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Atlantic House Hotel
We used to stay at the Atlantic in the 1960’s and I am now doing research into the history of Polzeath. The Terrace was built I believe in the 1898 and it was part of the Pentireglaze Estate which I think was owned by the ...Read more
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Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead
My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George ...Read more
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I Remember The Fear.
I do not have that many clear memories from my stay there, I have a defence mechanism of blotting things out from my mind. I do not know exactly when I was there some time between 1974 - 1977. The only name I remember from that ...Read more
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Charles Hunt . Birkenhead Area Ww1
HI i am trying to find any picture of Charles Hunt, his brothers were George and David, sister Ada and Maude, i have a photograph of my grandfather C George Hunt in his WW1 uniform, a paper clipping of David Hunt, ...Read more
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My Bus To School From Hatch End To Pinner Grammar School
My bus to school, Pinner Grammar, went from this stop in Uxbridge Road in the centre of the picture. It was a red London Transport double-decker route 209 that took us all the way to Cannon ...Read more
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Hop Picking
Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In ...Read more
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Lelant
In 1976 I worked for the Francis Frith Collection in Baker Street, and then in Charles Street, Berkley Square. In 1977 it was purchased by my then boss, and now friend, Mr. John Buck. We continued to work together from his home in ...Read more
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Early Career Memories At Piccadilly Circus.
I started my career in January 1959 as a young bobby at West End Central Police Station Savile Row. The trestles positioned to the east of 'Eros' which cordon off the road suggest the photograph was taken ...Read more
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Wartime Bargoed
In February 1942, I and thirty other children from Northfield in Birmingham, were evacuated to Bargoed. I was taken in by Mrs Parker, who lived with her husband and Daughter, Phyliss, at 8 Plasnewydd Street. My life in Bargoed was ...Read more
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Stacksteads Glen Top The Old Brewery.
I well remember the building in this photograph. I believe it was built as a brewery and in 1957 I remember working there, I was a joiner and was sent there at times to carry out joinery repairs etc. The firm ...Read more
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In 1634, Charles I attempted to re-establish the Scottish Episcopal Church, and St Giles's was for a short period elevated to the status of a cathedral.
This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure.
Today, a short section behind the Theatre Royal is all that is left.
This short-lived railway, which opened in 1922, ran between Porthmadog and Dinas Junction, near Caernarvon, a journey which took two hours.
Only a short river, the Llinau rises about three miles upstream from the site shown here, before meeting the Tyfi.
The two Bittell Reservoirs, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and some pleasant countryside are all just a short stroll away for the lane's residents.
Shortly after they had left, a troop of Royal Dragoons arrived in the town.
This picture was taken shortly after the opening on 2 March 1908; the locomotive could be the 'Lord St Levan'.
The main body of Salisbury Cathedral was completed in a short span of forty years between 1220 and 1260, so the interior has an impressive architectural unity.
Moving down a short way we see on the left a shop that had stood empty since 1940; it was often mentioned in the local press.
During the 17th century, one of the country's first paper mills was built in the village, a far cry from Euxton's industrial role in the 20th century, when a munitions factory began production here shortly
Horton is a Mecca for walkers attempting the arduous one-day marathon known as the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and O Short, whose café can be seen on the right, undoubtedly provided pots of tea for them as
Originally there was a junction here with a line running to the original Tenby Station, now Tenby Lower Yard; from that line a short spur served the quarry and lime kilns.
It had an impressive system of inclined planes to deal with the hills inland, but fell into disuse; today only the short seaward end is in use.
The woman's short-skirted summer dress and cloche hat are typical of the early 1930s.
Shortly after their construc- tion, the village's most famous son was born, William Dampier.
All Saints Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.
Pilley is a short stroll from Boldre on an ancient route to the vast expanse of Beaulieu Heath.
Owing to inadequate foundations, the tower of St John's showed signs of stress shortly after it was built in 1420.
The village itself is rather a tale of two halves: this area around the former village green has the shops, and the other half, a short distance away, is focused on the church.
The first was during the building of the seafront at Torquay, when sand dredged from the river was landed here; and the second was in the 1970s, when for a short time Browse Brothers' fleet used the
Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade.
The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.
Its former watermill, also partly Tudor, is approached down a short leafy lane and has in recent years been carefully restored.
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