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I remember these 3 cottages before the top two were demolished leaving Clerks Cottage at the bottom. I remember the house being lit by gaslight, my father was always buying new gas mantles because he kept hitting them with his head. I remember the cold dark nights when I had to go and get water from the well and the bath nights in the old tin bath in front of the fire.
Right opposite was the ...see more
As a young child in the late 1960’s our family used to take a regular trip on a Sunday to friends at Hill House Farm, Hartley Wespall. They were tenants of the farm and the only names I can remember are Daisy, Gladys, Tom and Buller. I don’t know their surname. I now live in in Hartley Wintney and have such fond memories. I would love to see some old photos of the farm as, sadly, we don’t have any. I did ...see more
Hi my name is Bryan Hall, but when I was born it was Bryan Daniels. Because of my mothers persnal difficulties I was taken in by the Surrey County Council aged three months being put into council care. In 1945 I was sent to the Farningham Homes for boys where I stayed until around 1948 when I was adopted and my name changed. In 1949 I was sent back to Farningham where I stayed to around 1955.
I was in ...see more
my parents became engaged while sitting on this walk ----in 1924 !
I was born in January 1942 on the estate of Lord Rothschild in Home Farm, the former estate manager's residence. Lambeth Maternity Hospital in London was bombed and my mother was sent to Tring.
I worked at Victor Towlers for ten years and the photo Tolworth Broadway 1965 with the square clock at 2;30 is the wrong date. I suggest it is probably 1960 as per the others. The shop on the left was part of Victor Towlers by 1962 when I started there.
Many thanks for this information - it has been passed on to our archivist and the image date will be altered. Ed.
My grandfather Terence Price was born in Troedrhiwfuwch around 1938 I believe. I grew up with stories of his childhood and would love to hear more about those who may have knew him/his family. I think he lived on a farm and his father raised greyhounds. He would tell me stories of having to ride his bicycle a couple towns over to pick up fish for the dogs and smell was awful! Eventually he married my ...see more
95 Sunton brings many happy memories. This beautiful cottage was my grandparents cottage, Frederick and Bessie Brewer (nee Barlow). They lived there circa 1938 to 1977.
My maternal grandfather, Thomas Mottram, owned The Hop Pole pub on Market Street - sold it in 1924. My paternal great grandfather, A E Webb, started a haulage company, centred at a house called Mendham, on Wolverhampton Street, which became Webb Bros. Any body remember these? My Aunt, Hilda Mottram was a primary school headmistress - not sure which one.
Hello everyone.
I have just registered. I have been searching for info on platts common around 1948 onwards. I used to live in Hague Yard at platts common when I was little. It would be great if anyone as info. I would be most grateful. Lynn
My parents were Jack and Gladys Jones. My dad worked at wombwell Main pit and then Platts Common as a timekeeper.
The coffee house some people remember was called Wilson's, and although only 8 or 9 I remember a large gold-coloured coffee pot hanging outside, much like a pub sign. Yes, the smell was indeed delicious and pervaded the entire High Street. Wilson's was opposite the old alms houses where the trams now turn left towards Crown Hill. My mum used to take me and my young brother into Wilson's in the early 1950s as a ...see more
Hello, my family lived at 83 Hereford Road, Shepway, I think we were the first to live in that house, wonder if anyone can tell me when these houses were first lived in, I was born in 1949 and we lived at Vinters Park in a Nissen hut so would think we moved to Hereford road about 1950.......would love to hear of anyone else with similar memories.
Hi looking at the photo the extension was completed just prior to Christmas 1965
Hopefully just a little detail that may be of use
Jeremy
Many thanks for this information - our archivist will make an update, Ed.
This photo rings back memories of delivering meat to nursing home on a bi weekly basis, In the 1960’s this hall was used as a nursing home and my dad supplied the meat. My memories were of the heat from the kitchen, the smell of nursing home patients and the trophies shot by previous Lord Gisborough’s on their safari’s throughout the Empire. I bet that they still hang on the walls,somewhere
I worked for McLeods ,slater and Plasters in the 1950s Rosehill Square was my main area to work at ,had a GF called Anne Peat who's Mum owned the picture house in the Whifflet her young sister was Ray, the man thing I remember was Fergusons of the Whifflet who had the best brides I Scotland,
I lived in Sidcup asa child up to the age of 11, moving away from the area in 1970. I went to Days Lane Primary School. I don’t remember there being a high street as such but a row of shops I do remember which included a Hairdresser, a newsagent and a small grocer’s as supermarkets used to be called then. I have fond memories of walking past the shops to school and across the way was a long woodland path that led to a ...see more
My first recollection of life in Whiston was as a small child waking up at my Grandma's house on the morning she moved from near the crossroads to a newly built bungalow in Birchall Ave.(although her family had lived in Whiston for a few generations).
This would be the mid fifties and heralded the start of many happy years staying over there some weekends and at summer holidays. I had cousins living nearby and soon made ...see more
Hi, my surname was Rivington and we use to live on the corner of Seymour Street and Holt Hill. Looked like the house of the Munsters 😁I was a real tomboy. Use to go to mersey Park primary then prenton high. I remember family names of Rimmer, Grace, King and McGrath. We use to play, 'war' in mersey Park. Hearing the hooter for cammel lards, Morgan ice creams on Church Road and lots more.
I may well have a poor recollection here as I would have been only 3 or 4 years old at the time but wasn't Sainsbury's first Tonbridge store located on the west side of the high street just south of the old post office / just north of the old Baptist church? - this is before they moved to Avebury avenue and subsequently to the Angel football ground area? This would have been in the early 1960's - Thanks for any ...see more
Does anyone remember the the big empty house over the plannie ?that we called the haunted hoose ,in the 1950,60 ,also the huge big rock we all used to sit on when we were youngsters,i think that it is a residential care home for the elderly ,I loved growing up in Carntyne ,and when it was raining heavy, it used to Flood under the bridge at Rigby St, and when coming home from school had to Wade through it to get home ,or climb up to the railway line very dangerous indeed ,
I remember moving here in 1970 into a brand new tenement,mossvale rd, everybody seemed to just keep to themselves ,no community spirit ,nothing much to do then, no shops, as nearest shops were in Ruchazie ,there used to be a grocer van that came round were you could get essentials ,but costly, later on they built the shops and a chippy,it was a lonely existence as a teenager as nowhere to meet new friends ,
For a time, my best school friend in Gomersal County Primary School was Colin Chapman. He lived at the children’s home in Little Gomersal. He had a walking impediment and wore a steel leg brace on one leg. At a certain point in the time I was at the school (1953-59), he suddenly disappeared from my life and I have since wondered often about what happened to him and how his life turned out. If anyone has any information about this person I’d be very grateful to receive it 🙏
After the War my dad worked in the garden at Wolfe's. He used to brjng home bags of extrusions and we'd trim them for extra money.
Hi all I lived in Vale grove Acton and enjoyed good times in Acton park I remember Sean Connery house. Churchfield road grocery store my uncle managed playing on the railway crossing gates etc Saturday morn pic odean & Granada
Although I only lived at Great Totham as a young boy for 7 years , 48 years after moving to the Cotswolds because of my fathers work I still have a fair few memories.
We moved to Foster road in 1965 from Chelmsford the year when all these great photos were taken, shame there are not more.
I remember playing with friends in the ditch area by the brook at the bottom of Catchpole Lane just to the ...see more
I went to Etton Pasture School
In the year 1983 to 1986
I have some good friend there
I can remember wood work class and the head teacher
Richard Langford
My father is the gentleman looking towards the camera, on the left hand side, behind the lady in the light coloured coat. His name is George Allatt Meadows. I remember being around 15 and my father coming home from Cheadle village and saying he had seen people taking photographs. He & my mother, Emily Meadows lived on Oak Road, Cheadle.
In the late 1960’s I was a pupil at a nearby preparatory school (Bishton Hall) and used to enjoy walking via Colton to Rugeley as well as the main A51. Walking up towards Admaston was a bit far as I was only eight years old but I did walk up there on a few occasions. Now as a driver I explore the area and go around other nearby areas, but I always enjoy parking by Blithfield Reservoir for a look and walk around. Sometimes I enjoy a walk around Colton too.
I lived in Hayfield from 1940 till 1960. My mother moved my brother and myself here to get away from the bombing of Manchester where I was born. I have so many memories of being brought up in this wonderful, for a small boy, place.
I well remember the Park Hall swimming pool, set in the middle of a wood, with statues on pillars all around. It cost 2/6d old money, or 25 pence in new money, a day to go there and ...see more
I’m researching my family tree, and have discovered that my great grandfather was John Barber , he was a trustee of the work house in Ebbw Vale, and, as a boy in Ebbw Vale my Dad remembers seeing a statue of him up on top of a building... can anyone out there tell me anything about him, his family, the work house, and where the statue is now? Any info would be gratefully accepted .
I was sent to the school twice, once in 76 and 78. My grandad was ill the first time, I remember the discipline and the punishments, for me it was a place where I could a child. I was warm, clean, well fed and learning. I was in the Islay dormitory. The dormitories were called after islands or rivers. Aye we got dragged out and made tramp the hills for miles. Being a glasga street rat. I loved the ...see more
Terence Rodin, born in 1944, we llived at my auntie’s house West Avenue/Central Drive until we moved into our own council house in Griffiths Drive.
I remember attending St. John’s school on Middlewich Road.
There was a single large room which had floor standing partitions to separate the classes. Christmas parties were held in the Church Hall a few yards away. We always had to tie cotton around the handles of our ...see more
I was a 15 year old in 1954 when this picture was taken. I was a pupil at Hendon Technical College in that year I and started work at Stanley J Lee the Drapery and Fashion store opposite the station. I worked there on Saturdays and during the School Holidays for 3 years whilst studying O/L and A/Ls. During this time I worked assisting the Window Dresser, also in most of the various departments providing cover when ...see more
I started Edmondsley school the year before the new build around 1969 the builders used me as the measure for heights of mirrors , doors and other equipment in the school , mr Oakes was our lollipop man! Mr Newton the headmaster, Mrs Pickering the reception teacher, Mrs Patricia Henderson the year 1 teacher, we also had a hamster in class called Tiddles who is buried in a jar at the bottom of the school field!
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My maternal grandmother, Mary,(7) and her sister, Agnes(2) were sent to St Clare's in Pantasaph after the death of their father. She remembered having to wait on the day girls and was very conscious of having been a' charity case'. She didn't have fond memories of the place. Does anyone know if it is possible to see records of the inmates going back that far?
It was rad stock way not wood rd
I remember South Harrow very well my mum and I would go there every Saturday to do the
shopping and we would both carry it back walking to Reading Road. I used to go to Saturday
morning pictures at the Cinema in South Harrow it’s probably a bingo place now or it’s been demolished. There was an Express Dairy where you could buy milk. One year they had a fair on
the vacant block near to the bridge ...see more
I spent those years living in West Road.
The primary School was know as Japan Road School and I suspect long gone.
My memories are of the Rest Centre on the edge of St Chads Park, the coal merchant on the corner of Alexandra Road, Pasks bike shop where you could also buy your maggots for fishing, trolley buses leaving from the depot next to the Gaumont, the opticians in the High Road (Jim Peters of marathon running ...see more
Moved into Coppermill Rd in the early 1980's, majority of homes were still owned by their original 1930's owners. A very village atmosphere where people knew each other. They had bought their new-builds before Heathrow Airport, the construction of the Wraysbury reservoir and the M25. Their views would have been completely different from now.
Back in the 80's the aircraft noise was intense from Tridents, DC-9, DC10, ...see more
I was born in 1958. My father was in the RAF. His mother, my grandmother lived at 6 Jubilee Crescent Port Sunlight. Whenever we moved from one RAF camp to another we would stay at my Nanas for a couple of weeks, while the house we were moving to was vacant. How I loved it there. Always so much to do. Well it seemed as if there was. My sister and I would play around the memorial, the lovely gardens. I ...see more
Can anybody help with the name of the electrical repair shop in mossford green during the 70s
Hello ,just found this interesting website about lawmuir agricultural college which brought back many happy memories. I was a pupil there in 1954/55. Previously I attended Albert senior secondary school in springburn Glasgow I think I could have been one of the first conscript to lawmuir Anyway I remember getting on an old grey bus in George's square Glasgow every Monday morning and ...see more
I remember my days T St Mary's our teacher was a miss Elizabeth Shankland she also had taught my mother and all my Dorrans aunts and uncles
After high school I trained as a nurse at Ayshire Hospital in Irvine then Kilmarnock infirmary for general nursing I then volunteered to join the ...see more
In the mid 70s. I was employed, for a short time, to teach English at Matchwood Park by a French lady called Madame Imbert. I taught twice a week and a friend of mine taught on another two days.
I can’t find any reference to her and her husband in the information online about Matchwood Park and would be interested to know if anyone knows why. She gave me the impression that she owned the building but it seems ...see more
My Dad Ray New recalls being sent to Suntrap School, Hayling Island round about 1948, as he was "delicate". He would have been about 9-10 years old. He recalls helping to manually drain the chests of asthmatic children. He has a photograph of a boys' cricket team from those days and in it he believes is Mr Gough, and another teacher who played cricket at county level for Hampshire. There are a ...see more
We moved to Minster Way when I was six years of age, the estate was still being built and a lot of the workers were German prisoners as this was immediately after the war. It was a wonderful playground for children, although one day I fell head first into a water barrel, and it was only because one of the German workers pulled me out quickly that I'm here today. I have wonderful memories of the time we lived in Minster Way.
My great grand parents were in service at walshaw hall, my great grandma Annie Armstrong married the gardener Jack Slater.
My mum has fond memories of living at walshaw hall.
During the 40s I used to stay at the Fox Inn with my mum and dad, who were Gladys and Arthur Thomas. My name is Judy nee Thomas. The landlord and landlady were Mr and Mrs Ralphs. Their son and daughter in law and their 2 children David and Susan used to stay sometimes at the same time as we did. We had great fun in the fields across the road from the Fox, there was a stream with a wooden bridge over ...see more
There was a two-hour program for kids at the Odeon on Saturday morning. A tanner downstairs, nine pence upstairs. Films of Heckle and Jeckle, Sir Galahad serial, then a final, longer film. Mr. Pearson was the manager.
After, we'd go down the lane by, think it was The Still, and get free, broken brandy snaps from the brandy snap factory.
Patricia Hampton.
Yes, I do remember. It was fancy dress. I was got up as a herald.. Yellow and white paper. "Yes," they said to me, "Mary won a prize wearing that."
Patricia Hampton.
I had both our sons in there in 1968 and 1971, a lovely hospital, I had a lovely Jamaican midwife in 1968 for my 1971 visit I was in 24hrs so I had Mrs Golding as my District Midwife. How well we were cared for compared to today's Mothers and babies
My Mum and Dad, namely Gladys and Arthur Thomas, and myself Judy, used to stay at the Fox in the 40`s. It was owned by Mr and Mrs Ralphs. Their son and family used to stay as well, they were from London. I used to play with their grandchildren, who were David and Susan .I have lovely memories of us playing in the fields opposite the Fox, where there was a stream with a little bridge over it. There were ...see more
Hi
I have lived in Amersham and Chesham Bois for the past 30 years and love the rich history of these places. I collect old postcards of this area and the Missendens, and I also research interesting people who have lived and worked here. I am particularly keen to hear memories of Chesham Bois in the first half of the 20th century, the Colenso family who lived in Elangeni House (on the ...see more
I was a child in the 1960's living in Waterworks Cottages (now a large Tesco). My schools were Tower Hill Nursery (I think) and Margaret Roper.
As the cottages no longer exist, I wondered if anyone had memories or photos of them? I have a hazy memory that they were detached or semi-detached, with an outside toilet and a Rayburn for heating. I also recall the steam trains dispensing their soot on Monday's washing, to chagrin of 'Renie', next door!
My time at the County School must have been from 1947 until 1951, when I left, to become a trainee Draughtsman at the British Thermostat, in Sunbury
I too remember Mr Phillips, who I thought was very formidable, until he became my Maths master, when I began to like him, as he was quite humorous
His lunchtime picture shows in the science lab I do remember, particularly cartoon day.
Mrs Phillips, ...see more
We always refered to the pleasure boat as the 'Coker Boat'. Was this the name of the owner? I am not sure of the spelling, it was only a verbal reference and we were only young!
I was born 07/1946 no , 13 Lancaster Drive great memories of Lancaster & Laburnum losts of kids paying in the street and at the Sutton farm field at the end of Lancaster, we almost all went to Suttons . Siblings Brian Valerie Richard.
Looking back I don't think it was very modern at all. Walsh Pike Grey and some perv PT teacher delighted in whacking kids with sticks and slippers, loads went on to do well. Lots of boxing & football champs, marine commando Jeff Urand hero Falklands War, good memories.
1965/66 Jack firth was the publican every night live music the pub was full , my BSA Super Rocket out side! God knows how I rode it home. Kenny Jarvis
l. I remember an old police box in the circle. Oh, how I hated growing up as a lad in Thornton Road, barely had shoes.
well lived on south rd above Contessa's for about 5 years. I went to Featherstone and My sister Jane Carmichael went to Dormers Wells. My Dad was a postman and loved to play on the golf course. I used to walk with my Brother to Ealing pool and love a cup of oxblood soup Does anyone Remember those days,, As kids we used to play in the abandoned air raid shelter. What a great shame it has become what it has become. I ...see more
Hello, the year 1944/45, my mother had put up with the V1 ‘s being dropped near us, we lived on the out skirts of London. A V2 was dropped one day, killing 22 people at the bottom of the road where we lived. So with my father working in Woolwich Arsenal making armaments, being there for three weeks at a time, then coming home for the fourth week, they decided that we should be evacuated. So my mother, ...see more
The house in the foreground is not the post office as the title of this postcard suggests, the post office is actually across the road in the background of the shot. The main house in the photo was known as Pink House and was where my gran and grandad lived for many years - Bill and Gladys Webber.
Thank you for this information - I have passed it to our Archivist who will make the necessary changes. Ed
My granny was Gladys Webber who lived in Waterrow for most of her life. I lived there with her till 1953 but after that spent most weekends and school holidays with her. They lived opposite the Rock Inn and at Bovey Cottages next door to the Greenslades and for years Trevor was my best friend.
I remember being taken to the Rock Inn as a child and sitting outside on a wooden bench with a packet of crisps and a lemonade ...see more
He hon janet kidd daughter of Lord Easterbrook owned and ran the stud farm here, breeding hangovers horses. She was the prime thinker and moved got start the Taunton jumping festival. My mother and father living nearby in Lydeard st lawrence met her as my mother was a burgeoning equestrian artist Madeline Selfe who Mrs kidd commissioned to paint her stallion maple duo. She also painted a large ...see more
My name is Geoff and I attended Broxhill School from 1967 until 1972. The school was a pretty substandard Secondary Modern School during my time there but, I understand, it became a Comprehensive in 1973.
I was interested to read the memories of Paula , from Hilldene Avenue, and her time at Ingrebourne School. Paula mentioned John Buxton. I certainly remember John. John’s mate was Alex Kidd.
I ...see more
As a child in the 1950s I lived in the Swan cottage ( the white 2 storey building on the left hand side of the road opposite the town hall) about middle of the photo. My father Mr E. W. Crocker owned the tobacconist and confectionery shop at street level. We emigrated to Australia in 1959. Unfortunately it has been demolished for a petrol station and a shop. I think then (1950s) it was about 350 years old, it ...see more
As an Essex Police Cadet I went to the Eskdale Outward Bound Centre in 1964/65 where I was subsequently elected the leader of Young Patrol. Every morning between 6-7am we were woken and had to run down to the lake and jump off the jetty into the lake, often having to break the thin ice, then climb out and run around the lake and back to the residential block for a hot shower, before breakfast. The keep ...see more
I grew up in colindale during the war went to colindale school then onto Brent moden in west London worked at desouter brothers and schweppes before getting maried and moving to oxford 50 years ago by the way my name is Bob Thompson I lived in sheavshill house colin deep lane my e mail is robert01.thompson@live.co.uk
Mum and dad moved to Consfield Avenue in 1941 when I was just 2 years old. The air-raid siren (on the top of Malden police station) always seemed to go off at the most inconvenient time, and there was always a panic to crowd into the shelter in the back garden,- and occasionally it meant sleeping there, which I always hated because Dad snored such a lot. Burlington Road school was a happy school, as I ...see more
Starting at Eastbury Road, turn right into Green Lane by the Colliver Fisher car showroom and down the hill past the Blue Bird cafe, Barclays Bank, Martins newsagent, Rawlinsons the stationer, cross the road to the Post Office on the corner, past Ryders and stop for a cuppa at Fullers tea rooms. (Subsequently Timberland.)
Then cross over to Rodes the sweet shop (4 black jacks or fruit salad for 1d and ...see more
I attended the school I had a brilliant time I was the 1965 school boy shot put champion and east Devon champion . I was a bit of a wild boy Robert Hildred
Hello Pauline,
I was a boarder here from 1953 to 1955, just wondering when the name was changed to St Clare’s ? I don’t remember your name or your sister. I was known as Veronica Meyers, was taken very ill whilst a boarder with Rheumatic Fever, so, spent a long time in the infirmary which was right up at the top of the building, was often served horrible fried bread to eat which I more.often than not ...see more
I was evacuated to Bedford in 1939 aged 7 and stayed first of all with a Mrs Drake ,the wife of a captain Drake who was in command of a ship called the Warspite. I remember it was off Goldington rd. by the school where all the evacuees were taken and sat around the central hall to be selected and billeted with various families. Mrs Drake had a housemaid and I remember the air raid sirens sounding at 11.00 am to ...see more
The bottom part of this secen now lies under the Heads of the Valley Road. This is taken before the ‘old’ road was built, showing open fields down to the canal bank and the former Navigation Inn. You can see the Congregational Chapel in the left hand corner. The Farm was demolished when the old Heads of the Valley was built, but there is a footpath across the fields to Ty Gwyn.
This is the view from Brunant Road, over Brunant Farm to Maesygwartha and Pantybeiliau. The Old Rectory just on the left edge.
Looking across the Clydach Gorge from Pant-y-Beiliau Farm, before the Heads of the Valley Road was built. Brunant Farm in the middle of the picture. My grandparents’ house is in the middle left. The railway line running clearly across the middle. I grew up in a new house built next to my grandparents, so it’s fascinating for me to see how things looked before I was born. The thing that strikes ...see more
Hello, my name is Mark Dominic Bird, and I attended Ladyloan Primary School from April 1977 until it closed in the summer of 1982. I would love to see photographs of the school taken during this period, but any other period would be fine. I still see one person whom I have since I started there, and that is now 42 years ago now. If anyone can locate pictures of the school, and post them on this site, I would be extremely grateful.
My grandmother Elizabeth Moseley married my grandfathergeorge Edwin Pitt in 1938 were the lived at hillend cottages my grandmother was seriously ill after having 2 children Patricia my mother and Stella Ann her younger sister I have myself tried to find out my past from some villagers in hope to find more of my grandmother Elizabeth also her siblings rose and Bill Moseley rose married Fred Bayliss and Bill never ...see more