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Purveyor Of Sweetshops
I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the owner ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Sun, Sea & Sandhills At Gronant
I remember going on our holiday in dad's car to Nan & Grandad's holiday bungalows, driving over the railway bridge and on to what I always knew as Gronant (The Warren). The first thing we would see would be the little ...Read more
A memory of Gronant in 1966 by
Waiting For The Bus
As a small child and a grown woman with children of my own I remember waiting for the Wakefield bus after a visit to my grandparents. Some times it would be the West Riding bus, at other times it was the United one. Until his ...Read more
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Aspro Bowling Green
Surely this is Aspro's bowling green? along Bath Rd., houses must be Westgate Cres or Ivy Cres. Pals dad was gardener to Aspros. was it built beside Aspros cricket pitch?
A memory of Cippenham by
An Old Mans Memories
I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford. My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
Pollards Swimming Club
I was born in Thornton Heath in the late 1940's and learned to swim at an early age. My next-door neighbour, who was a couple of years older than me, was a member of Pollards Swimming Club and persuaded me to join as well. ...Read more
A memory of Thornton Heath by
Lennard's
Hi my name is Peter McGuire and i went to Lennard's from 1960 to 1965 My class was in upper 4A in the science lab at the back of the school. The teacher was Farrier (not sure of spelling) who left us in our year of GCE's . It may seem ...Read more
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My Story
My name is Peter Mills. I was born in 1939 and I lived in Barest Road, Nunhead. I lived through the war years, evacuation, hiding in the Anderson shelter, having to use the bungalow bath, outside toilet, coal fire, ascot water heater, ...Read more
A memory of Peckham in 1950 by
Baglan A Wartime Paradise
My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more
A memory of Baglan
Boyhood Memories Of Lymington
My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father worked ...Read more
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Until the 1960s, Winchester's pupils led a Spartan existence, bathing every day in cold water in tin baths; perhaps this helped generations of schoolboys to face the rigours of life outside and
A wonderful evocative scene of people enjoying themselves on the pond; note in particular the boat with a canopy.
From the beginning of the 19th century most resorts had bathing machines in which bathers could change while being dragged into the sea, initially by horses and later by winches.
A large crowd gathers around Edward Perkins' bathing platform on the gently sloping Margate Sands.
The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing, and the town has never looked back.
Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.
Now part of the City of Bath, this once provided access to the Bath stone quarries of the 18th-century magnate Ralph Allen.
Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.
By the 1920s, bathing costumes had become more practical than those shown in the previous illustrations, and the bathing machines had become redundant in favour of smaller kiosks and tents.
Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents.
As Clifton's reputation as a resort grew, the late Georgian terraces were built in a style that deliberately imitated Bath.
The open air baths were well populated in summer.
The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.
The bathing arrangements here are peculiar.
Bath is, architecturally speaking, one of England's greatest cities.
Wroxeter, known in Roman times as Viroconium Cornovior, became a tribal capital and the fourth largest Roman town in Britain.
Much grander is Bath Street.
In 1897 the architect John Brydon added these dignified colonnades around the baths with their balustrades and statues.
Rows of bathing huts line the beach, with bathing costumes (which could be hired) drying in the wind on lines behind them beside the newly-built promenade.
Ventnor never compared to Sandown or Shanklin as a centre for sea bathing, though bathing machines for ladies and gentlemen flourished in King Edward VII's reign.
Bathing machines were designed to be pushed into the sea, allowing bathers to change and enter the water with maximum decorum.
An elderly visitor contemplates a busy Sidmouth sea front on a summer's day in the 1950s.
Bathing machines await customers.
The Bugle Hotel c1955 Although Yarmouth never really devel- oped as a traditional seaside resort, there are stretches of sand available for bath- ing.
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