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Ends Place
I too remember Ends Place from the early 1970s. The old Dear (how rude) as you put it was Mrs Gregson who did not suffer fools gladly but only ever showed me kindness and charm. I would visit her each Friday lunchtime for a ...Read more
A memory of Warnham Court School by
Brown's Fields
We knew this spot as Brown's Fields. Farmer Brown had the dairy in Broad Street and used to drive his cows down the lane by the Lynch. In summer time we used to go down to the river to play and have picnics. In the winter time it ...Read more
A memory of Somerton by
Living There
I was born in Rettendon in 1938. My father (Ernest James Hazell) and mother ( Ellen Wiseman) were both born in the village as were my maternal grandmother and great grandmother. As a child I remember watching aircraft flying home ...Read more
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Redmire Children
My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts. This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten. She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five ...Read more
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1960''s Kidderminster
My dear old hometown. I was 18 when this picture was taken. The Swan pub is on the left, and the Co-Op is where the blinds are. Just around the corner from The Swan was a broad flight of steps leading up into the market ...Read more
A memory of Kidderminster by
Butlins Staff 1976 `77
I had lost my son in a road accident and my marriage broke up. I was a qualified nurse and applied for the post of nurse at Butlins in 1976 (it was very hot that summer). I was the night nurse for two seasons. I met my ...Read more
A memory of Skegness by
Temple Sowerby
My grandparents Lol (Lawrence) and Edith Johnston owned and operated the Black Swan Inn for many years. I would love to find out some family history, their son Tom emigrated to Australia in 1964, I was 2 and my sister ...Read more
A memory of Appleby-in-Westmorland by
Houseboat Ml106 1926 36
Between 1926-36 my grandfather's family lived on an ex WW1 motor launch, known as the ML106, which was moored off Bursledon. My aunt recalls that they were the only ML moored mid river between the bridges, certainly in ...Read more
A memory of Old Milton by
Farming At Stocks Farm 1957 58
Ernie Styles and I started work on my stepfather and mother's farm (Patrick and Annette Lawford) when we were both 17 (1957). There was also Reg Whittear (mechanic/tractor driver, John Spreadbury and George ...Read more
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First Job On Mitcham Council
When I left Singlegate School in 1952, my first job was wih the Mitcham Council Nurseries situated on a road south of the Common. I recall mostly weeding flower beds and washing pots. I did go on occasions in the van ...Read more
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Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.
Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.
This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951.
A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff.
This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.
The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.
In the foreground is Edwin Broad's draper's shop.
Note the children playing in the centre of the picture, and the sun awnings over the first-floor balconies.
Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.
The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the
The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.
Though Fawkham was given a station on the LC & DR railway in the late 19th century it has retained its unspoilt charm and tranquillity.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.
Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.
This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.
This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.
The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227.
Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.
The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.
The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.
In the second half of the 19th century, Coltishall was a major wherry building centre, and even at the time this photograph was taken, Allens were turning out the sleekest, fastest wherries on the Broads
St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.
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