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Memories
As a boy i would wander through fields and in water, go fishing, make swings was happy with things: Would roam with the dog slip on Algae green log, smell rain on the grass polish Grans brass: Climb dykes, collect conkers leap ...Read more
A memory of Blairgowrie in 1974 by
The Rec
The "Rec" was the place to be in the 1970's when you lived on the Cedar Rd Estate. We lived just round the corner on Elmdale Rd and had a garden which backed on the Rec. This was a good short cut into the Rec. Lived there as a young ...Read more
A memory of Earl Shilton by
Childhood Freedom
My brother and I spent very important years in Theydon Bois. We were only there for 5 years but they were probably the most formative. It was a very simple village. There was the school, far too small for the many children ...Read more
A memory of Theydon Bois in 1953 by
Memory Lane
I was at Brownrigg from 1963 to 1966, I was in Pennine dorm, Lorna Herron. I remember Bent Toe, he had to be put down at the school, a girl called Diane was really upset about that. I remember gathering bracken on the fells for the ...Read more
A memory of Bellingham in 1965 by
My Childhood Garden Part I
My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more
A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by
My Grandad Humphreys Thomas John1875 1965
Grandad Humphreys, he was a carpenter making and restoring the Lockgates on the Montgomery Canal. Born in Welshpool 1875-1965. I remember the little trains running across Church Street as a boy of 8 ...Read more
A memory of Welshpool in 1954 by
2nd World War Years 1942 46
I lived Bents Green from about 1934 till 1963 apart from about 8 years, which were taken up by 6 years in the Merchant Navy, 2 National Service. I went to Ecclesall Church School for my school days, a Reverend Turner ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield by
Childhood Memory
I recall moving house from the Spike, Blaydon, to a newly built house in Linden Road, Blaydon. The steps leading down from the gateway where not quite finished so my Dad had laid wooden planks down so my mum could get down to the ...Read more
A memory of Blaydon in 1955 by
An Idyllic Childhood In New Haw
I wanted to add my own memories of growing up in New Haw from 1965 until moving again in 1973. The family moved from Richmond (then in Middlesex) to 187 New Haw Road, a detached 3-bedroom house with 1/3 acre of ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1966 by
Dancing Classes At The Alhambra Palace
I used to go to Bob Dale's ballroom dancing classes. That would have been around 1956-1959 when I was 13-15 years old. I loved it there and, of course, fell in love with him! If was thrilled in later years when ...Read more
A memory of Droylsden
Captions
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The name 'Bentley' means 'woodland clearing where bents grow.' Bentley became the subject of a radio and television documentary series during the 1990s, focusing on life in a typical English village.
This shows the view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.
The view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.
The well had the reputation of curing barrenness in women, and offerings of bent pins were sometimes left there.
Facing Undercliff Road are (from left to right) the 1930s Trent's Café; the Town Hall of 1892; the Empire Café; Bent Hill; and the Felix Hotel of 1903, with the Spa Pavilion of 1909 below.
The north winds have taken their toll and bent the lamp-posts which illuminate this slope during the evening.
With her stockings cut away at the ankles, she paddles barefoot in the freezing water, bent double for hours on end.
With her stockings cut away at the ankles, she paddles barefoot in the freezing water, bent double for hours on end.
In 1964 this beautiful and historic bridge, built in 1617, finally bent to the increase of traffic and was demolished and replaced with a modern concrete structure.
Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, is this large factory which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.
Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, stands this large factory, which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.
The Admiralty stipulated that it must be at least 100 feet above the water to allow the passage of ships.
Main Road c1955 Once the market town for Northumberland's principal lead-mining area, Allendale Town also lays claim to be at the geographical centre of the UK.
The YHA sign on the right points to the youth hostel that used to be at the end of Eastfield Road.
The duffle-coats and beat- niks, the anti-war protests and folk clubs that started then are just a year or so away, and now only a memory.
With the amount of coal traffic in the past there would be at least two tracks running up to Treherbert, whilst the actual population of the villages would not justify even a single track railway today
Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.
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