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Living In
When I moved to live on the Cricket Green with my parents in 1947, the previous tenants were called Bacon, and for many years afterwards, people would say "Oh you live in Bacons' old house" - my mother would seethe! My brother ...Read more
A memory of Hartley Wintney in 1950 by
Goldthorpe In The Fifties
I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more
A memory of Goldthorpe by
Kennack
I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later. My memories are so many, borrowing ...Read more
A memory of Kennack Sands in 1972
Torrisholme In The 1960s And 1970s
My name is Susan Railton (nee Price) and I grew up in Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s. It was always a place where everyone knew and cared about each other. I lived on Hyde Road and could see The Square from ...Read more
A memory of Torrisholme in 1968 by
Hinton Blewett 1945 1946
I first saw Hinton Blewett on a late September day when arriving at my prep school, Colchester House. This was housed in Hinton Blewett Manor, which was its wartime home. Its true home was in Clifton, Bristol but that ...Read more
A memory of Hinton Blewett in 1945 by
Glenys And Haydn.
Friends of mine, Glenys Thomas (nee Burrows), Haydn Burrows and their family lived off Newcastle Hill at "The Graig". Much of Newcastle Hill remains unchanged today with the bottom of the hill closed to through traffic. I used to use ...Read more
A memory of Bridgend by
Burntoakboy
As a boy growing up in Burnt Oak I remember the barrow boys in Watling Avenue, the hustle and bussle of everyday trading, the people gathering round the stalls, the banter, the laughter, the friendliness. Like one family everyone pulled ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak in 1954 by
Whitethorn Morris At Letchmore Heath
The Three Horseshoes is an attractive pub facing the village green and the war memorial at Letchmore Heath, a beautiful place between Elstree and Aldenham just outside Watford. This pub regularly attracts morris ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 2006 by
A Town Of Inbreds
1) Highest known amount of people infected with chlamadia in one place. 2) Most teenage pregnancies in all of Britain 3) EVERYONE here is on some kind of drugs, usually pills 4) This includes is right now, and we are primary ...Read more
A memory of Banbury by
Evacuee During World War 2
I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more
A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by
Captions
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Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.
Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.
Powerstock is a good holiday place for the archaeologist, for apart from the hillfort, there are prehistoric barrows, Roman roads and Saxon settlements nearby.
Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex.
It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow.
It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow.
John Burrow is shown as the licensee on the board on the Hope and Anchor Inn (right).
Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow.
knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously labouring in the sand with spade and wheel-barrow
For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow
Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today.
Many ships have been constructed in Barrow.
There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.
It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.
Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.
Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses.
Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley
It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.
It was not until March 1914 that Dr Hedley Burrows was invested as the first Bishop of Sheffield, being enthroned at the cathedral on 1st May.
A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary
For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the
This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.
Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.
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