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North Road Looking North From Church Street, Fen Street Junction
Previous memories talk about The Talbot Inn and on the left hand corner (Church Street Corner) Marshall's the newsagents . Before the village was bypassed around 1956 the Newsagents ...Read more
A memory of Stilton in 1954 by
Growing Up In Filton
I was born in Plymouth of Welsh parents, there was no work in Newport Wales when my Father got out of the Navy, so, we moved to my Grandparents house in 50 Wallscourt Rd Filton, until our house 13 Canberra Grove Filton became ...Read more
A memory of Filton in 1966 by
The Gatenby Family The Old Postoffice
I was born in 1942 at Oswaldkirk postoffice. My mother was the youngest of three sisters. Joyce the eldest was a nurse in Leeds, Olive the 2ed helped run the shop and postoffice, and my mother Nancy who also ...Read more
A memory of Oswaldkirk in 1942 by
Taylors On Port Hill
This is where my father (1924) and grandfather (1896) were born, their cottages were just round the corner slightly further up the hill, Gt Grandfather (1844) rented 2 cottages for his family of himself, his wife and 9 ...Read more
A memory of Hertford in 1920 by
Treowen Road
I was born in March ,1947 at 69,Treowen Road.It was a terrible winter,and the midwife who delivered me (Nurse Maiden) had to enter the house through the upstairs bedroom window because the snow was pilled up so high. I lived in treowen ...Read more
A memory of Crumlin in 1947 by
The Nag''s Head
One didn't have to travel to London in the past to watch pro bands plying their trade. The Nag's Head public house was a much attended venue during the late 1960s and early 1970s for watching many of the (what was then known as) ...Read more
A memory of Wollaston in 1969 by
Bathing In The River
Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1949 by
My Grandparents
My grandparents come from Elsecar and Wentworth, in Mill Lane, you may have seen the Roundhouse,Can`t miss it really just up from Pondside. When my real grandad died my grandmother remarried a man named Stanley Horn from Harley. ...Read more
A memory of Elsecar in 1952 by
Childhood Memories Of Yapton
i have very fond memories of visiting my grand parents in yapton, who lived opposite the church in the cottages.my grandfather Roy, i believe was the villiage carpenter and my nan alice was helper in the church, and ...Read more
A memory of Yapton in 1972 by
Burials At St Mary's
My maternal grandmother was born in Selby. Annie McMenamin ( McManum or various spellings depending on who wrote the name down !) She lived in Hutchinsons Yard, Selby with her mother Catherine, father Michael, sisters Mary, ...Read more
A memory of Selby in 1953 by
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Perhaps its master is a few yards away in Loders' public house, the Farmers Arms? Loders has changed little in fifty years, though the outskirts of Bridport have crept nearer.
Barker's timber yard occupies the low range of buildings on the right. Further up the street the Hermitage cinema with its imposing entrance, is still open for business.
We are a few yards downstream from the view pictured above, and the people on the bridge have been replaced by a lady. There is a horse-drawn farm implement to the right of shot.
Built in 1842, this striking place of worship sits just a few hundred yards from Chartwell - the former home of the wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
Transatlantic passenger ships berthed here, many built in the town's own boat yards. However, the gradual silting up of the Doom Bar outside the harbour has limited the size of ships that can berth.
A flying boat undergoes repair at West Cowes looking across to the famous Saunders Roe yards at East Cowes.
A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.
We can clearly see the derelict state of this particular yard in Church Street.
A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal. They were owned by Horsefield Ltd.
The only section to be built was a 1,100-yard single line from the terminus at Lytham to East Beach.
The course is one mile and 450 yards long, rowing upstream.
The double doors (left) lead into a yard where formerly there was a rope maker's walk.
The double doors (left) lead into a yard where formerly there was a rope maker's walk.
It had malthouses and shipbuilding yards: the last trading wherry on the Broads was built in the Anchor Street boatyard here in 1912.
Davey Place was formed in 1812 to link the cattle market (in Castle Meadow in front of the castle) with the main market place, butting through the yard of the King's Head.
At the bottom is 'The House that Moved': this historic local building was in the path of a road scheme, and was carefully excavated and rolled some 400 yards to a new position.
A huge community, both military and trading, grew around the naval yards with thousands of homes to cater for dockworkers and public houses in which to entertain shorebound sailors.
The original Count's House was about 100 yards nearer to Prebend's Bridge and was the home of Count Boruwlaski, a Polish dwarf who stood just 39 inches high.
The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street. The Post Office and the King's Arms Hotel on the right are still there today.
Children idly watch the photographer - and each other - from either side of the road, and wagons stand under one of the arches in Kemp and Sons' yard.
The boat yard on the far bank - now under different ownership - offers 'Launches and Boats Built to Order'. The steam launch in the foreground is a particularly elegant shape.
Also visible: the harbour line of the M & G N Railway that linked the harbour to the goods yard off Leverington Road, and the line to Sutton Bridge.
Over the centuries, the sea has crept steadily closer to the village and is now only a few hundred yards away.
Opened in June 1860, the Town Hall cost £3,505 to build, and provided space for the County Police Station, with cells and an exercise yard, a courtroom and council offices.
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