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Memories

1,986 memories found. Showing results 91 to 100.

Clements Hall

I must have been about six when I stayed at Clements Hall with my brothers Edwin and Terry in the 1950s. Christine story brought back memories. I also remember the geese, the matron often made me sit on the step to shell the peas. ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1956 by Gillian Mower

The Post Office

1971 - 1984: Whilst I lived in village the Post Office was where you got all you needed in an emergency. As a little one, I personally loved the vending machines on the wall. In those days we all used to be sent out for groceries ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth by Tami Cross Halls

The Brown Family Who Lived In A Cottage Called The Groves

I was surprised to find no memories recorded for Auchinairn, even though it is a small place, so the following is a start. When I was about the age of 10 in the mid 1950's my mother told ...Read more

A memory of Auchinairn by vernoncoles

Probably Strangely Out Of Place At Hawthorns.

It was 1952 or '53. I was one of a few young boys boarded at Hawthorns in those Post-War days. I was sequestered there while my parents toured the United States for a year. I didn't remember them ...Read more

A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by Phillip Naunton

When We Played In The Road

Gipsy Road in Welling where I lived as a child in the 1950's was a long one. It stretched from Okehampton Crescent near Bostall heath and woods at its north end, down to the Welling/Bexleyheath mainline railway and a ...Read more

A memory of Wellings, The

Burgess Hill 1957 1968

My parents moved from Durham to Burgess Hill in the mid-fifties. I was born in 1957, at Cuckfield hospital, and at that time lived in West Park Crescent. Both my brother and sister were also born in Burgess Hill. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by David Storey

When I Was Young

I remember i was about 10 when a works bus hit somebody's house wall and knocked it on top of me , my mam and dad was working and my eldest sister was told not to answer the door to anyone , the workmen on the bus rescued me and I ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed by Louise Cummings

Purfleet In The 50s And 60s

I was born in Purfleet in 1947 and lived in Riverview Flats opposite Thames Board Mills until leaving for University in 1966. The flats were owned by Esso where my Dad, Herbie Jarvis, was a manager. He worked there for 46 ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by John Jarvis

St Davids College

My sister Carolyn Trew attended St Davids and I joined her age 4, but I was only there a year before it closed. I can’t remember all the teachers names, but remember one teacher letting us out and he knew all the pupils names I ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Joanna Green

Diss A Very Pleasant Bolthole

I had many memorable times in Diss. When living in Cambridge, I often, unexpectedly for him, dropped in to see Mr Robert Stubbs who had been living by himself and his toy poodle since his wife's passing many years ...Read more

A memory of Diss by Richard Strange

Captions

1,668 captions found. Showing results 217 to 240.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1907

Tile-hung walls are a feature of this town, and several examples can be seen here.

Caption For York, Lendal Bridge 1909

Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The old tramlines were eventually torn up and used to reinforce the concrete of the sea wall.

Caption For York, Lendal Bridge 1909

Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

Caption For Bingley, River Aire 1923

Over on the far side of the river, behind the brick wall, is part of the gasworks.

Caption For Bingley, River Aire 1923

Over on the far side of the river, behind the brick wall, is part of the gasworks.

Caption For Staithes, Seaton Garth 1927

Note the high sea defence wall. This is probably the oldest part of the village, built on flat land and sheltered by Penny Nab.

Caption For St Ives, New Wharf Road 1922

The broken walls midway along the line of buildings were ruins left after a fire of 1915.

Caption For Melbourn, High Street C1965

The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls. On the left is the post office, and babies in coach-built prams.

Caption For Potton, King Street C1955

The doorway nearest to the camera appears to have a forged bootscraper built into the wall.

Caption For Netley, St.Edward's Church C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For York, The View From The City Walls 1897

The road at the right leads to the original railway station, whilst the road cutting under the city wall leads to the new station built in the 1870s.

Caption For Teignmouth, The Terrace Walk 1911

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

Caption For Colchester, Castle Gardens 1904

Much of this avenue survives the outer bailey, although it is now bounded by 1920s low walling, and the ornate benches have been replaced by more utilitarian ones.

Caption For Beckenham, Cottage Hospital 1899

The creeper has been removed, and the chimneys have been cut down, but behind a new low wall the building remains an important local landmark.

Caption For Totnes, Guildhall Council Chamber 1896

The wall on the left now has two boards bearing the names of all the Mayors of Totnes back to 1359.

Caption For Chatham, Town Hall Gardens C1960

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

Caption For Teignmouth, The Terrace Walk 1911

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Woodhead 1894

The long wall is now broken for entrances to later housing. St Paul's Church, together with Holme Island, in the centre of the picture, are still to be seen from here.

Caption For Fonmon, The Castle 1899

Founded in c1200, Fonmon is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square tower or keep and a curtain wall.

Caption For South Weald, Queen Mary's Chapel 1906

This 16th-century lodge, set in what was the walled kitchen- garden of Weald Hall, has unsubstantiated associations with (pre- Bloody) Queen Mary.

Caption For Netley, St.Edward's Church C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For Netley, Victoria Road C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For Aylesbury, High Street 1921

The wall on the right belongs to the Congregational Church of 1874, demolished apart from the tower for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1980.