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Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop
I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more
A memory of Ryton in 1957
Coven Heath School In The 1880s
I didn't go to the school but my great-great-auntie did. I have a letter of hers that I have been transcribing. She says.. "I went to a one roomed school on Coven Heath. I was 3. A young lady was the teacher who ...Read more
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Re Story Of Tales From My Father
I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more
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Smithy House
1969, I visited my great aunt Vi and great uncle Frank at the Smithy House. His anvil is in the center of town. Frank Topley, the last village blacksmith.
A memory of Rolleston on Dove in 1969 by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
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Coastguard Station
We came to Bolt Head in 1950, my father having joined the Coastguard service after being in the Royal Navy for 40 years. I found it quite a way to cycle to work, I worked in the post office in Malborough. I used to go ...Read more
A memory of Bolt Head in 1950 by
Bryn Gearge
I well remember Bryn Gearge ,when we were younger he lived across the back lane from our house. He raced pigeons and often we had to go and look for my father at dinner time as he would be talking to Bryn about pigeon racing.
A memory of Caerau in 1966 by
Salfords Memories Of A Small Boy
We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old ...Read more
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Happy Days
I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more
A memory of Kirn in 1950 by
A Butcher's Lad
Mr Purvis the butcher, whose shop stood on the corner of Talke and Audley Roads, was my Saturday morning employer. He always wore a striped apron and a straw boater hat and sported a rather slick moustache. His manner with the ...Read more
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Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).
The tower at Edge Hill was built in 1750 to commemorate the battle. The mock-Gothic edifice was later used as an inn.
The Severn at Shrewsbury is the haunt of pleasure craft. Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.
At the landing stage a pleasure steamer is about to depart on an afternoon excursion.
The new mills and factories not only changed the skyline of Carlisle: they had a radical impact upon the very nature of the city.
At the time of writing it is the Council Offices for Fylde Borough.
A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.
A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.
At its height the tramway systems serving Manchester and the surrounding area operated over 300 route miles.
The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.
This is the High Wall of the harbour, with Higher Walk on top and Lower Walk below, with the Gin Shop alcove and steps (left).
This full frontal view shows the name clearly written on the building itself in addition to a mural over the main entrance.
A builder balances on a plank across two ladders (centre right) to carry out a meticulous repair to the stone balls on the gate to the Manor.
We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.
Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity
Leading from the High Street to the Square, Bell Street is lined with shops and public houses.
Despite a number of attempts at regeneration, the Lido at Ainsdale was an early casualty of the national move to overseas holidays.
By 1965 the docks at Birkenhead were in severe decline, as we can see from the sparse shipping in these views.
A young girl looks up at the Western Gate as she poses for the photographer.
The River Nene is wide and calm here; at this time, England was busy rebuilding and looking to a brighter future.
Another fine view, this time taken at high tide. The river washes the quayside above the bridge. The Church of St Peter dominates the scene.
The south-west wall is being renovated at the time of writing. The present remains were built in the decorated style between 1270 and 1301.
As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.
The local school is at the heart of many an English community, being used for many local occasions after the end of the school day.
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