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I had lost my son in a road accident and my marriage broke up. I was a qualified nurse and applied for the post of nurse at Butlins in 1976 (it was very hot that summer).
I was the night nurse for two seasons. I met my present wife (Pauline) there (also a nurse from Portsmouth).
I played golf every day at Northshore with the now 'Chuckle Brothers' who were at the 'Derby Miners'.
Pauline and I used to go ...see more
During the late '50s and early '60s, 4th Year girls from Major Lester CP School, Liverpool stayed here for a week each summer. For many of the children this was their first holiday and a wonderful experience of life in the countryside, so different from their inner city experience. I retain quite vivid memories of my visit there in 1960, not only the long walks, rounders on the beach but terrifying each other at night-time with ghost stories!
I remember going to see my grandfather on my father's side who used to live at 4 Glan Llyn Terrace, Melin y Coed. I used to love going there because it was such a beautiful and peaceful place. You could go for walks and be safe from traffic. In fact, looking back it was like heaven. My wife and I have had problems researching my family tree, hopefully we can get somewhere now.
This is the view which I use to see on Sunday mornings when my father and I would walk from the top of Maneauge Street along Bullock Lane to the back entrance of the Blue Anchor. I was allowed to play skittles with the landlord's sons whilst father had a few drinks. After we would walk home not forgetting my jar of barm from the top of the brew, I had one spoonful every morning. It was suppose to stop you from getting a spotty face and also kept your bowels open.
Mr Richard lived here at the fish and chip shop. Mr Richard was also the PE teacher at Helston Secondary Modern School, Penrose Road. We use to call in to the chip shop on our way home from Scouts at Lowertown. I lived at 89 Maneauge Street, next door to where the Americans had there garages, and when I was younger I would march up and down with my toy gun pretending to be on guard with our American friends. They ...see more
I have put 1950 because I don't know when the flats were built by the Baptist church. The house that was pulled down for the flats I am told my great grandfather Joshua Morris built. He also is supposed to have built the Cefn Mably hotel on the junction of Redlands Road. Joshua came from Eglwyswrw to build houses in Penarth with his brother John I think and nephews and am told that from The Cefn Mably ...see more
I remember being on the beach the day of the hovercraft coming to Penarth. I was there with a couple of my friends, I would have been nearly 16. We were really excited as we watched it approach then suddenly when it came on to the beach we started to run back as the pebbles were being tossed about from the down draught.
My favourite memory from Love Lane School is of teacher Paddy Rice and slipper. It was really sad to have to leave Bushey Bit School which is now Thurrock Hotel and be moved to Love Lane, but looking back now and remembering Love Lane pupils, it was a great school. We never stopped laughing all day. It was a fun time and of course...erm...highly educational...erm...at times. I actually lived in West Thurrock and had to ...see more
The year may be slightly out here but during the war, German bombers , running for home would jettison any remaining bombs anywhere to give their planes a bit more speed. A man living in Hambledon left his house and went to the Merry Harriers for some cigarettes. When he went home he found his house and family had been destroyed by a bomb. On a lighter note, Mr. and Mrs. Constable lived near ...see more
My Gran - Katherine Thomas - ran the Railway Inn (the Tap) for many years. My grandfather Thomas died shortly after I was born. My mother Hilda Jeffery (nee Thomas), my father William Jeffery and myself lived there. My mum died when I was 5.
My father and I left to move to England when I was 6. I was born in 1954. I remember sitting on the railway bridge a short distance from the pub and almost being pulled ...see more
Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk Bretton Colliery. On Good Friday they used to sell many stones of fish. My mother and father (Gladys and Harold Haigh) used to look after the shop when my grandparents went on holiday) - ...see more
I started work at the Fistral Bay Hotel as receptionist. It was such a lovely place, even with the GHOST. I left work there in 2006. I miss the people and the place. It is such a sad sight now. I still wish it was going as a hotel. It is a amazing building and could be made good again, yes I know with a lot of money. Thank you for the photo. There have been people entered the place and have taken photos, it's still amazing and could be again.
The photo shows number 18 High Street, on the left, where Mr. and Mrs Miles lived. A small conservatory covered the ground floor windows in this view prior to 1964, when the house had alterations made. A double garage and kitchen extension were added and the rose garden was concreted over for the driveway. I remember when it was altered, the builders found rushes under concrete in the upstairs floors and rushes in the ceilings.
My memory of The Duke is that this was the public house that I first ever got drunk in. I was 17 and had just joined up in the Army in Boy Service. That Christmas I was on leave and went with family friends to the Duke. I was told I was not old enough to drink and the friends said if I was old enough to wear a uniform I was old enough to drink. So the filled me up with Double Diamond Beer. It was ...see more
I was born in Staincross, a stone's throw from Royston but in 1950 they seemed much further apart.
The year is approximate, but friends and I used to swim at the pool in Valence Park in the hopes of being competitive. I lived on Valence Wood Road and attended Triptons Secondary School. My best friend at the time was Jimmy Stovell who lived across the street. I have now lived in Canada for over forty years. After swimming we used to purchase an Oxo cube for drinking. I would love to hear from anybody who remembers the pool or Triptons.
I lived in Dowlais Top in the late 1970s in the Antelope Hotel. My father's name is Curly and my mother's name is Maureen. I have lovely memories of the Antelope, I remember Hadyn Pups, Dai Stewart, Doris Phelps who owned the local shop, many happy hours were spent there. We had sales on a Sunday morning selling anything and everything. My parents are both still alive and now live in Ynysddu but we talk ...see more
My dad Les Seary was a member of the Buffs that met at The Six Bells Pub and my mum Gwen would stay in the bar with the other wives why they had their meeting. I also remember going with my parents to your aunt and uncle's pub The Hare and Hounds and I thought it was wonderful as it was in the country.
How my brother, sister and myself enjoyed sitting outside the pub drinking our pepsi and eating our crisps and on special days a bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk! wonderful memories.
About 1980, in High Wycombe I met a girl, I think her name was Debbie. I met her in the road the town hall is in on a Saturday afternoon, I think she shared a house near the Rye with others. I arranged to go for a coffee the next day, Sunday, and we went for some coffee in a place in Crendon Street down a bit from the hairdressers called Gezzers now? I arranged to meet the following week but we did not meet, I can't ...see more
* My father ALICK JOHN MACKAY was born in Dalcharn in 1912.
His brothers, my UNCLES, were Phillip MacKay and Jimmy MacKay.
My cousin is Kenneth MacKay and Barbara MacKay in Bettyhill.
* Alick's son, me, emigrated to Canada in 1966 and immediately found all kinds of people from Sutherland who were in Canada for many years. The lady who previously owned the Bettyhill Hotel lived in Calgary and was 94 ...see more
I cannot remember the exact year but it was very cold. I was a TV repair man at Raylec in the High Street and we had a call from a doctor living in a house at the Asylum. She complained that the picture on her Bush TV was very small. I could find nothing wrong with the TV and then noticed that the light from a 150W bulb in the centre of the room looked more like a 60W! I measured the ...see more
I remember Wincanton when my grandparents ran the grocery shop in North Street. I often stayed and poped next door to the wonderful cake shop then onto my great uncles who ran Parsons Dairies. I went out with my grandfather when he delivered the many boxes of groceries and I usually fell asleep in the soft leather seats of his car.
The shop was sold when my grandparents moved to Somerton but I never forget ...see more
In 1973 I became the general manager of Streatham Hill Theatre, managing the Mecca Social/Bingo club. It was the flagship club of the company and was every manager's dream to run it. Previous managers were Robin Pritchard, Harvey Pritchard and Pat Button but the most popular was Don Fox. He would always sing to the customers and they loved him!
The theatre had been thoroughly "Meccanised" for bingo but ...see more
This waterfall held many happy memories for me as a child. I think I can remember every crack and name carved in its stone walls. I seemed to remember a rumour of someone dying in its centre parting, where the water cascaded furiously down to a deep area in the middle of the river. I never discovered the truth about this. I do know that the centre had been concreted over, to make it safer. The hiding places in ...see more
Can you please help me? I'm trying to find any photos or info about the Parish House in Rugeley town.
Hi all, I used to live on Easter Moffet golf course and attended Motherwell central school, my father was the club master in the early 1950s (Jack Potter). I used to go fishing down on the River Clyde between Motherwell and Hamilton near the Hamilton Mausoleum. I also fished in the Strathclyde Loch, I don't think it was called that when I was young. I also belonged to the Motherwell Scouts in Airbles Street near the bing ...see more
I am researching the village of Grayingham in Lincolnshire and would be interested to receive any information, pictures, of weddings, etc or of people of the village.
I knew Gordon Speck's granddad and his second wife, also their daughter Helen. His granddad used to teach music and singing in the Westlyan chapel when I was a child,
At 12 years old I was confined to bed for two years and it was Mrs Speck who started my love of reading, she came to vist and bought me a book 'What Katy Did' and from then on I worked my way through all the children's classics. Their daughter Helen ...see more
I remember moving to Aldfield when I was 8 years of age. We moved into Yew Tree House...When I say moved in, that is not strictly true. We lived in a caravan in front of the house initially, whilst the house was renovated. The house had not been lived in for some time and was in a poor state of repair when my father and mother purchased it. It was originally a farm house with out buildings and a paddock and ...see more
My grandmother and grandfather lived in Oxford Street, and I remember how my mother would bring me to see and stay with them from time to time, I even remember going to the village school on one visit, I think I was about 8 or 9 yrs old, the year was about 1936.
I'm 85yrs old now and live in Australia, but often take a walk down to the tree on a Thursday to buy a lardycake, or across the road to the bakers for bread, ...see more
Lived in 2 Wix Road, Becontree, Dagenham until I was 23 from 1951 to 1974. My mum still lives there. Did anyone else out there live nearby? I have fond memories. People were lovely. No complications. Summers were summers and autumn was conker time. Winter was snowballs, and Guy Fawkes Night was amazing. You would make your own guy from an old shirt, trousers sewn together and stuffed with newspaper and put a ...see more
We were married at St Michael's Church on a windy 23rd December 1961. How well we both remember that long walk from Pitsea High Road by Rectory Road up to the church. After the wedding we had to once more face that long walk down to the High Road to get into our cars for the short drive round to St Michael's Hall for the reception. The actual walk down from the church was longer than the drive to the hall but it was all worth while and after nearly 50 years we are still happily married.
Pilgrim Wood Children's Home is now on Facebook
I went to the Sarson School, my name then was Rosalin Scott. Does anyone remember me? I came from Asfordby Hill School to the Sarson. The headmistress was a Miss Penstone. I would like to hear from any one who remembers me. xx
I also remember the school in Beaconsfield Street and I remember Audrey who was in my class. Albert Street is clear in my memory too as it was in the Salvation Army there that I learnt to play the cornet in their band. Strangely, I have little recollection of the coronation celebrations though I do remember the street party in Victoria Place for the Festival of Britain. There was also a day in 1953, I ...see more
I purchased my first house at 28 Chapel Lane with my late wife. This lane led down to the Salvation Army Farm where an annual event of motor cycle scrambling took place. The lane was quiet apart from this event and to compensate the organisers gave residents complimentary tickets which we used on several occasions. The castle stood to the east of this area.
Alas our house was pulled down ...see more
Has anyone got any photos of the prefabs on Cuckoo Estate? I would love to see them. I lived on the estate as a small child and my memories are vague, it would be nice to refresh them.
Also just outside of the estate I seem to remember an avenue with trees either side, at the end of the avenue was an old building with what i can only presume had old dungeons or cells. My brothers and I used to play in this building, can anyone shed some light on what this building was?
I went to Oughtrington Infants and Oughtrington Juniors between 1968 and 1974. I do not recall to two schools being next door to each other with the caretakers house in between? The Infants was on Sandy Lane opposite the Post Office, the Headmistress was Mrs Green. The Juniors was further up on the corner of the Crescent, the Headmatster was Mr Winstanley. As a child I lived at 34 Hopefield Road, I moved away in 1982.
I came to North Seaton Colliery in 1944 when my father K.C.Macfarlane got the Unit Engineer's position. (he was a qualified marine engineer and left the sea around 1928 some time after he got married to my mother Cissie) The general strike was on and after digging tram lines up in Whitley Bay he eventually got a job as a fitter at Seaton Delaval colliery. At first we lived in New Hartley at 57 Melton Terrace ...see more
My lasting memory of the Bulls Head is when my husband, Bob, and I spent the first night of our honeymoon there. It was a charming place and very comfortable. I will never forget going into the lovely dining room for breakfast the next morning to see with a whole wall of glass windows from ceiling to floor, daffodils on the beautifully set dining tables, complete with silver cutlery, and the sun streaming into the room. ...see more
I must have been about six when I stayed at Clements Hall with my brothers Edwin and Terry in the 1950s. Christine story brought back memories. I also remember the geese, the matron often made me sit on the step to shell the peas. The geese would gather around pecking at me, I was very frightened of them as a small child. I too remember the tram, we spent hours playing in it and painting it in mud. I can remember a ...see more
my memory of living in "God's Village" is of days roaming round the grange, going down the fields to the beck, getting to the top of the "Red Ash Pit Heap", coming back round the coke works and spending loads of time messing around the TMS garage, most week nights and all day Saturday and Sunday.
I had good and bad memories of the hall. I don't remember Brendan. The house was demolished around 1965/6 and the ground it stood on was sold and a school was built.
I remember helping the gardener take geranium cuttings in the conservatory and the orchard, spinney, and lwns and the rose garden. Inside, the hall was impressive: oak pannelled throughout with a grand staircase. I remember suits of armour ...see more
As a child we spent many weekends in Cwmtwrch. My grandparents Horrace & Betsy Williams lived there. We spent a lot of time down at the river skipping rocks and cooling off. My grandmother always cleaned the telephone booth across the street from her house - I can still smell the Dettol when I think of it. I have great memories of being there, Dado in his green house taking care of his beautiful flowers, and ...see more
I was a pupil at Counthill Grammar School in Oldham, Lancs and a member of the Scripture Union. We were taken to Eastwood Grange for a weekend and had a wonderful time walking on the crags and also taking part in some christian meetings. The year after I moved to Buckinghamshire with my family but still remember the lovely time we had hthere.
My name is Rosie Pearce and I live in Tintagel, North Cornwall. These are just a few of my many childhood memories of Milverton. I lived in Reading with my father and grandmother after my mum died in 1954, I was 9. I used to spend summer holidays with Mr & Mrs Andrews (Auntie Joyce and Uncle Fred) at The George Hotel. They were the best days of my life. I made many friends, Jessie King ...see more
I spent many many good times at the lido every day in the school holidays, the lido was the place to be, meeting up with friends, spending all day there, it was just fab, none of this session swimming, it was one price, around 50-60 pence, and you had all day there, either taking a packed lunch or the staff would let you pop out to the chippy. Then in the afternoon Lucy the ice-cream lady would come in via the side ...see more
I was stationed at West Beckham next to Bodham on the road to Holt. I have lovely memories of a lovely place and friendly folk, at least the girls were. They said there was a shortage of men in Norfolk, I think they were trying to get hitched tom someone out of the area. I know some RAF mates got married and are still happy, so I think it was the happy go lucky nature of the younger generation. The ...see more
I was a regular visitor when we were stationed at West. Beckham RAF Station. We would bike down that steep hill at Upper (it was murder going back!). I remember the theatre, the picture house, the crab sandwiches on the seafront, the rippling pebbles on the steep beach, the lifeboathouse, it even had a girl called Marigold, I had never heard that name before, she worked at one of the shops near the ...see more
My father Kenneth Walker and his father once owned the farm across the road from the parish church. We have photos of the farm before houses were built on fields behind the farm house.
As a child growing up in Hyde Park it still holds very fond memories for me...Woodhouse Moor it never seems to change that much as I visit there once or twice every 4yrs or so...and having moved out of the area some years ago and would love so much to move back into the area. Is the old Lion still there up near to the tennis courts...in fact are they still there? The old swings that used to be up near to the old lion ...see more
Does anyone know where Potters Yard was in Exning, Suffolk?
I remember going to Taxal Edge Convalescent Home for some weeks. I cried for the first twenty-four hours because I was so homesick. I can recall how we woke up to the lovely smell of porridge every morning, it was the most delicious porridge I have ever eaten. We had to attend either the Catholic Church or Church of England every Sunday morning. When I told them that I was a Quaker, they decided that that ...see more
I remember living across the field at Farringdon comp. as was. I used to climb the fence and run across the school field. I used to have 2 very good friends, Ann Boswell and Sharon Butler, we were never bored and I remember hanging around Gilley Law. I moved away with me dad in 1977.
I did my midwifery training at Perivale Maternity Hospital, 1981/82. It was a lovely little hospital with two post-natal wards, one ante-natal ward, a delivery suite and out-patients. I did my community placement in Southall, we lived in a huge old house next to the cemetry when we were on-call at night. Most of our lectures were on-site but for some we travelled down to Hillingdon hospital . What a friendly hospital Perivale was, everyone knew each other. So sad when it closed down.
I attended St. John's Primary School from age late 8 to 11, we used to go to church on Monday morning where we would walk round from the school to Sough Road where the church was.
Does anyone have memories of Sindlesham from the 1950s till the late 1960s? It would be nice if someone has. It was such a pretty place.
I enjoyed the photos of Weynmouth and other memories - I used to visit my aunt and uncle through the 1950s when they ran a hotel right on the quay called The Edward Hotel, now made into apartments I believe. It was right opposite the Alexandra Gardens Theatre and I enjoyed seeing so many summer shows and meeting many stage personalities - I still have two full autograph books to prove it and I am in my ...see more
I was one of the children who lived in the children's home called Crossfield House, from about 1959/60 to about 1965. My sister joined me a year or two after I went there to live, her name is Brenda. There were about 12 to 16 children that lived there. We had a matron and a house mother who looked after us and did a very good job to. I have some very fond memories of my time in that home and I would love to get in touch with any of the people who were there too.
I used to live at this address with my grandparents from about this time for about 6 years but also used to visit afterwards. My grandparents lived in this rather imposing house which I believe used to be a farm with outbuildings including several barns, pig sty and an orchard. I do not have any photographs of the house but would be grateful if anyone could supply same. The house was demolished in ...see more
Can anyone recall the sausage and mash shop on Pier Hill, a great favourite of mine as a young boy.
I always remember the decor of a black and white tiled interior and long tables. If anyone can remember the shop's name, please reply.
Seeing an advert for sale of The Old School Lower Hartshay began an exciting voyage of discovery. 1884 now anchors my hold on local history and family research. Many have been the times when passers by have been invited in and have been told stories of their school days and life in the village. Prompted by these we began monthly meeting collecting data to publish "HARTSHAY HISTORICAL" which, yes, became histerical at ...see more
In the spring/early summer of 1935 I was admitted to Chanderr's Ford Sanitorium for treatment of tuberular glands in the neck. I spent six months there and have some happy memories of feeding the pigs, picking and eating fruit and other happy children. The treatment was excellent and I have only three unhappy memories. The first being treatment for hives when I was admitted. At ...see more
My Godmother, Jennie Wren, lived in the Easneye Gatehouse, as shown, at around this time, possibly slightly later. This gateway was also used in one of the St Trinian's films, which featured a racehorse which was being hidden at the school. Easneye House may also have been featured as the school, and other parts of this road were used in another St Trinian's film.
I lived at 34 Ullerswater Road from 20th January 1963 till March 1980 when we moved to Chesterfield when I was 18. My earliest recollection was of when we went to Broomfield Park to go to the mother and baby clinic that was in Broomfield House. Afterwards, my mum and I went around the museum and then a visit to the cafe afterwards. Then there was Claire's The Bakers on Aldermans Hill, with the sweet shop a few ...see more
Hi
I've been doing my family tree and found out that my grandparents and great-grandparents and my great great grandparents lived and worked in the police in Blackburn. My great-grandfather William Whalley was married to Betsy and lived in the Langho Hotel. But I cannot find out any information about the Langho Hotel! Please can anyone help with any information on the Langho Hotel, or was it a place at ...see more
Here is my photographic effort of the Clock Tower at Shoebury Garrison in 2011: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewareoff/5640187735/in/photostream
The trip to the graves was a ritual, we caught the Easthamstead bus sometimes, other times we as kids walked to the Church from Bullbrook (New Road), ever fearfull of the asylum opposite, with strange noises, screaming and shouting coming from it,one of my foster sisters worked there as a nurse. Anyway, the trip was to attend to the Simmonds graves, the whole family had plots reserved from time immortal. We ...see more
Hello to all, just a quick message asking for assistance. I am from a family line that dates back to Dartford pre-1830s. If anyone has any information on any of the following Dartford families, I would love to hear form you, as I am completely stuck on my family tree:
- Page (Thomas Page 1744-1821)
- Carly(Carley) (William Carley 1750 -1789)
- Middleton (Thomas 1722 - 1814)
- Venner. (Sussanah Venner 1747 - 1822)
Kind regards,
Darren
Oddworld71@gmail.com
I lived in Tusmore Park in the late 1950s and early 1960s. My name was Susan Barnsley. My dad Ken was gardener in the enclosed Victorian garden and I remember living in Garden Cottage which backed onto the gardens, there was also a racing stables run by Mr Keane. I remember my best friend in the park was Suzanne Clark, the gamekeeper's daughter, she had a brother called Rodney who was friends with ...see more
I was born in 1944 in Great Haywood, Staffordshire, but grew up in Notting Hill. I lived in a prefab in Lancaster Road, W.11. My childhood was full of happy memories and although, as with everyone else around, food and money was scarce, I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy playing outside till dark, with our neighbours. We didn't have posh toys, but had skipping ropes, balls, ...see more
In 1930 I was born at 25 Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth. I lived there until 1951 and my most vivid memories are of the Second World War years.
My dad dug a hole in the middle of the garden and installed an Anderson shelter in which we slept during the London blitz of 1940.The metal walls were dripping wet with condensation by the time the morning came and we emerged unscathed into the daylight. I can remember the ...see more
My first flat was 28 Cliff Road.
HELLO all, I'm planing and organizing a fashion show project. I'm wanting to do it around what the fashion was like in the 1960s IN THE WESTEND OF NEWCASTLE, but finding it very hard as I don't know what the fashion was like back then. If anyone has any photos that you would like to share to help me with my project, please contacted me by email on: Michaela_Davidson@live.co.uk
Thanks :)
My name is Trevor Jackson, and I was a resident at the Langley Residential. I can recall being there with Carol Baker, Gerald Peel,Graham Ellis, Susan Lunn, and a few more that I can recall. I can remember having a lot of fun times and getting into mischief with my pal Greald Peel, I can remember doing archery with Miss Stobart. I would very much like to hear from anyone who was there the same time ...see more
I was evacuated to Walsham le Willows during the Second World War, at 9 Palmer Street. I stayed with a Mrs Baker who we kept in touch with until she died.
I would be interested to hear from anybody from that time, as I intend to return to Walsham later in the year.
Was anyone involved in the terrible accident that took place on 3rd December 1951, when Royal Naval Cadets were mowed down by a bus? Over 20 cadets died, mainly on the back row, they were new recruits who never had their full uniforms, only their hats. Me and my brother were new recruits but could not make the march that day. I never went back to the cadets after that, I was so upset.
We have 2 small vase and an ink well in pink with a picture of The Palace Ruins Bishopswalthem on the front of each. My father William John Aburrow was born in Bishopswalthem and used to tell me about the tunnels under the ruins. We are thinking of giving the vase and ink well to the museum at the ruins.
I remember paying £968.00 in Council tax in 2002, then the Tory party upped it next year by 27.50\%..I have since tried to get elected to curtail this stupidity..I will add more as I continue to live the dream of becoming a District councilor in Romsley.
I have recently lost my uncle David James Bligh and I am trying to find some details with regard to his paternal family. I understand that his Grandfather William Frederick Bligh and his mother Elizabeth Rosey lived in Upper Stourmouth in the 1940s. David's father was James (Jim) Robert Bligh who died in North Africa during the Second World War on 26 April 1943 aged 24 yrs. If there are any descendants or anyone that knows or knew of the family I would be grateful for any information.