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Adare Street Ogmore Vale

Hi I am trying to find as much information as I can about my Fathers side of our Family. The Cabble family. They lived in Adare Street opposite the school. Does anyone have any information please that could be of use to me

A memory of Wyndham by darrenjcabble

Anything For A Dare!

As a family we moved into house in Perivale in the early 1930's.Our house was situated in Conway Crescent . It was a new estate of privatly built Houses . A brand new school was at the centre of it .This was Selbourne School. I ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Harry Fairbairn

Methuen Rd

I was born in Edgware general hospital in 1945 we lived in methuen rd . In those days Edgware was a great place to live and I enjoyed a very happy childhood there.My sister and I attended Camrose school.I wonder what happend to David Laws ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by stephensonnex

Flaxley Road

We moved up to Selby from Swindon in 1960 and I went to Flaxley Road. Apart from having to lose my west country accent in double quick time in order to survive, I was put in Miss Reid's class which was a big shock to the system. Boy, was ...Read more

A memory of Selby by yorksbob

Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s

I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn

Mayo Road........Saunders Family/Jenkinson Family, 1950s/60s

I was born in Park Royal hospital on a hot July day in 1957 and was taken home to Mayo Road, where almost our entire family lived at numbers 46, 53 and 56. I was christened at St Mary's church, on ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by mark.jenkinson

My Own Memories Of Eltham

I lived at 27 Kingsholm Gardens in Eltham from 1961. I have nothing but great memories of growing up in Eltham until we left around 1971. At 5 years old, running to Glovers or Wally's close to Brisset Park to pick up ...Read more

A memory of Eltham by gw

My Early Years In Ferniegair By Edwin Allsopp Living With Grandma Margaret Simon

I lived with my grandparents in the late 1940s at 201 Carlisle road Ferniegair, known as the huts which was opposite the gatehouse to the duke of Hamilton estate.My ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair by eddieallsopp

I Join The Railway.

I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

Land Army 1946

I went to Childe Okeford 24th June 1946 as a 19 yr old Land Girl ( Connie Rogers) working for Walty Francis - Melways Farm. One of the hardest winters on record 1947 I remember going out to fetch the cows, the snow was so deep ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford by chasefamily

Captions

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Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

The tower was thought to date from the 12th century, but repairs in the winter of 1994 revealed a much earlier window, dating from about AD 980, in the south wall of the ringing chamber on the second

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

Cloisters with studies above run to the south and east of Old Quad, with a tall arch forming the entrance to the School House dining hall at the south-eastern corner.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For High Wycombe, The Castle Mound And Castle House, Priory Avenue 2005

These medieval arches and walls survive because they were incorporated into the Grammar (Martin Andrew) The castle's medieval motte became a prospect mound with a garden room on top in the 19th

Caption For Hutton, Highcliff And Cleveland Hills C1885

commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much

Caption For Binfield, All Saint's Church C1955

An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in

Caption For Basildon, Whitmore Way 1961

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a post office, a Martin's newsagent and a much-needed chip shop.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Hill, The Junction With Tipton Road C1960

Between the two buildings runs the railway, at a much lower level. On the opposite side of the road stands the Plaza cinema with the Hippodrome theatre next to it.

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, From The Chancel 1886

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

Caption For Inverlochy, Castle C1890

1645, after a forced march covering 30 miles in 36 hours over difficult terrain in some of the worst weather in living memory, that the great Marquess of Montrose, with fewer than 2000 men, defeated a much

Caption For Loughborough, All Saints Parish Church C1950

fabric of the present building is known to date from the 16th century, there is internal evidence in the roof beams and fireplaces, and in the large use of timber on one of the external walls, of a much

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Caption For New Brighton, Lighthouse 1892

This was a period when thousands of hard-working Liverpudlians took their families on a much-needed break.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Caption For Lowestoft, London Road North 1896

Here we see solid Victorian architecture in this tree-lined street, with one well-established family retail chain much in evidence.

Caption For Nantwich, Parish Church 1898

Much of the structure dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that building work was probably interrupted by the Black Death and only resumed much later that same century.

Caption For Much Wenlock, The Bull Ring C1955

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

Caption For Oxted, High Street 1908

Although there has been much expansion in Oxted, this part, known as Old Oxted, has retained much of its charm.

Caption For Sheet, Village Green 1898

Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.

Caption For Cranborne, Wimborne Street 1954

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.