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Treasured Family Holidays In Chapel.
So many memories of holidays here. We stayed in a small Caravan on a farm run by Mr & Mrs Johnson. They had a son and daughter, Lynne and Dean. I was a baby, and Mrs Johnson used to wash my nappies! They ...Read more
A memory of Chapel St Leonards by
Training To Be A Bricklayer
During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not ...Read more
A memory of Intake in 1951 by
Toy Shop Queens Road. Circa 1953
If I remember correctly the toy shop was owned by "Pardoes". ( not sure if that is the correct spelling). I recall getting an orange tricycle for my 5th birthday and my twin sister got a pram. I recall the ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
Totenham And Page Green School
Born in the North Mid like most people my age (1931), I lived my first 25 years at Tottenham Hale, at the end of Brograve Rd., facing the Station Green. The green had a nice fence around it before the war when hundreds ...Read more
A memory of Edmonton by
Tondu Primary School
I am not quite sure of the date I moved to Tondu Primary School from Laleston Juniors near Bridgend after moving to Sarn, however, I think it was around 1955. The headmaster was a Mr Richards who I understand was renowned for ...Read more
A memory of Tondu in 1955 by
Todber Caravan Park, Bonfire Nights
Does anybody reading this remember Tom Varley's steam museum/bonfire nights in the big brick barn with the music from the engines and parch peas, hotpots and bonfire on top of the hill. Or the little pool in the ...Read more
A memory of Gisburn in 1976 by
To School Along The Prom
I lived in Mochdre, and went to the grammar school, 1955-1962. Getting off the bus at the station we would walk along the prom, skipping stones in the sea, or dodging the waves during stormy high tides. Then we would walk ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1955 by
To Sea
The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1950 by
Three Kings Piece
I don't know why we called it Three King's Piece but in the mid 50's to the early 60's when I was growing up, that was what we called it. I lived in the flats in Armfield Crescent and when we went to Three Kings Piece we went the ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by
Those Were The Days!
I would like to share with you some of my early childhood memories of my formative years in Parndon, including places and names that might evoke similar memories to myself. I hope you will bear with me, as I will probably go ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon in 1955 by
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The Village Green c1955.
Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.
Cow Tower was built on the River Wensum in 1378 as a boom tower, controlling the flow of river traffic at the point where the city wall ended.
The houses of Bramber are varied and picturesque. Some are built of brick or flint, and some are creeper-clad. The village was once an important port on the River Adur.
This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.
Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.
The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs. The ornate clock tower was a gift to the town in 1905 from Alderman J R Birkett.
Now a National Trust property and open as a museum, this stone, brick and timber building is said to be the smallest town hall in Britain.
Puriton's brick and tile industry has now gone, but Middle Street is much the same today. Biggs' general store (right), now the post office, sits here above Good's Farm.
Whitworth Brothers Flour Mills stand beside the A509 London Road bridge.
Cambridge's first women's college started out in Hitchin in 1869, and was moved to Girton three years later - sufficiently far removed from Cambridge and the temptations of its male students.
Cambridge's first women's college started out in Hitchin in 1869, and was moved to Girton three years later - sufficiently far removed from Cambridge and the temptations of its male students.
Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.
Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone. The van parked on the left of the street is advertising Mackeson's stout.
Salisbury was founded in the 13th century: there was no earlier settlement here, consequently the wide streets were laid out on a grid pattern.
The old hospital (1576) on the right, so called since it performed that function during the Napoleonic Wars, forms the main subject of this early picture of the most photographed of Rye's cobbled
This mid 18th-century post mill has 'I Swan 1749', 'W Bedwell' and 'John Swan 1754' carved on the beams. The mill was restored in 1966-68.
Once a major ironworking centre, this village also boasts the first Fuggle hops to be grown.
This small village sits between the sea and fields of bright laven- der. At Caley Mill there is a lavender water distillery, and in late summer the fields shimmer with a deep blue.
Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk
Doddington receives many visitors, for Doddington Hall, although privately owned, is often open to the public.
Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Dated 1794, it worked until 1922.
The late 17th-century tower with its liberal use of salvaged Roman brick fell in the 17th century.
He put money, new ships and new life into the company, and brought in the right partners and associates to found the successful business.
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