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Schooldays
I went to the High School in Ludlow from 1941 - 49 and then went back to teach there in about 1956. I had a flat in Broad Street just below where this picture stops and used to go to this church of St Laurence on a very regular basis- ...Read more
A memory of Ludlow in 1941 by
Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s
I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Those Were The Days!
I would like to share with you some of my early childhood memories of my formative years in Parndon, including places and names that might evoke similar memories to myself. I hope you will bear with me, as I will probably ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon in 1955 by
School 1950s
Those of us who grew up in the very rural villages around Old Basing in 1950's, had to travel to school in Old Basing, by school buses.The school on Milkingpen Lane was the only school for miles. In the late 1950's the school still ...Read more
A memory of Old Basing in 1957 by
Ripponden Barkisland And Krumlin In The 50s
My first memories were of Krumlin where my mum worked at Krumlin mill as a piece burler & mender. (I remember the boiler house at the mill with the big steam engine that turned all the ...Read more
A memory of Triangle in 1953 by
Post War Memories
I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more
A memory of Mountsorrel by
Platt Fields Park
I can remember going for a drive on a sunny Sunday afternoon with my mum and dad to Platt Fields Park, sometimes Dad would hire a boat on the lake and take us rowing, I would have a bag with bread in to to feed the ducks. I ...Read more
A memory of Fallowfield in 1968 by
Perfect Place
My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more
A memory of Erbistock by
Pantos At The Welfare Hall 1960s
I have just found this site and was amazed at the photo of the Welfare Hall circa 1960. My dad, Henry Dilkes, and his great friend Sid Robinson were the mainstays of the pantos in the early 1960s, with Henry ...Read more
A memory of Goldthorpe in 1962 by
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Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.
The Great Hall at Castle Bolton had been converted to a restaurant for visitors when this photograph was taken.
Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.
Bombarded by warships of the Parliamentary navy, the Queen took shelter until it was considered safe to move on to Boynton Hall.
Originally built in 1790 for Sir John Legard, Storrs Hall was purchased in 1806 by Col John Bolton, a local philanthropist, who from 1808-11 transformed it into the fine Georgian mansion we
Bolton Hall Estate own most of the property here; no new houses have been built, nor is there employment other than in agriculture.
Bombarded by warships of the Parliamentary navy, the Queen took shelter until it was considered safe to move on to Boynton Hall.
The village grew around the estate of Boynton Hall.
The tower, unusual architecturally for this part of Britain, is thought to have been influenced in style by King Henry VI during his stay in Bolton Hall. King
The Town Hall was modelled on that at Bolton, and was completed in 1883, though it was damaged by fire in 1901.
It is thought to have been influenced in style by King Henry VI during his stay in Bolton Hall. King
It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.
Near the Wharfe and overlooking the 1592ft Simon's Seat, Appletreewick was the resting place of monks on their journey between Bolton Abbey and Fountains Abbey.
The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons
Bolton Hall, where once King Henry VI stayed in hiding, has now gone, but the gateposts can still be seen opposite the church.
It was at Waddington Old Hall that Henry VI took refuge after leaving Bolton-by-Bowland, and it was here that he was betrayed and captured in nearby Clitheroe Wood.
Henry VI is said to have lived here in Bolton Hall for a year or so while hiding from the Yorkists in 1464 after losing the Battle of Hexham.
Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire; with its village green next to the church, and an old inn across the road, it is just how we all imagine an old English village ought to look
