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Teased By Day ,Tortured By Night.....
The first time i read anyone's memoir of their days at Mobberley Boys,they claimed them as fond almost happy days! I panicked for a minute thinking there were two schools of the same name! Of course,for me there ...Read more
A memory of Mobberley in 1976 by
Memories Of Village Haircuts
Just before the 1960’s transformed our innocent lives, all us village boys had a limited choice of tonsorial art; indeed you could count the number of available haircuts (styles wasn’t a word used for men or boys) on ...Read more
A memory of Sherington in 1960
Moved To Barns Green In 1958
My family moved to Barns Green in 1958 purchasing Cootes Farm and then Bachelor's Farm shortly after (hardly large enough to be called farms, but that was their names). I was 15 at the time and had many friends and fond ...Read more
A memory of Barns Green in 1958 by
Growing Up In Dartmouth
Hi my name is Dave Brock and I was born in 1942 in Dartmouth! Having done my schooling I joined the Army Cadets in my early teens and found music in the cadet band! We played at most of the carnivals in the area including ...Read more
A memory of Dartmouth in 1956 by
First Day Of School
First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more
A memory of Egham in 1954 by
The 1950s At St. Annes
I loved St Anne's. Great theatre, music and games, an all-round education. I'll always think that I got a great education there and I'm sad it's been pulled down. I wish I could find some of my class mates; Wendy Dew is in ...Read more
A memory of Sanderstead in 1953 by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their batchelor ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
The Black Bull
I was allowed into the pub with my grandfather, Clarence Batchelor, as long as I sat in the corner and kept quiet! I was eventually taught to play darts.
A memory of Cliffe in 1952 by
Hinton Blewett 1945 1946
I first saw Hinton Blewett on a late September day when arriving at my prep school, Colchester House. This was housed in Hinton Blewett Manor, which was its wartime home. Its true home was in Clifton, Bristol but that ...Read more
A memory of Hinton Blewett in 1945 by
Purley County Grammar School
My father taught at what was then Purley County Grammar School for Boys, from about 1935 to 1948 (with a break for war service), when we emigrated to South Africa. Like another memorist, I remember the sweet shop on ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1940 by
Captions
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When good-looking bachelors occupy the room in which she died she occasionally pinches their bottoms!
Hanging inside are paper Virgins' Crowns, each marking a past village spinster or bachelor - the most recent was put up in 1973.
The tobacco advertising is quite amazing to our 21st-century eyes: Players, Bachelor, Woodbine, Park Drive and Bristol cigarettes are mentioned.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
This splendid establishment was three years old in 1897, and had been created by a fortune left by the bachelor R J Campbell.
The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.
Each size slate has its own name, and terms in use in former times included duchesses, countesses, short wivetts, movedays and bachelors.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
John Hornbie, a bachelor, lived in that part of Newton known as Scales until his death in 1707.
After making sure that his relatives (he was a bachelor) were well provided for, he left the amazing sum of £100,000 in his will to form a college, where all faiths and denominations would be admitted.
