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My Memories
I am now 53. My parents and I moved to Erith from Suffolk in 1967/68. I remember the old Erith pre concrete jungle. I never really let the old town go. The damage the new building did to the town is only known now. It was not a very happy ...Read more
A memory of Erith in 1967 by
Evacuee
My Grandmother rented a cottage (Era Goch) during the war and I went to live with her as a sort of evacuee. I used to attend the one room school in Dwyran. I played with my friends on the beach. I don't know how we did not drown as we would go ...Read more
A memory of Dwyran in 1940 by
Halls Of Galmpton
The Hall family lived scattered about Devon since the late 1600's, from what I can gather. In the 1850's to the 1890's they seemed to settle around Galmpton and Dittisham, later into Torquay and beyond. My GGG Grandfather William ...Read more
A memory of Galmpton in 1860 by
Happy Memories
I worked in the Hotel Continental in the very hot summer of 1976 with 3 friends. It was a glorious summer season and the sun shone endlessly, so we spent many lazy days (between work shifts!) on the beach. We danced into the early ...Read more
A memory of Mundesley in 1976 by
My Love Of Brynowen Continues
I do not remember my first visit to Borth as I would have been a few months old around about the spring of 1963. As a family we then returned every year staying at Brynowen, sometimes twice a year, until I turned 18 at the ...Read more
A memory of Borth in 1963 by
Living In Harold Hill
I lived in 71 Hailsham Road off of Straight Road till we sadly moved in the April of 1971. I always remember; the Grammar School, at the back of Appleby Drive we used to have Saturday fetes with the small steam train ride, ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill in 1967 by
Life Until 40.
My family returned to South Ockendon in 1964, although both sets of grandparents were in South Road and Broxburn Drive. First lived in Clayburn Gardens, then in 1969 we moved to 34 Cruick Avenue. Small cul-de-sac, originally with ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon by
The Bird Man
I was reminded today of The Bird Man who went round all the schools doing Bird Call imitations. We were at Ladyland School and this presentation was a welcome break from school work. At the close of his performance he asked for ...Read more
A memory of Kilbirnie in 1955 by
Working At Litton Mill
I went to work at Litton Mill when I was seventeen. Worked in the Sizing, Charlie Mellor was the supervisor. I met many lovely people and a great lot of characters. The sizing was machines with huge rollers set in a bed of ...Read more
A memory of Litton Mill by
Lawrence Weston Comprehensive School
I attended Lawrence Weston Comprehensive School from September 6, 1963 until February 1969. Although I had passed my 11 Plus examination very highly (highest in the southwest of England) and wanted to go ...Read more
A memory of Lawrence Weston in 1963 by
Captions
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The village flourmill was powered by two overshot waterwheels.
The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.
This is the landscape northwards from the limekilns and quarries north of Wych to the Main Street at Bothenhampton (left to right).
The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea.
Looking south across the River Wey, with a group of children posing for the photographer in front of the wooden Boarden Bridge, the centuries-old crossing point.
The sign in the foreground points to the Army's Central Ammunitions Depot in Bramley Road, which eventually shut in the 1970s.
The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.
For many working people, life after the war was grey and utilitarian.
An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester.
We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill
The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.
On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house.
Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and
IN 1908, in his Round About Wiltshire, A G Bradley wrote an idyllic description of the five mile 'run' between Beckhampton and Calne: 'One is on the wide open down, traversing the north-western
On the right are Rayner's, an electrical shop, and Thomas the ironmonger.
The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place.
Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.
The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.
This new viaduct across the Tamar has just been opened, linking Plymouth to the district around Gunnislake and Callington.
High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.
Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.
At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances.
A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.
The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.
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