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Places

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Memories

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One Day At A Time

A precised extract from the chapters in my biography relating to wartime evacuation, and particularly to Garnant. I stared morosely out of the window and watched the landscape slip by as the steam train chugged its way through ...Read more

A memory of Garnant in 1940 by James Tait

School Days

We lived in Langrish village, but seeing there was no school there we had to take the public bus to East Meon School. I remember the first and last days at junior school in East Meon. The school building was made from local flint ...Read more

A memory of East Meon in 1950 by Maureen Gartry

Just A Few Memories

My sister, Mary, was born in 1946, where I was born 1949. She'd take me on the bus from Royston to see some films at the Staincross cinema. The only thing that I remember was that it was somewhat run down but yet had a feel about ...Read more

A memory of Darton in 1959 by Roland Mitchell

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Part 8

Entertainment The Men: Mostly the pubs provided a good range of entertainment with darts, dominoes and cards being played. Some men kept greyhounds or whippets for racing, but generally gardening took up a lot of their time, as this ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

Part 11

And had an inter-house sports day annually that was highly contested. The school was divided into four houses, St Columbus, St Aiden, and St Patrick and St Cuthbert’s. Church attendances were very high, poor Fr. Tuohey had to give ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

Going Down The Village As A Four Year Old

I was born in Lower Sunbury, I'm the youngest of the White family, 1 of 7 kids. I can remember my mum and her friend walking with me down the village, I was in my pushchair, we would walk past the Vienna ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1970 by Michael White

Lived In Hornsey Before Moving To New Zealand In 1952

I was born in 1944 and have a very clear memory of living at 37 Coleraine Road in Hornsey and, at the age of 7 1/2 emigrated with my parents, John and Ena Ridley to New Zealand. We lived with my ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1952 by Margaret Brown

I Might Have Been An Undertaker

Throughout the first half of the 1950's I would spend every school holiday at Linton, with my maternal grandparents. Initially my mum would accompany me from our home in Trumpington to Drummer Street bus station, where ...Read more

A memory of Linton in 1952 by Brian Goodliffe

Burslem Baths And The Wright's Pie Shop After (Top Of Nile St)

My memories start around 1946 and go on 'forever' - but the years I want to mention here are those of my Cobridge schooldays and the Burslem connection to those schooldays. I lived on the ...Read more

A memory of Burslem in 1946 by Edward Penning

Captions

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Caption For Brotton, High Street C1955

We are looking eastwards from the end of Brotton High Street, and the chimneys of the Skinningrove iron and steel works can be seen in the distance.

Caption For Worthing, Bandstand 1899

Worthing's was a good example, with screens to protect the band from the sea breezes and an elegant wrought iron openwork cupola to its ogee roof.

Caption For Watchet, Harbour 1927

Watchet was one of medieval Somerset's most important towns, and its harbour remained important into the 20th century, exporting iron ore from the Brendon Hills to the south.

Caption For Saundersfoot, The Harbour C1965

It was constructed after 1829, and it exported coal and iron from seven collieries in the vicinity which ceased production in the 1930s. Coal may have been extracted here since the 14th century.

Caption For Stapleford, The Church C1955

The iron gates in the foreground came from Wellington College in 1922.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1901

A cart stands with hurdles for the sheep pens beside one of the French cast-iron lions given by Ferdinand Rothschild in 1887. They were hauled here by steam wagons from Waddesdon Manor.

Caption For Cowden, The Village C1960

The village seems so much at peace that it is hard to believe there was once a thriving iron foundry close by at Furnace Mill.

Caption For Eccleston, The Ferry 1895

At this time the fare on the steamer between Chester and Eccleston was about 6d each way, and 8d each way between Chester and Eaton Iron Bridge.

Caption For Cheam, Cheam Park House Lodge 1938

This building at the foot of Park Lane, with its stuccoed walls, pedimented porch, and ornamental iron gates, was built around 1820 as the lodge to Cheam Park House.

Caption For Great Eccleston, The Square C1965

The lamp replaced a cast iron lamp with a fluted pillar in 1936.

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan's Statue 1898

This is ironic in a way, for Bunyan, the author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', had been a thorn in the flesh of the establishment in the 17th century, and was more likely to have been cast into prison by the

Caption For Barnstaple, The Fountain And Clock Tower C1950

One clear change in this photograph from previous views is the loss of the ornate iron railings around the whole area. They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions.

Caption For Findon, Post Office Corner C1960

Findon is on the top of the Downs, just north of Worthing, and was noted for an annual sheep fair. Now horse breeding and training is an important local activity.

Caption For Westbourne, The Square C1960

A fine example of a West Sussex County Council signpost with cast iron post and circular ornamentation on the top stands on the pavement.

Caption For Mold, High Street C1955

The town grew in the 18th and 19th centuries through the productin of lead, coal and iron. The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

It is a great pity that a little more money could not have been found in the Council's coffers to provide a scheme of enhancement, rather than this concrete and iron piping solution.

Caption For St Tudy, Church Town 2003

Water from the pump was used by the blacksmith to cool down and shrink the red-hot iron tyres he fitted to wooden wagon wheels.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

It is a great pity that a little more money could not have been found in the Council's coffers to provide a scheme of enhancement, rather than this concrete and iron piping solution.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour C1955

Dubbed Noah's Ark and debunked by royal surgeon and Dorset writer Sir Frederick Treves - 'as out of place as an iron girder in a flower garden' - Pier Terrace still comes in for criticism.

Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1890

It is ironic that the statue was itself removed in 1946 and re-erected in Trendell's garden, by then Abbey Grounds and a public park.

Caption For Penrice, Castle C1955

The front of the house once boasted an ornate iron and glass conservatory constructed by Macfarlane's of Glasgow, but this was removed after the Second World War.

Caption For Bridport, West Road 1909

Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

Caption For Bridport, Bradpole Road 1903

His farce 'Blott on the Landscape' had its television debut in 1985, with ironical timing, as the northern arm of Bridport bypass was cutting its way across meadows to the east.

Caption For Brent Knoll, 1903

The Knoll, rising 550 feet from the Somerset flatlands between the Rivers Axe and Brue, is topped by one of Somerset's finest Iron Age hill forts.