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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
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Tommy Porthcawl On The Seashore.
Tommy was the ventrioquist's dummy and the morning's show was not to be missed when on family holiday from Penarth in early August 1936. I would be eight in the October of that year. As far as I recollect there was no ...Read more
A memory of Porthcawl by
Andrew Duncan Home For Boys
At the age of 13 I suffered a nervous breakdown due to problems at home. It was decided by my doctor to send me away from home to give me a break. My mother took me to a mainline station in London where I was handed over ...Read more
A memory of Shiplake by
1960/1
As a family we lived at Hendall Manor Farm in 1960/61 and at the age of four and a half years went to Herons ghyll school as it was the nearest one to home.Because I was not a Catholic every morning when the entire class attended Mass I was ...Read more
A memory of Heron's Ghyll
When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by
Childhood In Withyham
We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school which ...Read more
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The Beatty And Us
Like alot of young Kiwis, my wife and I started our OE (Overseas experience) in 1986, and in January 1987 found ourselves in Motspur Park as a result of applying and getting bar jobs at the Earl Beatty pub. Graeme and Marie were ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park in 1987 by
Ice Skating On The Port
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by
Phil Munton
Hi - I have just discovered this site and was interested by memories of Selsdon - particularly from Jaqueline Cook remembering Littleheath Woods! I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in Ingham Road -the other side of the ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon by
Oxton Memories
I lived in Oxton from the late 50s to the early 80s, and have many fond memories. Does any body remember Fred the barber in Rose Mount. He was quite a character, and nobody went there unless they wanted a short back and sides, ...Read more
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Top-hatted gentlemen and crinoline-clad ladies promenade along the specially constructed corridor inside the Pavilion, shortly after its opening in 1871.
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened.
Apart from visitors staying in the villages, these beaches attract others from Ventnor, a short stroll away.
General View 1890 New Shoreham was a prosperous medieval port with a superb parish church, St Mary de Haura, whose great central tower can be seen in this view.
Few people think of Tarleton as a port, but in the 15th century ships from here sailed to small ports along the Lancashire coast and even to Europe.
Although not identified by the Frith photographer, this scene appears to be taken near Danebridge, a short way upstream from the weir and canal feeder.
Popular with all Bedfordians, the suspension bridge prevents a short stroll becoming a very long one.
Roads around Bristol were turnpiked from the 1720s, though many were short stretches and often only seven feet wide.
This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.
They were converted into an hotel, as seen in this view, but shortly afterwards the building was reconverted back to twenty-nine flats.
The short flights enabled drivers to be on the roads of France or Belgium much more quickly than if they used the ferries.
The little hamlet of Calenick lies a short distance south of Truro, in a valley bottom on the old road to Falmouth.
Within a short walk of the Market Square are two interesting museums.
The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.
A chain ferry transports cars and passengers over the short crossing across the mouth of Poole Harbour.
The Cinque Ports Arms is a reflection of the fact that Margate was a member of the Cinque Ports attached to Dover.
The valleys' canal systems developed throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and led to the development of Newport as a port.
These vehicles were extremely popular for short distance excursion work, and were also used to operate scheduled services between towns and outlying villages, especially on market days.
It opened as a public park in 1901; our picture was taken shortly after the bandstand had been completed.
The west towers shortly after they had been completed.
Notice how Mr Short, the chemist on the left, had diversified into photography - a favourite hobby at the time.
A short way downstream from this vantage point, the photographer would have crossed Conksbury Bridge, a suitable sturdy name to match the timeless charm of this scene.
Designed by William Bell for the North Eastern Railway, this station opened in July 1887, replacing one a short distance to the east.
Orford was a prosperous medieval port which declined as the shingle spit of Orford Ness grew, which gradually cut it off from the sea.
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