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Memories
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The Colour Of Honey
It was the late 1950's and everyone in my family were keen gardeners. One hotly anticipated event in the garden calender was always the Summer Horticultural Show in Danson Park. Inside the huge white marquee was a marvel of ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow
Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more
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Purveyor Of Sweetshops
I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
1940 To 1956 Clarence Road
I was born at 25 Clarence road 1940 and lived there to 1956 as a boy worked on milk round with Albert on 3 whealed cart delivering to percey rd clarence rd manor road buildings also in Bobs dairy shop and Jack Feacey ...Read more
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The Danson Park Whip
Whenever the annual traveling funfair came to Danson Park in the 1960's for their Easter and Bank Holiday visits, it was party time for the local teens, a golden oportunity to hang out and socialise, meet up with friends old ...Read more
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The Peach Bar
I WAS ONE OF A GROUP OF LADS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS "THE LOCAL TEDDY BOY TYPES" WHO USED TO MEET UP AT THE PEACH BAR IN STONELEIGH BROADWAY IN THE SIXTIES. THIS WAS A COFFEE BAR RUN BY A LOVELY LADY CALLED IDA. THOSE WERE GREAT DAYS ...Read more
A memory of Stoneleigh by
Happy Days
I came to live in Northwood Hills in 1946, aged 16 months. I attended Pinner Road Primary School and then on to Potter Street where I was a prefect in my final year. I had my tonsils out, aged 6 in the lovely old Cottage Hospital, ...Read more
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Hard Times And Making Ends Meet
When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more
A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by
Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.
As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more
A memory of Old Basford by
The Salford Girl 2
In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our ...Read more
A memory of Salford
Captions
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The building on the right is Thomas Alleyne's Grammar School, originally a school for boys.
Shopkeepers stand at their doors at the little parade of shops; prams are parked outside, and a boy gazes longingly at the display of hoops.
On the left the butcher takes time out for a chat, while the young boys are either intrigued by the antics of our cameraman, or waiting for something to run him over.
Here, a horse-cart loaded with barrels and bales makes a delivery to an ironmonger's shop, whilst a boy leans against a hand-cart.
Opposite it, Davies & Jones's store seems to be a meeting- point for the local boys and their bicycles. As the High Street disappears in the dis- tance it becomes the Monmouth Road.
Next door, to its left, stands the Boy Scout hut that would be destroyed by fire in 1958.
The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.
Two boys lean casually, their interest captured by events outside our vision, whilst other lads, seated easily on a small boat below a building on the left-hand middle ground, seem equally
The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who
The boys are walking across the quad from the Big Schoolroom.
This is an excellent study of an Edwardian post office, with the postman on his cart, the telegraph boys at the door, and the postcards on display.
A boy waits near the shop doorway for the photographer.
The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.
A boy waits near the shop doorway, watching the Frith photographer.
The people in the photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their father
It was here, too, that a boy named Matthew Webb learnt to swim. He was later to become the first man to swim across the English Channel in 1875. He later died trying to swim across the Niagara Falls.
Notice all the evidence of day-to-day trade, especially the delivery boys with parcels or newspapers.
In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.
One of the boys' blocks of dormitories/study rooms is also shown.
This looks like a day out for the men, boys and one woman in the picture. They have chosen a lovely spot at the bottom of Clydach Vale.
Ampleforth is probably best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, founded by Benedictine monks in 1808 and based on their abbey.
Here several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal. In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.
The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.
Several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal.
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