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Hemsby In The 70s And 80s
We started holidaying in Hemsby in the late 1970s. My parents loved it as we'd always had caravan holidays previously but now we had a chalet!! They always stayed at Belle Aire site. Hemsby was pretty spartan in those days!! ...Read more
A memory of Hemsby by
Mixture
The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was from ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950
It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by
Priestwood Square 1960s And 70s
I can remember the square not only for its shops but also as a meeting place . Most of our games back then involved huge amounts of our friends either playing war games or football matches over on the field opposite the ...Read more
A memory of Bracknell by
Lady Hall Holmes
The Holmes Family of LADY HALL, Farming and Iron ore on the census it had 6 rooms, They named one Daughter Lady presuming after Lady Hall. Well may add more later Sandra Nee Holmes 5th Generation down the ladder. 1841 Head of the house was Thomas Holmes, wife Sarah .Ref- HO107 Census Millom.
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Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill
It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more
A memory of Noak Hill by
Park Lane.
I moved to Park Lane in 1948.I was about 2 years old.Lived there with my Family till about 1956.It was all fields at the back of our house.At the top of the road was the Junior School I went to.It had about 4 class rooms.I can still remember ...Read more
A memory of Thatcham by
Thornley In My Youth
Further to my memories I spoke of before, I can remember games we used to play like split the kipper, tally ho, blonk, and a lot more. The summer months were great, we would go over the moors and spend all day over there, if we ...Read more
A memory of Thornley by
Grandparents In Service
My paternal grandparents used to work in service at Wonham while my father was a young boy in the years before WW2. I believe my grandmother was a cook and my grandfather was a driver/handyman. I think my father told ...Read more
A memory of South Godstone by
Playing In Salford
I was born in Salford in 1954, except for a brief spell of 4 years in Newton Heath in the late fifties, I have lived there ever since. When I was 11 years old my friend and I were playing digging on the old nursery croft on ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1964 by
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The huge building is set in a park of over 3,000 acres, which on certain days in the summer are opened to the public.
The church and a cluster of old houses are at the top of the hill, and more old buildings are on the river bank, east and west of the Bognor Road river bridge.
Between the wars, Worthing lost its wonderful town hall and theatre.
The sands slope gently, offering safe bathing for children, and extend for a mile and more.
Knowledge of the swift tides and currents in this area is vital, and that is why there are more fishermen using this beach than tourists, who have heeded the warning.
It is ten years after G66010, and more cars are evident.
These were popular places for family outings on sunny days in the 1950s and 60s.
Street lighting has been improved, and there are seats from which to enjoy the scene.
West of the Market Square the road divides: the left hand road goes to Long Sutton, the right fork heads for Langport.
We are now further along Leigh Road and looking back towards the station.
Beyond this there are now modern houses.
This picture is of the same road as photograph W64009, but dates from ten years later and is taken from the other direction.
There are two tarns on the part of the moor by Ilkley shown in 45157A, pages 68-69, both within easy walking distance of the town.
Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.
Ten years has made a tremendous difference in the appearance of both street and market day.
Moving south-east and still within Wonersh parish, we reach Shamley Green, in 1965 still a remote Surrey hamlet loosely built around its triangular green.
Farther along are more barrels and boxes.
Lakeside is the settlement furthest away from the Lakeland mountains, but it is historically important as the entry point for large numbers of Victorian day visitors who came up from Lancashire by way
On the far side of the Severn, a boathouse and rowing boats indicate a swing to tourist trade.
Ingoldmells has had millions of pounds spent on its redevelopment, and more is promised for the future.
Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.
The river has long been used for boats trading upstream and, more importantly, downstream, where the Stour links up with the River Severn and thus with the ports of Gloucester and Bristol.
The new parish was carved out of St James' parish as more and more houses and industry were attracted to the Burnley Road area.
On the left is the Three Mariners pub, an 18th- century building, but standing beyond it now are overscaled two-storey offices.
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