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1953 66
I was born in Hayes & lived on a council estate ,Kier Hardie Way. I had a happy childhood, lots of fields over the 'Greenway'& Kingshill Avenue. Went back in about 1985 & it was a bit shabby, then in 2000 & it all ...Read more
A memory of Hayes by
60's Frimley
Memories of Frimley back in the early sixties. I worked at Southern Instruments on Frimley Road and the first telephone answering machine was developed on site (the machine was the size of a small suitcase). There was a record shop in ...Read more
A memory of Frimley in 1960
Ambassador Cinema
Used to go to Saturday morning pictures. My dad, Jimmy Williams, was a projectionist there, and both my mum and my nan worked there; they had the torch to show you to your seat. Films like Zorro and Old Mother Riley were on. Also ...Read more
A memory of Slough by
Burgate Gateway To The Cinema
Burgate is where the Castle Cinema used to be. That brings back lots of happy memories of days gone by. I went to the cinema as a child, and then worked there, on the projectors with Ron Rich. The White Horse pub was ...Read more
A memory of Pickering by
Betton A Rural Idyl
I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by
Chelmsford, The Wesleyan Church 1898
This building I remember all too well. I had started working for a firm of demolition contractors, and they had the contract to pull it down. I was not very experienced but you soon picked things up as you went ...Read more
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Coffee Bar Cowboys
Hal's Café, The Caprice, Bernies, were the favoured meeting places for the Motor cycling boys form Morden and the surrounding areas shoving tanners in to the juke box and trying to make a cup of coffee last for about 3 or 4 hours. On ...Read more
A memory of Morden by
Dewhurst Butchers
Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I left ...Read more
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Dewhurst Butchers
Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I left ...Read more
A memory of Nelson by
Draycott Police House
I was born in the Police House, my parents had moved into it from new. My older brother David, and my Dad (Constable Hind) made a garden swing for me out of railway sleepers. I can remember going to Sunday school and having to ...Read more
A memory of Pear Tree in 1959
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The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire
Burgage Street, once the main street of Prestbury, is thought to be where the annual fair and the weekly market were held - they originated from a charter granted in the 13th century.
The ornate building on the right was then the New Inn; it subsequently became a Burger King, and is now a McDonalds.
Today's buildings still follow the lines of the original burgage plots laid out all that time ago.
It is likely that the town was then laid out along the east side of the stream, with its market place and burgage plots High Street, the older settlement being along Church Street.
These follow the patterns of old burgage strips, and on market days, sheep were driven in single file along the narrow ways to be counted.
All this rebuilding and re-fronting took place within the confines of the long, narrow medieval burgage plots, although a few were merged to create wider street frontages.
The word 'burgage' is an old legal term referring to a plot of land in a town for which a tenant paid a yearly rent in money or service to the landlord.
The Octagon (centre) was in 1890 private homes rather than burger, pizza and kebab houses.
The ornate building on the right was then the New Inn; it subsequently became a Burger King, and is now a McDonalds.
The ground-floor level of the picturesque building in the centre is now, rather unfortunately, a Burger King outlet.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
The pub is the King Ethelbert; it is still there today, though it is now surrounded by amusement arcades, tea and burger vans and a car park.
The name of Burgate was used for the area near the church in 1486.
