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Anyone Remember Newton Street?
My friend used to live in Newton Street, her mum was Mrs Brooks I just sent my friend the Gorton book, I don’t think Newton Street is there any more but someone might remember it. She went to Yew Tree school mid 1940s, these ...Read more
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The Lees Of Callow End
My father's mother's family (Lee or Lea) lived in a cottage called Brook House, near Broadlands Farm. We have a picture of Brook House painted in about 1910, in which it seems as if the cottage may have been part of the ...Read more
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Gorton Girl
I was born in Brook house flats in 1940, then moved to Millwall and then Swindon close Gorton,where I lived with my mum Molly and two sisters known as the Nolan sisters.I loved Belle Vue for dancing and speedway. one of my strongest memories is ...Read more
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Even More "Ramblings" From A Barking Boy.
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 ...Read more
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Bennett&Sayers Nuns Street Derby
I served my apprenticeship at Bennett&Sayers from 1964 to 1972, the scrap yard opposite was always called Frank Radfords, further up Nuns street [over the bridge] this was the original Samways for the highways,[now ...Read more
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Crescent Road School
I was at Crescent road school in 1947 and had Mrs Payne headmistress and mr chinery, I also remember Mr Davies,I lived in south road, at the back of us was the fairfield, which we had great fun playing in,when I first went to crescent ...Read more
A memory of Erith
Epsom Army Cadets
We were part of the 3rd Cadet Batallion of the East Surrey Regiment. Our base was the wooden huts erected behind Snows cycle shop in East Street after a German bomb obliterated the infants school that was there. The Officer in charge ...Read more
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A Beautiful Early Childhood In The 50's.
My Dad and Mum moved to what was then 'The old Cottage', Water Lane in 1954-5 from Cornwall. Mum was pregnant and they couldn't get a cottage, so Dad, Ken Johnson, applied to Corfe's Farm to get a tied ...Read more
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Brook School
I lived at no.3 Naccolt cottages 1940/45 and walked every day to Brook school and remember well the Ms Avery and Cooling , these were the best years of my childhood -- and learnt a lot too ! I have visited a few times since and really not ...Read more
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Sileby My Early Life
I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of ...Read more
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This lovely Queen Anne mansion near the village of Abberley was built in 1710 by the architect Gilbert White, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren.
This lovely Queen Anne mansion near the village of Abberley was built in 1710 by the architect Gilbert White, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren.
The business goes back to the 17th century, and was started by the landlord of the Bell, who was also a blacksmith.
Whalley means 'the clearing or field by the hill', and we can see how close the hill, known as Whalley Nab, is from our photograph.
We are standing underneath the market cross and looking down the High Street.
In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library.
Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane.
In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library.
The victims of the Kynochs tragedy in 1913 (three employees of the explosives factory were killed in an accident) are buried in this now disused churchyard.
Every morning some of the inmates would wend their way into the town to work in the houses or the inns.
There is the modern settlement by the Ilford Works, two communities either side of the Mobberley Brook, and a cluster of houses by the Bird in Hand.
Some of the most notable developments of the new millennium have taken place at the Eynesbury end of the town.
By 1980 the industry was facing its worse depression since the 1930s.
This fine stone bridge is not unlike the one at Higher Brock. The
Between 1964 and 1965 the north side of the chapel was hidden by a modern extension with an ugly brick gable.
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