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Memories
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Abc Lyric Cinema
I was the Chief Projectionist at the Lyric from approx 1957 until 1963 when I was appointed as Co Chief/Lighting Engineer at the new ABC Blackpool. The Manager at the Lyric was Mr Ron Crabb and when he moved to another ABC ...Read more
A memory of Wellingborough in 1957 by
Everetts Corner
I couldn't believe my eyes when I was just punching in Haymill Secondary School and pictures of Cippenham popped up! I lived just around the corner from Everetts corner on Washington Drive. It seemed like every day when I was ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham in 1960 by
Bettws Memories
I was born and lived in Betws until I was nine. I remember attending the Chapel behind the Oddfellows pub and enjoying the Christmas parties we had held in the hall next door. Mrs Perry's shop was always a ritual every day ...Read more
A memory of Bettws in 1976 by
Happy Times In Maldon
My family and I moved from London in 1955 to Maldon, following a visit the year before with our Sunday School outing, and we moved near to the Prom. We had such happy times living there and as children my friends and I used to ...Read more
A memory of Maldon in 1955 by
Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop
I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more
A memory of Ryton in 1957
Re Story Of Tales From My Father
I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bassett by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
A memory of Lymington in 1944 by
Coastguard Station
We came to Bolt Head in 1950, my father having joined the Coastguard service after being in the Royal Navy for 40 years. I found it quite a way to cycle to work, I worked in the post office in Malborough. I used to go rabbiting ...Read more
A memory of Bolt Head in 1950 by
Bryn Gearge
I well remember Bryn Gearge ,when we were younger he lived across the back lane from our house. He raced pigeons and often we had to go and look for my father at dinner time as he would be talking to Bryn about pigeon racing.
A memory of Caerau in 1966 by
A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Captions
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The Opera House complex behind the war memorial incorporates Barclays Bank.
Beyond the bridge is Back Hill Steps.
On the left are the backs of buildings that front the High Street, while the yews and hollies in this view survive today.
Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.
Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.
Lloyds Bank used to operate from the house on the extreme right.
Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
Better still, a search among the novelty shops would find just the right gift to take back.
The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.
The plank serving as a gangway to the vessel from the bank had, until comparatively recent legislation, been the cause of many an accident as crew returned to their various ships after
Along the opposite bank, next to the present day garden centre, is the start of the 73 mile-long Dales Way to Bowness in the Lake District.
Its charters date back to the 1100s, although St Machar is said to have founded a church here in AD 580.
The green island has gone, and the terrace of three cottages on the left was rebuilt in the 1960s as a Nat West Bank.
The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.
The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting
This was removed from the church in 1547, but soon put back in place.
The church had been covered in a thick growth of ivy, but by the time of this photograph, it had been cut back to reveal the true beauty of the structure.
In the days of steam, at least one extra banking engine (often more) was required to push each train up the Lickey.
In the last forty or so years, very little has changed in the High Street, although the recently built premises of the Midland Bank (right) has now become a private house.
The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.
Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.
R L Kisby and the Trustee Savings Bank (right) have gone, and Mills the newsagents have taken their place.
The inn was renamed the Sergison Arms in 1845, but it reverted back to the Dolphin during the 1990s when the premises were remodelled and upgraded to modern standards.
His remains were brought back in an earthenware pot decorated with Russian script and buried in the family plot at West Meon.
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