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Family At Griffydam
My dad came from Griffydam, next door but one to the chapel. Next door was Alf Platts (I think) it was Edie as well Benny Stone kept the Griffin pub. Sammy(?) lived opposite with his handlebar tash. My dad was Thomas Hill - he had two brothers, George and Eric, and two sisters, Annie & Flo.
A memory of Griffydam by
Those Were The Days
I was born in the home of my grandparents John and May (nee Hulse) Yeomans in Mere Road, my mother being the former Kathleen Yeomans. My immediate neighbours on either side were Jack and May Platt and family ...Read more
A memory of Weston in 1940 by
John Ford Havelock Road
I know you. You are the little boy who came skipping out of your house to tell us all that 'We had won the War'. I was born at No. 8 - all the children played together in that cul-de -sac. John Heard's sister was my best friend. ...Read more
A memory of Deal in 1940
Hounslow West
I lived at Hounslow West and went to Hounslow Heath infant and junior school. Don’t remember much about the infants. My first teacher in the junior school was Miss/Mrs Roberts. I remember filling up the ink wells in the desks. This would ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow
A Beautiful Early Childhood In The 50's.
My Dad and Mum moved to what was then 'The old Cottage', Water Lane in 1954-5 from Cornwall. Mum was pregnant and they couldn't get a cottage, so Dad, Ken Johnson, applied to Corfe's Farm to get a tied ...Read more
A memory of West Peckham by
Simple Childhood
I was born and brought up in Barnton and remember fondly how we used to walk across the fields to go to marbury swimming pool. We spent many happy hours there in summer. Like many others my father was housed in Marbury Park by I.C.I ...Read more
A memory of Marbury by
The Jetty, River Plant
January 1977. The rain was almost horizontal that day, ice cold too, as I walked towards the hut at the delivery wharf of the Ford River Plant in Dagenham, Essex, I thought to myself that it really could not be any worse ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1977 by
Working Life
My father was a local Ealing man, who attended Little Ealing Boys school and Chiswick Poly. He was the owner of Gordon Garage, Gordon Road, W.13 from around 1950-1969. I worked for him at the garage, from 1962-1966, so does anyone ...Read more
A memory of Ealing in 1962 by
Waiting For The Bus
To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more
A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by
Clarendon Secondary Modern School Memories 1964 1969
I also remember Fred Faulkner teaching me English and Geography in the 1964 to 1968 period. Bob Coyle was headmaster and Burke was his deputy. Williams 'bone' was my first form teacher and taught PE. I ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
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Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: 'The Life Guard was sent down into the country to Winchcome to spoil the tobacco there which it seems the people there do plant contrary to the law'.
Trees planted c1900 are now mature, and more modern lighting has been installed.
They had between them several houses, and in the garden of each they planted a mulberry tree - school children from the village dance around the one at Shrubbery House.
The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.
The oak was planted in 1897 for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee; it still dominates the green with its seat around the base.
The opening of the steelworks was followed by the building of a chemical plant at Baglan Bay by British Petroleum.
When the Liberal politician W E Gladstone visited the college three years previously, the occasion was celebrated with the planting of a tree.
Born at Penshurst Place in 1554, Philip Sidney is known to have planted oaks in the park.
There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.
The lime trees (now gone) were planted in 1888, when the Square was no longer a livestock market.
Sir Joseph came from the nearby village of Revesby, and the plants he brought back from his journey with Captain Cook formed Kew Gardens.
Tree planting depleted the Clifton coffers, and the family went abroad, but the beautifying of Lowther Gardens continued, as can be seen by the many flower beds and mature trees—a Mr Tomlinson took the
The trees around the church were planted around 1950, the same time as the nearby forests were established by the Forestry Commission.
Although photographs show a busy town, poverty in the slums prevailed, especially in the yards where the decline of the straw plait industry meant that women and children no longer contributed
George VI in 1937, and in 1953, to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a fragrant raised garden was created for the blind with a descriptive Braille plaque beside each aroma- tic plant
This seems to have been planted with cherry-trees later.
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