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North Greenford In The Late 40s And 50s
I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats ...Read more
A memory of Greenford by
Wolf Rubber
I was born in 1934 in Burns Avenue Southall, and I remember Snells Farm at the bottom of Burns Ave, before it became a prefab estate. Left Dormers Wells at 14 in 1948. I worked at Wolf Rubber in 1949 and my job was cleaning metal ...Read more
A memory of Southall in 1949 by
My Chldhood Times
Hi, I was born and brought up in Dipton, I lived in Annfield Street with my dad, Tom Bell, and my nanna, Maria Bell. I went to St Patricks RC School and have good memories of my time there with a few of the teachers being nuns. My ...Read more
A memory of Dipton in 1956 by
The Old Odeon.
If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1962 by
The Old Bridge Over The Canal
I have just been reading the memories of a Ms Hamilton. I used to cross the bridge on the way to and from Goldsworth Junior School as I lived in Horsell. My sister and friends would stop and fish for newts or frogs - ...Read more
A memory of Woking in 1969 by
Dancing In The Afternoon Matinee
I remember dancing after school in Horsell town hall on Horsell main street in the 50s. I was at Goldsworth School, Woking in those years. My friend David and I were always dancing there, on Wednesdays I think. ...Read more
A memory of Horsell in 1952 by
Springs Canal
View of Springs Canal. Gravel Chutes from Old Bailey railway can be seen at the end of the canal.
A memory of Skipton in 1945 by
Fond Memories
I lived at Mid Shirva Farm from 1950 till 1964. My father was the byreman, he was known as Wee Jock and my mum was Jan. I had a happy time growing up there; the summers seemed to be endless. I played in the fields during the ...Read more
A memory of Twechar in 1950 by
My Childhood
I was born at West View, Stanley in August 1939. My father bought 2 cottages and knocked them into a very large house. I had 5 older siblings and my mother's father lived with us. Our family name was House. I loved every ...Read more
A memory of Stanley in 1940 by
Old Row.
Old Row, Golds Hill, does anybody remember the pub called The Boat on Canalside next to Old Row? I know that Old Row was pulled down in 1936 and the pub was de-licensed by 1938, that was when my grandparents lived there, the Mcdonalds, ...Read more
A memory of Golds Green in 1930 by
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Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.
When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.
Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.
Such was the concern in 1791, that two beacons were erected, illuminated by lanterns holding many candles; one became the lighthouse, and another stood about 400 yards north of Cart Gap.
One of its principal attractions has been its canal, especially where it spans the Dee using Thomas Telford's marvellous 121ft-high Froncysyllte Aqueduct, built in 1805.
Taken from the canal bridge, this photograph shows Bridgewater Street, looking towards Eagle Brow.
On the left is the main London railway line and, still further to the left, the Thames and Severn Canal.
The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.
In the 1970s a corner shop would still be trading on the 1904 site of L Green's Confectionary Shop opposite Nutley's Alehouse, which, it was said, was only ever lit by candles.
This is the Staffs and Worcester Canal. St Mary and All Saints church looks delightful, and is built from local red sandstone.
Many of its buildings are influenced by 17th-century Dutch architecture, including the bridge, which was passed under by many boatmen using the canal.
Nearby is the Lancaster canal, a cut dug out by navvies (the term comes from navigator) in 1797. A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.
Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade. The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.
Other sections soon followed, with the Lancaster bypass opening in 1960 and the Thelwall Viaduct, which takes the road high above the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, being completed in
The river Torridge is to the left, and the straight line just to the right of it is the old course of the Rolle (or Great Torrington) canal.
At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.
A delivery vehicle waits outside Henry Milling & Co's shop in this view from Lymm Cross towards the Bridgewater Canal.
The Shropshire Union Canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.
A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.
This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.
Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.
The railway runs along the embankment in the centre of the picture, and the Ulverston Canal passes in front of the ironworks on its way to the Leven Estuary beyond.
Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.
Welford Reservoir was constructed in 1837 to store and supply water to the Welford Arm which then fed the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
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