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Toast Rack. Motorcycles.
Where the pushbike is, The Toast Rack cafe was, a favourite place for us 'rockers' to meet for coffee and a smoke (back in the days when we all did). This was the meeting place on a Sunday morning to ride to Box Hill and ...Read more
A memory of Sutton in 1961 by
Good Times
I lived in Whitchurch Road, number 85. I was Pat Smith then, mum was Connie, and dad Ron, was there from about 1960 until 1976. I went to Dycourts School and had Mr Smith as one of my teachers - he was brilliant! I remember he read The ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill in 1963 by
Swan & Sugar Loaf & Red Deer Pubs
I lived in Croydon (Howley Road) for 40 years. I remember now & then going to The Gun Tavern in Church Street or The Rose & Crown, also in Church Street. I worked at the Royal Automobile Club HQ in Lansdowne Road ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
Memories
Mr Garlick got me through the 11 plus. Born 1950, moved to Barker Road, Bredbury in 1954. Apparently we were one of the first families to inhabit the estate. Attended Barrack Hill. I remember Browns, the two old ladies in the ...Read more
A memory of Woodley in 1955 by
New Brighton Train
I recall with grea/t fun going on the 11 bus from Prenton to the New Brighton terminus behind floral pavilion. We then walked to the fair with Crompton train, got a ticket for the airplanes,swingboats and the little trains, round ...Read more
A memory of Wallasey in 1958
My Birthplace? "Little Danewood Cottage", Church Rd, Dane Hill
I believe the cottage in the bottom right hand corner could be near my birthplace? If it is, it is one of two cottages on the hill leading up to the church from the village and just below the ...Read more
A memory of Danehill by
Reveries Of Blindley Heath In 20's, 30's And Later
I spent my first five years 1924-1929 in Blindley Heath, possibly the nicest years of my life. I may have gone to the school there. I clearly remember Gibb's store when I spent six glorious ...Read more
A memory of Blindley Heath in 1920 by
The Time Of My Life
Hi ! My name is Martine and I am French. I came to New Marske by chance when I started to study English and I staid with the Alexanders and their three children, Jean, John and Moira. I had a great time with them and I enjoyed ...Read more
A memory of New Marske in 1965 by
Raf Bletchley
Was stationed at R.A.F. Stanbridge as my first posting out of RAF Cosford (Boy Entrant 20th) in May 1955. Lived at RAF Bletchley and travelled to and fro by gary to Stanbridge. Moved up to Stanbridge the following January and lived in ...Read more
A memory of Bletchley in 1955 by
Living In Hiscott Circa 1970s
My name is Jeremy Silwood and I stayed in Hiscott farm in the early 1970s with the family of Mr and Mrs Adair. I met Dianne Adair at a club one evening with my then friend Alistair Symons of Crawley in West Sussex and ...Read more
A memory of Hiscott in 1972 by
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Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.
Resorts from Morecambe down the coast through New Brighton to Llandudno in Wales provided the wide walk-ways where holiday-makers could stroll and pass the time of day with family and friends away
Inside is a fresco by Lord Leighton, said to be the first in an English church since the Reformation.
Two of the ornate pavilions on New Brighton pier can just be seen at the far end of the road.
Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport.
By 1848 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway were keen to promote Brighton as a cross-channel port; they funded the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Co, though it was soon found that Newhaven
Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which
This was by Eugenius Birch, who also designed Brighton's West Pier, and was completed in 1872.
Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport.
We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes.
Not far away is Michelham Priory, founded in 1229 for 13 Augustinian Canons.The inn in the photograph is offering Tamplins Brighton Ales.
This village has grown around a road junction on the Horsham to Brighton road.
The pub sells Tamplins beer (a Brighton-based brewery).
Thus its architectural character is more late Victorian than the Regency stucco of Brighton.
This old coaching town on the London to Brighton road had the misfortune to be designated a New Town in 1947.
Also known as Perch Rock and the Battery, the Fort was, and still is, a very large landmark on the New Brighton shore.
This is how I remember New Brighton.
Apparently the spire had been designed for a Brighton church.
Between the golfers and the clubhouse was Burdon Lane, which until the 1950s joined the Brighton Road as it crossed the Downs by way of a dangerous blind junction.
We are at the foot of the Downs by the route of the London to Brighton main line railway.
This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.
Victorians knew him, was accompanied by a slender and though somewhat undercut Old Harry's Wife (left) until she was toppled in the 1890s by the gale that went on to sweep away the old chain pier at Brighton
It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.
In the distance is the Brighton Road junction; the gable belonging to Garrett's, the greengrocers.
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