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39londonroad
I was born in Hackbridge in 1944. I lived there until 1953 when my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins put me on a plane on May 2 to join my father who had emigrated to Canada the year before. My mother, who had lived in ...Read more
A memory of Hackbridge in 1944 by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
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59yrs Ago
I am very much a novice with the computer and Googled Blackford, Scotland, and to my delight lots of things came up, plus this site which I am so delighted about. I lived in Blackford till I was about 15 a half. I so ...Read more
A memory of Blackford in 1949 by
A Back Hander
I was a chain lad when the M1 was being constructed. I was working for Amy's, the asphalt company. Amongst other things I was to make cups of tea and also collect thousands of pounds in wages for the work force. My boss who's name I ...Read more
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A Brief Memory Of My School Days At Duncton
The first School I ever went to was Duncton Primary, I loved this school. Our Headmaster was Mr Salsbury who we nicknamed Mr Strawberry due to a strawberry shaped wort he had on the back of his head. He was an ...Read more
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A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955
I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more
A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by
A Fondly Remembered Childhood
I was born in 1942 and and spent my childhood in Walthamstow, which up to the time I left in 1967 was predominantly a white working class area in north-east London; I went to Chapel End Infants and Junior Schools ...Read more
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A Memory Of Heswall Children's Hospital
Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my 5th ...Read more
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A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.
I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
A Traditional English Pub!
The Queen's Head is little changed - maybe a horse trough on the pavement but the front of the building is pure English village pub! It was the starting point for many a village pub crawl and some fun times pushing ...Read more
A memory of Pinner in 1966 by
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The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.
Running across the middle of the picture is the weir, which maintained the head of water; it has now been removed during the re-management of the Avon.
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent
Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head.
Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.
The plank serving as a gangway to the vessel from the bank had, until comparatively recent legislation, been the cause of many an accident as crew returned to their various ships after
The stretch of river beyond the mud bank leads to Stanner Point, also in Sutton.
Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.
The classical building on the left dates from 1860 and was where the Westminster Bank had its Chester branch.
Lloyds Bank had succeeded the Northamptonshire Banking Company, which had opened in 1876 in temporary offices in the Market Place.
The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.
Ahead, with a classical Georgian front, is the Rutland Arms of 1815.
On the right are the Ideal Fish Restaurant, Lloyds Bank and Joy's fashions.
This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour
The road directly ahead is now pedestrianised with attractive brick and stone flag walkways, benches, trees and ornate lanterns draped with flower baskets.
Below the cobbles still runs the Belfast River, which once had quays allowing ships to come off the Lagan.
The imposing building (centre left) which juts out at the crossroads of Church Street and Claremont Lane ahead, is now occupied by the National Westminster Bank.
The Church 1961 Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias limestone outlier rising steeply
On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes Head public house.
The earliest record of the Boar's Head is in 1630.
In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.
However, redevelopment was about to rear its head.
The lorry at the head of the ferry queue is probably taking empties back to the Plymouth Brewery near Halfpenny Bridge in Stonehouse.
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