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Traffic Lights At The Top Of The High Street
I lived in nearby Shirley and in the late 1950s I used to cycle through West Wickham to a fish and chip shop in Glebe Way on a Saturday evening for the family supper. I was in my teens at the time ...Read more
A memory of West Wickham by
Raglan Street
I was born 1943 and lived with my mother and sister, Joan, in Raglan St., Lower Broughton. My mother was Barbara Joels who had lost her husband (our dad) in Casino, during the war. I remember attending St, Andrews Mixed Infants ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1940 by
Memories Of Dan Y Parc
Many of the things that happened at D Y P were taken as normal. During the winter we ran around in the snow without shoes on, and why? because we did not have a second pair of shoes. The only pair we had were school ...Read more
A memory of Dan y Parc in 1953 by
Middle Ainton Part 5
Nearly every house had an outside brick coal shed, as this was the only method of heating and cooking. Most houses had a short set of about 2-3 steps in the middle due to the slope of the land they were built on, ...Read more
A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by
Park Court ~ Balham Park Road
My Aunt & Uncle (Ella & Cecil Forbes) lived in a two bedroom flat in Park Court in Balham Park Road from 1948 & throughout the 1950s and I spent much time staying with them as my parents ran pubs in The City. ...Read more
A memory of Balham in 1955
The Rose And Crown
Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more
A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by
My Memoirs 1964 1966 Part One
Wayne Carter My father is Frederick Carter born in London, and mother was Loraine Carter nee Chadwick was born Cyfarthfa Street Roath; mum sadly passed away in 1998. I have a younger sister Jane Carter nee ...Read more
A memory of St Mellons in 1964 by
Recollections Of Letchworth Swimming Pool, From Mid 60's
As I look at this picture of the Letchworth swimming pool and notice the date is c1950… it would be only a few years later (mid 60’s) that my friends and I would cycle there ...Read more
A memory of Letchworth Garden City in 1964 by
Albert Road
I lived at 68 Albert Road from about 1953 until they knocked the street down and we all moved up to the flats at the top of the road. It was a great place to be a kid, we still had the bomb site at the back of the gardens in between ...Read more
A memory of Kilburn
Whittlebury School
The Old Boys, hope there are plenty still around. Got dumped off at the main entrance during 1956, Trunk and Tuck Box which immediately was commandeered or used as a bribe to get a decent bed. I remember being shut out on ...Read more
A memory of Whittlebury in 1957 by
Captions
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We see here the south porch, south aisle and east wall of the chancel in granite blocks. On the far side there is a north transept. St Brevita's church was restored in 1878-91.
This building, the School Science Block, however, is on the Glapthorn Road beyond New Street and dates from 1914. It is a distinguished Jacobean styled structure complete with an onion domed cupola.
John Hicks made flat-roofed porches here on which sat marble blocks and urns containing ferns. The present owners, Canford School, have recently restored the porches.
The blocks are evenly spaced and are each about four feet high. It is an exact circle, but it appears to have no astronomical significance. The nearby circle of Boscawen-un also has nineteen stones.
The central block includes the old assembly hall.
Some of the buildings were finished before the start of the Second World War, but the new central block was not completed until 1951.
The prison was for its day a state-of-the-art secure establishment, with wings radiating out from a central block.
The tall block beyond has an industrial appearance, but in fact it consists of five cottages.
Recent road schemes have meant that the mill-workers' cottages on the right have been demolished to make way for a new roundabout, with a modern block of flats instead.
Some of the buildings were finished before the start of the Second World War, but the new central block was not completed until 1951.
By now, The Red Lion (C69062) is replaced by the new block displaying the Betabake fascia beside the Salad Bowl fruit shop, with the Louis Francke ladies' hairdressing salon on the first floor, while
A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.
The plan was for a covered retail area embracing 80 shops topped off with an unsightly five-storey office block.
Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey
The characteristic square block of the fish cellars just above the two gigs in the picture betrays Gorran Haven's past as a fishing village.
Immediately to the right of the inlet is the Bedford Rowing Club's clubhouse; further right, by the bridge, the Moat House 1960s tower block is mercifully out of shot.
The south aisle has been added, built with granite blocks, as seen at Boscastle's St Juliot church.
The pier buildings are a shadow of their 1920s glory, with turrets gone, windows blocked and the tallest part demolished.
It was demolished in 1939, and an office block now stands on the site.
To the right the tower of Wren's St Magnus the Martyr, and The Monument, erected where the Great Fire of 1666 started, are glimpsed between later office blocks.
An ecclesiastical echo of Cardiff's past is also situated on this busy block - St Mary's Vestry Hall, some 50 years after the church's `relocation`.
He demonstrated the effectiveness of his product by jumping barefoot on a wooden block studded with nails.
Several coastal churches, including the one at Orford, have been reduced in size by blocking off the eastern end.
Their rebellion ended in disaster, and Sir Thomas Wyatt of Allington went to the block.
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