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Denham Court
I was also in Denham Court for about a year in 1960. I remember Mr Hill. I actually enjoyed my time there. My dad had died and my Mum was in hospital for a long time. Coming from South London, I found the freedom and grounds of the ...Read more
A memory of Denham in 1960 by
The Boat
The Boat is the name of the Inn on the left of the picture. As children we used to walk across the top of bridge wall and, as a further dare, across the pipes which ran just below the parapet, above the water. Once, when I was serenely ...Read more
A memory of Gnosall in 1961 by
The Post In The Centre Of The Bay
I am not sure which grandfather it was (how many greats do you want?) but the old part of my family, the Strevens, have lived in Broadstairs for the last five hundred years, and have the honour of having ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs by
Uncle Tom
During the early Second World War years there was considerable construction along the Barton beach and the cliff top to hinder any possible designs of the dastardly twins on our rural paradise. These constructions used to be a major ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1951 by
The Pleasure 0f It All At Bradford On Avon !!
I remember sitting having lunch on the bank of canal seeing those charming barges slowly drifting past and making me feel that I would love to be on board going somewhere, anywhere at all just taking in the day in the warm sun, and walking over to the barge inn for a nice cool drink !!
A memory of Grosmont
My First Job
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 ...Read more
A memory of Chandler's Ford by
The Coward Bowls
I was caned regularly by Mr Bowls. My mother came to see once and saw the welt marks on the back of my legs and another lad called David Hyde, she went down to his house and tried dragging the matron out, the matron was screaming ...Read more
A memory of Stanhope in 1959 by
Park Ave, Southall Middx
Hi, I am new to this group, and really excited to be part of this memory. I lived in 49 Park Ave, Southall Middx and went to Featherstone, Infant School, followed by Primary then High School. Graduated in 1979. My head master ...Read more
A memory of Southall
Gypsy Beauty
Our Barge King Edward V11, was moored at The Lock Waltham Abbey C 1954 I was 14 years old. I loved the mooring and used to go often to the Cinema's in Waltham x. I became a member of the Drama Group in the Abbey. One Sunday I saw a ...Read more
A memory of Waltham Abbey by
Thames Barge
I remember Stambridge Mill very well. My Father, Frank Sutton, used to moor his barge, called The Anglia, here. He used to load his barge with Corn and Wheat. I was around 7 or 8 at the time and we used to travel with him to ...Read more
A memory of Rochford in 1930 by
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Goods were taken by boat and barge from Chepstow up the Wye as far as Hereford.
The famous Five Rise locks raise barges and boats an awesome 60 feet.
The Ellesmere Canal was busy, and more and more workers were needed to handle the goods and repair the barges; thus the port grew.
It was, however, only the tow-horse of a barge that had got stuck in the tunnel.
Much of it was carried by wherries, clinker-hulled double-ended barges, that carried a single loose footed gaff sail of about 1200 sq ft.
The river also provided water-power for the mills and transport for barges.
Then a floating platform and barge took the party and their carriages out to the 'Emerald'.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Quay was a scene of bustling activity with barges loading and unloading their cargoes.
As well as smack-rigged river barges, Bideford was home to a number of polacca brigantines, the smallest British square-rigged merchant sailing vessels.
Knott was helped by the MSC, who gave his ships free towage, discounted dock labour, and provided free barging of cargo to and from Liverpool.
in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.
From the river bank near the Leander Club we can look across to the river front of Henley and imagine its bankside wharfs alive with the shouts of bargees and watermen loading their barges, with
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