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A Great Place To Live
Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
A Happy Time
I was born in 1965 at Cliveden and lived in Grubwood Lane near the entrance to Quarry Woods with my parents for 16 years. I remember walking to Cookham Dean Primary School where the headmaster Mr Turner made my life a misery! I ...Read more
A memory of Cookham Dean in 1965
A Life In Consett
I was born in Consett in 1951 and spent all of my life here, I can remember lots of things mentioned in previous letters especially the Rex, I spent lots of Saturday mornings there, also Rossi's and Dyambro's on Saturday afternoons, ...Read more
A memory of Consett in 1951 by
A Lovely Girl And A Bonny Place
It's a bit unfair to say my memory is from 2000, as it actually goes back to when I was born (1980) and only ends last year (2008). My earliest memories are of being at my Aunty Stella's. She wasn't really an ...Read more
A memory of Denton Burn in 2000 by
A Native Of Tynemouth In Exile
I was born in Tynemouth, in Percy Park, the road leading down to the sea by the Grand Hotel. In 1956, I began at Tynemouth Prep. School, now The Kings School, in Huntington Place. I live in Hampshire now, but, I have ...Read more
A memory of Tynemouth in 1955 by
A Rural Childhood
I was born in 1941 and lived at Austage End, Kings Walden; next door were my grandparents, Bob and Jessie. Bob was employed on the Harrison estate as a Game-keeper. I have photos of the V.E. and V.J. day parties. I attended the village school when the head teacher was Miss Etherington.
A memory of King's Walden in 1941 by
A Wonderful Time In Copper Street
My name is Carole McCarthy (nee MALONE) I was born in December 1951 in a maternity unit on Rochdale Road near to the Embassy Club. I lived in Copper Street in Collyhurst which had Barney's at the bottom of the ...Read more
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A Wartime Child
I was born in 1935 at 25 Cambridge Road, maiden name Lee. There were six of us, parents, 2 older sisters, Beryl and Gwen, and grandmother. I remember many of the shops from the late 30's to the early 50's when we moved to Surrey. ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow in 1930 by
A Wonderful Aunt
My Aunt Emma was born Emma Blood, she had two sisters Ivy and Lily all born in Middleton by Wirksworth. Emma was born circa 1903. In the 1920s she was a domestic at what she called the 'big house at Ashbourne'. She ...Read more
A memory of Middleton by
A Wonderful Time
My family and I lived at 157 Wilmslow Road, it had just been built so all of us who lived on the road moved in around the same time, and it was a wonderful. My parents George and Thelma Goddard, had the three of us then, Georgina, ...Read more
A memory of Handforth in 1955 by
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Born in Cambridge in 1882, Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs was undoubtedly the world's greatest cricket batsman of his time.
Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market.
The imposing 18th-century building on the right with the round-headed doorway has a twin nearly opposite.
Greenock was a beneficiary of the River Clyde's industrial heyday.
The castle was originally a motte and bailey.
The market was established in 1279 with a charter granted by Edward I, but Newtown's growth is due mainly to the application of technology to the cottage-based woollen industry.
Cookham will forever be associated with the artist Stanley Spencer who was born in Cookham in 1891 and died in 1959.
The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done.
An interesting collection of old cars can be seen along the left-hand side of the road next to the tea rooms on the main street of this pleasant village.
The village of Charlton lies about 3/4 mile to the south-west of Hitchin.
The home of George Bernard Shaw has remained unchanged since his death: his hat still hangs in the hall, whilst his typewriter stands on his study desk where he wrote 'Pygmalion', 'Back to Methuselah'
Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before
Locally named the Pepperpot, it was erected in 1850 on Hoad Hill to commemorate Ulverston-born Sir John Barrow, a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.
Harold G Turner Born in nearby Ardingly in 1885, Harold Turner became a well-known architect, particularly after his successful Gidea Park project in Essex in 1910.
The broad thoroughfare reflects not only the market town but also its link with the sea.
Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.
The photographic record importantly shows the villages at different stages of their expansion and repays careful study in understanding the way they have evolved.
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