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The Old House
This is a picture of the house I lived in as a 8year old boy, I used to catch trout and eels by hand in the stream/creek. It was called the old mill house, to the left was the old bobbin mill. The driveway was directly opposite to the Bayley Arms.
A memory of Hurst Green in 1959 by
Summer Holidays
I spent 2 weeks in Devon and went to Upottery, as my grandmother was born there, and all her family before her; what a beautiful village. I am reseaching my family tree and though I have a lot of info I failed to trace 1 of my ...Read more
A memory of Upottery in 2011 by
Part 13
He then ran a wet fish trade from a horse and cart, but also ran a fish and chip shop. Last time I was in Houghton the fish shop was still there. In Newbottle Street, just up from the school and on the same side. Gran was very proud ...Read more
A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by
Good Times
Good times. No electric, log fires, paraffin lamps, everything cooked on the old faithful black lead grate which I had to clean every week. No running water - my job every night when I got home from school was to get the ...Read more
A memory of Four Ashes in 1954 by
Football Matches Between Port&High Clarence
I happened upon this site purely by accident, but it brought back some great memories. I am Pete Boland, young brother of Owen, a keen & very good footballer. I remember as a kid the matches ...Read more
A memory of Port Clarence by
Wartime Prefabs At Upper Boat.
I have just read a memory of this extate from Brian Williams, I lived there from 1943 to 1945, at which point my father returned to his pre-war workplace at Croydon Airport. I remember a Brian Williams, I wonder if its the same ...Read more
A memory of Upper Boat by
Wartime Prefabs At Upper Boat.
I have just read a memory of this extate from Brian Williams, I lived there from 1943 to 1945, at which point my father returned to his pre-war workplace at Croydon Airport. I remember a Brian Williams, I wonder if its ...Read more
A memory of Upper Boat by
Village Shop!
I can remember going to the shop almost everyday (I was born in 1967) with my mother, Gillian Boyland (nee Channon). I used to sit on the steps opposite where a lady by the name of Mrs Gill used to live. Mrs Marsh was the ...Read more
A memory of West Monkton in 1967 by
The Potters Cottage On The Hilltop
I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at High ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe in 1962 by
Smallbridge And All That
The place name comes from a narrow bridge over a stream that forms the boundary between Rochdale and Wardle on Halifax Road, by The Red Lion pub as it was then. Folk who lived in Smallbridge were once called "Sandknockers" ...Read more
A memory of Smallbridge in 1940 by
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What with regimental bands, parades, and reviews by land, and the Solent continually alive with yachts, steamboats, and battleships, it can never be dull.
A guidebook from this time advised visitors to Lyme to arrive by sea, for 'the journey by land is too tedious to be undertaken for pleasure'.
The church of St Thomas stands in the village, and nearby can be found Byland Abbey and Newburgh Priory.
The Working Men's Club Union Convalescent Home at Pegwell Bay had a Mrs M E Boyland as superintendent, and B T Hall as secretary.
It is all here because this point along the River Deben has a steep shingle bank upon which boats can be landed or launched at any state of the tide.
Before the Great War, Amble was one of Northumberland's smaller fishing ports; the biggest catches tended to be landed at North Shields, Blyth and Newbiggin.
They were noted as being fast sailers, and needed to be, as their catches often had to be landed in time to be loaded on to scheduled express fish trains.
The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.
The corn has obviously been cut by hand and piled into small stacks to dry before threshing.
It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.
Much of the job of excavating the site had been accomplished by hand, an arduous task necessitated by the close confines of the work and its steep backdrop.
On St Matthew Street opposite once lay Gilbert's Rugby Football Museum, where rugby balls had been made by hand since the first half of the 19th century.
