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Unrequited Love At Church Farm Honingham.
Samantha was about seventeen when I first met her, she lived at the large house next to the old Church Farm. I remember it was a hot sunny day and I was heaving straw onto the ground from the cart, wheat ...Read more
A memory of Honingham in 1981 by
Memory For Bushey
I was born in Watford but lived in Bushey from 1964 to 1984 (I now live in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland). I went to Bushey Meads school from 1966 to 1973, and have fond memories of a rural village on the edge of London. As a boy I ...Read more
A memory of Bushey in 1981 by
Tulse Hill In The 70s And 80s
I lived in Tulse Hill from around 1970 to 1990, at first on the Tulse Hill Estate (Booth House) and then Gaywood Close up the hill. My abiding memories centre mainly around my time at Dick Sheppard School - now sadly ...Read more
A memory of Tulse Hill in 1980 by
The Most Interesting Gents Barbers In The World
Probably just behind the photographer was an old fashioned mens barber shop. All the old men would go there for a haircut and mums would take their sons too. What the mums never knew is that when you ...Read more
A memory of Hazlemere in 1977 by
Great Sankey Memories
My family first moved to Great Sankey from Belfast NI in 1976 firstly renting No1 Orrell Close then moving across the road to Hawthorne Avenue where my parents still live. I have wonderful memories of Thornley's (Then ...Read more
A memory of Great Sankey in 1976 by
Things I Remember
Greenford market, that's where the buses terminated. If you were quick you could jump off the back of a bus at the corner when it turned into Windmill Lane, that way if the bus was going further than the market it saved you ...Read more
A memory of Greenford in 1975 by
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I was born croydon 1970. My birth mother unfortunately was killed by a van mounting the pavement the junction tedder road in 1974. She used to work in pubs in croydon. Just wondering if anyone remembers her ? She was named sally barber or Hampson.
A memory of South Godstone in 1974
1974 Cranford Byron Avenue To Present
I started school at Cranford Infants School 1974, Mr Hill school headmaster. I remember Ms Hickmett, Music Teacher teaching us in one of the huts and running to the school fields up to the river Crane where ...Read more
A memory of Cranford in 1973 by
The Kidd's Alright
THE KIDD IS ALRIGHT The daylight had faded away and dusk was now dim enough to coax the streetlights to pop on, their vague orange light slowly getting brighter as their bulbs warmed. Meanwhile inside the Hamblett ...Read more
A memory of Moston in 1972 by
Saturday Morning
What fun was had by many children on a Saturday morning by going to the picture house. There were two in Walton so we were spoilt for choice. The ladies that looked after us all did a grand job. I was allowed to get the 218 bus ...Read more
A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1971 by
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Barley and fuel for the furnaces were brought to Stortford by water, and latterly by rail.
On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen
By this time the Vaults have disappeared to make way for the Barley Mow.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
The three shops on the right, where the barber's pole is, were demolished in the 1970s to make the entrance to Bowen Square.
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
East Anglia has a long tradition for growing malting barley, and Ipswich had a number of maltings.
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.
The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,
Local thatch was originally made of wheat, rye or barley straw, but now longer- lasting reed is often used.
Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.
The barber's pole which can just be made out on the left indicated a men's hairdressers.
The turrets, beyond the barber's shop, decorate the United Reformed Christ Church, which was built in 1865.
It exported copper, iron, slate, barley, bobbins, gunpowder and leather all over the Empire.
The old Barley Mow public house was based in the last building on the left.
The 16th-century premises of H F Smith are now a shop dealing in ethnic ornaments, whilst the barber's shop (see the stripy pole) now sells antiques.
The Earl of Huntingdon lived nearby, and the village gets the other half of its name from his association with barley farming.
The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.
This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers
The barber's pole (centre right) has also gone.
Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop.
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