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Born On The Graig
"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more
A memory of Graig in 1940 by
Old Denaby
I was born on Doncaster Road, Denaby Main. I remember my granny taking me to Cyril Scott's farm for a bale of straw for the hens in the push chair, he always had a big horse in the stable, and there were 3 old railway carriages down ...Read more
A memory of Old Denaby in 1948
4 Years At The Castle School Stanhope
In 1945 I was placed in South Hetton Remand Home at the age of 10 by Sunderland Magistrates Court.(I had a difficult homelife with a very physically abusive stepfather, otherwise I would have been fined 5 ...Read more
A memory of Stanhope in 1946
My Childhood 1942 1963
My family owned the Victorian pile that incorporated the chemist opposite the Iron Duke. I was born in 1942 at the house (if it's still there) that was built as a wedding present for my parents at the top of the property and ...Read more
A memory of Crowthorne by
The Old Ride
I was a day boy between 1966 and 1970. I was always in trouble and spent most of my meals on the punishment table. The ruling was tyranical, you had to eat everything on your plate and couldn't leave the table until you had done ...Read more
A memory of Bradford-On-Avon in 1968 by
Powis Place
It used to be all fields around Dawley Bank before thay started building houses and Telford town centre. When we were kids, we could play out all over the place without any threat to us, we could build camps in the woods and Tarzan ...Read more
A memory of Dawley Bank in 1970 by
A Childhood At Ardfenaig
Well, a little more than a childhood as I emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 24. I consider my upbringing at Ardfenaig to have been be the most fantastic thing that could have been. Sadly whilst it was in progress one ...Read more
A memory of Ardfenaig in 1956 by
Chelmsford, The Wesleyan Church 1898
This building I remember all too well. I had started working for a firm of demolition contractors, and they had the contract to pull it down. I was not very experienced but you soon picked things up as you went ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsford by
My Childhood Memories Of Life In Hooley
Our family lived in The Fruit Shop (the shop currently sells doors) between 1958-’64. Mum and Dad served customers with the support of Mrs Garner,a rotund jolly lady who lived in Star Lane. Dad could often be ...Read more
A memory of Hooley in 1958 by
Heather And Gorse Clog Morris Entertain At The Teign House Inn Christow
It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, everyone was in a party mood. We took a party of dancers and musicians to the ...Read more
A memory of Christow in 2011 by
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The chancel screen and pulpit are made of wrought iron.
The minor road off the B1249 rises with dwellings on either side, peaks and falls again to an old wooden bridge with rusted iron railings that crosses brackish water which eventually falls into
The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.
Today, this is Park Lane, almost unchanged except for the inevitable loss of those decorative iron railings.
The magnificent cast-iron pillars held up the glass roof, giving welcome natural light to the interior of the busy Borough Market.
It was once an iron-ore warehouse from which the ore was loaded onto canal boats and shipped on to local ironworks. There is still some evidence of this traffic in the form of tramlines.
During one year there would be other changes; a zebra crossing was later removed, and the older lamp posts with wrought iron branches would be discarded in favour of tall concrete poles.
generously featured buildings established during the first half of the 20th century, lend an air of long-term solidity that was subsequently supported by the discovery of evidence of both Iron
Pevsner says of Great Budworth that it is 'one of the best pieces of villagescape in the county. Yet there is hardly a house that would need a close look'.
The grand scale and decorated gables of the Institute are a visible reminder of a wealthier town; here the iron-works acted as a magnet which drew workers in high numbers.
This stone arch was built in 1869 to carry raw materials to the iron furnaces. A pedestrian tunnel was added beside the main arch owing to the increase in traffic.
The Guests, who made their fortune in the South Wales iron industry during the industrial revolution, sold Canford Manor in 1923, when it became a public school.
This is the main road through what was once the home of the Welsh iron industry.
On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings
It is Iron Age in origin, and the Romans and the Saxons who used the ancient trackways nearby added to this dramatic earthwork.
The narrow-gauge Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - affectionately known as 'Lil' Ratty' - opened in 1875, to link iron mines in Eskdale to the main line at Ravenglass.
A grand south entrance was provided via these ornate wrought-iron gates crowned by the royal cypher and the jubilee date, 6 May 1935.
Our Iron Age ancestors appreciated the importance of the site and built a hill fort on the top, but it was abandoned when the Romans conquered the region.
This photograph shows the skyline from the profile of Bell Stone (left, top) along to the ramparts of the Iron Age hill-fort on Eggardon Hill (right, top).
Open-air services started in 1880, moving to the temporary 'Iron Church' (known as 'Trotman's Tin Tabernacle' after the officiating minister) in 1881 and eventually to this permanent church, built
Formerly an Iron Age circular rampart and the site of a Romano-British temple, Chanctonbury Ring rises to 783 feet.
Blackboys is a small iron industry village. Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.
The bridge is the Thetford Town Bridge, a cast-iron structure that dates from 1829.
Iron Age dwellers built a fortification on Berry Head, and Celtic inhabitants would have collected salt and fish where the harbour now stands.
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