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'goldcrest' On The A 287
I was evacuated from Battersea, South London, in 1944 to a large house named 'Goldcrest' on the Hindhead Road not far from Beacon Hill and have some happy memories of that time although as it was wartime everything seemed ...Read more
A memory of Hindhead in 1944 by
1960’s
I remember Stanford Dingley when the cottages existed opposite Dumbledore on Jennets hill, they used the water pump opposite. A fire destroyed the semi-detached house opposite where Casey Court now stands. There was a post office half ...Read more
A memory of Stanford Dingley
Beacon Hill
I lived in Beacon Hill Road at the Police House in the 1950s and played cricket for Hindhead C.C when I was about 14, such great days. I was also reserve organist at Beacon Hill Congregational Church where Miss Katherine Osborne ...Read more
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Happy Holidays.
I have many happy memories of holidays spent at Dhoon from about 1934 to 1940, when I was under ten years old. My parents had visited the Isle of man for many years before I was born and had discovered Dhoon on those visits. We used to ...Read more
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My Golden Years At Stokes Bay
I was born in Gosport in 1929, my father was a long serving seaman in the Royal Navy and so our family life was all things navy - so Stokes Bay was a big part of our lives. I had three elder sisters who were frequently ...Read more
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School Days
I lived at 27 Radnor Street, last but one tennament to be flattened. My first year of school was at the "new high school", on Bouquanaran; 10 class rooms open, we had to scramble among the bricks to get to class. Then I went to Radnor ...Read more
A memory of Clydebank in 1940 by
Lido
My mother was born in Margate and we spent our holidays there from early 1950s-1970s staying with grandparents. Does anyone remember the puppet theatre in The Lido? I remember my parents taking me there when we were on holiday. I think ...Read more
A memory of Cliftonville by
Happy Days
I was born at 'Barford View' in Churt in 1952 and lived there until I was 13. I am one of eight children of the Lindsey-Clark family, my brothers and one of my sisters still live in the area. I have such wonderful memories of Churt - cricket ...Read more
A memory of Churt in 1952 by
The Wrekin
In the 50s/60s we would go and spend the day on the Wrekin. We would cycle from our home on Charlton Hill and leave our bikes at the Forest Glen (no need to lock them up) and make our way up the first part of the climb which was quite ...Read more
A memory of Donnington by
The Beacons Cemaes Bay
I moved to Cemaes to a house called the Beacons; the views from the front room were fantastic - on a clear day you could see the Isle of Man, and in winter the waves would hit the windows and would be caked in salt. We ...Read more
A memory of Cemaes Bay in 1972 by
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The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.
This old dome-shaped weather-beaten pump dates back to medieval times, and is situated at an important junction in the middle of this historic town.
Just visible on the far right at the top of the hill is the day beacon, an 80ft stone tower which marks the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary, as the entrance is almost impossible
A beacon stood nearby during the civil wars, forming part of a line of communication between?
Lying below Ditchling Beacon, this downland village has today become a fashionable commuter village, and once-productive farmland is now used as paddocks for horses.
In olden days a beacon fire was lit on the headland to alert the countryside to threats of raids and possible invasion.
Four miles from Stroud, picturesque Painswick titles itself 'Queen of the Cotswolds'.
A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).
The river Exe from Beacon Hill.
The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet.
With fewer cars on the road, cycling was a good deal safer.
Standing at a height of about 260 metres above sea level is the prominent landmark of Chanctonbury Ring.
The Green Dragon Hotel, a stone-built 18th-century inn, is popular with residents and students from Lancaster University.
Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,
The trams have given way to buses and the horse-drawn vehicles to motorcars, and hatless heads are now commonplace.
In olden days a beacon fire was lit on the headland to alert the countryside to threats of raids and possible invasion.
The building on the cliff in the distance was erected as two houses in the 1890s and converted by a millionaire to a single dwelling in 1915.
By the middle of the 20th century we see something resembling the modern scene.
The view down the street in 1950 is not greatly different from 50 years before, although a car has replaced the pony and trap.
The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump
The house on the right is the Beacon, one of the more substantial residences in Victorian and Edwardian Fleet.
Timothy Whites, the chemist, was a familiar sight in post-war Wales and is a conspicuous business on the Square.
The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.
This view looks southwards across the Common from Stert, named for a neck of land, which juts into the English Channel and is the southernmost point of both Portland and Dorset.
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