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Beginnings
My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My ...Read more
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Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa
In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more
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Wrinstead Court
I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also ...Read more
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Summers Holidays Were Invented For Fishing
I remember as a small kid growing up in England I couldn't wait for the summer holidays to arrive. As the days drew closer I could hardly sleep at night knowing that any day now we would be packing our ...Read more
A memory of Pickmere in 1972 by
The Ormerod Family.
Ormerod House passed out of the Ormerod family when the male line died out and the three daughters of the last Ormerod married. Their husbands were John Hargreaves, a local coal mine owner, the Rev William Thursby who became vicar ...Read more
A memory of Burnley in 1900 by
The Rhondda Fawr And Me!
My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my ...Read more
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Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle
My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more
A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by
The Plantations
Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well. Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself. I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more
A memory of Wigan in 1930 by
A Traditional English Pub!
The Queen's Head is little changed - maybe a horse trough on the pavement but the front of the building is pure English village pub! It was the starting point for many a village pub crawl and some fun times pushing ...Read more
A memory of Pinner in 1966 by
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I
Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox ...Read more
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Captions
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The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.
Running across the middle of the picture is the weir, which maintained the head of water; it has now been removed during the re-management of the Avon.
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent
Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head.
Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.
The plank serving as a gangway to the vessel from the bank had, until comparatively recent legislation, been the cause of many an accident as crew returned to their various ships after
The stretch of river beyond the mud bank leads to Stanner Point, also in Sutton.
Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.
The classical building on the left dates from 1860 and was where the Westminster Bank had its Chester branch.
Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.
The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.
Ahead, with a classical Georgian front, is the Rutland Arms of 1815.
On the right are the Ideal Fish Restaurant, Lloyds Bank and Joy's fashions.
This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour
The road directly ahead is now pedestrianised with attractive brick and stone flag walkways, benches, trees and ornate lanterns draped with flower baskets.
Below the cobbles still runs the Belfast River, which once had quays allowing ships to come off the Lagan.
The imposing building (centre left) which juts out at the crossroads of Church Street and Claremont Lane ahead, is now occupied by the National Westminster Bank.
The Church 1961 Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias limestone outlier rising steeply
On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes Head public house.
The earliest record of the Boar's Head is in 1630.
In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.
However, redevelopment was about to rear its head.
The lorry at the head of the ferry queue is probably taking empties back to the Plymouth Brewery near Halfpenny Bridge in Stonehouse.
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