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Fishing
During the school holidays the canal and it's towpath became a playground for many of the village children. Several of us caught the fishing bug and used the canal many times throughout the holiday. We always looked out for a barge called ...Read more
A memory of Wheaton Aston in 1956 by
Happy Days.
Looking at the photos brought back so many happy memories, I lived at Homefield Gardens across the Heath & went to the Methodist School from 1956 to 1963. Miss Fletcher was the headmistress & I think Miss Watts was my teacher & ...Read more
A memory of Burgh Heath by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Pretty Little Ainstable
I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. The ...Read more
A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by
Evans Concrete Products Ltd Greenhill Lane Riddings
I worked at Evans Concrete Products employed as factory maintenance fitter; my job was to keep the factory machinery in good condition and attend to other projects in the making. The people I worked ...Read more
A memory of Riddings in 1966 by
Riding Stables Headley
I lived in Headley in 1969…… There was a riding stables and a few houses opposite with a telephone box…..I can’t remember the name of the road…. There was one small youth club in the village and a small shop…. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Headley
The 40/50s
It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham by
Taunton Manor High School
I attended this school between !971 and 1974 before moving on to Purley High School. It was a truly awful school run by a Dickensian character, who still used corporal punishment. He was aided and abetted by like minded ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon
Boyhood
I was born in 1922 in Mundford where my Father was the village policeman. We had no motor car, indeed in those days there were not many people who could afford this luxury. The village was small, however it was self-contained and provided all ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
The Weekly Trip To Watford
I was not born when the photo was taken in 1906 but I do well remember our weekly shopping trips to the Watford market just after world war two. There would always be time to visit the top end of the high street to admire ...Read more
A memory of Watford in 1946 by
Captions
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The 'new' University College building which opened in October 1909 was the fruition of ten years' concerted fundraising aided by the Corporation's gift of five acres of building land.
Here in c1965 amenities are basic, though there are toilets and a first-aid hut.
It must have been a hot day when this photograph was taken - note the boaters, the parasol and the baby in a frilly sunbonnet enjoying a ride in a goatcart.
Three veterans of Waterloo are commemorated in the church, including Lord Sandys, aide-de-camp of Lord Wellington.
On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs.
This is one of the loveliest views of the priory church, said to have been built with the aid of a mysterious carpenter.
Lantern Hill and the Chapel of St Nicholas are not just a focal point for visitors; for centuries the light on the chapel was a vital navigational aid for mariners.
The imposing Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club stands sentinel at the entrance to Lowestoft pier as holidaymakers enjoy a ride in the open carriages pulled by a miniature locomotive steaming along to
Local vessels such as the 'Aid', 'Moscow', 'Trimmer', 'Fallowden', 'Commerce', and the 'Free Briton' ran to London, Hull or Newcastle, though some of the services were not regular.
This shelter aids the growth of luxuriant vegetation in the steep
Christchurch Castle, of which only the ruins remain, was probably built by Richard de Redvers, a cousin of Henry I, who was given the royal manor as a reward for aiding Henry in his fight for the crown
St Saviour's also supports a church-aided primary school, and both are a power in the community.
These small luggers worked co-operatively with seine nets to ring the huge shoals, aided by 'Huers' on the cliffs who directed the fleet with horns and flags.
The old smoke house (foreground) was built in 1848 in a romantic style to resemble an ancient castle, complete with mock stone cannons which aided the drainage from the private garden above.
At the pier entrance, near the bandstand and car park, there was a first aid post (right) on the edge of the remaining sand dunes.
The solid granite buttresses of the Land's End seem to have remained unchanged for ever, but it is the passing steam ship aided by three sails that puts this photograph into its period.
A summer's day visit to the country and a ride on an ancient tortoise - simple pleasures!
There is the more familiar red telephone box on the traffic island, a modern post box, and Belisha beacons to aid pedestrians wishing to cross the road.
Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.
It sent ships to aid Edward III's invasion of France during the Hundred Years War.
The Humber keel on the left carries a foresail, an indication that she is sloop-rigged.
With the aid of the architect T J Winperis, in under a year he had built the Marina and Marina Road, which opened on 5 July 1877.
It failed, and the Scots had little alternative but to march directly to the aid of the beleaguered garrison.
At the time of this photograph, the fun fair belonged to Billy Butlin, and the Figure 8 was an exciting ride fifty years ago.
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