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The Nag''s Head
One didn't have to travel to London in the past to watch pro bands plying their trade. The Nag's Head public house was a much attended venue during the late 1960s and early 1970s for watching many of the (what was then known as) ...Read more
A memory of Wollaston in 1969 by
Burns Pit Disaster
From his seat, by the fire, my grandad could see the great mound of the spoil heap of Stanley Burns Pit. It was the site of a horrific explosion, on 16th February 1909, in which 168 men and boys lost their lives. He would ...Read more
A memory of Stanley in 1900 by
Playground Apparatuses
How wonderful to have my memory jogged by the lovely pictures of Clapham Common. After school, most days we (my brother Lance) and my mother would have such fun. We would play spot the park keeper, (always nicely turned ...Read more
A memory of Clapham in 1962 by
1958
I lived in this house for a year in 1958 when my father was stationed at RAF Wethersfield. We spent a good deal of time in the kitchen as the warmest room in the house. When spring came it was lovely in the back garden with snowdrops and ...Read more
A memory of Great Easton
Pavenham 1945 1970
This is the village where I grew up, my parents moving into their very old, somewhat dilapidated cottage at the end of the war. This was 'The Folly' at the eastern end of the village opposite one of Tandy's farms. Why it had that name ...Read more
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The Original Grove Hotel In Stapenhill
When I was about 4 years old in 1948 my Auntie Jess and Uncle Albert (Haynes) ran the Grove Hotel at Stapenhill. It was the original one, not the one which is there now. It was a really lovely old building ...Read more
A memory of Stapenhill in 1948 by
Avonmouth Docks And Bocm Silcocks
In 1977 I finished a Teacher Training Course at Redland College in Bristol. I was in need of a temporary job and was to find one in Avonmouth Docks where BOCM Silcocks (who had produced animal feed from grain and ...Read more
A memory of Avonmouth by
Growing Up In Gilnahirk
My family moved from Leeds, Yorks to Gilnahirk when I was 11 months old - my parents had a house built in Gilnahirk Walk and we moved in when I was two. I and my two sisters had an idyllic childhood, we had so many places to ...Read more
A memory of Belfast in 1961 by
Growing Up With The Troubles
I was lucky in that I lived in an area that was not often touched by the violence that was going on in Northern Ireland at the time, but a telephone conversation with my mum in recent days brought back memories of life in ...Read more
A memory of Belfast in 1970 by
Hard Times But Happy Days
We lived on Park View facing the library and Queens Park which had its own museum and everything a victorian park could offer two young brothers yearning for adventures. We would ride our guiders all over that park, and ...Read more
A memory of Harpurhey in 1960 by
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Sadly, this deserted view gives an early impression of the sense of abandonment that a number of these streets now have permanently - all the main shops that serve the people of Widnes have moved to
The party in the bottom left-hand corner seem to have abandoned their boat for a rest on the bank. This view is upstream of St Catherine's Lock.
In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.
In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges passing through this now-abandoned lock, laden with bales of cloth.
Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built.
Today it sits abandoned, except for one ghostly monk who can sometimes be seen praying where the altar once stood.
It is probable that Devonport abandoned its earlier name of Plymouth Dock as a gesture of independence.
Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned
Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned
Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built.
The Priory Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation opened its doors soon after the old parish church of St Mary was abandoned.
The wooden posts are positioned to assist coaches at times when these waters are in flood, although the abandoned cartwheel suggests that not all vehicles made the crossing successfully.
The Roundabout Hotel on the Delmé Roundabout used to be St Edith's Industrial Home for abandoned or orphaned girls run by the Waifs and Strays Society.
It is not certain who owned Pennard or who lived in it; there is no evidence for any 15th- or 16th-century rebuilding, so perhaps the castle was abandoned in the 14th century.
Knowing this, the occupants during the Civil War wisely abandoned the castle, so that only its walls and original gatehouse were then demolished.
This view shows the square just before the abandonment of the tramway system. In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall.
Even so, the population then was about 6000.The town’s development received a boost in 1945 when Rover announced their intention to abandon their Coventry plant and concentrate production at their
Glasgow was the last city in the UK to abandon its tramway system. The Leeds system closed in 1959, Sheffield in 1960 and Glasgow in 1962.
built by the Normans in the course of their early campaigns in the area, and the second a more substantial construction built by the de Clare clan, which lasted a couple of hundred years before being abandoned
In addition to some of the chalets having originally been used as barracks, the continued existence of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended
However, it was abandoned in 1912 and finally fell down in 1944.
Apart from the section between Castlefields and Dale Street Basin in Manchester, the canal was abandoned in 1952, and Hollingworth Lake was finally given over to recreation and leisure activities.
However, a few months later the Archbishop of York ordered the scheme abandoned on the grounds that 'it would not be desirable to proceed for some years to come'.
It has a bad defensive position for a castle, though, so that when it was attacked during the Civil War the defenders wisely abandoned it and took refuge in the church instead.
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