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Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958
I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more
A memory of Beckington by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
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44 Cricketfield Rd
This address was a large terraced home which once belonged to my paternal grandmother.she rented rooms out (after my grandad had passed away) I remember it from visits there when my aunt betty and family lived there. The attic or ...Read more
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80 Years Turnchapel
Hi, my name is William John Maunder and I am 81 years old and my first memory of Turnchapel is the early years of the WW2 . At the time I was living at Crownhill at that time on the outskirts of Plymouth, today day near B&Q ...Read more
A memory of Turnchapel
A One Off
Just opposite the Buddle School, There stands paper shop, Throughout my youth I as a rule, Would almost daily stop. From Nineteen seventy seven, Until the Eighties took their bow. This shop was ran by Tommy, Sadly no longer with us ...Read more
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A House In Gidea Park.
I was born in Carlton Road in 1937. Got bombed out when a landmine dropped down the road and we were evacuated to Clacton while my Dad worked down the Underground tunnel when his factory and the machines were moved away from ...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 Month Not In This World, An Inmate Of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield
It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked about ...Read more
A memory of Macclesfield
Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead
My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George Cooper ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Aurelia Road
We moved to 161 Aurelia Road from 6 Brampton Road, Addiscombe, I lived there for 24 years with my mother and father Margaret and Harry Spencer. My father was a plumbing and heating engineer and taught plumbing at Vauxhall College. ...Read more
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The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.
The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.
Those of riper years were drawn to the village pub, The Black Horse, reached like a reward after climbing the steep rise on which it stands.
The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.
We are looking towards Back Lane.
Like Neston, Parkgate saw increasing trade as a port once the River Dee around Chester began to silt up.
The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.
This view is of the east portal to the tunnel - it looks like any other canal bridge apart from the rusticated arch into the blackness.
We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.
Here, however, is a reminder of what it used to be like, with ships being fitted out on both sides of the river.
Here, however, is a reminder of what it used to be like, with ships being fitted out on both sides of the river.
The majestic 14th-century St Patrick's Church was not completed until after the Black Death, which wiped out half the village's population.
It also recalls the tragedy wreaked on the countryside by the Black Death and plague in the form of a graffito, '1350, wretched, fierce, violent - the dregs of the people survive to tell the tale'.
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