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Coopers And Booths
My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This is ...Read more
A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1890 by
The Capitol Cinema
I used to look forward to the weekend so I could pay my 'tanner' and go to the Saturday morning pictures at the Capitol (now Marks & Spencer I believe). I was born and raised in Barking, Sutton Road (off Movers Lane). Went to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1956 by
Lost Opportunity?
I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home for ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
My Childhood At Longmoor Camp
I lived in longmoor 1954 to 1965. My name was Carol Hoare, my brother Stephen and my sister Angela. We lived at 11 Baden Powell for the first 5 years, Angela was born there. Then 4, Union Rise. I went to Longmoor ...Read more
A memory of Longmoor Camp by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
Happy Weekends
For some time back in the late '70's/early '80's I used to ride my motorbike from Worcester to visit my then girlfriend, Judith, at Sawtry. She had a post as a teacher at the nearby school. Used to love the ride on a sunny, summer Friday ...Read more
A memory of Sawtry by
Railway Info.
The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more
A memory of Barnstaple in 1870
Bits I Recall
Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more
A memory of Winchmore Hill by
Chainhurst In The Early 1960's
We moved from London to Chainhurst in 1961 into a small cottage two doors away from the Royal Oak Public House. I remember they let us use an upstairs room once a week so we could play records and I suppose keep us off ...Read more
A memory of Chainhurst by
The Old Co Op.
I was born in Market Street in 1939. Later, because of the war, my mum left me in Millom for my grandad and grandma Kirby to look after me. Mum went back to be with my dad in heavily bombed Manchester. I spent the war years here and they ...Read more
A memory of Millom in 1940 by
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Away from the broad, along the staithe, the moored boats can bob gently in the calmer water.
This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street.
The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage.
Much of this prosperous market town north of the Broads was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.
Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.
Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.
By 1965 most of the boats on the Broads were motorised.
The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage.
Coltishall is the gateway to the Broads, set on a low hill above the winding Bure.
Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.
The Broads The 'Silver Swallow'
On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place and an important centre for building the famous Norfolk wherry.
Holidays on the Broads were already big business when this photograph of cruisers was taken of the moorings near Acle.
Trees shade the broad square.
Here we see the broad sweep of the sandy bay to the west of the harbour area on a quiet day.
Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.
The classic Broads marshland scene with an open-trestle windpump.
A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.
Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.
On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.
North of Leyburn is the manorial village of Bellerby.
Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
It is the word used for all mooring places on the Broads, whether along the river or up an inlet.
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