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Places
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Memories
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Memories Of Fedsden Hall School
I went to a school called Fedsden Hall, in Roydon in Essex, in 1950-53. It was a wonderful place run by Mrs. Katherine Clare. Mrs. Clare lived in a big, beautiful Georgian house on the property, with her husband, who I ...Read more
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Petrol Station
Does anyone remember the petrol station being built on the corner of Mill Road where it joins Purfleet Road around 1969/1970. An Esso station now I think, but then it was ABCO - (with a big orange and black triangular logo) I worked for ...Read more
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Childhood
I was born in red lion lane in a two up two down with loo down garden path only the row of poplar trees remain the railway went above and mount of rubble from the pit lay at bottom of our garden for years there was only 1house in red lion ...Read more
A memory of Norton Canes
My Eli Memories.
Just found this site. I was born in Euxton in the early 50s, went to school there for a while and finally left in the early 70s. My dad's family had lived in the village since the late 19th century. They came from Wrightington and before ...Read more
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New Addington 1940 To 1948
I lived at No 8 Wolsey Crescent in the very early development of the estate up to the age of eight before my parents moved to Morden. Even at that age I can remember on many occasions hearing the drone of bombers overhead and ...Read more
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Cheslyn Hay 1960 1977
My parents moved from Essington to Cheslyn Hay in 1960. We briefly lived in one of the cottages in Hollybush before moving to Low Street. I remember Harry Bates selling fruit & veg from his horse & cart and people ...Read more
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Flamstead End School /Hammond Street
Hi..I too went to Flamstead End junior school..and remember Mrs Sibley and Mr Cave...Mr Cave lived in Pottars Bar and drove what seemed a large car then - an Austin Cambridge I think....there was also a Miss/Mrs Butterfield ...Read more
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The Brampton Hawk Moth Club.
Searching for wildlife to keep as pets was a major diversion for a small group of boys in my class at Brampton Road Primary School during the 1950's. Anything that moved on the ground or swam around in ponds and streams ...Read more
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Liquid Lunches
The photo of the Crown took me back to the late '70's/early '80's. I was a young Civil Servant, & the Crown, with it's real ale, was my offices favourite haunt at lunchtime on payday. As we worked flexitime, 2 hour lunches were not ...Read more
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Growing Up In Seaton Sluice In The 1960s
I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more
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It proved to be a popular place for Yorkshire business people to retire, and the population doubled during the early years of Victoria's reign. The village was wealthy enough to support a theatre.
Loch Lomond became a popular destination for day trippers from around Clydeside, especially after the opening of the Dumbarton & Balloch Joint Railway.
Flat caps were still popular, but some of the men are again wearing boaters.
This was another popular area where children could paddle and swim. By 1972 a swimming pool had opened at Edisford.
Today it is a popular pub and eatery. On 13 July 1940, Sidney Ireland of 610 Squadron became the first pilot to be killed in Surrey during the Battle of Britain.
Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel
The common covers 200 acres, and was a popular stopping place for drovers on their way to market - here the cattle could be watered by the four ponds.
Its full promenade deck and reliability in all weathers made it very popular. It survived use as a Second World War transport and was afterwards refitted with an additional funnel.
Nearly ninety years after this photograph was taken, the village was used as the setting for the popular TV drama series 'The Darling Buds of May'.
Founded in 1776 by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss (who named the town after his wife), Helensburgh has become popular as a holiday resort and as a golfing, fishing and yachting centre.
River outings on the Thames were popular in Victorian times. Jerome K Jerome describes a classic journey in his 'Thee Men in a Boat'.
In the background is a popular promenade called the Bulwark, an embankment extending for about a mile on the south side of the river.
It was not popular, and tradesmen did not stay long. Waitrose applied to open a store, but the plans were rejected by the council. There are now plans to upgrade the precinct.
It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn
Now very popular because of its proximity to Preston, Longton has burgeoned into a dormitory town with its own medical centre and library.
There are cafes, souvenir shops and workshops for the famous serpentine stone which became popular in Victorian times.
Above the cinema, designed in distinctive 1930s style, was a popular restaurant.
This is a very popular view of the town, showing the three bays separated by rock outcrops. The pier was built on one of these outcrops in 1865, only to be damaged in a storm the following year.
This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.
These had been a popular form of advertising for many years, though Thompson & Capper's sign has been modified at some time so that it can be lit up with electric lights.
Sheltered by the nearby island of Cumbrae, Largs is a popular place for messing about in boats. It was also a good centre for steamer excursions.
It is a popular centre for yachting and for boating trips in the Firth and to the Kyles of Bute. Here we see the esplanade with the pebble beach in evidence.
River outings on the Thames were popular in Victorian times. Jerome K Jerome describes a classic journey in his 'Thee Men in a Boat'.
Westwards from Folkestone, and now linked to it as a suburb, Sandgate shared in the popularity of its neighbour as a seaside resort around the turn of the century.
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