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4th June 1961 Jfk Passes Through

It was 4th June 1961 and John F Kennedy was due to pass by Brentford on the Great West Road. The M4 had not yet been built. I went with my friend Graham around 7pm and joined the many people sitting on Macleans wall ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Nick Beard

Visiting My Inlaws

In 1953 I used to visit my in-laws who lived at 19 Rumbold Road, Fulham. I remember when we walked along Kings Road towards the football ground there was an antique shop that had an unusual armchair in the window. It was carved ...Read more

A memory of Chelsea by Vera Otto

May And Baker (Dagenham East)

The May and Baker factory, close to the railway station at Dagenham East was once one of the largest factories in the area. The company was best known for developing the drug quinine to combat malaria, often simply ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by alandvi.187

Gt40

Frank Williams had a garage under the Bowling alley and his cars won Le Mons after being built there.

A memory of Cippenham

1960s In The Parakeet

Spent a lot of my teen age life in the parakeet when Doug and Pam barker owned it. I have very fond memories of my time there. There are so many. I am Dave Kaye known as Danny then. The loss of Doug at the age of about 42 I ...Read more

A memory of Cliftonville by davegkaye

Port Sunlight For A Raf Kid

I was born in 1958. My father was in the RAF. His mother, my grandmother lived at 6 Jubilee Crescent Port Sunlight. Whenever we moved from one RAF camp to another we would stay at my Nanas for a couple of weeks, while ...Read more

A memory of Port Sunlight by kevin.whelan

Childhood

My maternal grandparents lived at The Beeches, 16 Clarendon Road and my parents and I lived with them for my first three years and then returned regularly for holidays for several years. I remember Worthington Park and always having to sit ...Read more

A memory of Sale by Elizabeth Hardcastle

Wish I Could Remember More.

I too remember the bowling alley, and the Odeon cinema, the bus station, and the drip teacakes, and cups of hot tea,

A memory of Halifax by Lynda Josefski

Park, Fields And The Ivy House

I was born in 1947 - youngest of five (4 girls and a boy) lived on Seaforth Avenue. Motspur Park was a great place to grow up, we had such a wonderful childhood. As well as "The Park" at the end of Marina Avenue - ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park

Donaldson Road

Wow, we first moved in to No 20 right on the corner opposite Davy Dun. We came up to stay at our grans in the late 60's. Great times spent helping 'the parky' and sittin around the Maypole with the great clang clang and waiting ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill

Captions

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Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion. Pleated skirts, of the type worn by the two young ladies at the front of the picture, were fashionable at this time.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1960

Tennis courts and bowling greens and other sports facilities, which were funded by Chigwell Urban District, were made available for local people.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Bowling Green C1955

Sited imperiously overlooking the bowling green is the fine Victorian residence Merevale; its foundation stone is dated 7 September 1893.

Caption For Port Sunlight, Bolton Road Bowling Green C1965

Bowls is a quintessentially English sporting activity, and it appealed to the founder of the project.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1960

Parish boundaries cross and re-cross with those of Myerscough and Barton - one boundary cuts through the bowling green of the Roebuck Inn, as it was known in earlier days.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

Caption For Morecambe, The Tower From Central Promenade C1950

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park 1895

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds. The picture shows three buildings — the central one, a shelter, is still with us.

Caption For Bingley, From Altar Row 1894

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

Caption For Oving, Post Office C1955

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.

Caption For Littleborough, Lake Hotel Cafe C1950

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Caption For Rothley, The Park C1955

Over-arm bowling arrived officially in 1864, and the first Test Match was played in Australia in 1877.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling