Places
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- Fairfield, Kent
- Fairfield, Hereford & Worcester (near Bromsgrove)
- Fairfield, Cleveland
- Fairfield, Merseyside (near Liverpool)
- Fairfield, Greater Manchester (near Hyde)
- Fairfields, Gloucestershire
- Fairfield, Derbyshire (near Buxton)
- Fairfield, Hereford & Worcester (near Kidderminster)
- Fairfield, Central Scotland (near Alva)
- Fairfield, Greater Manchester (near Bury)
- Fairfield, Hereford & Worcester (near Evesham)
- Fairfield Park, Avon
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Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958
I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more
A memory of Beckington by
Written While I Can Still Remember
I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more
A memory of Harlow by
Written While I Can Still Remember .
My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more
A memory of Calmore by
166 Easthill Memories.
born in 62, lived at 166 easthill, went to st faiths primary school from 67 to 73, used to sit on the wall watching the scrap lorry reverse all thw way up the side of our wall and gover cricket school entrance and park up to ...Read more
A memory of Wandsworth 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 ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton
2nd Airborne Company Raoc
Hi I was at Arnhem camp in 1958/59. This was where the heavy drop platforms were rigged with Landrover+trailer, before being transported to Abingdon airfield. There they would be loaded into a Beverly aircraft (with ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield in 1958 by
2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
My father tells me that there was an airfield at Watchford and that the Paras used it as a drop zone in the 1950's. Taking off from Abindon, they would drop at Watchfield. My Father did his night drop here and ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield in 1952 by
3 Tons To Blandford
I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more
A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1943 by
A Legend Of Canadian Airmen
My family lived in Westbrook Road, off West Town Lane, Brislington, from early 1949 until April 21 1958, when I was just over 11 years old. We suddenly left on that day and moved to Hertfordshire, and apart from one ...Read more
A memory of Brislington by
Captions
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The Early English-style brick Christ Church in Fairfield Road was just 23 years old at the time of this photograph.
It tapped the water from the Burgess Well (now under Fairfield Road car park) and released it in an open channel down the High Street.
Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.
A total contrast is Charlcombe, a tiny hamlet on a minor road a mere half mile north of the Bath suburb of Fairfield Park.
A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.
With the move to coeducation it was converted to a girls' boarding house called Fairfield in 1976.
It relocated to Fair Field, between upper Duke Street and the Burgess Well.
Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.
The open space beyond is the Fair Field, which was used for the two annual fairs.
This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
The high plateau of the Cotswolds was home to many airfields brought into service during the conflict.
Memories of the Second World War are rekindled when anniversaries are commemorated at the nearby airfield.
Every year up to 2002 a special service has been held in the parish church for the Pathfinder Squadrons which flew from Warboys airfield in the Second World War.
In the Second World War the airfield played an important role in the Battle of Britain.
One associates Benson with its RAF station and airfield, built in 1937.
The nearby airfield was used in World War II for bombers and then for training, with the 39 Regiment of Royal Engineers stationed here from 1966 onwards.
Close by is Brooklands, where there was once a famous motor-racing circuit, an airfield and aviation factories.
This view shows the village of Brockworth, and what is now the old ICI site and airfield.
Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.
To the north-east lies the Second World War airfield which has been the centre for army flying since 1958.
During World War II the Kings Head was a popular watering-hole for airmen based at the nearby North Weald airfield.
The wartime airfield was over to the left.
The airfield was an important centre during the war, and was in use until the mid 1990s.
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