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The Army Firing Ranges At Little Altcar
In 1967 I enlisted with the Territorial Army and served five years with the Royal Corps of Signals. My basic training included learning to shoot with the 762 self loading rifle on the ranges near ...Read more
A memory of Hightown in 1967 by
Happy Days Rememberd In Newburgh1959 1965
Hi, these are my memories of Newburgh. My mum used to work at Mug House Farm, which was farmed by the Webster family, as housekeeper to John Billy and also looked after Mary up to her final days. ...Read more
A memory of Newburgh in 1959 by
Our History In Brief
Although I had visited Hightown on many many occasions before this date to visit my Grandparents etc I particularly remember the days when myself and friends from Waterloo would visit Altcar Rifle Range to mark the ...Read more
A memory of Hightown in 1957 by
I Witness The Aftermath Of A Tragedy
Around 1957 I was walking around High Street, enjoying a meander from my route home to Bradbury Lines when I saw the wife of an officer from the Army Camp, Lt Richard Vincent, in great distress with some policemen ...Read more
A memory of Hereford in 1957 by
Does Anyone Remember Greengate Irwell Irwell Works And Mark Addys Bridge
Does anyone remember Greengate & Irwell, Irwell Works, off Ordsall Lane? From 1957 to 1962 I worked there as one of the three telephone operaters. I have very happy memories ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1957 by
Fond Memories Of My Childhood In Salford
I was born in 1946 at 66 Marlborough Road in the front parlour of my gran's house. We lived at that time at 7 Harrietta Street, Higher Broughton, Salford 8 which was then know as Hightown. The chip shop on ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1951 by
Campsite
My father was building the Power Station at Shoreham in the fifties and we had a tent here for many Summer months. The lads use to dare me to go to the Wardens control tower and say I was lost! They used to humour me and broadcast my name ...Read more
A memory of Brighton in 1950 by
Goring By Sea
I was born in the war years in Broadwater, we moved to Goring when I was 2 years old. I grew up in open fields and smallholdings and nurseries. I remember going down to the beach and playing on what is now the Greensward, then it was ...Read more
A memory of Worthing in 1947 by
Raf
As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more
A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by
Family D'hondt
My grandparents Paula and Gustave D'Hondt managed this hotel during the latter half of the 1930s till it was requisitioned by the army during the war. They then moved with some of their paying guests to Highdown, Hindhead, a large ...Read more
A memory of Hindhead in 1930 by
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Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.
Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.
The local authority has formed the intention to create the Crosby Coastal Park stretching as far as the River Alt at Hightown.
The local authority has formed the intention to create the Crosby Coastal Park stretching as far as the River Alt at Hightown.
Bridgnorth is really two towns, High Town at the top of a steep hill and Low Town at the bottom.
On the right, the house dated 1882 still stands at the corner of East Road, part of the High Town developments of the 1870s onwards.
The Square is dominated by the 190ft-high Town Hall tower.
Bridgnorth has always been divided in two: High Town on a defensive position on the hill, and Low Town for traders by the river.
This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart.
Slum areas like Latimer Road, New Town and High Town were cleared as part of a major housing regeneration scheme.
This church, with its 120 ft high tower, occupies a large triangular churchyard.
Built of Painswick stone, the 225 ft high tower was completed in 1450.
The 70 ft high tower was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, and was formally handed over to the corporation in 1889.
The boat lying on the beach in the fore ground, in Hugh Town harbour, is vaguely reminiscent of an ex-ships' lifeboat, and shows the rugged clinker-built construction of this type of craft.
Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground.
From the avenue lined with lime trees the eye is drawn eastwards to the 162-foot high tower of St John the Baptist's, the tallest tower in Gloucestershire, containing a ring of twelve bells with the
The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.
The foundations of this 153ft-high tower were sunk 18ft into the chalk, and about 3,600 tons of Cornish granite were used to build it.
St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.
The forework is a high tower which extends into the moat and dates from the remodelling of the castle by James IV and James V.
From the avenue lined with lime trees the eye is drawn eastwards to the 162-foot high tower of St John the Baptist's, the tallest tower in Gloucestershire, containing a ring of twelve bells with the
The pebble and sandy beach provides views along the coast to Worthing pier; just a short distance inland are the grassy slopes of Highdown Hill, which has long been a popular recreational
Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground.
The building dates back to the 1930s; soaring above it is the distinctive 182-ft high tower, visible from many parts of the city.
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