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100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18
In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more
A memory of Wandsworth by
An Arreton Childhood
I lived in Arreton from birth until my marriage. My family consisted of Dad and Mum, my sister Gill, my paternal grandparents and a retired infant teacher Miss Muskett. She taught me at home before I began school at the village ...Read more
A memory of Arreton in 1940 by
The Brampton Hawk Moth Club.
Searching for wildlife to keep as pets was a major diversion for a small group of boys in my class at Brampton Road Primary School during the 1950's. Anything that moved on the ground or swam around in ponds and streams ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Coven Heath School In The 1880s
I didn't go to the school but my great-great-auntie did. I have a letter of hers that I have been transcribing. She says.. "I went to a one roomed school on Coven Heath. I was 3. A young lady was the teacher who ...Read more
A memory of Coventry by
Rayne In 1950 1960
I was born in Rayne and in the 1950s.I have fond memories of being able to play various sports in the road at School Road with my brother Peter and friend Richard Dodd, gaining a few more players as word got around! We used to mark ...Read more
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Those Were The Days 2
It didn't change until the sixties when the station was rebuilt and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1961. I watched the whole building project from start to finish from the comfort of my bedroom window. When it ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Small Boystoys And Other Pastimes 1930s
bill.haylor@btinternet.com Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The only ...Read more
A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by
Drayton Jottings
Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960
My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to the ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by
Captions
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The footpath between the low hedge and the rendered bungalow (right) offers a short meander to the gates of Gopsal Park and Little Twycross.
On the left of the picture there are signs of hedge cutting.
In medieval times, Clipped Hedge was supposedly the only building situated on Hatfield Heath itself.
The foreground of this view is now entirely obscured by trees and hedging.
The hedges, plantings, paths and the thatched pavilions have strikingly civilised what was a windswept bare grass area.
Pictures of Shaftmoor Lane taken around 1900 show a delightful country lane bordered by trees and hedges.
The older houses are surrounded by mature trees, but later infilling has led to modern houses and bungalows with hedges of the dreaded leylandii.
He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores.
The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.
The trees and hedge on the right have since been removed and a wide grass verge created.
On the left of the picture there are signs of hedge cutting.
We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.
It was a small and sleepy Sussex village, until then remote in the rolling landscape of the western Weald, a landscape of small dense hedged fields and oak trees.
The chestnut palings are now a smart well-trimmed beech hedge.
A windmill used to stand across the road, behind the hedge.
The stony ground hereabouts led to the construction of stone walls as well as the usual Dorset hedges.
To make room for the 'race track', the hedges and trees on the left have all gone.
To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.
This view looks south towards All Saints' Church and shows how the tower and spire originally closed the vista well, although nowadays the church is hidden by high hedges and a fine cedar.
In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.
The hill in the background with a hedge on its crest remains an attractive focal point from this 1930s development.
We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.
The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.
The grounds included a rose garden, vegetable and fruit gardens, and a maze of yew hedges.
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