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The Shore Of Wood And Glass
Eynort shore is not the prettyist in the west, but it's washed up some odd things from time to time, Both myself and my brother have found messages in a bottle, and a least half a dozen bombs or old test missiles which ...Read more
A memory of Eynort
My Poor Upbringing By Teresa Shackell/Torrington
I was brought up in gwehelog no usk very poor and I can ember vividly very hungry most of the time oh and ice inside the windows I was so cold yet we had coal or rather wood from our local fields we used to ...Read more
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Good Days
My name is Derek Price, and I was born in Central Middlesex Hospital and lived in Court Way, North Acton, until moving to Birkbeck Avenue when I was married in 1965. I attended West Acton Primary, Acton Wells Junior, John Perryn and finally ...Read more
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Happy Days
I remember happy childhood holidays at Talacre. We would stay in a wooden chalet belonging to a friend of my Dad's. He would pick us up in his Ford Anglia, my dad would sit in the front. Then Mum, my sister Annette and myself would sit in ...Read more
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The Hersham Flood – September 1968
During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...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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Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
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Cheslyn Hay 1960 1977
My parents moved from Essington to Cheslyn Hay in 1960. We briefly lived in one of the cottages in Hollybush before moving to Low Street. I remember Harry Bates selling fruit & veg from his horse & cart and people ...Read more
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Mac Fisheries
Hi Brenda Thanks for the reply. You Mac's workers are all just one big family, so to speak. Since I started the site in March this year, I'm amazed as to how many of you seem to know each other. Oddly enough I'm having talks with ...Read more
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Elmore Court The Bronets Of Guise
Elmore Court is a beautiful manor and ancient house with many acres of property which belonged to the Baronets of Elmore, the Guise family, since the 13th century. My great-great-grandfather, Martin George Guise, ...Read more
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These boats moored in the Cut show how the commercial river trade of earlier times has now given way to pleasure boating.
Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.
The road is very different to its modern counterpart, and reflects how much the sea was the main way out of St Ives.
An Exmouth boatman stands barefoot on the Esplanade seeking customers for the many boat trips on offer.
Compared with the view of Porthminster Beach taken in 1890, this view indicates how much the holiday industry had taken over the St Ives beaches.
A fast rowing boat, a lobster pot and promenaders give an idea of how the Promenade looked in the last years of Victoria's reign.
The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach.
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
How fortunate that the industrial town of Middlesbrough could boast such a tranquil feature in its midst!
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
This picture shows how effectively it provides safe shelter for the limited number of craft it can hold.
A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.
This panoramic view shows how the town is hemmed in by sandstone cliffs.
The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.
There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.
This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.
HOW pleasing to end this visual and historical journey at Aldeburgh.
On the shore to the right a factory for the construction of Sunderland flying boats was established during the Second World War.
Lying opposite Castletown in Carrickey Bay, the inner harbour dries completely at low water, exposing an varied array of assorted weed and barnacle-covered rocks.
A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long.
This is the corner of the Bowness boating area which is used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid 19th century.
This is the corner of the Bowness boating area used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid19th century.
There are plenty of rowing boats for visitors at the Bowness Boat Station in this photograph, taken just six years after No 20451.
The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated.
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