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Maps
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Memories
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The War Years
I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
Evacuation During The Second World War
During the early years of the Second World War my father was posted to the Royal Artillery camp in Almondbury and when we were bombed in our home in Hull he found a small house for my mother, sisiter and I ...Read more
A memory of Kirkheaton in 1940 by
Boddington School Maureen Simpson.
I attended the school from 1946-1951. The teacher at first was Miss Semper, who I do not remember too well. After her came Mrs. Pat Bishop, who was a lovely lady, she and her husband lived in the school ...Read more
A memory of Upper Boddington in 1946 by
Terrible Place
I lived and went to school in Shotton Colliery, and hated the place. Luckily I realised that living there was not for me, so at the age of 16 I joined the RAF and was posted to Wiltshire, clean air, beautiful rolling downs, ...Read more
A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1950 by
A Child In Kinghorn
I lived at 54 High Street, Kinghorn, Fife, Scoland, and went to school in Kinghorn and Burntisland. I remember the fish trains at night going to Burtisland and beyond and clanking up the hill as they came out of Kinghorn station. I also remember that it was double summer time.
A memory of Kinghorn in 1953 by
How Good Barking Was In The 1950s
I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
My Paper Round
I worked as a paper boy at Newby's in Taunton Lane. I got up at 5 am and went to the shed behind the shop to sort and mark-up the papers. I then did 2 rounds before school for 6/- a week per round and 5/- for the marking up; a ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1959 by
Eastwood Nottinghamshire
I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more
A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by
My Memories
There is a museum inside this building which is only open to the public on certain days. This is one of my early memories of Healton Park, when I was a child my parents took me and my sister for a day out, to the park. Later we ...Read more
A memory of Prestwich in 2011
Captions
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Fishermen came from elsewhere around the coast, and soon Brixham trawlers became a common sight in the harbour.
Boston Corporation came into existence on 14 May 1545.
Over the years there have been a variety of spellings of the name Hemel Hempstead.
In 1996 the two schools came together with the name of Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and Dr Priscilla Chadwick was appointed as first principal.
Then when the 'Right to Buy' scheme came into being, many tenants purchased their homes.
MANY MORE people know the name of Loughborough than know the town itself, or even where it is.
Thomas Hope (of the Hope Diamond fame), the son of a wealthy Amsterdam merchant, took possession of the mansion in 1808.
Laindon, Langdon Hills, Dunton, Basildon, Pitsea, Vange and North Benfleet came together to form the New Town; beneath the modern buildings lie fascinating episodes from Basildon's past, from
great and so momentous that the twentieth century will A Momentous Meeting at Laindon School On a bleak night in October 1948, the Rt Hon Lewis Silkin, Minister for Town and Country Planning, came
built seven years later in the early Tudor style with eighteen tills, and up to 90 staff when it was working at full stretch; they were needed during race weeks when newspaper correspondents came
Later came Sizewell B, the PWR reactor, proudly state-of-the-art; today the giant white dome stands rather incongruously where smugglers once plied a profitable trade.
Within 20 years, well-to-do commuter communities had sprung up along the lines; indeed, Alderley Edge village itself did not exist before the trains came - it is a Victorian creation dating from
His first real profits came from uniforms, supplied complete and correct in every detail within 36 hours, for the University & Public Schools Brigade.
Later, the Norsemen came calling (and pil- laging).
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