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Almondsbury South Gloucester
Where do I start ? Living in Monmouth House on the top of Almondsbury Hill. going to Almondsbury village school sitting next to Tony Evans, head of the Patchway gang & a brilliant football goalkeeper. Gaffer ...Read more
A memory of Almondsbury in 1940 by
Looking For Friends
55 years ago I went to a private school in Herefordshire, and during the breaks I used to stayed with Webb family in Rayleigh, Essex county. Aunt Mary was my guardian while being over there. She had two children, William and ...Read more
A memory of Rayleigh in 1958 by
Bomb Blast `siding` Margaret Street/Victoria Street.
I recall as a young boy of 7 or 8, that I was among a group of friends playing on the siding at the bottom of Margaret Street. We, as friends, found the bomb on the Rhigos Mountain and carried ...Read more
A memory of Treherbert in 1943 by
Barking... So Very Different Now
We moved to Hertford Road in 1971, I was 3 years old. I remember playing in our overgrown garden which backed on to the Burges road playing fields soon after we moved in. There used to be a horrendous smell from the ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
Cluggies Pond
I obviously don't remember the common in 1911, but I did live in Old Common Road number 15 from about 1943 until 1955. Where the children are sitting was The Common, and a herd of Fresion cows were often grazed there. Old Common Road ran ...Read more
A memory of Cobham by
Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill
It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more
A memory of Noak Hill by
Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys
Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham by
1950s Rosenau Rd.
Hi, I was born in 1946 at the South London Hospital for Women and lived for a while at 15 Etruria St. Battersea, it was near Dogs Home Bridge and Battersea Power Station, where my dad, Charlie Jones worked. Soon we ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Wrotham Road
Yes, I used to go to Wrotham Road for rock & roll, they were the early days from 1960 to 1963 and it was the meeting place for the lads. I remember taking a break from dancing and going into the Lord Kitchener pub Friday night ...Read more
A memory of Welling in 1960 by
The Wrong Guy
There at the time when Cawthorne was a tour operator and whether it was coincidence or not the tour operator was called Harry Cawthorne coach tours. I do believe that they were an established firm; it could well be that the village ...Read more
A memory of Gawber in 1952 by
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The wide shop on the left belongs to Henry Abbot, the long-established draper's, which became a Co-op in the late 1990s.
A final view of the Park with plenty of activity around the paddling pool, but with no one in it.
The tall brick building was Thomas Self, greengrocer and market gardener; to the left was Clement Poll, butcher.
The fine old farmhouse sits on a brick base and is hung with tiles and swathed in creeper.
The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.
The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.
We have moved nearer the High Street junction.
The parish church lies east of the Almshouses, which can be seen beyond the chancel.
The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.
Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.
The Frogmore Café (left) offered busy shoppers a break until 1969, when it was taken over by Sketchleys the cleaners.
Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.
This scene, looking north along Banks Road from the corner of Eaton Road, has changed very little in recent years.
This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.
In a not unattractive red brick, end-of-village group, it is impossible not to notice the Black Horse pub, with its well- mannered frontage and attractive pantiled roofs.
High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.
The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.
The Golden Lion pub on the right had its earliest licence in 1684, became subdivided into shops but reverted to an inn again by 1740.
Here we see a fine example of a white weatherboarded Kentish smock mill with a two-storey square brick base and wooden staging for access to the sails.
Here we see some fine brick houses, some with decorative bargeboards and Flemish-style gables.
Bridge Street curves down to the river.
In this view the church seems to close the end of the village green.
The wide High Street extends for about half a mile.
The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above
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