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Trevor Living There Practically All My Life
Further to Gary's memory I was the Julie that he lived next door to but my surname was Evans. For practically all of my life I have lived in Trevor and still see many of the people that I grew up with. ...Read more
A memory of Trevor in 2009 by
Brambletye Preparatory School
Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1967
More Memories Of Waterrow
Dear reader, I have received some lovely messages since writing a few memories I thought I would add a few more. The Rock Inn I use to stay with my great uncle/aunty's public house, namely the Rock Inn, in 1958- 1965. The ...Read more
A memory of Waterrow in 1960 by
Wiveliscombe Earliest Memories
I remember being taken to Wiveliscombe as a young boy in my Uncle Jim's dark green Standard Vanguard, he ran the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965. He would take me to the toy shop at Wiveliscombe Square called ...Read more
A memory of Wiveliscombe in 1960 by
The Rock Inn At Waterrow 1954 1965
The Rock Inn will alway have a special place in my heart. As a small boy I would spend as many holidays as I could staying at my uncle and aunt's pub The Rock Inn. In 1959/60 I would have only been five years old ...Read more
A memory of Waterrow in 1960 by
Lower Sunbury
I remember going swimming on Rivermead Island with my good friend Sue Blackmore and her dad Keith whom I used to help on his milk round for some pocket money (circa 1958). He is still with us but now suffers with Althimers (very sad). I ...Read more
A memory of Sunbury in 1957 by
Reedham Orphanage
My father died just before I was born and my mother had to put my brother and I into Reedham orphanage. I was still on a potty as I remember complaining that I was now old enough to go on the toilet and have some privacy. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1956 by
1956 Onwards
Jennifer and I started our married life in South Wales in a little village called Caio, at that time all Welsh speaking. You may have gathered from my writings I was recalled back into the army for the campaign that was called The Suez ...Read more
A memory of Caio in 1956 by
The Bathing Hole
The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy Reynolds, ...Read more
A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by
Rugeley
I too grew up on the Peartree Estate and have memories of all that Christine remembers. I saw my very first pig at a small farm at the rear of Uplands Green, I think the farmers name was Mr. Duval. I too attended to St Joseph's school ...Read more
A memory of Rugeley in 1954 by
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This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred.
Here we see paddlers belonging to the Weymouth, Bournemouth & Swanage Steam Packet Co with the 'Premier' nearest the camera and the 'Victoria' behind her.
Among the old boys of Blundell's are Jack Russell, the famous hunting parson of Swimbridge, Archbishop Temple, and the author R D Blackmore, who was sufficiently impressed to send his most famous character
The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace.
The excellent quality of the buildings at Marnhull shows that this part of the Blackmore Vale was wealthy from agriculture.
It is now well-known for its formerly 'secret' government nuclear bunker.
The high plateau has been the gallops on which jockeys have put their horses through their paces since the days when Fred Archer and Black Tom Oliver raced into the history records in
R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.
This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred.
This small historic black-tarred weatherboarded post mill with an open trestle is powered by two common and two spring sails, and is turned to the wind manually by a tail pole.
John Blackmore was rector of St Mary the Virgin, and it was here that his grand- son Richard set the scene for the tragic marriage ceremony of Lorna Doone to John Ridd in his famous novel
Cattell's Mill is a black-tarred weatherboarded smock windmill on an octagonal single-storey brick base.
The lovely old parish church of Ibberton is on a slope of the chalk downlands around the Blackmore Vale.
Teddington's population grew from around 1,000 inhabitants in mid-Victorian times to over 25,000 just a century later.
The houses on the left are known as Woodrow Terrace, and the ones on the right Blackmore Terrace.
R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was moved to describe the walk to Lee as `one of the finest in England`.
Blackmore is a typically well kept Essex village.
A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation.
In this 1960s view of the top of Cheap Street can be seen the White Hart public house; the area known today as Blackmore Vale was previously called the Vale of the White Hart.
The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over the Blackmore Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside.
