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Daresbury Firs And Other Memories
Brought up in the Square I have happy memories of playing in Daresbury Firs. The blue bells were always marvellous in the spring! I used to help my stepdad (Roy Forster) collect leaf mould for his vegetable ...Read more
A memory of Daresbury Firs by
Flamstead End School /Hammond Street
Hi..I too went to Flamstead End junior school..and remember Mrs Sibley and Mr Cave...Mr Cave lived in Pottars Bar and drove what seemed a large car then - an Austin Cambridge I think....there was also a Miss/Mrs Butterfield ...Read more
A memory of Cheshunt by
Ferry Approach
My dad opened his first shop in Ferry Approach, a cafe, it was situated directly outside the woolwich foot tunnel with plenty of dock workers and factory workers passing by every day and a constant stream of traffic queuing for the ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
I remember well the amazing west road this was a group of houses owned by watney brewery. The road was enclosed by a brick wall at one end and iron gates at the other. No cars allowed. The families mostly only rented two rooms, ...Read more
A memory of Mortlake in 1950 by
Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
A memory of Abbey Hulton by
Ellis Street, Crewe
Although I was born in Nantwich (1956), in the Barony hospital, I grew up in Crewe until the age of about twelve. We lived in Ellis Street, which then, if memory serves me right, only had three houses, even though we were in number 8! ...Read more
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Camberley...Where Do I Start ?!
Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We ...Read more
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Celebrating 75 Years
My parents met in Bray when my mother worked at the Hinds Head Hotel and my father sang in St. Michael's choir. She served the thirsty singers! This was back in the late 1930's. Born and raised in Bray parish I was confirrmed and ...Read more
A memory of Bray by
Combpyne Village Reservoir
I am a little bit unsure whether it was 1948 when my late father, the Revd Peter N Longridge, moved from Sticklpath in Barnstaple down to Combpyne. Or maybe a year or two later. The list of Rectors in the church will ...Read more
A memory of Combpyne in 1948 by
Longleat
My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast ...Read more
A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948
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The Cat and Cracker got its name in 1954, when the brewers Style & Winch Ltd of Maidstone named it after the catalytic cracker, which breaks down crude oil, and was used by the nearby Anglo- Iranian
Jonson was 45 years old when in 1618 he left London and walked the 400 miles to Scotland.
A top of the range television set - twice the size of the little boxes on which the nation viewed the Coronation two years earlier - stands in the communal room at the end of the first line of Golden Acre
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system.
We are looking westwards along Leys Avenue; we can just see the last of the Georgian-style shops and flats in the distance.
This is a lovely environment for children to go to school; here they have been photographed during their break.
The cliff line of Dorset breaks to give access to a small cove and the village of Burton Bradstock, with the River Bride gurgling away to the end of Chesil Beach.
As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.
It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.
Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.
Porthleven's large harbour was built in 1811 to load copper and tin; it is an important haven on the exposed east shore of Mount's Bay.
The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.
Until Blackpool's third pier was built at South Shore in 1893, the one here was known as South Pier.
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system.
The lake has attracted racing skiffs, ferry steamers and fishing punts in its time.
The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.
Looking north towards the pier, the photograph shows the promenade before the Winter Gardens were built.
For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian.
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian.
Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.
An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout.
A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.
That much-maligned but vital facility of the motorway network, the service station, was an early landmark.
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