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Memories

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Feeling Homesick

You know I haven't come across anyone who did their 8 weeks' training at Vindi in the summer months, most people you talk to remember most of all the severe winters. I am no exception, I remember going down to the ship from the ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1960 by Allister Jones

Memories Of Sneinton

Betty and I were brought up in Davidson Street, Sneinton just before the Second World War. It was a small back-to-back terraced house with an outside toilet. One of my first recollections was being bathed in the small kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Sneinton in 1930 by Fred Pearson

Choir Boy/Organ Pumping

I remember being in the choir at the church during the time of my evacuation to Westbury Leigh sometime during the 1939-45 war. I also pumped the organ which was at that time quite hard work for a young lad (but I ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh in 1942 by Robin Porter

The Chequers Inn

Annette and I (Annette Schofield and George Allen) became landlords of the Chequers (no longer a pub) on 23 January 1967. It was a BYB pub and James Hubert Dibb was the landlord before us. We ran the pub for about 18 months ...Read more

A memory of Monk Fryston in 1967 by George Allen

Growing Up In Greenford In The 1960s And 1970s

Here are some random memories: Lists Bakeries on Greenford Broadway.  Lovely aroma, tasty bread. The paper bags all used to have the slogan 'Good Flavour Always Finds Favour'. The covered market ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Danny Robinson

St. Faiths

I was christened in this church in 1959. I was 13. I was a member of the church youth club that used to meet in the church hall in The Pallant every week. We played snooker, & table tennis, together with running a Sunday league ...Read more

A memory of Havant in 1959 by Alan Lerwill

Fenland Farming Around Peterborough

On reading the book 'PETERBOROUGH A Miscellany' a couple of items are incorrect by my own knowledge and experience. Page 4 : 'Dockey' was a word almost exclusive to fen farmworkers, it was the break taken ...Read more

A memory of Peterborough in 1952 by Colin Berrisford

Old School

If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1960 by Dave Coombes

History Of Netherthong

I am currently researching and writing a history of Netherthong and I have well over 200 photos and other ephemera. I have started numerous chapters relating to such subjects as schools, parish council, churches, sport, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong in 2010 by Michael Meitiner

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

Captions

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Caption For Glastonbury, Abbey, The Lady Chapel C1960

The site is greatly improved, with a gravel surface and better props around the altar site.

Caption For London, Westminster Abbey, East End Of Henry Vii Chapel 1890

It was to be the Lady Chapel, but it is better known as the burial place of the first Tudor king and his wife.

Caption For Fulbourn, High Street C1950

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

Caption For Bath, Union Street C1955

Union Street is now pedestrianised; this view shows some of the modern shop fronts installed by 1955 which replaced the much better Victorian ones.

Caption For Staithes, The Cod And Lobster Inn 1950

The Cod & Lobster has been battered by the elements over the centuries.

Caption For Daresbury, Parish Church C1955

This is because it was in this church that Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known to most of us as Lewis Carroll, was baptised in 1832.

Caption For Dudley, Elephants At Dudley Zoo C1965

They may have a few trees to look at, but as far as the amenities of their home are concerned, these elephants do not fare any better than the gorilla.

Caption For Stevenage, Hydean C1960

Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage.

Caption For Burnham On Sea, Promenade 1907

At the north end of the promenade the domestic character survives better than in the next two photographs.

Caption For Leeds, The Black Prince Statue C1955

This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.

Caption For Leeds, The Black Prince Statue C1955

This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.

Caption For Harpenden, Village Pond 1897

With a gorse-clad common, walks through fields and woods and a car factory just up the road in Luton, what better place for a dream come true?

Caption For Lowestoft, The South Pier Reading Room 1896

What with the adjacent Claremont Pier having had its decking closed, Lowestoft's piers have seen better days.

Caption For Eastleigh, Leigh Road 1951

Take a stroll through the town and you can see how the town has changed for the better in recent times.

Caption For Barry, Windsor Road 1899

It was designed and built as better housing, with accommodation for live-in household staff.

Caption For London, Match Seller, Greenwich 1884

In 1888 these girls went on strike for better pay and conditions.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street 1902

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

Caption For St Mawes, The Castle 1938

St Mawes is sited on lower ground 'the better to annoy shipping'.

Caption For Ulverston, King Street 1950

In 1890, the town was the birthplace of Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known as Stan Laurel, and a museum in Upper Brook Street, off to the right, celebrates his partnership with Oliver

Caption For Reading, Oxford Street 1913

The top storey has been rebuilt in simpler style, but it is still miles better than the dreary Broad Street Mall that swept away all the buildings on the left.

Caption For Chipping Norton, Market Street C1945

What a pity that F Sole went in for being a family butcher when the name would have better suited a fishmonger!

Caption For North Somercotes, Lakeside Lido Club Bar C1955

The demolition took place about five or six years ago, no one was quite sure when, but the one thing that was said positively was that the replacement is better!

Caption For Aldeburgh, Old Market Square 1929

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

Caption For Chilworth, Village 1906

One hundred years earlier, the church was described as 'little better than a hovel, with a belfry like a pigeon-house', though its 12th-century bells were among the oldest in Hampshire.