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Grain Fort
After the war in 1946 my father, a sergeant in the MPSC, was transfered to Darland camp in Gillingham but as there were no married quarters available there we, as a family, were billeted in the Coastguards quarters on the Isle of ...Read more
A memory of Isle of Grain in 1946 by
Turnford A Peaceful Place
I was born and grew up in a happy, peaceful village where everyone knew everyone else. My memories are of long walks in a beautiful countryside which could have been a million miles from London instead of an hour on a ...Read more
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Lawrence And Peggy Berg
My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg which ...Read more
A memory of Hinchley Wood in 1930 by
From The Beginning!
I was born in 1938 in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. My Mam and Dad were allocated a new flat in Kingsley Crescent when I was a year old so all my memories are of the 'flats'. I, along with my two sisters and one brother, ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1940 by
Barton Swing Bridges Road And Canal
This picture shows both the Barton road bridge and the swing bridge carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal in the 'open' position. I used to visit this site as a child when there ...Read more
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Early Days In Bargoed
I was born, in 1945, in the front room of my parent's rented house in Bristol Terrace, Bargoed. Open the front and you were on the pavement!!. We had no central heating, no double glazing, no indoor bathroom (tin bath hanging ...Read more
A memory of Bargoed in 1952 by
The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
Days Gone By
Stumbled across this site and have enjoyed the memories of old barking and the shops it had, thought that I should add my recollections and fill in a few blanks from the sixties and seventies, so starting from the Bull Pub and Heading ...Read more
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Southall And Norwood Green Schools 1950s And 1960s
Miss Ball was headmistress, infants teacher was Miss Lidstone, and first year teacher was Miss Curtain when I was at Clifton Road school in the early 1950s. My best friend was Alan Newall, whatever ...Read more
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The Canal
Hi,my name is Stephen Smith, I lived in Regent Crescent through the 50s and 60s. I guess you all remember the Rochdale canal that runs through Failsworth. What a great place to spend your time. Who needed Disneyland. We used to fish, make ...Read more
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Here we see the River Medway being used as an industrial highway: barges and log rafts float downstream past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints Church.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
Barges plied up and down the River Wharfe delivering to the breweries.
Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.
A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.
The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal.
The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal.
Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could – and did – trade up-river as far as Langport.
Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.
Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.
Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.
The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.
Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.
However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.
Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could - and did - trade up-river as far as Langport.
A mixture of schooners, brigantines and spritsail barges lie to warps in the outer harbour.
In the foreground, a paved riverside walkway lined with willow trees nowadays leads up to the Grain Barge Chinese restaurant.
Work on buildings up the foreshore (the Barge Walk) is in progress behind the hopeful anglers.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.
A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.
One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.
One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy
A fleet of barges, their sales furled, are berthed at the quay.
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