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'down Yer 'wey'.
Moved to Farncombe in 1942 from Datchet, but evacuated originally from Barking, London. I remember arriving at my new home at 1 Tudor Circle. My Step-father was a fireman in the AFS, who's ...Read more
A memory of Godalming in 1942 by
A Long Long Time Ago
We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by
Any One Remember A Dennis Howland
Hi I am just wondering if any one can remember my grandad Dennis Howland ? His dad had a cobblers on what they called the pavement ! He was born in Stanford let hope in 1928 and lived there till the fifties! ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
Arlesey Bedfordshire
When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in ...Read more
A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by
Army Training On Salisbury Plain
The military owns more than 150 square miles of Salisbury Plain and great chunks of it are closed to the public. I have seen part of this area and "enjoyed" the isolation of camping in bivouacs with my Territorial ...Read more
A memory of Larkhill in 1970 by
Ay, Them Were The Days!
I was born in Manor Drive in 1948, in the white house at the top left of the picture. Each house from bottom left working up and then back down again was the Simmons family, then Coppack, Clewes, Fowler, Emptage, Lyons, Leather, ...Read more
A memory of Barnton
Bland Street
I was born at 58 Bland St in my grandparent's house.. parents were George Johnson and Winifred Ravenscroft. Grandparents, James and Jane Ravenscroft. Grandad was a green grocer and had a horse and cart. We migrated to Aus in 1956.
A memory of Hulme in 1952 by
Blands School
I remember Mr Halpenny and Miss Tanner at Blands School, it didn't seem strange at the time to have some small change as teachers. Miss Tanner had apple trees and she always left a box outside her gate for us to have on the way to schoool or take home.
A memory of Burghfield by
Brambletye Preparatory School
Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1967
Burghfield Common
I was born and bought up in Normoor Road, Three Firs Way, Burghfield. I went to Blands, Garlands and then Willink. My mum, her sister and brother all went to Mrs Blands school on Reading Road in the early 50's. My surname ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1970 by
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Carnegie's magnificent public library has already gone, replaced by a bland modern structure that has now also been removed.
Bought by the Bland family in 1595, it was greatly extended: its frontage measured 600ft, only slightly less than Wentworth Woodhouse near Elsecar, thereby losing a wager made with the Marquis of Rockingham
Farnborough is home to much modern architecture; some might say it was bland and characterless.
This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
The fashion for pedestrianisation can seem bland, but styles have improved since these early days.
The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.
This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.
Shifnal is thought to have been the model for P G Wodehouse's 'Market Blandings'.
The neo-Georgian North Thames Gas Board showroom is a bland intrusion.
On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.
Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township
drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning into the High Street just beyond the bland
The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family.
In 1709 the foundation stone of St Ann's was laid; the church was a gift to the town from Lady Ann Bland.
There are some unattributed monuments, and modest glass, but all is just a fraction too bland.
Out of sight on the left, behind the old telephone kiosk, was the Cheam Road Cinema of 1911, a stylish and grand building whose frontage block was removed in the 1970s and replaced by a bland blank
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.
The superb building, enhanced by attention to detail both outside and inside, stands proud behind a somewhat bland grassed forecourt.
Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.
Instead, little has happened since 1965, except that the spindly trees on the right have matured and The Huntsman pub (previously The New Inn) has been rebuilt in a bland red brick.
The changes did not, fortunately, lead to a bland uniformity in the way in which the town appeared.
Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish.
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