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Vague Memories
I was born in February 1941 and have vague memories of living in Watchet sometime in 1943/1944 for a period of almost two years. My mother (Kathleen/Kitty) and her sister (Olive) rented a house which I believe was on the Doniford Road. My ...Read more
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Searching For 1950s Neighbours
Hello there, My stepfather has asked me to search for three people that he knew in the 1950s and early '60s in Steventon. My stepfather is Robert Orchard from Pembrokeshire, Wales. He worked for the electricity ...Read more
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16 In 1966 Croydon
In 1966 my first job was as an office junior for the Bought Leger Department at Findus for Nestle on the 18th floor. One of my jobs was to open the post and someone sent in their false teeth because they had bitten into a fish finger ...Read more
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Life On The Farm At Kettlethorpe
We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of the ...Read more
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Ends Place
I too remember Ends Place from the early 1970s. The old Dear (how rude) as you put it was Mrs Gregson who did not suffer fools gladly but only ever showed me kindness and charm. I would visit her each Friday lunchtime for a ...Read more
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Visiting The Corner House
I visited Weobley in the late 60s as a child with my Mother to visit our Herefordshire cousins. We stayed with Mum's Great Uncle Fred (Frederick Hope) and his daughter, Mabel Hope. They lived at the Corner House and I think ...Read more
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Brown's Fields
We knew this spot as Brown's Fields. Farmer Brown had the dairy in Broad Street and used to drive his cows down the lane by the Lynch. In summer time we used to go down to the river to play and have picnics. In the winter time it was ...Read more
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Last Season On Queen Of The Broads
I was one of the very last crew members of the queen of the broads before she was scrapped and was very sad when she was scrapped in lake lothing oulton broad suffolk
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Takes You Back Doesnt It!
Takes you back doesn't it! Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this............ Close your eyes and go back in time... Before the Internet... Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack.... ...Read more
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An Industrial Village
Having grown up in Birstall I have a fondness for this little market town in West Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles from Leeds and centrally placed for easy access to other major towns Bradford, Huddersfield and ...Read more
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Fully laden, such wherries would only draw a little over two feet, making them the perfect vessels for navigating the shallow waters of the Broads.
Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.
Here we see that the tide has surged up the River Fowey and has filled the broad, tree-lined River Lerryn.
Headcorn stands on the River Beult and is a large village with a single broad, straggling street.
The elegance of the pier was echoed by the broad streets of the town, which were built to resemble fine boulevards.
The photographer was looking south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.
All is bustle as the boats are got ready for the day's activity.
Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.
Here the broad thoroughfare is thronged with carts, cabs and omnibuses.
In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse.
Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.
The neo-Georgian shops and offices, designed by chief architect Louis de Soissons, stand on broad boulevards, with spacious pavements, but the ubiquitous car is already beginning to impose its own demands
Broad Street leads off into the distance, and is the main route to Haywards Heath.
Just beyond the broad village green is an area known as the 'fishermen's flats (these days a carpark), where the fishermen laid out their nets on trestles to dry.
One early visitor recorded in her journal: 'Water End, where the broad pool of the river is shaded by large trees.'
The front is emboldened by Corinthian columns resting upon a rusticated basement upholding a broad tablature surmounted by a perforated parapet' - an impressive piece of architecture.
This pretty village with its broad green is now popular with artists.
Thereafter it was not possible for boats to travel higher up the Bure, and all traffic from the Broads now halts at Coltishall.
Elizabeth became a very close friend of Charlotte Bronte and wrote her biography.
Here in the right foreground we see the Tolsey building raised on columns, with its broad clock projecting from the gable.
The elegance of the pier was reflected in the broad streets of the town, which were built to resemble fine boulevards.
This view looks south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.
With its magnificent 12th-century priory church of St Mary, its market cross and broad cobbled square, it is perennially popular with visitors.
A mile from Wroxham Broad and spanning the Bure is this lovely old single-span bridge, partially hidden by a passing sail.
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