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Old Lewisham Central Library
In the early 1950s I worked at the Central Library, near St Mary's Church. My most vivid memories are the long working hours (difficult for the social life of a young girl) and having to manually count the 'issue' before we ...Read more
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Rowley Bristow Hospital
This hospital played a big part in my childhood. My sister spent several weeks there after suffering a severe cut to her knee in the 1960s, her godmother worked there as a physiotherapist, and not long before it closed, my ...Read more
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1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel
On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more
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Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting
Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more
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Early Days
I was born and brought up in Pembroke terrace and with number of lads of like age wandered the mountains through theSaucy ap and over to overlook the Rhondda . We would climb up an run down hills,run through rivers and ply cowboys and ...Read more
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Glades End, Surf Crescent
Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more
A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by
V2 Rocket Dropped On Hatley Avenue
Late in Feb 1945 (I think it was the 25th) I was at Geary's school when during the dinner break a neighbour of my own age Sheila Solomon told me that my house had been bombed. At the time I lived at 39 ...Read more
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Waiting For The Bus
To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more
A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by
Wonderful Memories Of Kessingland
My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more
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My Youth In Thornley
I was born at 128 Thornlaw, North Thornley. I am one of 8 children. My perants where Mr & Mrs Coles, Mary Ellen & Eric. My brother's names, Eric, Charles, Lawrance and Joseph. Sisters are Margaret, Mary, Pauline and ...Read more
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Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.
The long straight high street eventually opens up into the Friday market place.
Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.
The brook here somehow appears to be little cared for, with its chipped concrete posts arrayed along weedy banks.
This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864.
The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.
The roundabout was removed in 1979 to make way for a new road junction.
On the right, the Royal Oak, the shop with the arched door and window, and the building nearest the camera, here Dolly's sweet shop, all remain.
This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street.
The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.
Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a
North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.
This plainer room is one occupied by Queen Victoria when she stayed at Thoresby, enjoying the lavish hospitality of Earl Manvers.
The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.
Churches were built to serve the suburbs north of Abington Park.
The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly
Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.
Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.
Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.
Another view, similar to H6031 (above), shows the brick-paved path and the holly bushes.
The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.
Beyond the Clocktower, the Georgian brick front belongs to the George Inn, which was replaced by Burtons in 1936.
Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne.
West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741.
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