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Many Happy Hours Spent On The 'crick'
Living in Overstrand from the age of 3 to 16 (1958-71), I spent many happy hours playing football, cricket, throwing homemade boomerangs or gliders, playing kickball (a version of hide and seek but a bit more ...Read more
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Moorland House School
Does anyone have memories of Moorland House School in Hillside Rd, Heswall? I was a young teacher working there for two years 1968 - 1970. I am surprised that few people remember the school which existed for many years but ...Read more
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My Dear Home Town Of Bournemouth
I was born there in 1928, in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and lived in Bournemouth till 1962. There is no where like Bournemouth, lovely beaches, stores, theatres, the Chines, and Shell Bay. An excursion to ...Read more
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Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960
My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by
Muchalls
My sister and I lived at the other side of the Muchalls crossroads on the road to Cookney, a little way from the village. There we had an idylic childhood of sorts (though we were far from well-off). We had the freedom of the ...Read more
A memory of Muchalls in 1971
School At Burslem Junior Tech
I lived in Blythe Bridge and travelled to school at the Burslem Junior Technical College in Moorland Road, Burslem over a period between 1943 to 1945. The journey by train on the old loop line was a lot of fun. I ...Read more
A memory of Burslem in 1944 by
Ex St Roberts Catholic School Harrogate
Born in Waterloo Street, Harrogate, in early 1940s. Attended above school until left in 1956. Started work at J.S.Driver, grocers on Beulah Street, Stan Wood manager. Remember 'Syncopated Sandy,' playing ...Read more
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I Was At Port Regis 1972
I can just about remember my time at the school, it was run by nuns, Sister Sheila rings a bell. I was there with my two brothers, Thomas Keefe and Pandy Keefe. I remember geting the cane for kissing a girl and ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1972 by
Aber/Blaengwynfi Silver Prize Band Thankyou For The Music!
I grew up in Blaengwynfi in the 1950s/60s. My father was Don Davies, and he was band-master during most of those years. He'd joined the band in the 30s when he'd been forced to leave ...Read more
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James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more
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These imposing Dock Offices reinforce Hull's position as a major port.
Lymington, standing proudly above the short estuary of the Lymington or Boldre River, is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Lentune, though a settlement existed here long before that.
Yealmpton, always pronounced Yampton, stands on the River Yealm near to the end of its short journey from Dartmoor to the sea.
On its no-through road in a short valley leading to the Cuckmere River, it feels amazingly isolated amid the Friston Forest.
A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.
The tower derives its name from the time when Chester was a thriving port and ships used to moor alongside it.
Lymington has always been important as a port; it has not always been the small anchorage that visitors see today.
It was still an important port, with several hundred vessels coming up river every year to discharge and take on cargo.
There were once regular sailings to Glasgow and Greenock, but its days as a cross-channel port are now over.
It was traditionally much more important than its 'little suburb by the sea', and was included in the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports.
A long way from his home port of Glasgow, the 'Tarantia's captain is escorted by a tugboat pilot more familiar with the difficult sections of the canal.
If this picture is correctly dated it must have been taken very shortly before opening, possibly in December.
Oversley Green is just a short walk from Alcester, beside the River Arrow, near its confluence with the River Alne.
The short-lived Aberystwyth and Tregaron bank was established in 1810, and the Black Ox bank (Banc y Eidon Du), based in Llandovery, opened a branch in Tregaron in 1903.
One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.
Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.
It was built in 1849 a short distance from Penistone station.
The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.
Once a thriving port and Westmorland's only link to the sea, Arnside eventually lost its trade to better placed harbours.
A sleepy village now, in medieval times Blakeney was one of the top ten ports in England.
Cley (rhymes with sky), once a busy port, is now a sleepy village, where nothing much has changed since this photograph was taken.
At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the mile-long Ulverston Canal, England's shortest.
Poole continues to function as a port, though as much now for leisure craft as merchant shipping.
After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved during Victoria's reign, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.
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