber importers. He would pick up men at various places around the town with his lorry which had a hut on the back. Timber was stacked around Lincolnshire at ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1940 by
St Claires Convent
I am not sure if anyone will remember me, my name was Maureen Nolan. I was at St Claire's from about 1952 ro 1959 then I was sent to St Edmund's Home on The Wirral because I had a brother there who I did not know.
A memory of Pantasaph in 1952 by
Southdown Bus Station And Clair Meadow
I used to play in the old Clair Meadow and remember the drinks machine which sold pink milk in a wax carton by the tree at the footpath entrance to 'the rec' on Perrymount Road which is still there...I ...Read more
A memory of Haywards Heath in 1969 by
Southall Memories
I lived in the flats in Dudley Road Southall and went to Featherstone Rd Infants, my name is Jack Stevens and we moved to 76 Greenford Ave and I went to Tudor Rd school and then Dormers Wells school. I married Yvonne Killick from Dane ...Read more
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Among documents preserved locally is a letter written by John Blair dated 7 November 1689.
In the churchyard can be found the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell, whose works include
In the churchyard of All Saints' Church are the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell.
The church has a Norman tower, and in its churchyard is buried George Orwell, the author of '1984', buried under his real name, Eric Arthur Blair.
The plinth and map were erected in honour of Andrew Blair, founder of the Liverpool and District Federation of the Ramblers Association in 1923.
The Blaise Inn receives a pre-summer season coat of paint.
It was the lodge of St Clair, a large house that became a girls' school established by a Miss Stevens in about 1935.
Raglan was granted to Walter Bloet by Earl Richard de Clair of Chepstow around 1174, and in return Bloet had to provide the earl with military assistance.
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