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My Youth
I lived in Redhill in the late 60s and early 70s. My family lived in Batts Hill,the hill behind the Monsoon Arms pub.My parents Pam & Arthur Brown managed the fish & chip shop along from the cinema. I worked at Automatic Tooling at The ...Read more
A memory of Redhill
''fanny'' Hawkins Sweet Shop.
In reply to Keith Hawkins' appeal to anyone that knew of F.W. Hawkins shop on Hosier Street, Reading, I used this shop during the 1950s as a small boy while spending the weekends with my Nan & Grandad who lived at 61 ...Read more
A memory of Reading in 1955 by
1952
I was born in the July of 1952,to my parents Frank and Bette Coxon. We lived above a butchers shop, on the corner of the Wednesfield Road and Heath street - the shop belonged to Mr Sammy Hall. My father worked as a butcher at Downs of ...Read more
A memory of Heath Town in 1952 by
1977 Silver Jubilee
I remember the build up to the Silver Jubilee when we were all having a street party, it was great when all the neighbours came together to make it great. I lived on Two Butt Lane in Rainhill. It brought all of us together. It was ...Read more
A memory of Rainhill by
A Boscastle Family
Relating to the two little girls standing in the street, the one on the right is Nellie Davy, my aunt. She was the eldest child of Harry and Mary Ann Davy (nee Ferrett). Nellie and three other siblings were born at Butts but ...Read more
A memory of Boscastle in 1900 by
A View From Doomsday Book Swells Hill 47364
Swells Hill is mentioned in the doomsday book where very little else in this photo is. the row of a few houses in the foreground are the top part of Swells Hill, perched on the "Knoll" Looking east up the ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe by
Alston My Birthplace
Although I can't remember Alston as a baby, I did revisit at the tender age of 10 years and can remember the impact the town had on me, knowing I was born there. I was shown the house we lived in, it was called Sunset View at the ...Read more
A memory of Alston in 1949 by
Ashwell Hall
Does anyone remember Ashwell Hall which was in Great Bardfield (I think)? I was born there and my grandfather Mark Allen, and grandmother Alice lived there. My grandfather, worked for Captain Cook and ran the apple orchards, there ...Read more
A memory of Finchingfield in 1945 by
Australians On The Cut 1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in ...Read more
A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by
Barking/Ilford
Born in Ilford 1947 I lived just a few yards from Barking Park. I spent a lot of happy times there in the outdoor swimming pool, running around the field, riding on the little train, boating on the lake (especially the steamer), ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1947
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From south west of the station go first to St Mary's Butts, whose wide street was used until about 1600 for archery practice at the 'butts'.
The buildings in the foreground, including the Duke's Head on the right, are in Butts Road, while Olsen's Stores (left) and those nearer the town are in the High Street.
Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.
St Mary's Butts is in the centre of Reading.
Built as a memorial to the casualties in the First World War, this building on Butts Road has been added to quite extensively.
St Mary's Butts is in the centre of Reading.
Butt's Farmhouse on the green was a medieval open hall.
We are looking back from the Butt and Oyster pub towards the boatyard and sailing club.
The timber colonnades are an unusual feature.
A thatcher is just patching the long straw thatch of the cottage row; the nearer cottage butts against the former farmhouse, and has a pantiled roof with sloping dormer windows.
Walter Vavasour built the block of buildings forming the Walk in the early 1800s, partly on the site of the yard of Eagle Inn.
This view, until 1886 concealed by houses, shows the tall, elegant west tower of the parish church now dominating St Mary's Butts.
The timber colonnades are an unusual feature.
This one, between Mounters and the parish church (centre right), looks almost suburban, with the dormer windows of fashionable semi-bungalows around Butts Close (right).
This view shows some of the 18th-century buildings and defences.
The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.
The freehold of the Butts was presented to the town by the Lord of the Manor is 1981.
The Butt and Oyster is probably the most well-known pub on the East Coast, at Pin Mill, on the River Orwell.
Despite redevelopment, the facades of these buildings, which cluster around the medieval market place, remain recognisable today.
The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.
This street was named after the church, which was erected in 1818 on Packhorse field.
Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts.
Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts.
In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.
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