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Cooling Castle Farm
To the right of the photograph is a driveway into the interior of the original castle that was the entrance to Castle Farm operated by F.Elms & Sons and in particular my uncle Harry Elms. He bought the Farm in about 1930 ...Read more
A memory of Cooling in 1955 by
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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Bridgewater Canal
My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1971 by
1861 Servant To Dr Walter Of Chandos Place Broadstairs, Where Charles Dickens Had Lived
My ancestor's sister Mrs Jane Heather nee Mummery, was a widowed servant aged 29 when in 1861 she worked for this Surgeon and GP with his wife Jane and 4 children who lived in Chandos Place ...Read more
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Boreham Airfield, Visits.
Where I was born, Wife of next door neighbour, had a Sister. She used to visit, now and again. Gradually, as time went by, my Father, and her Husband became friendly. After a while, We got invitation, to go and visit ...Read more
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Miss Wills Teacher At Earls Barton Primary School Poss 1965
Attending Primary School in Earls Barton I remember a teacher called Miss Wills very well. She drew shy pupils out of their shells and plonked them on the stage. The performance ...Read more
A memory of Earls Barton in 1965
Old School
Gad's Hill Place was my school when I was 7-9 years old, from about 1950-1953. About 4 or 5 girls of similar ages lived on Thames Sailing Barges at Hoo and went to school together, sometimes by car, but usualy by bus. I don't ...Read more
A memory of Rochester in 1951
Remembering
Hi I was born in Threshfield in 1954. My growing up years were done in Grassington. My Auntie Mary had the Black Horse back then and the chipshop was next door. I went to school in Grassington also and my best friend was Judith Easterby. If anyone knows me please contact me. Yvonne Booth (Dicken)
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Kings Builders
I started school in Smallfield in 1934. In those days there were bucket lavatories. The sewer was laid in 1938 and then most of Smallfield was able to do away with the buckets. There were 3 teachers, Miss Kempshall who came from ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield in 1945 by
Big Toe Stuck In The Drain...Lol
I remember this paddling pool so well, when I was about 8 years old I would be there with my nana {in fact in looks like me in the pic}. She would sit on the bench in the pic and eat her rich tea biscuits. I begged ...Read more
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Reed-thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained Fenland left.
Thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained fenland left.
The last remaining windpump in Cambridgeshire was taken from nearby Adventurer's Fen and resited at Wicken Fen in 1956.
We are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.
Between Soham and Wicken once lay a large expanse of water called Soham Mere. It suffered from gradual encroachment by farmers over the centuries, and finally succumbed in the drainage of 1664.
The thatched roofs are of reed harvested from Wicken Fen in the winter months.
Nearby is Wicken Fen, a major wetland conservation area covering 330 acres owned by the National Trust.
Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.
Between Soham and Wicken once lay a large expanse of water called Soham Mere. It suffered from gradual encroachment by farmers over the centuries, and finally succumbed in the drainage of 1664.
The ruins are seen from the village, above the Wicken Stream and Oliver Vye's Lane (bottom left).
On the left is the Albion Hotel, where Charles Dickens stayed before he bought the property overlooking the bay on the right of the photograph.
Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.
Immensely popular in the eighteenth century, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens knew and loved the town. They would both recognize it today. Dickens used the town as the birthplace of Nicholas Nickleby.
The town holds an annual Dickens festival when people dress up in Victorian costumes and listen to readings from Dickens's books.
Sixty years after featuring in Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, the inn had become The Old Pickwick Leather Bottle.
Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.
Charles Dickens once lived here, and today there is an annual Dickens festival. It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.
Charles Dickens once lived here, and today there is an annual Dickens festival. It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.
Dotheboys Hall was where William Shaw ran his notorious Bowes Academy, upon which Charles Dickens based Dotheboys Hall in his novel 'Nicholas Nickleby'.
This last name was a legacy of Charles Dickens, who made the 18th-century weatherboarded house over the gate the home of church organist John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.
It was here that Charles Dickens wrote and set some of 'The Pickwick Papers', and where the 'clean and commodious ale-house' to which Mr Tuppence retried from the world could be found.
It was built in about 1570, and is said to be both London's oldest shop and the inspiration for Charles Dickens's home of Little Nell.
It was built in about 1570, and is said to be both London's oldest shop and the inspiration for Charles Dickens's home of Little Nell.
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