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Happy Times
I lived at 25 Oliver Street through the 40's, 50s, and early 60's when I left for University. My grandparents lived at 23 Henry Street. My memories of a childhood in Hopkinstown are all good. The mountain, the Western field and the ...Read more
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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
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Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s
I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left in ...Read more
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Youthful Memories From A Member Of A 1960s'' Bromley Band
In the 1960s, in my late teens, Bromley was the hub of my universe. I played in a local group - Paul and the Playboys (later 'The Machine' - I had a 1958 Ford Popular with 'The Machine' crudely ...Read more
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Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s
I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the Markets ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn
Working At Rhos Pool As A Lifeguard 1969 To 1972
Though the summers were often cold and the on-shore wind very cold, it was great fun working as a lifeguard in the late 60s and early 70s at the Rhos on Sea Swimming Pool. In the mornings after sweeping ...Read more
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Work History
Robert Lewis. In 1951 to1954 I was employed as a page boyat the Worcestershire brine baths hotel.i was 141/2 yrs of age. The manager was Mr hill,he lived in the hotel with his wife and daughter pat. I worked with the head porter Jim ...Read more
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Where My Old Folks Settled
My people were tinkers of the road. Power, Riley, Macarthur, O'Connor, Macallister and a few I have no knowledge of. Generations had mended tin, woven baskets, bunched broom and heather, one to sweep the floor the other ...Read more
A memory of Pitlochry in 1947 by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
What We Ate
Eeh! Remember potted meat? You could eat it as it was or put it on bread for a sandwich, where is it now? Then there was dripping which was quite solid and spread like margarine on your bread for sandwiches. I worked in Leeds on the ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1950 by
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It also recalls the tragedy wreaked on the countryside by the Black Death and plague in the form of a graffito, '1350, wretched, fierce, violent - the dregs of the people survive to tell the tale'.
The A52 leads to Boston, and the A152 goes on to Spalding.
The square classical building with a pediment is Monkton Hill Wesleyan church, which stands on the site of the Black Horse (this inn is documented in 1750; it was built on land belonging to Monkton Manor
The Boot, the Royal George, the Rose and Crown, the Unicorn, the Bull's Head, the Griffin and the Black Horse were all a part of the Hastings' extensive grip on the town.
Victoria Pier used to be known as Crab Head until it was renamed following a visit by Princess Victoria with her mother the Duchess of Kent.
Maidstone was the head of navigation of the Medway for centuries.
on green turf, reminding us of Sir Edward Ford's activities nearby, whilst above them is the imperial Roman eagle (a reminder of Roman roads that ran through Sussex) wearing around its neck a black
Two bus stops are opposite each other: one is outside the shop advertising Zebrite, a black lead used to clean iron grates and the ranges found in most cottages.
The pencil works of A Banks on the right is an example of one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.
bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles, lamp oil and black lead
Pencil making was one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.
The two hanging signs on the left are for the Black Boy, where King George VI lunched during the Second World War.
The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.
The Black Lion was rebuilt in c1840, but stands on the site of an earlier inn of the same name, which can be traced back to c1660.
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