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Grosvenor Road And Urmston, Always A Place In My Heart.
I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more
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Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
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Memories Of A Young Girl.
Was born in Waterhouses 76 years ago at North Terrace, enjoyed the freedom of playing out in the street and fields . my father worked down the mine like all the other men and boys, my mother stayed home and cooked and ...Read more
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Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
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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
A memory of Market Harborough by
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
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Children's Convalescent Home Charnwood Forest 1949
I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves
St Joseph's Convent School
I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill
I Remember This Coronation, 2nd June 1953.
The biggest reason I remember the 1953 Coronation was because it was the first time I had ever seen a television. I was only very young in 1953 but I was privileged to be able to watch Queen Elizabeth's Coronation ...Read more
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Memories Of A Delivery Boy
Memories of a Delivery Boy 50/60s We moved onto the Beavers Lane Estate in 1951 as it was being built. Our first home was in the Chester Road flats with kids in every flat we soon had a large group of friends, Richard Dave ...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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