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Old Post Office Leavenheath
My parents, John and Letty Pearce, ran the, as it was then called, Post Office Stores at Honey Tye. We moved, I think in 1961, to Petham Nr Canterbury Kent. I went to Stoke by Nayland school. When I left I went to ...Read more
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My Fathers Evacuation
My father James Tregellis, , was evacuated to Malmesbury during the second world war , he had three billets in the town,and has many stories of the time he was in Malmesbury which I have turned into a short film script,and ...Read more
A memory of Malmesbury in 1942 by
Memories Of Gildersome
I'm always interested to read memories of Gildersome. I have just visited in October 2018. Just a short visit but it certainly hasn't changed in some respects. The streets are narrower from what I remember but street lane and ...Read more
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Love Liveing There
I Thomas Eskdale lived at castle park i had good time there,there was the burns,thomsons,massy,s if you lived in castle park you will know all that lived there from the 1950 and 1960.
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Kirk Hammerton Hall
My grandfather worked at kirkhammerton hall as butler for a while The family lived in laundry cottage He was Harold burns Before that he was valet and driver to colonel stanyforth and prince henry, duke of glos attending the crowning of sellasie
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Kirk Hammerton Hal
My grandfather worked at kirkhammerton hall as butler for a while The family lived in laundry cottage He was Harold burns Before that he was valet to colonel stanyforth and prince henry, duke of glos
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Holy Cross First School
Does anyone remember the holy cross school on the wallsend side of the burn bridge well that's were I went to school. We lived in holy cross and remember my grandfather coming to pick me up in his little red mini car , in them ...Read more
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Holliday Fun
I SPENT MANY HAPPY HOLIDAYS WITH MY UNCLE JIM ROUTLEDGE AT HIS COTTAGE CALLED WOODEND TINDALE FELL. MY BROTHERS AND I WOULD FISH IN THE BURN THAT RAN PASSED HIS COTTAGE WE WOULD PADDEL ,MAKE DAMS. GO UP TO TINDALE POST ...Read more
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Growing Up In Kelloholm 1959 1969
I was born to Janette (maiden name Fowler) and Charlie Ross in 1959 and lived at 13 Main Street and then 15 Guffock Road. My granny and grandad were Isabel and William Fowler(aka 'Slip Fowler' the bookie!). I ...Read more
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From The Log Book Of Memories
What a wonderful summer 1953 was, so sunny that I was burned and confined to a darkened room in our hostess, Miss Montador's, terraced house somewhere up the back of the town but easy walking distance to the ...Read more
A memory of Pittenweem in 1953 by
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In his 'A Shropshire Lad', the poet A E Housman opens with the words: 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain . . .'
The 'Twa Brigs of Ayr' became famous thanks to a poem by Robert Burns. Things had changed by the time this photograph was taken.
High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).
Originally known as North Sunderland, Seahouses prospered on fishing, and for a while lime burning.
The photographer has the undivided attention of a group of children in this quiet wintry view.
Carrying Holburn Street over the Ferryhill Burn, South Bridge is an essential part of the great developments of the early 19th century. It gets no recognition from the bureaucracy.
The quarter boys above the church clock date from 1761, while the tea rooms (now Simon the Pieman, established in 1920 after this view was taken) replaced the Red Lion Inn which burned down in 1872.
Despite popular opposition, the school had to be demolished in June 1970. The woodwork was so diseased that it had be burned, and all that remains is, apparently, a single hall.
This lighthouse, which is on the highest point of the island (180 ft above sea level), was built in 1829 as a gas-burning light and has been automated since 1927.
In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.
The tower of the church dates from the 14th century. Otherwise, much of the church was rebuilt in the late 1800s.
Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.
Burnt Farmhouse is isolated; it incorporates the remains of Field Place, which burned down in 1765. The tower of Litlington church can be seen in the distance.
Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.
The Old Mill 1914 'And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill'. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill.
On the right is that ubiquitous feature of west country beaches, the lime kiln.
The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.
During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.
During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.
In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.
Visitors clamber over the site of the old castle. The modern castle is comparatively new, being completed in 1822. The statue is of Burns's Highland Mary, who was born at Auchnamore Farm nearby.
The castle and church have long been popular with tourists, many of whom stay to sample the delights of the Old Rosslyn Inn.
It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.
In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.
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