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Holyport Road, Fulham
I was born in 1961 in Charing Cross Hospital & spent my first 25 years living in Fulham - firstly in Holyport Road until I was about 17, then New Kings Road for a few years and then Hestercombe Avenue for another few years until I ...Read more
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My School Days.
The starting point for me was failing the Eleven Plus. This puts most children in a difficult position. Which school will accept them for their onward education? Answer:- apply to Fullbrook Secondary School in Newhaw where a grammar ...Read more
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Fond Memories From The Sixties
The river used our playground then before the river ingrebourne was blocked off from the tidal Thames to alleviate flooding in Rainham. Further down river were the old ww2 concrete barges that we used to clamber over while ...Read more
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St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston
My mother, Mary Rands, was christened in this church in 1929. Her Grandparents, Herbert and Mary Ann Rands, lived in a cottage at the back of the church called 'Myrtle' They passed away before the second world war, ...Read more
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Ambassador Cinema
Used to go to Saturday morning pictures. My dad, Jimmy Williams, was a projectionist there, and both my mum and my nan worked there; they had the torch to show you to your seat. Films like Zorro and Old Mother Riley were on. Also ...Read more
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Top Lock Southall
Quaker Oats had a spur going into their factory just past top lock on the Grand Union Canal. I used to watch the barges being unloaded with a huge vacumn pipe used by a man standing on the barge. Due to the fact a lot of wheat ...Read more
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My Grandads Barge
I in the canal photo that big barge was my grandads he used to deliver coal up and down the canal he was called Hubbert Barrass can anyone help me find more photos of this and also name of his barge please
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Vague Memories Of Waterlooville
I was born at the Bransbury Nursing Home, Jubilee Road, Waterlooville, during the war in December 1943. I lived with my grandmother Eva Hill (nee Redman) and my mother, Joyce Hill (nee Lewis) at 56 Hambledon Road ...Read more
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Gainsborough
The Gainsborough today is not the Gainsborough of my youth. It was a busy market town with a very busy market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. A lot of farmers came into town on a Tuesday to take care of their business, a quick pint and ...Read more
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Growing Up
I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more
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Captions
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Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.
The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.
Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.
However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.
Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could - and did - trade up-river as far as Langport.
A mixture of schooners, brigantines and spritsail barges lie to warps in the outer harbour.
In the foreground, a paved riverside walkway lined with willow trees nowadays leads up to the Grain Barge Chinese restaurant.
Work on buildings up the foreshore (the Barge Walk) is in progress behind the hopeful anglers.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.
A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.
One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.
One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy
A fleet of barges, their sales furled, are berthed at the quay.
Many of the remaining Thames barges are moored at Maldon.
Sailing barges and leisure craft rub hulls in this typical riverside scene, and the more recent development of the marina amply demonstrates that there is still nothing - absolutely nothing
At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.
A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.
An empty barge, probably belonging to the British Waterways Board, is tied up in this summer view of Foxton Basin.
It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.
To facilitate horse-drawn barges and pedestrians, ferries had to transport them to the opposite bank.
Barges towing rafts of sawn timber head past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints' Church.
There was a time when sailing barges could (albeit with difficulty) navigate the Severn as far as Welshpool, 128 miles above Gloucester.
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.
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