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Memories Of Ambleside And The Lakes
We as a family first stayed at Rothay Manor in Ambleside in 1953 and it was then that I had my first experiences in fell walking, trout fishing and negotiating the nearby "Stepping Stones" across the river ...Read more
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Bracebridge
I was born at number 2 Bracebridge in 1941. From childhood memories I think it was a canal side cottage. My mother was evacuated there from Coventry to avoid the bombing for a short stay. I think I must have arrived early as I don't think ...Read more
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A Patient's View
When I was eight I was admitted to Saffron Walden General Hospital for surgery. My parents were told that I would be discharged home at the end of the week. I vividly remember the feeling of being suffocated when the pad of ...Read more
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Emigration To Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of the ...Read more
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Leave Things Alone
I lived on Frenchbarn Lane just across from St Peters church from 1960 to 1972, I was 5yrs old when I moved there. Coming from Salford docks area it was like moving into one of Enid Blytons books. A real farm just up the ...Read more
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Memories Of Bexley Technical High School For Girls.
I was at this school from about 1961- 1966 after passing the 13+ exam. I went to Hall Place first, what a wonderful place it was! I remember Miss Moore who was the headmistress, we had Mrs. Hodgson ...Read more
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Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
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Davidson Road School
Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more
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Life In Burghfield In The 1950s
The passageway led from Clayhill Road all the way through the village, and came out on the Reading Road, some 2 miles away, the passageway was used by us children daily as a short cut to school, and it went by ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1955 by
West End
I was born on a not very pleasant day in February 1954! We lived in the Dunkirk area of the West End below the factory/mill on Dunkirk Lane. We had "The Green" to play on, Warley Road, and then the "Top Park" further up when we were a little ...Read more
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Shortly after this picture was taken in 1906, cliff erosion caused a part of the building to collapse; the remainder was demolished in 1907.
The station, which lies a short distance to the left along Market Street, was used as a set during the filming of 'Brief Encounter'.
At 240ft long, she is just 10ft short of the size limit for the harbour.
Viewed shortly after its restoration, this cross with a shaft and a figure of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century - the ball on top dates from the time of Queen Anne.
The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.
Launceston was probably built shortly after the suppression of a Cornish rebellion in 1068.
The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.
970ft above sea level, Slack Top is a short distance from the cobbled streets of Heptonstall and was large enough to sustain the massive Mount Zion Baptist chapel (1878).
The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.
St Joseph's Catholic church stands in Arrowe Park Road, just a short step from the main cross-roads in the village.
This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.
The club house was rebuilt shortly before this photograph was taken.
It is hard to believe that when this pier was built, it was so far away from the town centre that the revenue it generated fell far short of what had been anticipated.
It is hard to believe that when this pier was built, it was so far away from the town centre that the revenue it generated fell far short of what had been anticipated.
Set a short distance away from the Cromer to Norwich road, Aldborough offers a spacious prospect with cottages grouped round a broad green.
The cottages were demolished shortly after this photograph was taken and have since been replaced by modern bungalows.
Today, the pub has been extended, and the A590 bypasses Haverthwaite, leaving this piece of road as a short cul-de-sac.
He died shortly after it was finished and William Rock bought it in 1888 to give to the town.
Notice the decorator up his ladder taking a short break to make sure he is in the picture.
At 621ft, it was much higher than Blackpool's, and was the tallest structure in Britain.Its life was somewhat short.
Yealmpton, always pronounced Yampton, stands on the River Yealm near to the end of its short journey from Dartmoor to the sea.
It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.
Sometimes a lot of change can take place in a very short time.
Now a United Reformed Church in weekly use, this flint church has lost its neighbouring large tree and the central bell tower and short spire.
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