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1958 To 1990
My parents moved from Hackney East London to Orchard Road in 1958, I was two years old. Orchard Road connected to New Road by way of a pedestrian break in a hedge between the two roads, New Road was unmade in those early days. A ...Read more
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School Days In Mortlake
Living in Langdon Place was a real advantage when attending Mortlake Primary. 2 mins from registration and guess what nearly always late. A real little community on its own where we lived. All my brothers went to the same school ...Read more
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Blythe Mansions, Hornsey Rise
I can vividly remember Blythe Mansions, I used to go there with my late mother to visit an aunt and other relatives who lived there, I can still see it now, there were two sections of the estate as I recall, with two half ...Read more
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Life In The 1960s
This photo of the art gallery reminds me of how we used to go rolling down the banks. Lots of children did this regularly and as you went towards the back of the gallery, the banks got steeper! It could be quite alarming, yet ...Read more
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Growing Up In Potters Bar
My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the scene.I ...Read more
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Payees Chelsea Buns
Half way down on the left was Paynes cake shop where we would buy Chelsea buns from about 10.30 onwards for 2 pence halfpenny, (that's in old money). They were hot, soft and very sticky with syrup and tasted wonderful. We have been ...Read more
A memory of Newtown
My Holidays In Margate
My mum & dad used to take me and my sister to Margate (Cliftonville) for 2 whole weeks back in the late 50s/early60s. I shall look up some old photos when I have a chance. Although we didn't have much money then, we took a bus ...Read more
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Templesheen
my sister has lived her for almost 30 years. you can just see the large house on left in distant . the road now is private and with gate shut off at the end. I occasionally stay here for small break and love just walking down to the beach ...Read more
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Our Introduction To Faversham.
After our marriage in March 1962 my wife and I spent a short while in Gillingham, living with my mother and sister. My mother was managing a branch of Stuarts the Cleaners and we were aware that a similar vacancy was soon ...Read more
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Burnt Oak A Lasting Memory
The late 40's through the mid 50's. Some 50 plus years have now passed, since I was a " kid " on the streets of Burnt Oak. How life has changed. I now sit at my computer ( here in Tennessee, USA ), and have instant ...Read more
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This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.
The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap.
Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.
Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.
The beach is an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the dunes form a National Nature Reserve.
The Stiffkey Anti-Aircraft training camp was erected as a satellite to the larger AA camp at Weybourne in the late 1930s.
The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.
The drainpipe (right) marks the division between the timber-framed building of 1694 to the left and a Victorian brick extension nearer to us.
The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.
There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.
This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.
Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.
Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls.
This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.
The Clayton Windmills were built in the 19th century.
A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall.
Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.
It was dismantled in 1959 and the parts were taken to County Oak, near Gatwick Airport, but have not been reassembled.
The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.
This view looks east along the main street.
Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.
The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.
These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.
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