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Family D'hondt
My grandparents Paula and Gustave D'Hondt managed this hotel during the latter half of the 1930s till it was requisitioned by the army during the war. They then moved with some of their paying guests to Highdown, Hindhead, a large ...Read more
A memory of Hindhead in 1930 by
View From Cliff
View from Cliif across to Quarryfields. showing Hightown Lane and Wood Lane, with Holt Lane at the top and Holt Farm.
A memory of Holmfirth
The Good Old Days Continued
I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
The Army Firing Ranges At Little Altcar
In 1967 I enlisted with the Territorial Army and served five years with the Royal Corps of Signals. My basic training included learning to shoot with the 762 self loading rifle on the ranges near ...Read more
A memory of Hightown in 1967 by
Swinging 60s And 70s In Luton
I was born in Luton at the St Marys Grove Road Maternity home in 1959. My parents had moved to Luton in 1949 following my paternal grandmother who had been bombed out of the East End. We lived on Humberstone Road, me and my ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Raf
As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more
A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by
Our History In Brief
Although I had visited Hightown on many many occasions before this date to visit my Grandparents etc I particularly remember the days when myself and friends from Waterloo would visit Altcar Rifle Range to mark the ...Read more
A memory of Hightown in 1957 by
More Memories Of Crewe
Still more memories of my early life in Crewe. As a young boy every Saturday morning was spent watching my favourite film stars; Roy Rogers, Ken Maynard, Dan Dare etc. Plenty of cinemas to go to; The Grand, The Kino, The ...Read more
A memory of Crewe in 1930 by
Lower Broghton
I remember so well going on the No 73 bus home from a night out in Manchester to Warwick St in Higher Broughton. I went to Broughton High and my best friend was Gillian Guy whose family owned the newsagents on Lower Broughton Rd. I ...Read more
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