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Memories Of Swithland
My first memory of Swithland Village goes way back to the days when I was very young. The war was over and we had become accustomed to Holidays at Home instead of going to the sea-side. My parents bought a chalet in what ...Read more
A memory of Swithland in 1947 by
Days Gone By
My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more
A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by
"The Cafe"
A familiar landmark for anybody who knows Overstrand. This picture could have been taken from my old front garden down Cliff Road. When I first became interested in cricket (1964-5 ish) around the age of 9 or 10, I would be watching ...Read more
A memory of Overstrand by
Woolwich Ferry
There has been a ferry at Woolwich for many centuries but the people of Woolwich complained in the 1880s that West London had free access across the River Thames by bridges so why couldn't they have free travel? The river was too ...Read more
A memory of Woolwich by
Living In Eccles
I remember when I lived in Pembroke Avenue, as a youngest but before that we lived in Crambrooke Road, Einton, then in 1967 on St Patrick's Day we left to emigrate to Australia, I have not returned there since then but still have ...Read more
A memory of Eccles in 1967 by
Portwrinkle Beach
My parents used to take me there after school sometimes on their half day off from Menheniot C0-Op in the 1950s and early 1960s when I was a child. It was a steep climb down to the beach from the road but worth the effort. ...Read more
A memory of Portwrinkle by
Summer Trips To Martin"S
My sister Pauline and I used to come here with our mother, and sometimes father, on hot summer days, around 1948 to 1952 (age 6 to 10). We commuted three stops from Reading South in electric trains. I basically learned ...Read more
A memory of Wokingham in 1950 by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Heswall Shore
My nanny and gampi lived on Banks Road in the 1960s. Nanny (Tilly Wilson) used to shell the shrimps in her kitchen. We would pay them a visit on our way down to Heswall shore and the shrimps would be piled high in the middle of the ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1967 by
The Limes
My mother Ethel Mary Austin was born at "The Limes", which is next door to the church on 20 August 1919. Her parents were Charles & Lillian Austin. They moved to Australia. My mother died in 1979. I have been ...Read more
A memory of King's Norton in 1910
Captions
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Gatward's is still there, but John Jackson's business has gone: replaced by the Midland Bank.
There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.
Barclays Bank on the extreme right was built in the early 19th century.
Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.
Christ Church is by Sir G G Scott, of 1851, and replaces Holy Rood in the grounds of the mansion owned by the Goddard family - their history there traces back to 1560.
This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.
At the back is St John's Gardens, and in front is the open area of St George's Plateau.
Churchtown can trace its recorded history back to the Viking landings, but it is also true that the settlement will have been in existence before the outcasts from Ireland made their way ashore.
This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.
GMC executives came over from the US to get work back to normal after the war.
This monastery lies west of the church, along what is in effect a back lane; its main building, here seen from the north-east with the lane on its left, is of the 1850s and built in a suitably
Perhaps his greatest innings at the Oval was against Australia in 1926, when he made a century to help bring back the Ashes to England.
Moon Hotel purchased the neighbouring premises of Dingley's, drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned and built as we see it today, set back
In the photograph we are looking towards the quay, further back along the same road we saw in 48336.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
The Black Lion was rebuilt in c1840, but stands on the site of an earlier inn of the same name, which can be traced back to c1660.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
Today it is a restaurant, and stands to the north of the 1960s flyover across the A272, which leads back to Haywards Heath.
The oldest surviving houses date back to the 17th century.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
Perhaps his greatest innings at the Oval was against Australia in 1926, when he made a century to help bring back the Ashes to England.
A cumbersome sit-up-and-beg bicycle with panniers on the back has been left leaning against one of the stone pillars around the small front garden of the house whose windows have been thrown open to the
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