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A High Road And Trading Estate
I was born in 1940 three days before,so I have read,a massive bombing raid over London on 29th September.We lived in Lancelot Court and then Harlesden for twenty years.Spent a lot of time in Wembley as Mother worked in Lyons ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
A Life Of Cockney Wit And Humour
Hi Guys , Another piece of East End literature from Vic B , I was thinking back the other day of the things that made me laugh as a youngster growing up in the East End although it must have applied to the whole of ...Read more
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A Long Line Of Pennies
I'm Not sure whether that was the actual date but as a child of five I recall my mother standing on the top step of our home where she would watch me go over the brow of the bridge on Midland Road on my way to school: ...Read more
A memory of Royston in 1954 by
A Miners Son Growing Up
IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE OVER 55 YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE I WAS LAST IN PEN-Y-BANK. MY FATHER WAS A COAL GETTER IN MORGANS LEVELS, A HARD MAN THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF LEN THOMAS, OR BETTER KNOWN AS LT. I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OF AGE ...Read more
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A Memory Of Westbury Village 1
The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher on ...Read more
A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by
A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.
I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more
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A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 1
My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford in the 1960s and 1970s as a couple of walks ...Read more
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A Boarder's Thoughts From The '60s
What an unexpected but pleasant surprise to have come across this picture of Pennthorpe Preparatory School in Rudgwick. Ironically I left the year it appears to have been taken and I remember my dormitory was on the far ...Read more
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A Cottage Holiday In Aberaeron
My wife Elizabeth and I had decided we needed to get to know the west Wales coast as our son David's fiancee Amanda was studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After a number of visits to Aberystwyth ...Read more
A memory of Aberaeron in 2001 by
An Unappreciated History
When you grow up in an ancient city such as Hereford and have really no other frame of reference you don't fully grasp the enormity of the depth of history that buildings such as Hereford Cathedral embodied. The Romans built ...Read more
A memory of Hereford in 1957 by
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This placid scene depicts the Broads as every water traveller would wish to experience them.
This lovely photograph shows a broad on the upper Bure, possibly South Walsham, showing water lilies which were common on many broads early in the 20th century.
This view shows a broad expanse of cobbles.
Sidmouth nestles in a broad valley where the pastoral countryside of East Devon sweeps down to the sea.
Eric Parker described this pub as an old posting inn with the remains of what was once a spacious parlour, solid with oak beams big enough for a belfry, warmed by a broad open fireplace
The shop is baker, grocer and draper; as it was probably the only shop in the vil- lage, it needed to carry a broad range of goods.
Wilfred Pickles used to tell a story about a mother and her son at a guest house.
Wilfred Pickles used to tell a story about a mother and her son at a guest house.
The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley.
Bodiam is dominated by one of the most picturesque castles in England, set within a broad moat filled with golden carp.
The Hoy & Helmet, on the left, was originally built in the 15th century, with later extensions.
There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.
On the left bank is the single track Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway, which opened as a broad gauge line in April 1867 and was worked by the Bristol & Exeter Railway.
Edward I made Helston an important regional stannary town, and its official Coinage Hall stood in this street until the early 1800s.
This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their
The enduring attraction of the River Thames to both Victorians and Edwardians is apparent on this broad bend, where the strolling figures on the tree-lined towpath are counter-pointed by those taking their
The Teifi begins its journey to the sea 70 miles away; it provided an inland route for the Normans to service the castles of Cardigan and Cilgerran.
This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street.
This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.
As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road.
This market, with the medieval Luttrell Arms Hotel to the right and Conygar Tower on the hill behind, has little changed.
A mile from Wroxham Broad and spanning the Bure is this lovely old single-span bridge, partially hidden by a passing sail.
The nearest this long, straggling village has to a market square is a broadening of the Norwich to North Walsham road, beside which the War Memorial stands under chestnut trees.
As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road.
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