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The Former Post Office (Later Rivers Dale House) The Street, Eversley, 1970's
As I have outlined on this site before, I lived in The Street, Eversley from 1971 - 83. The house in which we lived, built in 1952 by a Mr & Mrs Leversuch, no longer exists ...Read more
A memory of Eversley by
Swimming Across The River Severn
I remember at the age of twelve 1957 swimming across the river from Hylton road over to the racecourse to watch the racing on a Saturday afternoon. Five of us used to swim out to the pleasure steamers as they went up ...Read more
A memory of Worcester by
Marsala Road Ladywell The Prefabs
I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied ...Read more
A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by
Growing Up In Wonderland
In the mid and late forties I attended Kingsmuir Boarding School in what is known today as Alderford Grange. It was owned and mastered by Ms Francis. We were told that the building had once been the Inn attached ...Read more
A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1945 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
The N.H.S. Early Years To Retirement
The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1960 by
New Haven Bridge
I saw the first wooden pile hammered into the river bed, and watched it day by day until it was completed. Steel piles was driven into the river bed for the concrete structures, when they got well below the river bed it was that ...Read more
A memory of Boston by
Miss Bee
Santa Lucia Hotel was owned and run by Marion Olive Barkway, better known as Miss Bee. Marion was my grandmother and we used to visit every Sunday afternoon to help out with evening meals. When I was small I remember standing on ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe St Andrew in 1984 by
Newington Terrace
When I was young in the 1950s I would spend some weeks of my summer vacation at my grandparents' house at 11 Newington Terrace, Elizabeth and Albert Torr. I remember swimming in the river, we would go to the weir and remove ...Read more
A memory of Craven Arms by
Loved Going To The River
My grandmother had a shop in Newport Pagnall and my mother was born there, she is now 90 years old. We have fond memories of Lathbury where we used to have our summer holidays there, playing and swimming and fishing in the river. A great site, thank-you. Kind regards, Viv
A memory of Newport Pagnell in 1959 by
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At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.
At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.
By the river, a road leads off Walton Lane under the bridge towards Walton Marina.
Work began on the New River with funding from Hugh Myddleton in 1610, and despite a number of delays through objections by local landowners, the project was completed within a few years.
From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river. A
More than forty people were employed here collecting rags, which were sorted by women and children, washed in the river and laid out to dry in Laundry Meadow opposite the mill to the right of the photograph
Campaigns to clean up the riverside are enthusiastically supported and volunteer conservationists meet regularly intervals to clean up the riverbed at low tide and remove litter and unsightly vegetation
Campaigns to clean up the riverside are enthusiastically supported and volunteer conservationists meet regularly intervals to clean up the riverbed at low tide and remove litter and unsightly vegetation
in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.
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