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Memories
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Visiting Needham Market In The 1970s
My sister and I used to visit my three uncles each Sunday. They all were unmarried and lived in the family house in The Causeway. Not having children of their own, they doted on us girls and spoilt us ...Read more
A memory of Needham Market by
Jiffing
My name is Frank Wilson and I too have good and bad memories of Mobberley Boys School. I was sent there in 1971 due to being expelled from 3 schools. My fondest memory was jiffing (smoking) in the yard at dinner time, right under the noses ...Read more
A memory of Mobberley in 1971 by
Growing Up In Wonderland
In the mid and late forties I attended Kingsmuir Boarding School in what is known today as Alderford Grange. It was owned and mastered by Ms Francis. We were told that the building had once been the Inn attached to ...Read more
A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1945 by
Argent Street Grays
I too, was born in Argent Street, No 85, next door to Potters Shop. Only the alleyway divided our house from them, and two doors away from The Castle. I have fond memories of growing up in the early sixties, and my adventures ...Read more
A memory of Grays in 1958 by
Good Old Stan
I was to live in Blackpool for a short while and would work on a farm; I lived with my sister and brother in law in Delphine Avenue. Lawrence my brother in law leant me his Honda fifty motorbike, I pulled into a petrol station some ...Read more
A memory of Blackpool in 1970 by
The Army Firing Range At Hythe
The original site of the School of Musketry is no more, having been demolished to make way for a modern supermarket, but I remember using the nearby army firing ranges. My first encounter was with 39 Signal Regiment in ...Read more
A memory of Hythe in 1971 by
Abergarw Estate (The Hostels)
My name is Gareth Davis, brother of Yvonne Davis, and son of Harry & Gwen Davis, originally of 35, Heol yr Ynis, Abergarw Estate, commonly known as "The Hostels". I remember my big sister Yvonne walking me over this ...Read more
A memory of Abergarw in 1954 by
Astwood Bank Co Op......Remember It?
It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more
A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by
Good Old Days In Salford
I was born in Salford, one of six children to Edith Casey and Ken Casey, their other children consisted of Linda, Alan, Barry, Ken, Paul and of course myself. We lived at number 50 Bury Street which was off Ellor Street. My ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1955 by
School Days
I lived at 27 Radnor Street, last but one tennament to be flattened. My first year of school was at the "new high school", on Bouquanaran; 10 class rooms open, we had to scramble among the bricks to get to class. Then I went to Radnor ...Read more
A memory of Clydebank in 1940 by
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A few yards south of the paper mill, the trackway crosses the River Rib through a gently flowing ford.
The raised section of pavement on the right is all that remains of the rope walk - a level section of about a hundred yards long, for making wagon ropes.
The flagpole, with a yard-arm, was used to send signals. Staff lived in the four Guard House Cottages (right of centre). The verandah is on Seatown Villa (right).
The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services.
An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.
Castle Street was earmarked for major change, encouraging Neville's to give up their rented yard and purchase a new site out at Common Farm, Leagrave, for £3,397.
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort).
It was 4,405 square yards in area, and 96ft high and 125ft high to the top of the central dome.
It is possible, too, to be a few hundred yards from the edge of an Essex town, and yet ostensibly be in the middle of the countryside. This is not the Essex of the public consciousness.
Richard Edmondson made an application under the General Pier and Harbour Act; his plan was to have a pier 307 yards long, with a grand pavilion, a conservatory or winter gardens, a theatre, a concert room
As he climbed the steep main street he must have heard Samuel Govier's hammer crashing against steel in his yard, and seen the glowing fire and the shower of incandescent sparks through the dim doorway
They also built a large warehouse, and Sudell Court and Sudell's Yard appeared round it. Henry Sudell, the last of the family to live in Blackburn, enclosed Woodfold Park, and built the Hall there.
Owing to the restricted depth of the site, the drill yard and drill tower are placed at the side of the fire station and not at the rear, as is the standard practice.
In 1897 the commissioners were landlords to a yard employing nearly 9,000 on the County Down side.
A few hundred yards along Horsham Road is the Bush Inn.
however, demand for this service outgrew the location, and so Royal Mail decamped to Springburn, erecting the Automated Processing Centre where once had stood the engine-sheds and locomotive yards
In the yard at the back there is a rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th or 14th century.
The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).
The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).
Consider this: give or take a few yards, Guglielmo Marconi founded the world's first radio factory on the very spot where a 1st-century pagan temple had once stood.
Until 'mixed bathing' was allowed by the Council around 1906/8, the separate rows of bathing machines for the sexes had to be kept apart by a space of 50 yards.
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