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Southall Havelock Road 1960ish
I remember the dairy in Havelock road i was a milkboy helping a milkman on a round in a bedford van doing as far as heathrow airport driving across the tarmac to the aircraft hangers, try that now, i remember waiting ...Read more
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Seaview Caravan Park Swalecliffe.
My mum still has a caravan on this site and must be the longest tenant/owner as I am now 60 and she first bought a van on that site 50+ years ago. I remember the gas lights, walking the overnight pee bucket to ...Read more
A memory of Swalecliffe in 1960 by
Schooldays
Going to Mr Allens chemist and walking to Sandhurst street School'also going to the public library over the swimming baths
A memory of Oadby in 1948 by
School Camp
Our school, Park Modern Secondary, was situated in Barking Essex just outside of the east end of London. Each year, we had school camp at Sweets farm on the top of Dundry Hill, where we would camp for two weeks. We were told repeatedly ...Read more
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Salford Childhood Memories
When the Beatles took off in the early sixties, me and my friends couldn't believe it in those dark rainy school days mornings, something to brighten them up, so we used to pretend to be the Beatles. I was John ...Read more
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Saint Claires Convent/Pantasaph
I was there in the convent along with my 2 sisters from 1955 to 1959. I truly sympathise with the children who experienced the terrible suffering as we did whilst placed there. My auntie was a friend of the nuns and ...Read more
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Roy Rogers Fan Club
I remember dressing up in my cow-girl outfit, Saturday matinee on Factory Lane at the pictures, the manager worked so hard to organise everything. I have a photo showing us all, happy memories. My mother used to to go the ...Read more
A memory of Harpurhey in 1952
Roundabout And Big Tree
I used to live in Lawrie Park Gardens from 1955 until 1962 and the local youngsters used to congregate at the big tree on the roundabout at the end of Lawrie Park Avenue. At times there were around 10-15 of us all sitting ...Read more
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Roller Skating Ring ,Army Barracks, Bakery,Swimming Baths
Yes, Sutton had it all it was a great place; parks and ponds to skate on in winter.
A memory of Sutton in 1960 by
Redhill Swimming Baths
I remember the old swimming baths, just round the corner, and have pleasant childhood memories. The building was made of red sandstone and us kids used to grind red dust out of the walls with our 1d coins whilst queueing to ...Read more
A memory of Redhill in 1972 by
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Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.
Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters
This view shows the Georgian façade of the New Bath Hotel, originally known as Mr Tyack's New Bath Hotel.
Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which
These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).
The smaller bathing machines seen here are bearing advertising posters for Pears Soap, one of the most popular and widely advertised Victorian retail products.
The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures
Lines of hotels along the sea front testify to Sandown's continued popularity through the 20th century.
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened.
A view looking north west, past the tower and along the east wall of the harbour, to Ireland's Eye.
In the centre of the picture are a number of coal and stores hulks, and also what appears to be the turret-ship HMS 'Conqueror', built at Chatham and carrying a main armament of 2 x 45-ton guns
Lines of hotels along the sea front testify to Sandown's continued popularity through the 20th century.
It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.
Bathing has not always been the family pastime it is today.
Were bathing machines (right) being used as late as 1929?
This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened.
Below Newgate Gap Bridge, on the right hand side, was Charlotte Pettman's original sea water baths, and she claimed that her bathing machines were far superior to any others.
Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents.
Weymouth became popular as a seaside resort thanks to the patronage of George III, who came to bathe here for the good of his health.
With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, bathing machines; those for the ladies were on Paignton beach, and those for the gentlemen on Preston
The coastline bulging out around the Wish Tower affords a vantage point for views north-east along the beach; this view shows the horse-drawn bathing machines on their large wheels plying their trade
The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.
The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing.
A good bathing day beneath Appley Cliffs, which give shelter to Shanklin's southern beaches.
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