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Privateers And Pirates
The Llandoger Trow - It is rumoured that Daniel DeFoe had met Alexander Selkirk ( shipwrekced sailor who had been rescued by a Bristol ship) in the Llandoger, on whose story he based his book 'Robinson Crusoe'. The ...Read more
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Cottages On Warren
Many, many, happy memories of holidays in a cottage on the Warren located next door to old Tynans (sorry if not spelt right) bakery. Waking up to the smell of pies and bread, while being sent to the stand pipe on the old dusty ...Read more
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William Joyce Alias Lord Haw Haw
I was talking to a man who I knew very well, he lived next to Gostelows boat yard. He was in his garden, he said to me " did you know who William Joyce was" I said "yes, I used to listen to him on the wireless in the ...Read more
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Wickham Bishops Born And Bred
In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. I ...Read more
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Warwick In The 1950s
I was delighted to find a picture of my dad and Aunty Lily outside Tandy's the family plumbers shop in Swan Street. I spent many happy hours in the shop as a child, as on the right hand side behind the door was a table covered ...Read more
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The Thursday Club On The Green, Falconwood Parade
It was the early 1960's and I was a curious teenager beginning a voyage of discovery into the exciting world of pop music, rock and roll, coffee bars and clubs. In fact the first teen club I ever attended ...Read more
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The Llandoger Trow History
Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out in ...Read more
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The Lion & Swan Congleton Cheshire
The Lion & Swan Hotel Congleton Story has it that The Lion & Swan in Congleton was made from ancient timbers, even today there are some solid twelve inch by twelve inch supports on display but who knows where ...Read more
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The Fair
Christmas and birthdays were an under-whelming time of year in our household. However, Eastertime, coincided with the arrival of Stanley Thurston's fair (and a big dollop of rain). l lived opposite Manor Rd Park (or reck) from 1956-64, and along ...Read more
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Tales Of Brandon Hill
Queen Elizabeth I granted housewives the right to dry their washing on Bristol's Brandon Hill. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a ...Read more
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Here we see the coastline between Porthpean and Gerrans Point.
The Edge is not the highest point in the county; at the eastern border with Derbyshire the land rises to nearly 1800ft, and to over 1900ft at Black Hill in Longdendale.
The black and white signpost in the foreground will bring back nostalgic memories for some of motoring as it was half a century ago.
This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.
The old black and white signpost points to nearby Watling Street, one of Britain's most famous Roman roads and now the A5.
Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).
The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.
This scene has changed little since picture No 61176 was taken from the same point over 20 years before.
The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.
Originally made of wood, later versions were metal, and visually the black lettering certainly stands out from the white-painted pointing board.
We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.
Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.
Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.
Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting
Since 1886 the races have finished opposite Phyllis Court to avoid the tight bend at Poplar Point, which always gave the crew rowing on the Berkshire side an unfair advantage, as the bend swings
Just in front of the Star is Haywards Heath's town sign, attractively painted and prominently positioned for all to see and enjoy.
The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking.
The black-painted smock windmill, set back from the road, and the prominent Cricketers pub facing the local cricket pavilion, are both local landmarks.
The old black-painted tithe barn stands on the right.
On the other side of the road is the lamp-post which was first in the Market Square, with its black-painted cast iron base.
The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole.
Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).
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