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Saturday Morning Pictures At The Odeon
School days were OK but on Saturday morning the walk/run from Croxley Green down into Ricky was always an adventure. We would go down Scots Hill or down the track opposite the church at the bottom of the ...Read more
A memory of Rickmansworth in 1950 by
Happy Childhood Holidays
I say 1950 for the year my memory relates to but in fact my memories cover from around 1946 to 196 I've only just found this web site for "Memories" although have looked at the site before and what nostalgia it has evoked ...Read more
A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
A Lad In Blue
Around 1959 I appeared on the stage of the Davis as part of a group of Lifeboys a junior group of the Baptist church in Selsdon's organisation The Boys Brigade. It must have been a Christmas Revue as it was called Alladin Blue or perhaps ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
Hemingford Grey Playgoup
We moved in to Apple Orchard Lane in 1963. There were only 4 houses in the road and after quite a short time it was decreed that we should become part of The Apple Orchard and so we were numbered on and became 15. I ...Read more
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Liverpool Pilots
Fond memories of going to Amlwch Port to play as children and walking along Llancarw to Llaneilian with two or three younger children tagging along with us, and waving to the pilots as they moored outside Almwch Port.
A memory of Amlwch in 1957 by
The Teachers.
The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Eastry Childrens Home
I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more
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Wrinstead Court
I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also in ...Read more
A memory of Wrinsted Court by
An Evacuee
I remember a sunny day in 1940 a 10 year old London kid alone nervous scared alone except for a bunch of other kids, We had been scurried away from war torn London having gone through the Battle of Britain German airraids. The British ...Read more
A memory of Daventry by
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The small tower at the far end of the church served as a mark for sailors heading for the port: it used to carry a beacon at night.
FY on the side of the fishing vessel, just visible in front of the number, denotes the port of Fowey.
Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.
Fishing was Port Isaac's living for many centuries, and the staple was, as for so many other Cornish ports, pilchards.
When this picture was taken it is unlikely that anyone thought that the port had only a few years left.
, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone from a small fishing village into a major entry and departure port
, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone from a small fishing village into a major entry and departure port
This was a year that saw another important step in establishing Dover as one of the world's busiest ports.
It changed to white shirts and black shorts and socks in 1909 and in 1911 to the familiar royal blue shirts and white shorts.
The mouth was stabilised in 1733, and there were great plans for the port.
In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.
Medieval vases, iron keys, Norman stonework and animal bones bring together Old Sarum's troubled and relatively short-lived past.
The mouth was stabilised in 1733, and there were great plans for the port.
On the left is a line of coal wagons: Yarmouth had long been a colliers' and fishermens' port, and in its prime over 200 vessels were registered.
A 'porte cochere' , overhanging the pavement, served two functions in coaching days: those in the coach could alight and keep dry, while travellers on top and the luggage could enter the building by a
Ellesmere Port was the focal point for much of the canal activity in Cheshire.
Just a short walk from the Hydro and you are on Ilkley moor.
Blythburgh was an important port in bygone times.
Port Talbot's main industries were farming and mining until the early 20th century.
One of the medieval Cinque Ports, Hastings remained a fishing port until relatively recently.
Grimsby was once the world's largest fishing port, but the 'cod wars' ended that.
Grimsby is a major port, lying at the southern entrance of the River Humber.
Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.
Blythburgh was an important port in bygone times.
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