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Tanktops And Bellbottoms
Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead by
Bernard Carrll Ferryman Cadishead
I was born in irlam my father was Thomas barmore we both worked at irlam steel. I worked on the rolling mills hotbanks from 1958 to 1967 and one of my workmates was Bernard carroll . Several weeks ago I was looking at ...Read more
A memory of Irlam in 1966
Whitchurch
I went to Whitchurch Grammar School as a boarder and we went to church every Sunday in crocodile fashion. We all put one penny in the collection! On Saturdays we went to Woolworths, the best shop -and bought licorice comfits for ...Read more
A memory of Whitchurch in 1956 by
Walkers Hairdressers
My family lived in Dulverton in the 1950s. Both parents were hairdressers and we sold sweets and tobacco as well as drapery and ice cream from our shop on the High Street. We had the first chewing gum machine and you used an ...Read more
A memory of Dulverton in 1953 by
Visits To Captain Digby In 1960s
I remember our annual holiday to Kingsgate in the 1960s. We stayed in various guest houses in Percy Avenue and often walked down to Kingsgate Bay for a day on the beach. In 1965 I was aged 7 and remember the pub ...Read more
A memory of Kingsgate in 1965 by
Thornton Heath
I was born in 1951 and enjoyed a very happy childhood in Thornton Heath. Our house backed onto the Graveney River and the Rec. Blissful for children. Many happy hours spent in the children's playground with the playground lady a qualified ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
The Passing Of Time.
I owned a terrace house in wharf road in the 1970"s. Many properties have been demolished.On the corner of Balmoral Road is now a supermarket also there is a huge furniture shop where Tolleys garage once was A parade of shops are ...Read more
A memory of Ash Vale
The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
The Shops On Chester Road In Helsby C1960 1970
I have vivid memories of the shops shown in the photograph. The shop on its own, on the right of the picture was Galley's Newsagents run by brothers Roy and Dennis Galley. Having said that Dennis' wife ...Read more
A memory of Helsby in 1962 by
The Rose And Crown
Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more
A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842, and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.
Queen Victoria's Scottish physician Sir James Clark thought that the climate of upper Deeside might alleviate their rheumatism, and they took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847, subsequently rebuilding
The guns appear to bear more resemblance to those used at Waterloo than to those that would be used eight years later at the outbreak of the Great War.
A year after its opening, on 28 August 1851, Queen Victoria's Royal Train crossed the viaduct as it took the royal family to Balmoral Castle.
The creeper-covered frontage of Balmoral Cottage on the left was the home of William Finch and his wife at this time.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842 and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.
Now Lydney's industrial estate is situated in this area, although one commercial vessel - the MV Balmoral - still uses the port to carry pleasure passengers along the estuary in summer.
Following the death of Sir Robert Gordon in 1847, his brother the Earl of Aberdeen suggested that Victoria and Albert might like to take over the lease on Balmoral.
The present memorial, a Balmoral red granite column erected in 1912, supersedes a large stone (known as the 'Martyr Stone') which has since been taken to Dale Castle.
