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Chance Finding Hotel Atlanta, Tintagel
I have discovered that this hotel, Hotel Atlanta, Tintagel, was owned by my 2nd cousin twice removed on my maternal side of the family circ. 1950's/1960's. Mr Cyril and Mrs Grace Ayles are my ancestors. I ...Read more
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A B C Minors Saturday Morning At The Ritz
Queuing up to go and see our films on a Saturday morning and singing the song about the abc minors. The words are as follows.We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the abc and every Saturday we ...Read more
A memory of Wallsend by
The Bakery
In my school days I used to go to the bakery with my school pal George. It was owned by Mr Rhodes, George's father. Helping to make all the bread-cakes-pork pies, Mr Rhodes would put a pork belly joint in the oven for our breakfast. Can ...Read more
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Growing Up In Mitcham
I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more
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Whiterigg School First Job
I remember my first job when I lived at 48 Ballochnie Drive Plains, it was at the old Whiterigg school (re-purposed as a battery hen farm in the late sixties). The farm was owned by Sam Merry and he took me on when I left ...Read more
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My Bus To School From Hatch End To Pinner Grammar School
My bus to school, Pinner Grammar, went from this stop in Uxbridge Road in the centre of the picture. It was a red London Transport double-decker route 209 that took us all the way to Cannon ...Read more
A memory of Hatch End in 1956 by
A Plumrose Representative Who Called At Whitehaven Buying Group
In the 1960's I used to call on members of Whithaven Buying Group and Take transfer orders for Plumrose Ltd Products. They were famous for their Chopped ham and pork , luncheon ...Read more
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Those Were The Days!
I was born in a house on the Eastern Avenue between Cantly gardens and Denham Drive in 1955. I moved to wales to go to uni in 1975. I worked as a Saturday girl in Barton’s the bakers in Gants Hill for a ridiculously low wage. ...Read more
A memory of Gants Hill by
Fond Holiday Memories
In the summer of 1963 my Dad took my sister (11), brother (4) and me (6) to stay with my Auntie Marie. She lived in the house adjoining the pub. I think it had a name like Penryn and appeared on the front cover of Country ...Read more
A memory of High Easter in 1963 by
The Local
I would like to visit Staindrop again sometime to see how much it has changed since 1943. I was serving with the R.Es and we were in a tented camp on the outskirts of the town and doing Army Exercises out on the Moors and using live ...Read more
A memory of Staindrop in 1943 by
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The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.
On the right is the Ordnance Arms, better known to today's tourists as the ivy-covered Hathersage Inn.
Neddy's perennial face appears everywhere, surely nowhere better represented than at Skegness'.
By the beginning of the 20th century, Lulworth was already a popular residential area for the better-off, who may have originally fallen in love with the village on a holiday visit.
The grassy bank upon which some of the spectators are reclining helps to give a better view of the game.
The smaller harbours support their yacht clubs as well, and are often better places for the beginner to learn to sail.
A large chain and stout lock are today's essentials - or, better still, remove the front wheel before leaving.
One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!
The Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth illustrates better than anywhere the fabulous art collection which successive Dukes of Devonshire have acquired over the years.
Perhaps the weather was better in the Fifties!
The thatch covering the rubble cottages on the right has seen better days.
A small resort, and former home to a large inshore fishing fleet, Newbiggin, even in 1955, had seen better days.
In the background is an open-top tram - what better way to enjoy the sea air?
Two years afterwards it was renamed Widnes Football Club and is now better known as Widnes Rugby League Football Club or, to the locals, as 'the Vikings'.
The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.
Cheap and tatty eating houses dominated Aquarium Parade to such an extent that it was known better as Ham and Eggs Parade.
One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!
Once a thriving port and Westmorland's only link to the sea, Arnside eventually lost its trade to better placed harbours.
Leintwardine straddles an ancient Roman settlement, Bravinium, along Watling Street, (not to be confused with the better known Watling Street that leads from London to Wroxeter).
Few can pass over the hump-backed bridge without pausing to get a better view.
It was built from the more resistant lower chalk or clunch stone, which is better known for its contribution to the cement industry.
Fowey's most famous son, the writer Quiller Couch, relished the bustle and colour of Fowey's August regatta, claiming there could be no better place to enjoy the bracing sea air.
The District Council insisted that a better type of landing stage be used for embarking and disembarking passengers.
What better on a summer's day than to unpack a picnic, set up the deckchairs, be attacked by wasps and eaten by insects!
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