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1939 To I960
I moved to Little Brickhill in 1939 when I was 2 years old, my last address in Little Brickhill was 10 Wyness Avenue. We were the first to move to to Wyness Avenue. I also knew Colonel Wyness who Wyness Avenue was named ...Read more
A memory of Little Brickhill by
My Childhood
My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My lifelong ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1955 by
Childhood Memories
My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more
A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by
My Childhood Days Brynna Boy
8 Southall Street /16 Tan-y-Bryn. We, the Brynna Boys, used to run to school, Mr & Mrs Davies Head Master and thei two daughters, strict and friendly, firm and kind. I can only describe those happy days, Coronation ...Read more
A memory of Brynna in 1953 by
Greenhow Terrace
I married Helen in 1967 and the only property available to rent was in Benwell. As we were both far too young to know better we took a bottom flat in Greenhow Terrace. That's where it all went wrong, Benwell was being demolished and ...Read more
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1946 1951 Age 2 Years To 7 Years
I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more
A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by
A Wonderful Time In Copper Street
My name is Carole McCarthy (nee MALONE) I was born in December 1951 in a maternity unit on Rochdale Road near to the Embassy Club. I lived in Copper Street in Collyhurst which had Barney's at the bottom of the ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst by
Bomb Blast `siding` Margaret Street/Victoria Street.
I recall as a young boy of 7 or 8, that I was among a group of friends playing on the siding at the bottom of Margaret Street. We, as friends, found the bomb on the Rhigos Mountain and carried it ...Read more
A memory of Treherbert in 1943 by
Barrow Hill School
I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember one ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by
Guinea Gap Baths
I got a real chuckle of Sue's comment about being afraid of my Uncle Tony, instructor at the Bath's. He was such sweet person, and I can only think he was shouting to be heard. When I was last there, 1966, it was very noisy being so ...Read more
A memory of Wallasey by
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Lewis Carroll, son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of 20 years.
Lewis Carroll, the son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of twenty years.
John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate (1658-1688) was cousin of Sir Robert Dryden, who lived in the locality at Canons Ashby.
We can see that the entrance is 40ft up the lighthouse, and can only be reached by climbing an iron ladder fixed to the outside of the 90ft structure.
The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who
The married lay canons were evicted from the Priory and the celibate Austins took over.
From the word go, the Romans probably installed a small military post beside the Can, on the site of the Iron Age houses. Whether or not it was continually manned, we do not know.
Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at. But his corpse was eventually covered and compressed by mud and sand.
This introductory chapter can only skim the surface to set the scene for what could be termed the photographic portrait of the town contained in the next five chapters.
The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.
Opposite is Cabon & Son, a hairdresser's. The post office (right) is unchanged, but the telephone box has been replaced.
The Wootton Academy, as it was called, stressed 'confidence, obedience, cleanliness', as well as corporal punishment and a ban on girlfriends.
When the quite recent Welsh ban on Sabbath day drinking was enforced, half the pub could serve alcohol and other was 'dry' on a Sunday. It must have been entertaining to witness!
It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.
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