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Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do remember - ...Read more
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Suntrap School. 1956 To 1961.
My name is Terry Hendy. I attended Suntrap school from 1956to 1961. I have very happy memories of the school and although away from home I was very well looked after and fed well. 1 saw the photo of Mr Brooks and Mr Campbell ...Read more
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Pegswood School
My son has moved to Pegswood from Berkshire and his son , my grandson goes to this school , He likes it very much and can't say enough good about the teachers , He has settled in well there . My son and daughter in law like it in ...Read more
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Beginnings
My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father ...Read more
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Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa
In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more
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18 Two Meadows
As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more
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Growing Up
My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were from ...Read more
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Happy Days
I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in the ...Read more
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War Time Evacuees
in 1944 we were taken to St Agnes, me, my two sisters and my mum. I was only 5 years old. They put us in the hotel Driftwood Spars, St Agnes. I went to school there, I can't remember the name of it. My mum worked in the pub in the ...Read more
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Happy Days
In 1959 I became a pupil at St Michaels School (The Old Vicarage Residential Home) where I stayed for 3 happy years, until I was told it closed after the head disappeared with the school funds. Whether or not this is true I don’t ...Read more
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This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
The chestnut palings are now a smart well-trimmed beech hedge.
To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.
Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was.
The large house is The Beeches, and beyond it is the office of Mulley's Motorways.
It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.
The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.
Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.
The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.
The pre-Beeching Act railways meant that people were able to visit a vast array of holiday destinations.
View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.
This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking
The railway line was axed during the Beeching era, and the sturdy bridge was lost at that time.
With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'
Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.
Here the beech and box are coaxed into strange and wonderful shapes, including chessmen, birds, beasts, a lion and a judge's wig.
The last train to run from the town was in October 1963, which was even before the Beeching cuts.
The copper beech, whose leaves we can just see on the left, was planted in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.
Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.
Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.
Oak, birch and beech trees predominate and there are over 400 species of flora and over 60 species of birds.
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