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Memories

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Some Childhood Years In Sorbie 1932 T0 1937

The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up as ...Read more

A memory of Sorbie in 1930 by Fionn Young

Metal Bridge My Grandfather Harry Holmes My Childhood

Harry was born at spennymoor 1877, he moved to metal bridge in 1898 when he married Elizabeth Joyce born 1878 from Easthowle.They were married at St Lukes church, Ferryhill by vicar Lomax, ...Read more

A memory of Metal Bridge by Maureen Evers

My Gran & Grandad Jack Spencer

Jack & Unice Spencer were my grandparents, they owned the boats on Pickmere Lake. My life after the war was idillic when living with them, thousands flocked from Salford & Manchester to camp, fish and row my ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1953 by John Bailey

I Lived In 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How

I lived in 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How, from about 1946 to 1952, then my father retired and we then moved to Loftus. My father was Jim Conway the Police Constable. I went to Skinningrove Senior School, was ...Read more

A memory of Carlin How in 1946 by Sylvia Fayers

Bury Road

I well recall helping to pull the 40th Epping Forest Scouts trek cart with its iron shod wheels loaded with camping gear, along here on the way to Gilwell Park.

A memory of Chingford by Ted Dowling

St Mark's Church, Magham Down

The church was a mission hall, part of Hailsham Parish. It was constructed of green painted corrugated iron. There was just one large room, with a curtained vestry at the rear. There were two services a month, a ...Read more

A memory of Magham Down in 1954 by Barbara Margaret Fletcher

Up The Overs

Walking free through the wet grass leaving dark trails. Ahead the meadow rises to the mill bank where we stand in silence. Silent and smooth the deep mill race slides towards the wheel. Turning away we follow the bank upstream to the ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1950 by Brian Walker

Abbotts Hall Chase Army Huts From 1946 1948

I was four years old when our family moved from Liverpool to squat in one of the army huts. I remember it very well, and the German prisoners of war who made such a fuss of us children. We had no ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1946 by Irene Lewsey

My Young Life Living In Eve Road, West Ham

I can remember my infant years at Napier Road school. I remember when I was in the first year there, we would have a small slice of toasted bread in the afternoons. Then I went to Holbrook School when I ...Read more

A memory of West Ham in 1958 by Jean (Nee) Thompson

The Warren.

I remember when I was nursing at Ashford, Hothfield and Willesborough hospitals. We use to have to go to the Warren for some lessons. I can still remember my shock at seeing rows of `Iron Lungs` that were no longer in use. Also seeing the ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1968

Captions

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Caption For Ladybower, Reservoir C1955

These are the impressive wrought iron entrance gates to the Ladybower Dam, above Bamford in the Upper Derwent Valley.

Caption For Penwortham, Church And Lychgate 1903

You can see the iron railings around his grave at the bottom left of our picture. The church is built in Perpendicular style.

Caption For Wraysbury, The Ferry 1890

On the Wraysbury bank, near to where we see the boathouse of W Hanes and Sons, there once was a wharf where iron ore was landed for refining at a local mill before being taken to London.

Caption For Beoley, Main Road C1965

In 1140 the Norman Lord of the Manor, Geoffrey of Limesey, built a church (probably on the site of a Saxon one) dedicated to St Leonard, patron saint of prisoners and, appropriately enough, of iron workers

Caption For Llandudno, Mostyn Street 1890

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

Caption For Godstone, The Bell 1907

Four hundred years ago, Godstone was at the centre of the leather trade and the manufacture of gunpowder, while to the south there were important iron-works.

Caption For Cowes, View From The Pier 1933

The ornate circular iron railings attached to the balustrade were replaced by a set of public toilets that stood on the Parade, but were removed after the Second World War.

Caption For Great Witley, Witley Court 1911

The land around once belonged to the Cookesey family, but was bought in the 1600s by Thomas Foley, who had made his fortune in the iron trade.

Caption For Earls Colne, High Street 1961

Earls Colne is a large industrial village on the A604: silk-winding, brick-making, seed-growing, and iron-founding have all taken place here.

Caption For Shotwick, The Village C1955

Lying at the end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1896

Ignoring the small building (left) and the iron railings this could almost be a rural scene.

Caption For Walsall, The Bridge 1908

Though famous for its leather goods,Walsall grew up on coal and ironstone mining, iron working, and limestone quarrying.

Caption For Coalbrookdale, General View 1896

Abraham Darby bought a furnace in 1706 and began experimenting with ways of smelting iron by using coke rather than charcoal In 1709 he mastered the technique and changed the world.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1955

Numbers 93, 94 and 95 High Street, on the Bank Street side, date from about 1855, an early example of an iron-framed building.

Caption For Grimsby, Peoples Park 1904

The typical wrought-iron gates, like so many others, met their fate in 1940 when they were smelted down for the war effort.

Caption For Southwold, Market Place 1919

The centre of the Market Place is marked by a splendid Victorian cast iron water pump, decorated with fish, crown and arrows, and the motto 'Defend They Ryghts'.

Caption For Island Of Philae, Pharaoh's Bed C1857

hung from the hook on the extreme end of the wrought iron inn sign.

Caption For Lilleshall, Village 1898

At the time of the Industrial Revolution the people of Lilleshall, until then mainly a farming community, began mining limestone to supply the iron-smelting industry at Coalbrookdale.

Caption For Snettisham, Village Sign C1960

A fabulous collection of more than a hundred gold, silver and electrum torcs, dating from the Iron Age, was found here: they are now in Norwich Castle Museum.

Caption For Shaftesbury, Gold Hill C1955

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury began its existence during the Iron Age, but it became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here and installed his daughter as abbess.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St John's Church, Interior 1898

The Early English-style interior has arcade columns of cast iron and a continous roof in timber-ribbed vaulting.

Caption For Banbury, High Street 1921

An auction notice on the left of the picture advertises a sale of five hundred sheets of corrugated iron and imported timber.

Caption For Ramsgate, A Family Outing C1920

The four iron bollards replaced the earlier turnstile which charged a small entry fee to the gardens.

Caption For Membury, Church And Schools 1902

The hillsides and vales of Membury have been farmed since at least the Iron Age.