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Places

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Memories

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Spaldwick Windmill The Belton Family

The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village. My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby Kimbolton, ...Read more

A memory of Spaldwick in 1955 by Paul Digby

1956

Summer 1956....  I am Armell, a "Frenchy, a "Frog", who will remember for ever my beautiful days with Mr and Mrs Cantrell, John and Jill, from Lower Kingswood. I was in "such a need" just after my father had  passed over  and ... so many ...Read more

A memory of Lower Kingswood in 1956

Birbeck Engineering Co

Does anybody remember Birbecks Engineering? and 6" Shell Fuse Bases? If anybody reads this would love to hear from you. Names I recall are :- Nancy, Rose, Rita, Fred Laker, Bert Irvrin, Ted Colley, Ernie Lidyard, Mr Bodkin, Miss Birbeck.

A memory of Eastbourne in 1941 by Trevor Collns

The Original Grove Hotel In Stapenhill

When I was about 4 years old in 1948 my Auntie Jess and Uncle Albert (Haynes) ran the Grove Hotel at Stapenhill. It was the original one, not the one which is there now. It was a really lovely old building ...Read more

A memory of Stapenhill in 1948 by Carol Eyden

Stacksteads Boyhood.

My family moved from Haslingden to Newchurch Road in 1950 opposite the Farhome Tavern. As an eight year old I attended Western Junior School until 1953 leaving to attend Blackthorn Secondary Modern until June 1957 when our ...Read more

A memory of Stacksteads in 1950 by Tom Pilling

After John St

I was bike boy for Morris & Davis Butchers. Then went to Warringtons as a bricklayer. In 1968 I went to the Shell, 32 years later took early retirement.

A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1962 by John Burford

Statutory Swingin'

As a young lad in the “swingin 60’s”, the swingin’ rather passed me by … and no regrets there. But the word puts me in mind of the swinging we did do. Just down the lane from Allsopp’s garage – the hallowed source of ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1969 by Bill Davey

Laneswood The Home

As quite young boys of then 7 and 6, my brother and I with our parents, over Christmas in 1945 soon after the end of WWII came across from Holland, to visit our grand-parents who lived in "Laneswood", a true manor house standing ...Read more

A memory of Mortimer by Jan Willem Van Weel

Hemsby In The 70s And 80s

We started holidaying in Hemsby in the late 1970s. My parents loved it as we'd always had caravan holidays previously but now we had a chalet!! They always stayed at Belle Aire site. Hemsby was pretty spartan in those days!! ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Karen Dack

The Castle Inn

My aunt Dorothy Whitlock was a collector of seashells and black sand. When you enter the Castle Inn you may notice on your left hand side the mural created by her of shells and black sand. I myself now collect shells mainly from ...Read more

A memory of West Lulworth by Albert Spavins

Captions

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Caption For Hemel Hempstead, St Mary's Church, Apsley End 2005

Apsley Mills came under the technical control of the Ministry of Munitions and Nash Mills made mortar bombs and small shells.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Dixons, Maylands Avenue 2005

The Shell Mex buildings (BP House) then replaced the bridge at the entrance to the town, but was closed in 1983 due to structural problems and later demolished.

Caption For Broad Chalke, All Saints' Church C1955

The font is early Perpendicular, and has cusped quatrefoils enclosing roses, leaves, shields and shells. The pulpit and pews are 17th-century.

Caption For Alnwick, The Gatehouse C1955

The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.

Caption For Twickenham, King Street C1955

Local resident the Hon Mrs Nelly Levy (later Ionides), the daughter of Shell Oil magnate Lord Bearsted, set out to save the rest of the estate.

Caption For New Brighton, Lighthouse 1892

These were also the days when building sand castles, watching Punch and Judy shows, searching for strange shells and swimming in the sea added up to the perfect holiday.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Bridge 1919

These shops were designed for the holidaymaker and included such establishments as cafés, souvenir emporiums, shell fish shops and so on.

Caption For Stafford, The Windmill, Broad Eye 2005

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

Caption For Stafford, Former Library, Grapes Corner 2005

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

Caption For Scarborough, Castle From The East Pier C1958

Two German cruisers took up station off Scarborough, and fired over 500 shells into the defenceless town.

Caption For Dorking, Denbies Mansion 1905

Cubitt built every modern facility into the house, including the insulation of the ceilings with snail and other shells, and he also improved access to the estate — he had his own railway siding, as

Caption For Cowes, Northwood House C1955

After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.

Caption For Newcastle, High Street 1963

had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While the world shall

Caption For Shillingstone, Post Office And Main Road C1955

In Norman times this was 'Schelling's Town', for the parish belonged to the Eschelling family.

Caption For Cowes, Northwood House C1955

After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.

Caption For Chichester, The Market Cross 1890

Bishop Storey built this superb Cross in 1501, on market land bought from the mayor and burgesses for £10, specifically so that 'the poore peple shall here after stand or sell eny Chafer (goods) Within

Caption For Dolphinholme, St Mark's Church C1950

Fenton's proud boast carved in the stone that 'This Tower shall live in song and Wyresdale is its name' is now used as a doorstep in Abbeystead.

Caption For Brecon, Ship Street 1910

If it is not a Sunday, the lady and gentleman nearest to us are surely in their Sunday best, he with his boater and plus-fours and she all in pure white with matching parasol.

Caption For Epsom, The Cemetery 1898

Isabella Dorling wrote to her fiancé, Sam: 'I was invited to Mr White's to-morrow evening, so shall have to go through that terrible ordeal, a dinner party'.

Caption For Thornton Cleveleys, Lawsons Road C1955

In the 17th century the wooden bridge became so dangerous that Lancaster Quarter Sessions ordered that 'the inhabitants of Thorneton of the east side of Thorneton bridge and the inhabitants of Stayno shall

Caption For North Cheam, London Road C1955

On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

Caption For Petersfield, The Pond C1955

In all probability we shall never ever know the answer, and the mystery will remain for all time.

Caption For Stafford, Remains Of The Town Walls 2005

It reverted briefly to Dottell Street in 1838 and acquired its present comparatively mundane title of Chell Road in 1841.