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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
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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
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Life Until 40.
My family returned to South Ockendon in 1964, although both sets of grandparents were in South Road and Broxburn Drive. First lived in Clayburn Gardens, then in 1969 we moved to 34 Cruick Avenue. Small cul-de-sac, originally ...Read more
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Working At Litton Mill
I went to work at Litton Mill when I was seventeen. Worked in the Sizing, Charlie Mellor was the supervisor. I met many lovely people and a great lot of characters. The sizing was machines with huge rollers set in a bed ...Read more
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Old Lewisham Central Library
In the early 1950s I worked at the Central Library, near St Mary's Church. My most vivid memories are the long working hours (difficult for the social life of a young girl) and having to manually count the 'issue' before ...Read more
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Rowley Bristow Hospital
This hospital played a big part in my childhood. My sister spent several weeks there after suffering a severe cut to her knee in the 1960s, her godmother worked there as a physiotherapist, and not long before it closed, my ...Read more
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1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel
On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more
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Early Days
I was born and brought up in Pembroke terrace and with number of lads of like age wandered the mountains through theSaucy ap and over to overlook the Rhondda . We would climb up an run down hills,run through rivers and ply cowboys ...Read more
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Growing Up In Sutton
We lived at no 6 Greenfields, Sutton. My nan lived at four with my grandad Tom - in fact it was my family which helped forge Sutton village. I remember many families; Mr and Mrs Harland who ran the village ...Read more
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Hop Picking During The War
I hated hop picking. We started in 1938 to help pay for my sister's uniforms when she went to Ashford County School. At first my mother was slightly ashamed but soon entered ino the spirit and competition as to who ...Read more
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The Norman church of St John the Baptist stands in the north of Leeds.
In front of one of these houses stood the community's well.
South Road became so dominant that it altered the character and subsequent development of other areas within the town such as Commercial Square, Boltro Road, and the Broadway.
The most striking change between this view and the 1903 view in image 49238 is the splendidly ornate bank building which replaced the two buildings beyond Patterson's.
Mrs Hitchman, widow of Dr Hitchman, donated the site for this church together with a large sum of money.
There has been a church at Watton at Stone since the 13th century.
The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed.
Looking towards the Town Hall It is a busy summer's day in the 1960s.
A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley.
A water mill has stood here since Norman times, but this red brick corn mill dates from the early 1800s.
The name Trinity was chosen to indicate the group's opposition to Unitarian non-Trinitarian doctrine.
Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty.
The Lloyds Bank building (right), originally a pair of attached houses, was built about 1870 before the decorative façade was added in two stages.
We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.
It is sometimes almost unbelievable when we realise how much of our heritage has been destroyed during the past century.
With the arrival of the Piccadilly Line came an influx of commuters, and with this influx came the promise of commercial profits.
While not obvious from this photograph, Gresford is most famous for the tragic mining disaster of 1934 when 266 lives were lost following an explosion and fire at the Gresford Colliery.
We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right).
Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.
A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us
On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.
This was in the early phase of its transformation, mainly by the medium of brick. The
The canteen resembles a cave, but in its heyday there was far from savage fare to be had here!
These red brick terraces were built to house the employees of hosiery and shoe manufacturers at the turn of the century.
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