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My Years Growing Up In Clovelly
My name is Sam Burrow I was born in Hartland in 1936 - the family moved to Clovelly in 1939 and lived in Home Lodge. My father, J A Burrow, was the estate foreman. My mother, Florrie, was the school cook throughout ...Read more
A memory of Clovelly in 1949 by
Memories Of Fetterangus
I was born in "Fishie" in 1947, my first teacher was Mrs. Adams and the head was Mr. Duncan. I lived there until 1967 at which point I emigrated to Canada with my good friend Ronald Brown who's family also lived in ...Read more
A memory of Fetterangus in 1967 by
Happy Childhood 1950 Onwards
I lived in Hillbrow Cottages on the Eastbourne Road from 1950 to 1970s. My father, George Mison, worked in the sand quarry in Bletchingley and mum, Elsie, was a housewife. There are only 12 cottages at Hillbrow and ...Read more
A memory of Godstone in 1950 by
Benskins Brewery
I lived in Bushey and then in Oxhey Village for all of my childhood, first in Aldenham Road, and then in Oxhey Avenue, and later in Villiers Road. In the early 70's I was living in Oxhey Avenue and my friend Annette lived in ...Read more
A memory of Watford in 1974 by
Skerries View House Cemaes Bay
When I was a young boy, aged about ten or eleven back in 1947/48, I can remember going to stay with Mr & Mrs Henshaw who lived at the above house having moved from Tal Y Cafn in the Conwy Valley. From what I ...Read more
A memory of Bull Bay by
My Memories
I can't believe I've just found this page. I was looking at the area as my wife and I are looking at buying a pub in the bridge and I thought I'd see if the old home was still there - but stumbled on this site. It made my spine shiver ...Read more
A memory of Taxal in 1860 by
Dad Saves Eagle!!
In the early 80's my dad was walking our dog in the park when he came across an eagle. Turned out it had been stolen from Colwyn Bay Zoo. He captured it with the dog's lead, ended up in the national press and got £100 reward. My ...Read more
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Fishing In Hawhill Park Duck Pond In 1955
The 10 year old boy in the photo is me. I was fishing for sticklebacks. I remember a man pointing a camera at me. I lived at 62 Castleford Road opposite the library which is at the edge of the park. My ...Read more
A memory of Normanton in 1955 by
Happy Childhood, And Growing Up In The Area
My father, William Westgarth, and his family lived in George Street, Willington Quay, for many years before moving to High Howden. My father worked at the slipway, then on to Swan Hunters ship ...Read more
A memory of Willington Quay in 1959 by
Lovely Stoke Fleming
We stayed at a clifftop house called Mill Meadow. Once we parked the car behind the wooden double gates, there was a pine-tree lined steep hill that led to the house and then to cliffs. I remember that pine smell when we ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Fleming in 1967 by
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Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.
This fine view of St Mildred's Bay shows how little built up it was in the early 1890s. Note the two bathing machines on the left under the low chalk cliffs.
Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.
The Warden Bay Caravan Park also had chalets, which we can just see at the top right of the photograph. Note the 5mph speed limit sign just inside the narrow gates.
This view looks south towards All Saints' Church and shows how the tower and spire originally closed the vista well, although nowadays the church is hidden by high hedges and a fine cedar.
Timber gables and full-height faceted bay windows create an imposing range of shops and flats of the early 20th century.
Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.
Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.
A closer view of the Ilchester Arms Inn.
Here we see National Trust shingle and cliffs at the end of Beach Road, with the buildings (top right) comprising the Burton Cliff Hotel.
An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.
At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.
The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.
The White Horse is a timber-framed building of 1694, later encased in Victorian brick when the far bay was added. On the left is the corner of the shop, with its penny bubble gum dispenser.
To the north of Morecambe is the quieter sea front of Bare.
The seven-bay Crown Hotel (right), with columned porch, has a large and elaborate sign over the street. The painted advertisement next door has gone, but the gable beyond retains the date 1662.
Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.
Porthleven's large harbour was built in 1811 to load copper and tin; it is an important haven on the exposed east shore of Mount's Bay. A
The Mount stands in a prominent position overlooking Par harbour and the bay.
Against a backdrop provided by the pier pavilion and landing stage, St Anne's boatmen are doing a brisk trade taking holiday-makers out for a trip around the bay.
This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).
The view from the tennis court shows the little-seen back elevation of Holme Hall.
To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol. By the end of the 19th century, the cove was already attracting a great many visitors.
To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol.
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