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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
Living At The Mill
My father got a job in the mill in about 1950 and we moved into Mill House which is actually a part of the mill itself, on the right as you stand facing the building. I don't know what Bordon is like now, but in my day it had its ...Read more
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The Bear Inn
My name used to be Marilyn Jesse and my memories of stock back in the late 60's early 70's are delightful. Since my boyfriend of the time lived next door to the Bear Inn, the pub became a bit like home from home. Many weekends were spent ...Read more
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Visits To Captain Digby In 1960s
I remember our annual holiday to Kingsgate in the 1960s. We stayed in various guest houses in Percy Avenue and often walked down to Kingsgate Bay for a day on the beach. In 1965 I was aged 7 and remember the pub ...Read more
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Holidays In Saham Hills
Just after the war we visited Saham Hills quite regular from Hull. We stayed with an aunt and uncle of my father's by the name of Smith. He was called Charlie, his wife was Pat and they had a son who was called young ...Read more
A memory of Saham Hills in 1950 by
Eddie Arrow
I knew Eddie Arrow as a boy, he was a real character, also the pig man, Mr Lunn, and Artie Cook, who used to come round the estate with a horse and cart. I remember Mr.Grenham who had The Alma [now a carpark]. I first went in there aged 14 ...Read more
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Great Memories Of This Area
Really it was 1961-66. I worked as a Geologist for the United Steel Companies based in Rotherham. I visited Haile Moor and Beckermet Mines every two or three weeks for 5 years and came to love the area and its people ...Read more
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My Memories Of Chandler's Ford, Approx. L934/5
In the spring/early summer of 1935 I was admitted to Chanderr's Ford Sanitorium for treatment of tuberular glands in the neck. I spent six months there and have some happy memories of feeding the ...Read more
A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1930 by
Year Of The Appendix
During that summer my family made a trip to stay at Mount Edgcumbe for a fortnight or so, my mum being a distant relative of the occupying family, so to speak. On the journey down the A.38, (no M5 then), I ...Read more
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Growing Up In Stafford Until 1975
I grew up on the Weston Park Estate and my close friends were Ann Parker and Linda Jay, as we all lived a few doors away. We used to go to Riverside disco approximate 1970 and the Young Farmers disco on Friday ...Read more
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It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.
Light and uplifting, the church was designed to minister to the spiritual needs of the poor. The architect Thomas Ellis Owen with his father Jacob designed the church.
It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.
Central areas of the city and old industrial districts are being repopulated. There could be as many as 5,000 new apartment homes in and around the city centre in the very near future.
Indeed, the coaching record from Liphook to Petersfield, albeit set in the 1800s, was 23 minutes, and the Regulator coach held the London to Portsmouth unbeaten record of nine hours.
THE YEARS of decline that had marked the first part of the 1990s were decisively reversed during the last years of the old century and the early years of the new millennium.
Most of the best shops in Walsall are either in the town centre or situated on the edge; between them they pull in thousands of shoppers.
Having built the pier, the next move by Peter Bruff and the directors of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company was to build a hotel.
They planned that the town would be a little way inland and separate from the dock area.
There is not a bare head to be seen in this view, which looks towards the old grandstand - new the year this picture was taken.
A bare-footed fisherman sits in his boat at low water. The board showing the name 'Dewdrop' at the stern suggests that he also hired it out.
At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.
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