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Dunstaffnage War Years
Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more
A memory of Oban by
Evacuation
I was evacuated to Kibworth three times; in 1939 I came probably from my school, Newington Green in North London. i stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Dinkley. After a few months, a bomb fell in Kibworth, probably on the way to ...Read more
A memory of Kibworth Beauchamp in 1930 by
Early 1950s
I was born in Dartord where I lived in Stanham Road until I moved at the age of 9 years. Childhood friends I remember are Anthony Artist, Janet Cork, Michael Burville (not sure of spelling of surname). My next door neighbour was the ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1953 by
Early Days
I was born at home in Coleford Bridge Road in 1935 and grew up there, went to school in Frimley and lived in Mytchett until emigrating to Australia in 1964. In those early days life seemed very simple, only a handful of cars, making ...Read more
A memory of Mytchett in 1940 by
Early Days
I was born and brought up in Pembroke terrace and with number of lads of like age wandered the mountains through theSaucy ap and over to overlook the Rhondda . We would climb up an run down hills,run through rivers and ply cowboys ...Read more
A memory of Ogmore Vale by
East Anglian Marshland Memories
I sat and talked with a man of God, about people and places we have known and loved. As part of my life being spent on the Marsh, formative years that were oft-times harsh. Such happy memories tumbled back ...Read more
A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1960 by
East Kent Coastal Holidays In The 1950s/60s
As a child the East Kent coast was a regular destination for our 2 week family summer holiday. We usually stayed in Westgate. In the late 1950s the excitement started with the journey from ...Read more
A memory of Westgate on Sea by
Easter Fields Near Moorsholm
My grandmother was born in Moorsholm but moved to Lingdale when she got married. I remember visiting her all through my childhood and had many fond memories of both villages. At Easter time all the children of the ...Read more
A memory of Moorsholm in 1951 by
Ellis Street, Crewe
Although I was born in Nantwich (1956), in the Barony hospital, I grew up in Crewe until the age of about twelve. We lived in Ellis Street, which then, if memory serves me right, only had three houses, even though we were in number 8! ...Read more
A memory of Crewe by
Elmshott Lane Junior School
My history predates yours by about 20 years. I went to the infants school first and then to the junior school where I passed the scholarship to Slough Grammar in 1944/5. I remember Mr Santer who caned me on the hand ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham in 1940 by
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Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!
Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!
The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.
This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.
Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.
HMS' St Vincent' (120 guns) was completed in 1815, but too late to take an active part in the Napoleonic Wars.
This tall Lincolnshire-style brick tower mill, seven storeys high, was built in 1819; it was powered by five patent sails and winded by a fantail.
Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.
Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
Bounded by Gosmoor and Charlton Roads, Priory Park was a favourite spot for picnics and Sunday afternoon strolls down to the banks of the River Hiz close to Brick Kiln Lane, Charlton, which runs behind
This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground.
Tens of thousands of new entrants into the Merchant Navy received their basic training at 'Vindicatrix'.
At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.
By the late 1870s, the line was facing tough competition from Cunard, White Star, Dominion, and the Guion Line; Inman's problems were further compounded in 1881 with the loss of the 'City of Brussels
The gatehouse has distinctive diaper brick patterning and the arms of Bishop John Russel (1480-94).
The earlier pub on the site, made famous by the music hall star Florrie Ford, was demolished in the early 1920s, and rebuilt to a vaguely similar design.
The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.
With the building of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, which opened in June 1847, East Burton was on the wrong side of the tracks from Wool and its village facilities.
Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.
Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.
The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west
Bell Lane descends to the west of the A361 and gives us a good idea of the variety of building styles that make up this little industrial village.
One of the first buildings that the visitor will meet is the picturesque 15th-century thatched Axe and Compasses public house (centre).
The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.
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