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A History Lesson
I have lived nearby for 10 years and this place eluded me for a while. Tancreds Ford is still a ford but the bridge is the modern equivalent. The reason I am posting this is because it was on the old smugglers route! Contraband ...Read more
A memory of Frensham by
Gants Hill
I moved to Gants Hill in 1968, from Bethnal Green, at the age of 8. I later moved to Wanstead aged 32. I have great memories of the place, I lived on the Eastern Avenue between Ethelbert Gardens and Beehive lane. Ray Powell was the ...Read more
A memory of Gants Hill in 1973 by
Lofthouse's Newsagents
So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano ...Read more
A memory of Worksop by
The Flicks
This is the first cinema I ever went to! I even went to see 'The Circus of Horrors' X-rated film here, I was smuggled in by my mum and her friend Long Lil (Lillian Smith), it's ok, I've had no real side effects from it, ha ha. I ...Read more
A memory of Hoddesdon by
My Beloved Bonk
I have loads of memories of village life as a kid. I was born in 1961 and still live on the Bonk. I will probably die here as well. There were many old characters back then. Iron Bates the vegetable cart man (did some boxing ...Read more
A memory of Cheslyn Hay in 1969 by
Bramley In The Years 1935 To 1941
Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy ...Read more
A memory of Bramley in 1930 by
The Mount In The Early 1970s
I went to see 'The Jungle Book' in the Odeon and remember the restaurant opposite - dead posh. I worked in the tiny TESCO supermarket which was opposite Rossis. In the 1970s Rossis was a mecca for teenagers as ...Read more
A memory of South Harefield by
My Grandparents
My grandparents lived at Fern Cottage. They moved there before the war and had two children, Dick and Jean. Dick was based at Wick and died in the war. Jean, my mum, married and had me and my sister. I have wonderful ...Read more
A memory of Cropwell Bishop in 1960 by
Early Years In Hindley
What - no memories of Hindley? I was born in 1935 (nee Pennington) at a house in Liverpool Road, just up from the Strangeways Pub (The Paddock). The area was called Navvies' Lump, and although the address was "Liverpool ...Read more
A memory of Hindley in 1930 by
Growing Up In Tideswell
Memories abound about my childhood, jumping and leaping like a rabbit at Eastertime. I remember staying at my grandmother's (Norah Gregory, a marvellous woman from the no-moaner generation), or at my Great Aunty ...Read more
A memory of Tideswell in 1976 by
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Ullenhall has had its share of notorious residents, including a 19th-century forger called William Booth, who was also accused of his brother's murder.
In the early 1820s the village had three inns.The Blue Bell was kept by F Glossop, who was also a maltster; the landlord at the White Hart was Thomas Booth; and William Clark ran the Three Crowns.The
The name Bootham derives from Buthum, 'at the booths'.
15th-century work, and the side chapels, as one might expect for a church at the centre of a large parish, used to belong to the prominent gentry families in the area, such as the Traffords and the Booths
The striped blinds in the distance belong to Booths, ironmonger and draper.
The fascinating building behind the obelisk was the old Toll Booth, which also contained the town's weights and measures.
His daughter Catherine had seen at first hand the evils of drink in the streets of Boston and, after marrying William Booth in 1855, she and her husband became the founders of what is now the Salvation
Piper Road, like Booth Road where my mother was born, was an old toll road.
No doubt those who accomplished the feat were glad of the refreshment booths in the background.
Six houses to the left was the lodging house of Mrs Sophia Booth, where J M W Turner stayed between 1827 and 1851.
Religion had its own methods for cheering up the poor, but William Booth's Salvation Army was an innovation, aiming to reach out to them by entering the dens of iniquity and trying to change lives
lords of the manor were the Fittons, then the Venables inherited the land and, in the 15th century, the two Venables heiresses each took their half of the estates to their husband's family, the Booths
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