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My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My ...Read more
A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1952 by
Mitcham
I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Norbury
Bordon Infant School Station Road Now The Phoenix Centre
Teachers. - Mrs Boyle, Mrs Clover, Mrs Parrott. Head teacher - Mrs Bingham - she had the library books, stamp and cards in her office upstairs. Playground surrounded the building and ...Read more
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The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
A Somerton Childhood
I have always lived in Somerton. As a child I lived in New Street in and as an adult I now live at the other end of Somerton. I have fond childhood memories of attending Mrs Potts' playgroup, the Infant school in Etsome Terrace ...Read more
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Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do ...Read more
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Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow
Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more
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Two Year Student At Cheshire County Training College Crewe
It was an all-ladies' college when I attended. Many friendships were made. Memories of teaching practices at schools in Crew and surrounds. First year students had to go out in "digs" and were ...Read more
A memory of Crewe
Early Memories Of Southwick
I was born in Steyning in 1954. My father was a police constable and at only 2/3 months old we moved to the 'police station' in Whiterock Place in Southwick. The station consisted of 2 large semidetached houses with large ...Read more
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Featured Buildings.
The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book. The name Ruswarp may have originated from the ...Read more
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This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds.
The Hockley brook was a haven for the local children, as there was no swimming pool in Uttoxeter.
This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds.
The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall. It pumped water from a spring in Hall Meadows.
The Town Hall and the First World War memorial are important focal points. A weighbridge plate can be seen between the two.
Little has changed in this view of the brook running through the estate village. On the left, the old bakery is now augmented by a tea room.
A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.
The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the
A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.
Of Hardhorn, Newton, and Staining, only the last name is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall. By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street.
The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.
The earliest parts of the castle are the hall and a small tower, both dating from the 12th century.
The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.
Mayer Hall commemorates the life and works of Joseph Mayer, the 19th-century antiquary and book collector who made his home in Bebington.
The Town Hall was built in 1701 by Thomas Guy, the local MP. The building is noted for its high-pitched roof, Jacobean windows and cupola.
The Pitched Stone Court at Raglan took its name from the pitching or cobbling of its surface.
A fire in 1871 destroyed the west wing with all its valuable pictures, books, and furnishings.
The Pitched Stone Court at Raglan took its name from the pitching or cobbling of its surface.
Many civic treasures are held within, including the Red Book of Lynn, in which are recorded the municipal records from 1204 to 1392. The matching town hall was built in 1895.
The village is listed in the Domesday Book as Bodeton. The great age of the market cross, with its uneven steps and remains of the punishment stocks, is apparent.
He gave the title of the book to his house, Shandy Hall, on the western edge of the village. Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.
Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, book- seller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison.
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