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100 Years Ago
My aunt Elizabeth Lloyd Griffiths Jones was born in Blaenau Ffestinog on Feb. 12, 1906. She is the daughter of the late William and Annie Griffiths. She came to America in around 1920. While living in Wales she lived with ...Read more
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100 Years Ago: Herbert William Nunn
Herbert William Nunn, born Carlton Colville, 1888; killed in action 13 November 1916 was the fiance of my mother's neighbour of 50 years. Her name was Ethel Lilly, and she lived in Nottingham, the family taking ...Read more
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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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A Lifehood Of Memories During The 1950s
orn in 1942 at 23 Park Avenue, Northfleet, I went to Dover Road School then Colyer Road Secondary School. Churchill's dairy used to be opposite Colyer Road School and allotments where we had a plot. The ...Read more
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A Lifetime Ago.
My dad was in the Army and we travelled the world. We came back to the UK from Germany at the end of the 60's, I was about 12 or 13. We lived at the top of some steps that only had two houses, we could see right across the fields at ...Read more
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A Long Time Ago
My grandma was from Hengoed but moved to the midlands as a teenager with her parents. We don't know a lot of her time in Hengoed apart from her having a lovely childhood. We were always lead to believe that she lived in Hengoed Garden ...Read more
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A Long Time Ago
Myself and my sister recall our father visiting Beverley many, many years ago. We guess that this would have been before he was married in 1935. We are trying to find the reason why he went from his home in Goodmayes, Essex all the way ...Read more
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A Long Time Ago
Gosh, from aged 8-12 years I was here. Now 30 years later I am still friends with girls who were here. It was just awful. We got locked in rooms for 24-48 hours with just bread, water and no electricity for doing absolutely ...Read more
A memory of Lechlade on Thames
A Long Time Ago
I used to stay with my Aunt in Lowic in late 1950/1960. She lived in the centre of Lowic from what I remember - possibly opposite the pub. Her name was Hilda Bird and she had a daughter Hilda Joan - known as Joan. She ...Read more
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A Long Time Ago
I was raised in esse x road hoddesdon. The house i lived in was opposite bell and websters. It now is Sainsburys depot The school i went to was Hazelwood junior school and then onto Hoddesdon secondary school.Leaving school I became a ...Read more
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The village grew thanks to railway workers and commuters, and shops moved onto the ribbon development on the Bristol to Bath road - we can see a post office, an optician's, a chemist's, a Co-op and a petrol
There is a substantial garage here with two pumps (right), although at this time there were usually only one or two car owners in each street, and not surprisingly few cars are shown.
Many of the people here also work at the nearby Cosford RAF base; Cosford is the home of the Aerospace Museum with its collection of missiles, warplanes, retired passenger aircraft and aero
The wide shop on the left belongs to Henry Abbot, the long-established draper's, which became a Co-op in the late 1990s.
The most famous of these was Rolls Royce, shown here, whose Aero Engine factory was established in 1938.
Built about 1726, in the early 20th century High House was a co-educational boarding school founded by Harry Lowerinson.
Eastchurch has always had a link with aviation: the RAF had an aerodrome here, and the Royal Aero Club was based at Stanford Hill – it later became an open prison.
Miss Hill was a tireless housing and social reformer and was a co-founder of the National Trust.
In front is a row of modern shops, including a Co-operative store at the end by the truck, which had replaced a row of terraced houses.
In front is a row of modern shops, including a Co-operative store at the end by the truck, which had replaced a row of terraced houses.
The last vestiges of the same industry in Bradford on Avon (it produced, among others things, the rubber washers used worldwide in aero- sol cans) are about to undergo commercial and residential development
Shop signs beyond the Three Cups Hotel include those of a Co-op store, the Tudor Cafe, and the Nook.
It was a co-educational school until the Girls' County School was built further down Buttrills Road.
The High Street building now partly occupied by Argos and Barnado's was designed in the 1960s as a Co-Operative department store.
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