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The Brook In Bull Lane
I remember a narrow brook in Bull Lane running along the bottom of the houses left hand side walking from the high street. My schoolfriend and I used to jump over it and try to push each other in. I sometimes think this is something I ...Read more
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The Brook In Bull Lane
I remember a narrow brook in Bull Lane running along the bottom of the houses left hand side walking from the high street. My schoolfriend and I used to jump over it and try to push each other in. I sometimes think this is ...Read more
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Schools
I lived in Beaufoy Road for a number of years, I went to Falcon Brook Primary School, then Lavender Hill girls school. Had great times. Lavender Hill School now gone, does anyone have memories of it, the snow would be terrible coming down Amies Street, I had a great uncle uncle iving there.
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My Heart Belongs To Corwen
I was born in Brook Street, the bottom end of town. I started school at 3 yrs old, loved the old bottom school. We then moved to the big house at the top of Pen y Bryn. I went to top school. I loved singing and dance, so ...Read more
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Mmm Fish And Chips
My memory of Rugeley was going to town and having fish and chips from Florie's chipshop in Brook Street, they were the best I have ever tasted. Wrapped in newspaper with fish bits in there too, those were the days.
A memory of Rugeley
Mellow Street Wash Brook Chadderton
I grew up in chadderton born in 1945 mellow street then moves to Leslie ave bus driver with Oldham Corp then to Canada played drums in a oldham band in the 60s toured with the Hollies Kinks Moody Blues as a ...Read more
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Evacuated During World War 11
I was evacuated to my Grandparent's house "Hope House" The Street Radstock during the war years - they were Mr and Mrs H.D.Plummer and lived in Hope House with their Daughter Gwendoline Edwards and her three sons Ivor, ...Read more
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Wordsley, Early 50's
My parents had a chip shop next door to the Cat Inn in Wordsley. Miss Bowater would walk me to school at Brook Street every day for the first few weeks there. She was a lovely lady, but my teacher, Miss W, was very stern and made ...Read more
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Wedding Day
We moved to Eastry when I was 2...now 60 years ago ....We lived in the house on the Premiere Garage High Street which was over the road from the newsagents called Bickers. As kids we played in the wood of Boystown behind the garage. Premiere ...Read more
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Vincent Secondary Modern School 1963 To 1967
I was just checking out Northolt history and came across this site...looking through it ,I have seen a few names I remember, so thought I would check it out ! My name is Jacky, surname was Burns, lived in ...Read more
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Captions
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These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.
We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street.
This street was once called Heol-y-Nant (Brook Street) from the brook which ran through Blaenavon.
The old coaching inn, half way down Brook Street on the left, had the unusual name of the Farmer's Man.
This street was once called Heol-y-Nant (Brook Street) from the brook which ran through Blaenavon.
One of the many streams that cascade off the moor - this is the beginning of Mill Ghyll, which flows down Wells Road and then underneath Brook Street.
We are looking from the Cross Street / Corporation Street corner.
The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.
Brook Street c1955 Bensington is Benson's proper name; it was once an ancient British city.
'Slaid' means 'flat marshy ground', 'burn' is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.
We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.
This view along the main street towards the Market Square displays an air of rural pragmatism, with several of the shops displaying their wares for inspection outside.
Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke.
The Daventry Civic Society was formed to preserve this historic street from demolition.
The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.
Even Brierley`s boatyard on the corner of the Hen Brook (right) is back in business.
Slaid means 'flat marshy ground', burn is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.
This view looks up Olde Barn Passage past Brookes Court.
The Horse and Gate pub (left) has been redeveloped into shops, the Lion Hotel (right) is now flats, and parking is only allowed on the left-hand side of the street.
A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.
Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall.
In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.
This view shows Brook Street with its cantilever railway bridge, removed after the line closed between Ilkley and Morecambe.
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
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