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East Ham In The 1960s
In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more
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Mother's Brother And Sisters
Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch ...Read more
A memory of Andover in 1940 by
Laleham Abbey
My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more
A memory of Laleham in 1970 by
Looking Back To The Early Days
I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more
A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by
Eveswell
My father, John, was a doctor at his surgery/house, Corporation Road and I and my brother John plus mother and father were in the shelter when the mine was dropped. I remember a discussion later about loss of panel patients (Lysaghts and ...Read more
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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 lad ...Read more
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Born In Grandmother's Home In Fauldhouse
It was a bad snow storm and the doctor almost didn't get there. My mum had been in dry labor for a week, or so she told me. I was stuck in the birth canal and the doc had to pull me out with ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn in 1947 by
Perivale, 1964 1994
I was born at 194 Bilton Road in June 1964 and my name was Jackie Wall. I attended Perivale Nursery School, then the infant school and followed by the middle school. I was terrified of the headmistress Mrs Charlton, but remember ...Read more
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The Halcyon 1950's
I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more
A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by
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The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery. The River Inn has now been built there.
Further up, the tall house with a Georgian façade was the doctor's surgery for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908
His claim to fame was that one of his arms was a mass of warts from elbow to finger-tips, the only clear bit being the palm of his hand.Waterloo sold his arm to a local doctor for an advance payment
Waterloo sold his arm to a local doctor for an advance payment of half a guinea, the arm to be removed on his death.
The buildings beyond the pharmacy, a butcher's in 1965, are now a doctor's surgery.
Our photographer is standing on Doctors Bridge over the Bridgewater Canal, and High Street runs left and right from the top of the square.
Dakyn House is named after the Reverend Doctor John Dakyn, founder of the grammar school (far right) and the almshouses.
These were erected in memory of the Roughton family, who served the town as doctors continuously from 1738 until 1933. The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church.
All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.
Of interest is the tomb of local benefactor, 'Francis Douce, Doctor of Physick', who died in 1759 and was buried under a pyramid beyond the tower.
Opposite, behind the bus stop, is a local doctor's surgery.
The good doctor did say that scholars were to be allowed some afternoons off, but only so that they could attend Mass.
All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.
The village itself is on the west bank of the River Trent; from the 12th century it provided the King's Ferry to carry the doctor, the vicar and the mail across the normally placid waterway which eventually
It had been an inn until the 1840s, the Rising Sun, then a doctor's house, and finally became a café in 1896. The trees and wall on the right disappeared in widening the road in the 1950s.
It had been an inn until the 1840s, the Rising Sun, then a doctor's house, and finally became a café in 1896. The trees and wall on the right disappeared in widening the road in the 1950s.
Soon after their birth they had been moved to St Neots, first to their doctor's house, The Shrubbery, in Church Street, and later to a large house, The Gables, in New Street, where people came
He was the first doctor to specialise in 'female ailments'. He invented the sanitary towel, and advocated fresh air and hot water in the labour wards.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Newson's second daughter, fought tenaciously for the right to qualify as a doctor.
In Nelson's day the town was known simply as 'Dock' or 'Plymouth Dock', only acquiring its present name in 1824.
Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin, and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.
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