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Seaford Rd In The 50s And 60s
I was born in 15 Seaford rd. in 1954. Tottenham then was like a village where everyone knew everyone else. I can clearly remember rag and bone men with their horse and carts, ringing their bells yelling "old rags and ...Read more
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Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
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Greenwich In The 1940s And 1950s
I was born, during the Battle of Britain, at 8, Roan Street. Our back yard bordered St Alfege's churchyard. The house is not there any more because it had to be pulled down after the war. We had several 'near-hits' ...Read more
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Growing Up In East Ham
I lived in park avenue, in a block of flats in the middle between market street and Langdon crescent. There were families of every age group in the 2 blocks and you couldn't have wished for a better community growing up. Everyone ...Read more
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When We Had A Shop
I was born in Little Marlow in 1947 and lived three doors away from the village shop, run by Miss Littlewood. I would go there and weigh the sultanas, currants etc., and put them into little blue bags. My Mum (Phyllis Wright) ...Read more
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Memories Of Beckhampton
My grand parents, Jack and Betty Orchard, actually managed the Waggon and Horses from the early 1950s to the 1980s having moved to Beckhampton from Bulkington near Devizes. My parents, Ken and June Vickers, also spent the ...Read more
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St. George's School, Flower Lane, Mill Hill, London, Nw7.
I too was a pupil at St. George's, probably from 1944 to certainly no later than 1950 when I was shipped off to a boarding school in Sussex where I remained until leaving at age 17 in 1956. I was ...Read more
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Salfords School
I was born in 1951 in Copsleigh Avenue (No 42). I must have started at the 'old' Salfords School in 1956. (My sister Jennifer was born in 1947 and was there too.) The photograph shows its location being just about deserted, apart from ...Read more
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Days Gone By
My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more
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Boyhood Memories From 1952
It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the streets ...Read more
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Captions
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The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall.
Built on the south side of the town in over 13 acres of park, Hollins Hill commanded a fine view of the hills.
The broad pathway on the left was the main route through the Park, leading from Scarbrough Avenue to Sea View Road, and is now the line of the present Park Avenue.
Japanese plants and shrubs were planted, and at the time it was said that Oak Hill Park had one of the finest rock gardens anywhere in the country.
Many motorists hurrying to work would find the bridge swung, and their way into Trafford Park held up, making them late for work.
Owned by the Duke of Norfolk, the 52 acres of Norfolk Park had been open to the citizens of Sheffield since 1841.
Looking down across the recreational park leads the eyeline to the scarred skyline with menacing stratus clouds building up.
Peel Park was somewhere Salfordians could go and seek refuge for a few hours from the noise, muck, and drudgery of day-to-day living.
The park had focussed around Prospect Hill House, now known as The Mansion House, which after being a problem building for years is now a pub/restaurant with marvellous views south from its hilltop
Milnshaw Park was the first public park in Accrington, and was opened by Mayor John Emmanuel Lightfoot in July 1880.
The park had only been in public hands a short time when these photographs were taken.
Street names intially included 'Reform Place 1835' to commemorate electoral changes after the Boundary Commission had reported: 'The chief trade arises from the manufacture of hemp and flax, and Allington
Moor Park was always a popular place for children, and I bet our young ladies in the picture had had a smashing time.
Moor Park was always a popular place for children, and I bet our young ladies in the picture had had a smashing time.
By that time, building work on William Leigh's plan for a grand mansion at nearby Woodchester Park had been under way for six years.
This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.
The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.
The grandeur of both St Peter's and Market Hill are shown to best advantage in the days before car parking.
On the left is the rear of the Swan Inn; a car park has replaced the buildings ahead.
The car is parked outside the Tudor Snack Bar (ahead, left of centre).
Straight ahead, W B Mew Langton & Co Ltd are receiving a delivery.
This lovely pastoral scene on the Nonsuch Park estate demonstrates that although the internal combustion engine was making rapid progress in the years following the First World War, most farming communities
Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.
Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.
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