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Post War Harlesden.
I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more
A memory of Harlesden by
Rose Cottage, Loweswater
The cottage nestling in the foreground was purchased from the White family in 1986 by my parents. Between the vicarage and smithy it was built in 1780, and from 1782 the curate's school before moving up the hill to the ...Read more
A memory of Crummock Water by
Hubert Terrace
I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something ...Read more
A memory of Bensham in 1964 by
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High Street, looking towards the cross. We lived in the next house to the Post Office/stores (with the Walnut tree on the left) from 1959 - 1976.
A memory of Long Wittenham
Born On The Graig
"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, ...Read more
A memory of Graig in 1940 by
Zeals School 1958 63
I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time ...Read more
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My First Home.
I lived at the Ship with my father George Simpson, mother Joan, sister Mary and grandfather Joseph Simpson. My grandfather had married Elizabeth Robinson whose family had run the pub and farmed the land since Thomas Robinson in 1672. ...Read more
A memory of Bardsea in 1946 by
My First 9 Years
I love my home town of Dorking. I was born there in Lincoln Road in July 1939, five weeks before the start of WW2. We played in the street and used people's gate posts for rounders bases as there was not a car in sight. We roamed ...Read more
A memory of Dorking in 1945 by
Glenrothes And Area
Moved to Glenrothes as part of the overspill from Glasgow where we had bought room and kitchen 3 up, in 1963 for 285 pounds, paid back at 5 pounds every 2 weeks. We moved to a HOUSE with a back and front garden, what a luxury, ...Read more
A memory of Dysart in 1968 by
Childhood Memories
I was born in 1963 and spent many many weekends at the heath with my grandparents, Jack and Nellie Layfield. I have so many memories, and my mum was born there at number 1 Browns Cottages in 1939. Renalds butchers, ...Read more
A memory of Hatfield Heath by
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It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.
It was opened in 1892, when a ticket up or down cost 1d (one old penny). Today only return tickets are available, and these now cost 70 pence.
It cost 4s 6d a night to stay here, with dinner costing between 4-5s. The Red Horse and the Golden Lion were slightly cheaper.
In 1967, 'Trencherman', writing for 'Hertfordshire 'Countryside magazine, reported that the bill for a three-course meal for two cost £3 2s 8d (£3.18), and that the main course of two(!)
In 1914 a pound of butter at the Meadow Dairy Co would have cost 1s 3d; by 1920 the war had pushed the price up to 2s 11d.
On the right are the Royal Baths, which cost nearly £100,000 to build; even the Kursaal, which opened in 1903, cost over £70,000.
On the right are the Royal Baths, which cost nearly £100,000 to build; Harrogate was never parsimonious in its development plans - the Kursaal, which opened in 1903, cost over £70,000.
The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing
Between 1914 and 1920 there had been huge increases in the prices of even the most basic of foodstuffs.
In the 1770s the cost of bringing even a small vessel up the river from Pill could cost in the region of £10.
Brunel estimated that the bridge would cost £52,966 to construct.
Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this
Madeira Walk cost nearly £60,000 to build, and because of the cost, the waterfall was dubbed 'the rate-payers' tears'.
The whole castle cost £85,923 13s 11d, or nearly £9 million in today's money.
The whole castle cost £85,923 13s 11d, or nearly £9 million in today's money.
On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.
Built in the Scottish Baronial style, at a cost of £400,000, the infirmary was dealing with 8,000 patients a year by 1900.
A poster on the left advertises a Thanksgiving service.
It cost the parishioners of Warboys £200.
It was built at a cost of £27,000.
The sign on the door announces that admission will cost 6d (or 2½ new pence!).
Miniature golf was another attraction, with a round of eighteen holes costing the princely sum of 9d.
Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.
The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.
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