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Pack Horse Bridge And Surrounding Area In Flood
I was born and bread in Anstey, 21 Rosebery Road, a council house with my 2 brothers Kelvin and Clive. I loved Anstey I still do. I have a lot of childhood memories. I joined the Royal Navy on leaving ...Read more
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The Old Post Office
My grandfather's brother, Robert Brown, was post master of the village in a thatched cottage, which I think is the one shown on google earth as an old english cottage. When Robert died, the post office was carried on ...Read more
A memory of Newtown Linford by
My Great Grandfather Was Born In Newtown Linford 1879
Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854 Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England Died: 1913 Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England Daniel was dis - owned by ...Read more
A memory of Newtown Linford in 1860 by
Memories Of Farncombe
73,Birch Road is where I lived from 1960 onwards. My family moved there in 1960 and I went to George Road School in 1962 during the coldest winter ever. The toilets used to freeze which was great as we would get time off as ...Read more
A memory of Godalming in 1860 by
Childhood
I was born in Colliers Wood but moved to Tooting soon after and lived in Fishponds Rd throughoutthe Second World War, I attended Broadwater Road School and Ensham Central in Fransiscan Road. I must admit I don't remember the war very ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1940 by
An Evacuee Remembers
A South Londoner, I was 12+ when WWII started in September 1939. I was evacuated with Wandsworth Central School to Farncombe, and remember sitting on the floor in a large hall waiting for someone to 'adopt' me. Eventually, I ...Read more
A memory of Farncombe in 1940 by
Peperharrow Rd
I was born in Peperharrow Road in 1935 and still have two sisters living in the house where I was born. I went to Meadrow Central School. I swam in the Ginny, 'played' and grew up in the Charterhouse grounds and Milton's woods. I ...Read more
A memory of Godalming in 1940 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
Goring By Sea
I was born in the war years in Broadwater, we moved to Goring when I was 2 years old. I grew up in open fields and smallholdings and nurseries. I remember going down to the beach and playing on what is now the Greensward, then it ...Read more
A memory of Worthing in 1947 by
Stonehills 1958.
I lived next door to the police station which is just to the left of this photo from 1952 until 1959 when my father (the local police station sergeant) retired. This photo is very evocative of memories I had as a young ...Read more
A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1958 by
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The speed regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to
Now a northern suburb of Worthing, Broadwater was once a small coastal settlement.
Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and
It has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.
Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.
West Street was originally part of the main route through Sompting, linking it to Broadwater and North Lancing.
This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.
Although Broadwater Street was picturesque, it was eventually unable to cope with the increase in modern traffic.
The Long Bridge over the broad waters of the River Taw was certainly built by 1300, but it may be a hundred years or more older.
Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.
In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed
In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.
All Saint's Church c1965 Prominent on the north side of Bradgate Road as it rises away from the City towards Ulverscroft Priory, the church with its recessed spire is comparatively unadorned,
Bradgate Park, only a stone's throw away, where Lady Jane Grey, the ill-fated nine-day queen, lived in the now ruined house, is a favourite beauty spot away from the city.
thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close to the parish church and the entrance to Bradgate
The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.
Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town.
The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.
The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.
Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.
The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.
The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.
Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town.
Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the