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Bilsdean Creek 1960
Down Bilsdean Creek where fresh and salt water meet, the bladderwrack rehydrating incoming tide chases tiny trout upstream to the overhanging hazel branch sanctuary of dappled dancing sunlight where they flit back and ...Read more
A memory of Bilsdean Creek by
Smith The Grocer Of Chapel Road, Kessingland
My grandfather on my father's side, Jabez Herbert Henry Smith (known as Herbert) was born on 19th January 1885. At the tender age of 13 he was sent by his parents to take up a seven year apprenticeship at ...Read more
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By The Cut
born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was where ...Read more
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More About The Court School Of Dancing
I went to the Court with friends between 1966 and 1970. We would meet up in the Two Brothers opposite. I met my wife there at a Halloween Party night, October 1969. The manager was Derek White, with his wife ...Read more
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Fish & Chips In Brightlingsea
During the late 40's and 50's we all travelled to Jaywick Sands for our summer and bank holidays and on the weekends made regular excursions to the nearby seaside resorts of Frinton and Walton-on-the Nase but my ...Read more
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1960's Tunnel Memories
I clearly remember these Land Rover "Tunnel Patrol" vehicles although I was only 7 in 1965. I thought that they were real Police vehicles (were they labelled "Tunnel Police" I wonder?) and I remember being puzzled by the ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead in 1965 by
Lewis's Department Store
Worked as a Saturday girl in 1970s and then in summer holidays as a Student. So sad to see that famous building with the naked man Statue so part of our heritage now derelict and deserted. Lived near Victoria Park Waterloo ...Read more
A memory of Crosby
English At Heart
I am an American who went to school in Chester in 1966/67. Rather, should I say, I was registered for school at Chester College. However, I can't say I was actually in the building very often. There just always seemed to be somewhere ...Read more
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Days Gone By
My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more
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Happy Days
I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more
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On this side of town the Midland operated a short goods branch to Brampton.
In the 1960s it was home to a branch of the Runcorn and Widnes Industrial Co-Operative Society.
It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.
On the extreme right is the local branch of the shoe chain Freeman Hardy & Willis, with F W Woolworths next door.
It was served by a branch line of the Highland Railway from Fodderty Junction.
The huge 24-branch brass chandelier was donated by the earl of Godolphin during rebuilding.
St Mawes lies on a sheltered branch off Falmouth harbour.
The country branch of the Queen Alexandra Nursing Home for Children with Hip Disease was at East Clandon.
Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes
Wainwright the chemist's (right) is an old Eastleigh firm that until recently survived in the centre of the town, but this branch has become a showroom for heating appliances.
There was a Co-op branch in this street, and Mainwaring`s (extreme left) was an important store here.
George Oliver`s shoe shop (left) was one of several Cornish branches in the early 20th century; it still exists in a modernised form as Messrs Timpson.
On the right, a road branches off to Wheathampstead.
A branch of Barclays Bank lies further down the street on the corner.
On the far side is the modern brick branch of the Midland Bank, while on the immediate right are the Post Office, chemists and opticians.
Note the tobacconist on the left advertising Players No 3 and the canisters outside Stephen & Fred Green on the right (now a menswear shop and a branch of OXFAM).
On the left is Quay Station, built in 1874 for the Ilfracombe branch; it was demolished in 1922 when Town Station was built on the other side of the Taw.
The 'Welford Arm' runs east for one and a half miles from the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal and opened in 1814.
The railway ran to Great Torrington when this view was taken; it later extended to Halwill Junction and the North Cornwall branch lines.
Nearby, beyond the Anchor pub, is a branch of Macfisheries, the famous fishmonger.
A branch of the famed family lived nearby for over 400 years from 1490; round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was one member.
The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.
Town Lock is one of two mechanised locks; the other is Newark Nether Lock at the northern end of the branch.
A branch of Tesco Metro now occupies the building.
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