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Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire
In the post was years as families rebuilt their lives again Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet country ...Read more
A memory of Tralee by
Epsom Army Cadets
We were part of the 3rd Cadet Batallion of the East Surrey Regiment. Our base was the wooden huts erected behind Snows cycle shop in East Street after a German bomb obliterated the infants school that was there. The Officer in charge ...Read more
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Happy Days On Holiday
the first memory I have is my mum taking me and my brother sam to tell my aunt helen Strachan that my father Samuel had died in battle in Burma he was her brother may 1944 i was 4years old after that we visited my helen and ...Read more
A memory of Garelochhead by
Mullet
I used the ferry to get to school in Southampton from 1961 to 1966.I well remember the shoals of Mullet which would gather at the stern of the Hotspur ferry when the boat was awaiting passengers. The river was so clear that the fish ...Read more
A memory of Hythe by
Dancing Classes At The Alhambra Palace
I used to go to Bob Dale's ballroom dancing classes. That would have been around 1956-1959 when I was 13-15 years old. I loved it there and, of course, fell in love with him! If was thrilled in later years when ...Read more
A memory of Droylsden
We're My Roots Lay
I was born in Kelstern 1954, the house I was born in my gran and grandads was next door to the school, sorry to say neither of these exist today, but times move on as they say. My grandparents were Bert and Margery Vickers. My ...Read more
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The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey
heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more
A memory of Laleham
Belgians In Birtley.
Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more
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Eynsford Mill
Further to my other posting, (Swanley, Born and Bred), as a young man I used to work at Eynsford Mill, it was owned by A. Filmer Jacobs, who also owned Shalford Mill, near Guildford, the company was known as Vulcanised Fibre, and they ...Read more
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Always My Home
I was born and grew up in Kelsale. We lived at Rectory Cottages, my brother Perry and my parents, Pam and Aubrey Mann. My grandparents lived at Carlton and the family go back in both church registers to the 1600s. I loved reading ...Read more
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Built in Portland stone and costing £30,000, it was one of the most impressive memorials to be built by a provincial town.
Admittance through the tollgate cost a penny, but a bathchair and attendant was 6d and a perambulator and attendant 3d.
The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.
The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.
Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.
Inside the main window a displayed poster warns 'Don't Help the Enemy, Careless Talk Costs Lives' - no doubt a relic from the Second World War.
It was the toll house, and until 1914 it cost a halfpenny to cross. Opposite, in St George's Field, was the ducking stool used for scoundrels and females who served false measures or brewed bad beer.
Such lamps were often removed during the summer months and were often left unlit on moonlit nights in winter, an impressive example of early civic cost-cutting.
Today it costs 60p to cross.
The market hall was built in 1888 at a cost of £6,000; it lasted less than 100 years, being demolished in 1986.
A survey of the cathedral's west tower in 1971 found serious structural problems, and repairs costing over £500,000 were undertaken in 1974.
Weekly tickets costing 1s (5p) were available for regular visitors.
In 1912 the entrance kiosks were rebuilt with more exotic roofs; beyond is the then new bulbous-roofed Music Pavilion, erected in 1924 at a cost of £15,000.
A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner
A fast rowing boat, a lobster pot and promenaders give an idea of how the Promenade looked in the last years of Victoria's reign.
Even after taking transportation costs into account, cheap labour enabled the Italians to undersell heavy-woollen Yorkshire-made products.
The shop window has a display of boats and a poster asking 'When will Alec Rose arrive?'
The cost isn't helped by the fact that each winter around half a million starlings roost on the bridge!
The old bandstand, known locally as the 'bird cage', cost the large sum of £3,000 when it was built in the early 1890s.
Modernisation took place in 1980-81, costing a reported £250,000. The shoreward end was widened, making the pier's neck all the same width and new buildings were added.
This shows a view towards Camberley, with the newly opened Municipal Offices on the right, built at a cost of £2,339. Next to them is the Victoria Hotel.
A mineral drink, crush drink or milk shake was 6d (2p), and TT milk cost only 4d (2p). The pot of tea, however, is unpriced.
Viscountess Barrington provided funds towards its cost, and Princess Beatrice officially opened it in 1925.
The poster on the right tells us that a single fare to Cowes cost 4 1/2d and 9d return.
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