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Port Regis, Kingsgate (School For Delicate Girls)
Around 1958-1959 I attended this school due to bad asthma. On the plus side, but probably due to the climate only, my asthma did seem to improve while at this school but otherwise it was one of the ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1959
Mrs Bland's School
I, with my brother Malcolm, attended the original Mrs Bland's School when it was in Reading Road. I think we started around 1957/8. From there we were two of the first fifty pupils to attend Theale Grammar School in ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1958 by
Music
We moved to Burghfield Common when my father started work as an MOD policeman at Burghfield. We moved into Bannister Road when the estate was still being built and I remember my mother saying that one day she opened the back door to ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1956 by
The Lane Pauline Johnson
I used to walk to Blands School through the lane with my friend Jean Brookes, we would often stop outside the Clark's (Terry) house and climb up the bank where we could see Jean's house across the field. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield in 1955 by
Scout Days..
I don't suppose my old Scout group in Brentford still exists? Back in the middle 50's I belonged to the 4th Brentford Scout group based at St Faiths Church in Windmill Road. Our Scout leaders were Alan De Jong and brothers, Wally and ...Read more
A memory of Brentford in 1954 by
Shops And Places The High Road And Ealing Road.
I was born and lived in Wembley until 1960. The Railway Hotel was the pub on the corner of Ealing Road and my mother was head housekeeper there for a long time. On the day of the Coronation the pub was ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1953 by
Bland Street
I was born at 58 Bland St in my grandparent's house.. parents were George Johnson and Winifred Ravenscroft. Grandparents, James and Jane Ravenscroft. Grandad was a green grocer and had a horse and cart. We migrated to Aus in 1956.
A memory of Hulme in 1952 by
A Long Long Time Ago
We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by
The 1950s
Though I have some recall of the 1940s - eg starting school in 1948 at the age of three and a half and being reluctant to get off a rocking horse on the first day, it was the 1950s that really kicked in - to the accompaniment of songs like ...Read more
A memory of Corwen in 1950 by
Mile Oak Revisited
My mother was a land girl, she worked daily on Farmer Broomfield's farm Some of my earliest memories are of playing with other kids around an old black caravan, more a hut on wheels, provided as a shelter from the weather. Piles of ...Read more
A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by
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The Roman road from the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow ran through what is now the racecourse, which stands on land formerly belonging to the Clay family of Piercefield House.
On the left is a landing stage or quay where we can just see a 2- ton crane.
The extension, apart from its importance as a landing stage for steamers, also sported a restaurant and a bandstand.
A superb view of the Chain Pier from the west, showing clearly the pier head, which was designed primarily as a landing-stage for cross-channel traffic; it opened in 1823.
In August 1405 a substantial French army in excess of 10,000 men landed here at the request of Owain Glyndwr.
Doubling as a landing stage for steamers, North Pier was the first of Blackpool's three to be built and opened in 1863.
By 1894 Brighton's West Pier had been extensively rebuilt, and a landing stage had been added together with a new pavilion.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.
Carrog, or Llansantffraid Glyndyfrdwy, is in the heart of the lands of Owain Glyndwr, the marcher lord.
Though William was himself a farmer, he was also a land surveyor, property developer and investor in canals.
Though William was himself a farmer, he was also a land surveyor, property developer and investor in canals.
They initially consisted of a jetty leading to a landing stage for boats, but they soon became fashionable promenades extending over the sea.
Steamboat trips ran from a landing stage.
Until the area became too built-up, Southbourne was used by pioneer aviators as a landing ground for their flying machines.
Passengers from Falmouth disembarked at the quay here when the tide prevented a landing at Truro.
In 1927 Malcolm Campbell achieved a land speed record of 174.88 mph on Pendine Sands.
Swanage pier is really a landing stage of immense proportions.
It is thought that the Romans used Freckleton Naze as a landing place.
In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip
Saltwood dates back to at least the year 833, when it is mentioned as a land grant by King Egbert.
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