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Tanktops And Bellbottoms
Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more
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Jellicoe Square
Shoebury Hall Farm was owned by Capt H R Townsend RN and his wife Margaret I think. There was also a daughter Pamela. They were like the country squire and his family. Their house was between the church and the camp site. I ...Read more
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Alston My Birthplace
Although I can't remember Alston as a baby, I did revisit at the tender age of 10 years and can remember the impact the town had on me, knowing I was born there. I was shown the house we lived in, it was called Sunset View at ...Read more
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Memories Of A Young Man
The Rennie family lived at Hillbrae Farm, Penton. Our neigbours then were Lotty Mitchel of Roan Farm, the Harringtons of Beyond the Moss, the Rodan family, the Beattie family, the Alston family, the Davidsons of Haglin ...Read more
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War Years
My name is Pamela Alston, nee Earley. I lived in Alconbury village from the age of 5 in 1943 till the age of 15 in 1953. I went to the village school and had an exellent education, much better than my college educated children. We lived ...Read more
A memory of Alconbury in 1942 by
Under Holy Trinity Church
The Margate cliffs were chalk. An extremely tall church named The Holy Trinity Church sat in the middle of Trinity Square about 800m from the sea. During the war, the roof had collapsed leaving the outer walls, tower and ...Read more
A memory of Margate in 1950 by
Park Gate Which Park Gate
I lived in Locks Road Park Gate for many years and I would take a pretty big bet that this is not a photograph of Park Gate in Hampshire. It is simply not like anything in the neighbourhood and as there is another Park ...Read more
A memory of Park Gate
No. Wrockwardine
During the early world war 11 years I was "evacuated" to my grandparents who lived at No 3 Wrockwardine from my parent's house in Seaford, Sussex as the air raids and bombing were becoming too severe. My father, Frank was a ...Read more
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Times In Sidney Park
1950's: As a young lad I lived just a few minutes from this park (which is in Cleethorpes not Grimsby) and so spent a lot of time there. This pond was home to many hundreds of small fish, which I assume to be sticklebacks and ...Read more
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Summer Of '66
During late July to early August, 1966, while visiting the U.K. from the States, I stayed in a stone duplex off the eastern main road into Cirencester from Oxford. One half of the house was occupied by three students from the Royal ...Read more
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The steep descent to the end of a lane gives a certain isolation to Polkerris, and this early view shows perfectly how the little village clings to the valley bottom behind a beach and stone pier.
Although only a few miles from Plymouth to the south and Tavistock to the north, Bere Alston feels quite remote, situated on the peninsula between the Tamar and Tavy.
In the mid 11th century Dinnington was still a part of the old royal estate of Conisbrough, along with Harthill, Braithwell and Anston, though Laughton had been detached and was ruled by Earl Edwin
The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.
It is a double-pile brick building with archetypal cross-casement windows and stone dressings.
There is a classical-style bridge of steel and stone there now, decorated with Bocking's armorial bearings.
In the mid 11th century Dinnington was still a part of the old royal estate of Conisbrough, along with Harthill, Braithwell and Anston, though Laughton had been detached and was ruled by Earl Edwin of
Consecrated in August 1830, St Peterís church is built in brick and stone; it consists of chancel, nave, north and south porches, and an eastern tower with a spire containing a clock and six bells
The machinery and stones were removed c1900.
Headquarters building, designed in 1927 by A E and Trevor Sawday, encapsulates an air of civic authority whilst at the same time exhaling a breath of almost domestic-scale confidence in its brick and stone
St Just is bounded by small, irregular fields and stone walls.
It was built to transport cotton and silk as well as coal and stone; today, used mainly by holidaymakers, it is considered one of the prettiest waterways in the country.
We are on the navigable and tidal River Arun.The church of St John the Evangelist has a shingled broach spire; flint and stone are used for walling and buildings.A ferry with landing steps connected
The varying height of the old houses built of flint and stone with thatch and tile, contrasts with the varying width of the roadway.
Much of the exterior was remodelled in the 15th century to give the striking chequer pattern of flint and stone.
Plaster, timber, brick and stone have all been employed to provide an interesting variety.
Situated within the remains of the Rockingham Forest, Stanion has thatched and stone-tiled cottages looking towards the graceful tower and spire of its 13th-century church.
There is a classical-style bridge of steel and stone there now, decorated with Bocking's armorial bearings.
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
Despite Henry VIII's break with Rome, much of Lancashire remained staunchly Catholic and stones from the dismantled Augustinian priory at Burscough were used to add the tower in which the bells that once
It is a double-pile brick building with five bays of cross casement windows and stone dressings.
Indeed, it is known as the Middleton of Alfred the Great, and its flint and stone Holy Trinity Church is the second oldest in Kent.
A bridge of 1764 was replaced by this one of white brick and stone in 1798.
The main body of this flint and stone church was demolished in 1848, leaving the tower to serve as a funeral chapel until the start of the 20th century.
