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Does anyone from Thornley have any memories of my family who lived in the village?
Anthony Mcguinness (grandfather), Mary Alice Mcguinness nee Mcguigan (grandmother), Mary Mcguinness (mother born 1925, died 1979) and Veronica Mcguinness (aunt).
I only have vague memories as a child visiting Thornley to see my grandmother. I think the street was called Wood Street, so I would appreciate anyone old ...see more
Fairchildes was my senior school which I attended from 1969-1974. Came up from Wolsley School, lived in Dunsfold Way. One of my brother's had previously attended when it was still a segregated school, he's 10 years older than me so must have been end of the 50s. A couple of the teachers I had remembered him. I remember Mr. Rutter and Mr. Tindall. Mrs. Ford was the needlework teacher, Mr. Hanlon ...see more
Bloomsbury Institution was in Bloomsbury St main Chaple was in Folwer St.
I went there from the age of three to sixteen it was my second home went to five services on Sundays plus Band of Hope, Boys club, Band practice. We also went camping to Bromyard to Mr Keights holiday house. I use to help Pastor Henry to do repair in the church during the week. Was you ever in the anniversary on that ...see more
I lived in Kirn from 1933 to 1948 when we moved about one mile to Hunters's Quay. The pier was owned by Mr. Imrie and it cost 1p to get on or off. Next to the pier was the coal pier of solid construction and that is where children fished from. Puffers called to unload coal for Mr. Imrie's coal business. I often got the boat for Gourock and the the train to Glasgow. It is very sad that nothing remains of the pier which was such ...see more
i remember a tea rooms before you got to Blands called Mitchell's which had wood paneling and blue check tablecloths around the 1950 period. My husband lived in the flat above the butchers shop on the corner of Ealing road. Next door to the butchers was a corn chandlers that used to have baby chickens in the window for sale. They would be about 2 days old! My motherinlaw worked in the butcher shop across the ...see more
Does anyone remember Meadows Supermarket in The High Street in the 1960s?
My brother fell in here, probably around 1949.
I remember the coffee shop too. We always had to rush past as Mum couldn't bear the smell of fresh roasting coffee. We would go into Lyons and I would always have a sausage roll with my drink. Happy days.
you would struggle to get this clear view today as the number of parked cars etc.would obscure the view the chuch is now home to the Green Howards regimental museum
i was there in 1966 i think we were a family of six 4 boys and 2 girls our house parents were Mr and Mrs coben i think and they had a son called grant we were in avon i think i was about 6 and my youngest brother was 2 and the eldest of us was 11, they later left and went to Birmingham to run a children's home i think dont know alot but trying to find out more about my time there. my name is christine
i lived at the top of sandy row in the 1950s and used to go up to the institute to roller skate from there as the building was on a slight incline. This was a beautiful old building I can't remember when it was demolished and replaced by the queens one but today it probably would be a listed building. A pity so many of these have gone.
There also was a wall at the front of it but it is not shown in the picture.
Earlier this year I visited Northleach my husband's Ancesters hail from there. His great great Grandfather William Hewer alias Radbourn bought Leygore farm in 1832, a farm of 800 acres according to records, at that time . It was farmed after his death by his son George and wife Elizabeth (nee Garne) They had 13 children, all survived to adulthood. As I walked around the village ...see more
Can anyone remember the little folks home in Bexhill on sea. I was only twelve at the time, this was around 1956. I can only remember a sister Moris and nurse Hancock, I have been back to find the place in 2001 but unfortunately did not find it. I remember the house being a short walk from Bexhill station. There was two ways that you could get to the house one was to walk down a country lane and enter the house from ...see more
I am researching the history of The Ravenswood Avenue estate (Ravenswood Avenue, Pinewood Road, Lipscombe Road, Fairfield Avenue and part of Hilbert Road between the top of King George V Hill and Hilbert Recreation Ground) including the people who lived there between when the estate was built in the 1930s and the 1960s.
I lived at 40 Ravenswood Avenue for the first 19 Years of my life between ...see more
Have many memories, some happy, some sad, culminating in the death of my mother, Ivy Maud Smith on the 16th August 1944 when a V1 destroyed a railway bridge causing the train she was on to crash.
Had two aunts, one lived in a house, Stafford Cottage, Chestfield, on the road leading to the railway bridge, the other in a bungalow at 27 Dovedale Road Swalecllffe. Remember the triangular, ...see more
The picture is of Trimpley reservoir taken from the yacht club slipway looking towards the south-eastern end of the reservoir somewhere around 1969 as in 1965 the contractors were still moving the soil to create the reservoir. My father was the supervising electrician during the construction and first two years of it's operation, a period of about four years. Our house was the last one of a block of four in a ...see more
I was born in Clacton in 1953 along with my twin Brother.
We spent most of our time down by the sea because my Dad worked at Butlins around 1960.
My uncles worked on the Pier and my Nan worked in the Arcadeds and we also had an Uncle taking tourist photos along the Beach. I remember many times watching Punch and Judy. Our family names are Box, Elgood,and Mudd.
Yours Truely Billy Elgood. ( now living in London. )
I have been looking for any one with the surname of Rowland in the borough I have managed to locate my great Grandparents grave in Epsom cemetery and after looking up census information have come to a dead end,as my grandfather moved to Sutton before the 1st world war all contact seems to have got lost.He had 3 sons one of whom died in 1948 but my father and uncle lived well into old age,so there is now a few of us ...see more
I well remember the Whiffens from my childhood there house was at the end terrace opposite the " the bomb builings" we spent hours & hours over there in the early fifties.We did not have much contact with the Whiffins though I do remember we used to stick chicken claws through the letter box and pulling the sinues to make the claws move.Of course the highlight outside there house was bonfire night on the bomb ...see more
I was born in a private nursing home near Walpole Park in 1939. It was at the junction of Somerset Road and Culmingdon Road. I lived in Culmington Road until I married in 1961 when I moved to Hillingdon. I went to Harvington School at Ealing Broadway from 1950 until 1956. I walked through Walpole Park every day to school, our house backed onto the park and I used to jump the back fence to save walking round the road to the park gates.
I remember this well, Christchurch, Ealing Broadway. I went here with school - Harvington - which was just off Ealing Common, we walked there down Springbridge Road past the swimming baths. I lived in Ealing from birth in 1939 until I married in 1961 - in Ealing Town Hall - and moved to Hillingdon. I was at Harvington from 1950 until 1956.
My Grandfather Edward Garrett leased this property from 1900 to 1910. During this period he was publican of The Swan Public House .
I have a photo of the home taken during that period.
My husband was a career officer in the US Air Force. In July, 1971, he was posted to RAF Upper Heyford for four years. We found a house to rent in Shipton - Gale's Green - just two doors from the Shaven Crown. Our daughter was soon to be seven years old, and she attended the school across by the village green. For a while, we were the only Americans, then a family - the Loomis' - from Boston bought ...see more
Who remembers Skeet and Jeffes.I worked there for 3 years in the 1970s .It was one big happy family.I played for their football team which was called 'Essjay FC'....get it.We used to work Saturday mornings then meet at the Red House pub before going off to play our home matches at Wheatsheaf Park.....very happy days.
My great great Granddad started the Exmouth to Starcross steam ferry in the 1880's - His name was Freddy Gronberg! My name is Janet Peniston - my Mother's maiden name was Eva Gisela Gronberg!
I have just returned from a nostalgic trip to Southall. My Grandparents Joseph Remington Boynton Ellis and Agnes Ellis first lived in Mount Pleasant Cottages opposite Dormers Wells High School around 1930. Grandad Joseph, and his father before him both worked at the gasworks. They then went to live at 38 Dormers Avenue where my Father was born in 1936 and then to 108 Lady Margaret Road Southall where they had 13 ...see more
Not much traffic.
A lovely street.
Crazy golf was very popular.
A popular chapel.
My wifes great great grandfather was a Blacksmith who lived in 14 Eastwood Ho,could he have worked at the old forge,or may be there were more than one. His name David Lankaster.
I am interested in contacting other people who remember scrambling in Purbright in the 1950`s.
I have many photos of riders and would welcome any information that other readers have.
Edwin Moody.
James and Maria James lived here 1842
I lived and worked for the west family at upper ifold from 1967 to 1969. I was voted bonfire queen in 1968
I remember being friends with Barry Coote and Nigel Petty?whose parents owned the village shop I remember lilla who lived in bin hams meadow who helped us at upper of old. Boxing day hunt meets in the village.I remember the Turton and Burning fold Manor.
Very fond memories
2015.
I am now 86, but in 1941 until 1945 I lived in Heswall. My family has been evacuated from Jersey in the Channel /islands and we lived in several places before finally coming to Heswall. there was a refugee school for Guernsey and Jersey Children in Irby. I used the walk to school each day, it took me over half an hour to do it. There used to be a big moorland on one side of the road where Gypsies used to camp twice a year. ...see more
I lived with my parents in Hill Court, Wimbledon Hill Road in 1953. In 1955 I went to infant school across the common and past the Windmill. I can't remember the name of the school but I'm pretty sure it was in Camp Road. We then moved to Parkwood Road in 1955 ( Pitmans College was behind my back garden). I'm sure the road was called Park Road then and changed to Parkwood Road a couple of years later. I changed school to ...see more
I remember well spending my summers in Garlinge during the late 50's and early 60's, my grandparents owned a bungallow also known as 'Hawthorns' next door my great uncle owned another bungallow also, he was manager of the garage where the new petrol station is today, across Bridge Road was the most intriguing of houses with a thatched roof, at that time it was owned by a builder who I believe was a Mr T Wing he was ...see more
Looking at the photo 'Main Road and 'The Malsters Arms' 1955. you can see the row of lime trees which were in the grounds of 'The Limes' where my Grandparents lived. They were Mr.& Mrs Pond. (Joseph & Jessie). I think they moved to Abridge after the first world war and lived in the council houses over the road before moving to 'The Limes' some time later. Their eldest daughter Kathleen (my mum) ...see more
I went to this school when we moved to Hixon in 1961 and I attended there until 1967. Mr. Harrison was the head teacher, his wife also taught there as did Mrs. Shaw.
My parents owned the village garage which sold petrol and did car repairs and I have fond memories of my time in Hixon, always out doing something, playing in the brook, collecting frogs from the claypits, exploring the airfield and other places.
Having ...see more
I lived at Harker Grange in 1973/4. At that time the main house was owned by the Meisner family who also owned Kangol. The rear of the house was not used by the Meisners and was rented out to other Kangol staff from time to time. This had been the service area of the home in former days and was separated by a corridor. The kitchen was the old scullery, the living room the huge old kitchen, still with ...see more
I remember visiting Aunty Lily at 5 Henning Street. There was also an Aunty Min (Minnie ?). Would have been early 1960's. Cannot remember a surname a or what relation they were. Think Lily may have been Min's daughter. Any ideas welcome.
Hi.
I'm am wondering if anyone remembers part of my distant family who ran the Herbert dairy In Heswall?
Many thanks,
Marc Ball
Happy times at Prestatyn--enjoyed 4 holidays there-staying in self catering around 1954-1958.Stayed in Victoria rd-think Conservative club nearby,, Grosvenor rd-house called Green sleaves-, a guest house/hotel with flat roof by sand hills and finally on Meliden rd,Highlights included my parents sending our things in a trunk, then we followed on by train from Birkenhead.Little trains on corner by fire ...see more
A Memory of Aveley
Hello. I also stumbled across this site by accident and was blown away by all the memories shared by Colin Newberry on Mar 25th 2014. I can relate to many other memories shared but Colin's are so close, my memories flooded back. I moved to Aveley with my Mum and Dad -JOYCE and DEREK WILTCHER c.1952 from Grays town center, where we lived in a flat above Sydney Greys store (Radios TV's Fridges ...see more
I went here on holiday with my mum and dad and my cousin in about 1953. This was the hall where all the events were held and I remember my mum going in for a fancy dress competition and parading around the hall with the other competitors. She had an ashtray tied on her head with some of my hair ribbon and smoked a cigarette on the way round. She went as the song 'Smoke gets in your eyes'. I can't remember ...see more
My fourth set of memories carries on with shops in Barking. Previously I had recalled those along from Fanshawe Avenue to the station. Over the other side past Cambridge Road was Lloyds bank on the corner, my wife and I had a savings account there before we were married.
Also in this block was Worrickers, they had two shops in town the other was in between the Bull public house and Bullies the ...see more
I am looking for a 'photo of Western House , Cippenham before it was demolished and replaced by the Western Hose School.
I lived in Carshalton but as a kid of 11or 12 and accompanied by the `Gang` I / We travelled the length of the Wandle from Croydon to Wandsworth over a couple of years.Ravensbury park rings a bell as we had a fight there with some local lads who said we were not wanted in `their`park.
Coming forward to around 2000 Tony Robinson & Time Team dug a 17th / 18th century mill between here & what was Morden Hall Hospital.
Does anyone have any memories of that?
I used to drink in The Woodman on occasion as I lived on the Clock House Farm Estate between 1957 and 1962 when I was married just across the road in St Peters.Question,what happened to the board with the pilots names on it that was behind a pane of glass in the public bar?.A lot of them never came back back from sorties over the South Downs & Kent .it seems to be a shame to have lost the autographs of men from Croydon ,Kenley and possibly even Biggin Hill.
I have this same photograph in my collection only it was taken at my wedding in March 1962 with the backs of my wife & I and the reverent Denis Lane facing the camera
I was born in Haddington and lived in Spott village for first two years before moving south to Sussex. Summer holidays were always taken in Spott and Dunbar, so fond memories of the area.
Rekindled when my son played two seasons with Edinburgh Rugby
we lived in northfleet high street my father owned fleet autos (car sale) and his father before him
Also owned the green grocers on the corner of rose street and fronting on to high street, opposite
There was knolls the bakers and Barclays Bank, lincon the chemist and Mrs ware my dads family also has a greengrocers in Dover road , if any one has any old photos as we would love to see them our family name was Ripley.
My mother was born in Hadleigh, (the Suffolk one) and was part of a quite large family headed by George Brewster. Many members of the extended family, frankly I never really knew. However, mum was always close to several of her sisters including one called Mena.
Aunt Mena was originally married to a local Hadleigh boy who was or became a policeman in the Metropolitan Police. Sadly, he was killed in ...see more
I attended what I believe was the first 'Pre-Apprentice Course' at what was then known as the ' Tech'., between 1960-61. Our form teacher was affectionately known as 'Educated Evans', a great guy who taught us a great deal. Prior to this course I had been a pupil at Victoria Secondary Modern school for boys and had the somewhat dubious accolade as being its last ...see more
The land opposite the shops in the picture was used by a visiting fair in the summer,because it was so boggy the used railway sleepers to put under their rides, in the winter the land used to flood and my brother and I used to punt the sleepers over the water,only about a foot at the deepest point, great fun.
I was brought up in the Catherine Wheel at Drayton St Leonard's
My best friend at school was John Nagle we went to Benson School
I have vey fond memories of the time spent at Lower Grange and the warmth shown to me by Fred and Ella and johns grandfathers.
I lived in Chobham from 1939 until 1968,and I cast my mind to the 1950's and the High St. Mr Belcher's shop,where my Mum had an account taking the book to the shop and buying groceries.Mr Wellands bakery,where he made the most mouth watering penny buns, Lascelles shop, he was our neighbour in Station (Woking) rd. Moving Along Adamsons the Jewellers and Mitchells the bakers who delivered our bread.Crossing the ...see more
my names norbert, I lived at the abbey in the early 1960 s. so Ionly had a 5 minuets walk to the school. my teacher was mr. vale. if i remember right the headmaster was a mr curd.
i used to go to Rump & Tombs next door to get a ice lolly in the summer times,also spent my 6d pocketmomey there, comics or sweets.
my 1st school was the infant school in bradstockway 1960 ...see more
Our family had already started plans to emigrate to Canada in 1956. I graduated from North End Secondary Modern after completing my O levels in June. I needed a job for a few months until we left in November.
I heard that Dr Burge the chemist was looking for someone to fill in for a while. I applied for the job and started right away. The hours were from 9-6 five and a half days a week, the salary £5 per week. ...see more
the shop on the corner opp.the wall,s sign had a mirror which if you stood close and waved your hand and leg in the air gave a mirror image- which HARRY WORTH used to open his show and had everyone in stitches My cousin NORMAN BURRUP was just as good and THEN off for an afternoon with Tubby Bewley learning to sharpen chisel and plane blades and then how to plane a piece of wood
straight . Someone cut ...see more
i worked at Tylers from l941-44, after which i joined the WAAF - while there Mr Finch was the manager and i worked with his disabled daughter, evelyn, and she took over from me when i enlisted.
i went back frequently to see them while on leave throughout the rest of the War. i remember Evelyn telling me that when the troop trains passed through woking, mr finch would send the workers out with large quantities of squash ...see more
My mother grew up in manningtree, living in the house with the three people standing outside. Standing in the door are my aunt Barbara and either my mother Janet, or her sister Julie. The lady standing on the path, we think, is my great aunt Aggie, we also think the motor bike and side car belonged to Aggies brother Jack.
I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the early 1950s and it had been opened again but when I returned in about 2005 it had been pulled down and was then a car park. That coastline is now much busier than it was. We lived in Sandy ...see more
My Grandfather, Richard Summersgill, was born in Prescot, Lancashire on July 9, 1864 the son of Richard and Ellen Gore Summersgill. He emigrated to USA in 1888. His friend Peter Kelly worked at the Pilkington Glass with him, and they emigrated the same year. Richard was naturalized on August 3, 1893 in Bridgeton, Cumberland Co. New Jersey.
Peter Kelly's eldest daughter, Jane Ellen Kelly, was married to Richard on May 26, ...see more
I can remember a sweet shop up at great Sutton, it was opposite the bull pub it would of been in the 1980s, think it may of been called the unicorn, think it's a house now.
I remember Ilord townhall we used to go dancing (ballroom) every saturday night that is when we had live bands.I lived in hainault does any body remember going dancing at ilford townhall.I now live in herfordshire.arnold.
Hello there,
My stepfather has asked me to search for three people that he knew in the 1950s and early '60s in Steventon.
My stepfather is Robert Orchard from Pembrokeshire, Wales. He worked for the electricity board and lived in the village during the '50s.
The people he would like to find are George Ballard, Peter Broad, and Robert Baxter. Robert Baxter's wife was related to the owners of ...see more
Before we emigrated to Australia in 1960 I lived in Upper Mount street, people who lived in my street were Stubleys, Duxberrys, Hallas', Hill. Boys I played with, Stuart Shaw, Paul Ainsworth, Fred Shaw,
David Barraclough, Christopher Pearsol. I played soccer with the Warwick road school team.
We were married at St Leonard`s church on a cold day, Saturday February 28th. We both had flu that week but managed to get to the church on time, that was 56 years ago now living in Melbourne Australia where it is a little warmer.
Good morning all
My amazing grandmother is going to be 90 in December and in the early 1940's she was a NAFFI girl based in Aldershot. She has told me many times that these days were among the best days of her life.
Unfortunately my grandma fell, broke her hip, smashed her head on a pavement and this has given her a bleed on the brain which in turn has bought on early onset dementia. So far, thank ...see more
My late Aunt worked at the Red lion hotel in the 1950's when the Holdsworth's owned it, she was involved in foiling an attempted robbery and there was an article written about it in a local newspaper , she told us about this before she sadly passed away, we has a family would dearly like to try and locate the said article but have had no success as of get because we havnt got the exact date ...see more
I remember skating in cavendish street on what was called the concrete, Ialso went Ordsall school, also went to the boro pictures, happy memories, Alan
I read the piece about Bull Lane and the stream on the left hand side,we used to collect Frogs spawn from there, and Old Farmer Snow and his Farm, because as kids we used to go Horse riding there, I used to live in the shop in Hilary Crescent moved in there in 1957, I was 10, it was a Grocery and Provisions,my Dad bought it new for my Mum, and we moved in when I was ten from Eastwood Road, we lived in the Bungalow ...see more
I was intrigued and interested to read Valerie Sims, (nee Stow) memories of some residents in Waltham Road, as I grew up there, and lived at no. 123 until 1969. I married a Cornish girl, and we moved to Cornwall then, where I have lived ever since. I also had a younger brother called John who lived in Woodford Bridge for some while after I left, until he also moved away to Norfolk.
I ...see more
It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection.
My first impressions were of a grim-looking, foreboding building, but those first, gloomy impressions were soon dispelled by the kindliness of the staff, and the camaraderie that grew between us - a group ...see more
I use to attend Sunday School at the Parish Church you can see at the top of the hill and then go and visit my Grandmother who lived in Golden Yard directly opposite the church many times during the early Fifties.
I understand my Dad was born at Hospital Farm in 1901. The family then moved to Ivy Farm,
Yaxley but I I'm not sure when? His older brothers Louis and Harry fought in the WW1 and
sadly Harry was killed in 1918 and the family must have moved by then as there is a plaque
to Harry in Yaxley church. I would be interested to know if Hospital farm house is still standing -
perhaps the name has been changed? The family name is Farrow.
I think that those two girls are my sisters ..... Ann & Carolyn Spencer
Living in the prefabs in Ilford Lane I could walk into town up Fanshawe Avenue, or go via Tanner Street and then Glenny Road or, and my memory may be playing tricks on me but I think it was Harpur Road and then up by the side of the railway to come out at the Spotted Dog pub.
I found the shops fascinating and perhaps this was why I lead a life as a successful retailer that enabled me to retire at ...see more