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Air Raids
These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1940 by
From Woodland Road To Cheshire Via The Penllwyn
On June 11th 1952 in the front downstairs room, (or close by) of 14 Woodland Road I let out my first cry. My early days of Pont are blurred, because they were not happy days. But I do remember ...Read more
A memory of Pontllanfraith by
Evacuation During The Second World War
During the early years of the Second World War my father was posted to the Royal Artillery camp in Almondbury and when we were bombed in our home in Hull he found a small house for my mother, sisiter and I ...Read more
A memory of Kirkheaton in 1940 by
Terrible Place
I lived and went to school in Shotton Colliery, and hated the place. Luckily I realised that living there was not for me, so at the age of 16 I joined the RAF and was posted to Wiltshire, clean air, beautiful rolling downs, ...Read more
A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1950 by
How Good Barking Was In The 1950s
I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
Great Haseley
I was five when I moved to Great Haseley from Newington, near Stadhampton, with my mother, father and brother. The year was 1957 and Horse Close Cottages was a new housing estate - we were thrilled to have a bathroom and an ...Read more
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Childhood Holidays
I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more
A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Huntly
I went to the Gordon Schools until I moved to England in 1972, they were the best days of my life. My uncle George Robertson owned the painting and decorating shop in Castle Street. I remember the picnics down by the Deveron in the summer. ...Read more
A memory of Keith by
Living In The Village
We moved to Compton Bassett in 1957 when I was 11 and lived there until my father died in 1986. My parents were George Edward (Ted) Jones and Lucy. First we lived in Dugdales Farm house with Mr and Mrs Monck, and then ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bassett in 1957 by
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The post office was opened in 1963.
The railed enclosure with the lamp post has gone, but the 1885 drinking fountain and canopy, to the right of the 'growler' cab, remain, or rather were reinstated in 1979.
In medieval times, guards were posted to keep watch and to guide people from the nearby Forest of Galtres so as to protect them from the packs of wolves that roamed the area.
The grey wooden turret with three bells is supported in the nave by four posts.
It is a busy day in post-war Dorchester, which looks almost as though everyone in Dorset has come for their shopping.
Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.
The post office/stores is now a computer business, with a new stores opposite.
D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road. By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development.
Built in the early 18th century, this post mill stopped grinding corn in 1897, and deteriorated badly after this photograph was taken.
The post office is on the left with its sign outside.
Most rationing had ended by now, but you still needed sweet coupons to spend your sixpence or shilling pocket money at this thatched Post Office and general stores.
The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole. Located near to a golf course, it was built in about 1765 and ceased work in about 1870.
The parade of shops still exists and the corner shop is still open, but the Post Office sign has disappeared.
The Red Lion Hotel beyond it has gone, now replaced by Red Lion Court, and Mrs Odell now runs the new post office (to the left of the chapel) - the old one closed in 2000.
This attractive thatched building still houses the village post office, except that it has moved to the right, where we can see a pram and a dog.
The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's. The baker's next door still has its Hovis sign, but it is a computer business now.
The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.
This is the old Eastleigh Road, and we can see the post office and the telephone kiosk on the left. We are looking towards the old oak tree, which is just out of sight at the end of the road.
Shatz & Sons (fourth from the right) was a furnishing business established in 1891, with a wholesale warehouse in the High Street and a showroom in Post Office Lane.
The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'. Bus timetables announce United Counties services.
In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.
The lamp post still stands, but without its light, and beside it Ulverston's war memorial has been erected.
Traditionally, retail outlets built on the approaches to railway stations serving local lines have proved to be most profitable.
Opposite - a sign of the post-Great War years: a Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange.
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