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How Burghfield Common Has Change.
I have lived all my 60+ years in Burghfield Common and I have seen it totally transformed. I was born and brought up in Three Firs Way, and lived here until 1987 when I got married and moved to Hunters Hill. ...Read more
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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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I Was An Evacuee.
I remember Wrens Warren camp vividly as I was one of many sent there during W.W. 2. It was a happy period in my life as a young boy in the 1940's. I and my friends spent many hours exploring the surrounding woods, making a dam ...Read more
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Shopping Memories.
My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest ...Read more
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Going To The Shops...
As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more
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The 40/50s
It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more
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Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
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John Griffiths Aka Griffo
I was born in the front bedroom of 3 lands bury Crescent in 1952. Loved the estate, our inter road football matches and playing on the old puff and billy railway track. I used to go fishing and swimming in the pontoon which was ...Read more
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Jack's Shop
My grandparents lived in the school house in New Micklefield. I can remember Jack's shop across the road (Great North Road), which was a wooden structure that you climbed up to by steep steps. This was just to the side of the ...Read more
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Park Lane Junction With Wembley High Road
Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more
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Carnegie's magnificent public library has already gone, replaced by a bland modern structure that has now also been removed.
Bought by the Bland family in 1595, it was greatly extended: its frontage measured 600ft, only slightly less than Wentworth Woodhouse near Elsecar, thereby losing a wager made with the Marquis of Rockingham
Farnborough is home to much modern architecture; some might say it was bland and characterless.
This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
The fashion for pedestrianisation can seem bland, but styles have improved since these early days.
The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.
This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.
Shifnal is thought to have been the model for P G Wodehouse's 'Market Blandings'.
The neo-Georgian North Thames Gas Board showroom is a bland intrusion.
On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.
Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township
drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning into the High Street just beyond the bland
The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family.
In 1709 the foundation stone of St Ann's was laid; the church was a gift to the town from Lady Ann Bland.
There are some unattributed monuments, and modest glass, but all is just a fraction too bland.
Out of sight on the left, behind the old telephone kiosk, was the Cheam Road Cinema of 1911, a stylish and grand building whose frontage block was removed in the 1970s and replaced by a bland blank
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.
The superb building, enhanced by attention to detail both outside and inside, stands proud behind a somewhat bland grassed forecourt.
Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.
Instead, little has happened since 1965, except that the spindly trees on the right have matured and The Huntsman pub (previously The New Inn) has been rebuilt in a bland red brick.
The changes did not, fortunately, lead to a bland uniformity in the way in which the town appeared.
Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish.
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