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Royal Visit
This shop stood at the junction of Topcliffe Road with Green Lane East/West. It was demolished in the early 1970s due to an impending visit by HRH The Princess Anne. I cannot remember, but assume that the shop was no longer in use and was ...Read more
A memory of Sowerby by
Memory's Of Lidding Road
Hi i lived at 96 Torworth road I remember leeming road very well in the 1960s as after leaving Campions sec modern school 1963 ,i started my first job at Eros watch company as a training watch maker ,run buy Ivor Rosenberge i ...Read more
A memory of Borehamwood by
Corner Of Castle Street
I don't know if my memory is serving me right, but I seem to remember a shop on the corner of castle street serving lemonade and other cold drinks in a glass in the early 1950s can't remember the price a penny maybe, ...Read more
A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse by
Working Days Then Retirement
After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get there ...Read more
A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by
War Time In Holcombe Rogus
Hi everyone. I lived in Holcombe Rogus during the war years. My Father Leeming Greaves and Kathleen Korner had leased the Prince Of Wales Hotel. My brother Joseph and I attended the local School, I was 9 years old at ...Read more
A memory of Holcombe Rogus in 1942 by
The Name Of The Pleasure Boats
There were two pleasure boats operating from the west beach, 'The Prince of Wales' and another, whose name eludes me at the moment. I think it may have been 'The Queen Mary', but will have to confirm this later. ...Read more
A memory of Shoeburyness in 1953
The Rose & Crown
I have lived in Saffron Walden all my life - was born at SW Hospital - we lived in Audley End then. My most vivid memory is of the tragic fire at the Rose & Crown Hotel in the market Square (now Boots), I think it was Christmas ...Read more
A memory of Saffron Walden
The Original Slum
In order to accommodate an addition to the family, my parents decided to move into an upstairs flat in Parker Street, Byker. The flat consisted of 3 bedrooms, a sitting room and a small room with a sink and gas cooker which served as ...Read more
A memory of Byker in 1957 by
The Minnow Angler's Paradise
'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more
A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by
The Girl Maureen
She was launched as a rowing lifeboat, Docea Chapman, and came to Padstow as a relief boat. She was only on station for nine moths then laid up. I am the girl Maureen. Father bought her in 1952 and converted her into a fishing boat, ...Read more
A memory of Padstow in 1960 by
Captions
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Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.
It was designed by the local firm Leeming and Leeming of Northgate, with a lofty roof supported by richly-decorated ironwork.
Bedale is also just off the A1 and on the route into Wensleydale from Leeming Bar.
Building commenced on the site of the former red brick market in 1891 to the designs of the local architects Joseph and John Leeming.
Again, we see a large painted board; this one proclaims that James Leeming was proprietor of the Three Millstones Inn on the right of our photograph.
Then it became a hotel, trading as Stile House Pension, run by Ernest James Leeming.
Again, we see a large painted board; this one proclaims that James Leeming was proprietor of the Three Millstones Inn on the right of our photograph.
The Fine Fare Supermarket (extreme left of the picture) has now replaced the Co-op Snack Bar, and although Leemings the chemist (next door) remains, Pallister's cake shop beyond has now become Shipmans
Happily the line, from Leeming to Leyburn, reopened in July 2003, with plans to extend to Hawes and Garsdale Head in future years.
The River Leam and All Saints' Church from the suspension bridge.
By the 1870s, Robert Forrest knew that he could not stop the 'rabble' and their use of the beach, which he deemed 'not legitimate'.
The gardens on the banks of the Leam were laid out from the 1830s onwards.
The 1950s proved somewhat of a flat period for the park. 1951 witnessed the scrapping of its bandstand – a £62 repair estimate was deemed too costly, while 1956 saw the removal of its weather station.
It is on an extremely windswept location with not a tree or bush in sight, but no doubt the sea views and bracing air were deemed beneficial to guests.
A quiet moment on the banks of the Leam.
Nowadays, deemed the prettiest village in England, it relies on tourism for its income.
In the picture the wooden Tudor gates are open for public access, unlike today when guardsmen stand outside a closed gate - increased security is deemed necessary now.
A quiet moment on the banks of the Leam.
It was home to a pair of swans for years until it was deemed unsuitable, and for the Millennium a swan statue was erected in the water near the war memorial.
When the roundabout was built in the 1930s, it was deemed such a novelty that it starred on specially issued local postcards, the handsome buildings in the background playing only a minor role.
The Addleshaw Tower was completed in 1974, its construction deemed necessary owing to the unsafe condition of the bell-frame in the central tower.
In the early 1960s it was deemed unsafe and demolished.
It shows the Hele stone between the middle upright, where the sun is deemed to rise directly above it on the longest day of the year, June 21st.
The lifeboat house was deemed necessary by the local authorities in view of the dangerous channels and sandbanks already noted.
