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Evacuated To Coedpoeth 1944
My older brother and two other boys were taken in by Mrs Jones in Roberts Terrace. I was seven and had my 8th birthday there. She was a wonderful lady and looked after the four of use. I remember going to find logs and ...Read more
A memory of Coedpoeth in 1944 by
Air Raids
These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we heard a ...Read more
A memory of Boston in 1940 by
My Place Of Birth
I was born in one of those prefabs halfway down on the righthand side, number twenty three in fact. My mum and dad must have thought they`d gone to heaven, moving from a blitzed east end tenemant with a shared outside toilet ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon by
Best Days Of You Life?
I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more
A memory of Billingham in 1967 by
Sweeping Staircase
I also have memories of St Nicholas, and was a pupil at the school from 1949 aged four, till 1952. Miss Garrard was the headmistress, and I seem to remember she was very kind. I had a kindergarten teacher who was absolutely ...Read more
A memory of Mickleham in 1949 by
Roots
My Grandfather William Hazell came from Pentlow and was a legend in our family. the rest of his family spelled their name Hasell and there seem to be many in Pentlow going back to the 1700s. Grandfather William found himself in Pentlow and ...Read more
A memory of Pentlow in 1890 by
School At Burslem Junior Tech
I lived in Blythe Bridge and travelled to school at the Burslem Junior Technical College in Moorland Road, Burslem over a period between 1943 to 1945. The journey by train on the old loop line was a lot of fun. I ...Read more
A memory of Burslem in 1944 by
The War Years
I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of the ...Read more
A memory of Binstead by
St Philips School
At this time (1950) I became a pupil at the above school. The playground was truly superb and it has very recently become a permanent green space for the use of the village. This ground has in it a ha-ha and we ...Read more
A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950
Ex St Roberts Catholic School Harrogate
Born in Waterloo Street, Harrogate, in early 1940s. Attended above school until left in 1956. Started work at J.S.Driver, grocers on Beulah Street, Stan Wood manager. Remember 'Syncopated Sandy,' playing ...Read more
A memory of Harrogate by
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It moved here to these new buildings on Derby Road (now called Back Lane) in 1859, having outgrown the original premises.
The route then heads east back to the Mendips to visit another celebrated tourist attraction, Wookey Hole.
Horley is now firmly back in Surrey, but for some years prior to 1974 it, along with Gatwick Airport, was within Sussex.
It is the wealth created by the years of shipping which has given Wisbech two of the most perfect Georgian streets in England - the Brinks on the banks of the River Nene.
Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.
The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.
On the right is the elegant Georgian frontage of Lloyd's Bank, complete with a fanlight over the door and a decorated gable at the roofline.
The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.
The Red Lion dated back to at least 1792, when it was called Blackwater.
Photographs taken before 1965 reveal it to have been a truly magnificent structure; documentary records indicate that it was built about 1600, though its predecessors can be tracked back as
Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.
The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames.
The projecting section of promenade shown in both photographs is known as the Donkey Stand, because it was possible to take donkey rides along the sands from here as far as South Slip and back.
Once the Settle to Carlisle railway had opened, which ran to the east of Ingleton, Victorian entrepreneurs laid out the 4-mile walk along the banks of the River Twiss towards Pecca Falls, Hollybush
Unlike Staines on the north bank, the river plays no part in Egham's townscape.
Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.
Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.
Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.
Much has gone, including the old Rose and Crown, which was replaced around 1900 by the present mock timber-framed one set back from the road: a townscape disaster.
Dating back to the 13th century, the castle is one of the most impressive ruined fortresses in Scotland; the Douglas Tower took 36 years to build, and is thought to be the work of French masons because
Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.
We are now back at the junction with Hursley Road where Bournemouth Road becomes Winchester Road.
The rest have been replaced by the modern back wall of a stone clad Co-op supermarket.
Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.
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