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Tosh And I And Easy Pickings
Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to the ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Capel Bryn Seion, Glanamman
My name is David Jones, and I remember this street well - opposite & to the right (out of pic) was the local dairyman, who used to deliver milk from the back of a dog-cart.. Further behind the Capel was the Workmans ...Read more
A memory of Glanaman in 1946 by
Duppas Hill Lane & Old Town Croydon.
Hi, I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area. I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958
I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more
A memory of Beckington by
The Lake
THE LAKE as we called it was the other side of the bunny hills, brings back memories of our childhood. The house nearby was once occupied by the Manager of the brick company, that dug out the clay that created the lake, he was our great ...Read more
A memory of Arlesey in 1950 by
The Good Old Shops
I was born in Hatherley Gardens in 1951. My memories are of all the lovely shops that were around, I wonder if anyone can remember some of them? Salters Prams, Larkins Sweet Shop, Rowes Sports, Hamlets estate, Economic Stores, ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1960 by
''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
'down Yer 'wey'.
Moved to Farncombe in 1942 from Datchet, but evacuated originally from Barking, London. I remember arriving at my new home at 1 Tudor Circle. My Step-father was a fireman in the AFS, who's ...Read more
A memory of Godalming in 1942 by
'lozells', Such An Exotic Sounding Place.
We lived in Gerrard Street, Lozells, until I was about 6. My father had an allotment where we would go and play, I still have a photo taken when I was about 4 of my father, older brother, and myself at the ...Read more
A memory of Birmingham in 1952 by
11 Poynder Ave, Corsham
Moved here in 1942 were my father worked for B.A.C underground at Hawthorn as a foreman working on gear inspection. With the recent 70th anniversary on Tv its only now that I realise what my parents had gone through with the ...Read more
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On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.
Marske is an attractive and unusual Swaledale village, neither nuclear nor linear, nestling in a fold of hills just above the River Swale.
This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley.
This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley.
Buttermere and Crummock Water were once one large lake, until alluvium from Sail Beck gradually cut it in two.
The beck runs through the village green and then under this bridge beside the farmhouse and the parish church.
Gone too is Measand Beck Hall which was close by.
Beyond the bridge is Back Hill Steps.
Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.
Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.
Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.
The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.
A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.
In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.
We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square.
This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre).
Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.
We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.
We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.
The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.
Dating back to Roman times, this is the only natural harbour between the Humber and the Tees, and is an important shipping haven.
This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.
This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.
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