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An Old Mill.
In 1949 I and a friend cycled out from Eastcote, just trying to reach beyond the urban sprawl. I know we came to West Hyde. What lead us to the banks of the Grand Union Canal, I fail to remember. About half a mile or so, we came on an ...Read more
A memory of West Hyde by
The Creek
I, my sisters and my cousins often spent our summer holidays in the 50's with my Grandmother (Ivy Eddy nee Bryant) in her cottage by the culvert as shown in the photo of the creek. The boat wreck in the picture was a sailing barge owned by ...Read more
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Roll On Easter It's Time For Jaywick Again
My uncle Steve owned a bungalow in Jaywick Sands, "Abijan", at 18 Lavender Walk where I spent my childhood bank holidays and annual six week school holiday between 1945 and 1953 and occasionally short breaks in ...Read more
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Early Years
We moved to Watford in 1943. My war time memories are of night after night in the shelters, the "doodle bugs" and the boys playing Germans and soldiers on the bomb site next door. My special memories are of Cassiobury Park where we used to ...Read more
A memory of Watford by
On The Beach Below The Junction Of Esplanade And Thorpe Hall Avenue
From the location of the semi-circular bastion which is situated halfway between the Lynton Rd. and Burges Terrace junctions with the Esplanade, - and the width of the beach, - even ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe Bay by
Blast From The Past.
Wow, did that ever shake me to the core. The names Richardson and Fairminer, Long and a few others sprang to mind as fellow pupils at the local Primary School. In those days I lived in Worsley Road. I can remember fishing ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
Small Boy Memories.
I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more
A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by
Random Memories Of Rudheath
I have fond memories of making butter at Bill Walker's farm at the top of Wessex Drive and then going to play in the playing field next door. I also remember speeding down 'Spibey's Hill' on my way to play at the brook in ...Read more
A memory of Rudheath
Before They Built The Reservoir
In the 1950s I used to stay with my grandparents in their bungalow (The Aspens, adjacent to Raynor's Farm) in what is now called Farm Road; it is not even a road now but simply an access gate to the reservoir. Back ...Read more
A memory of Wraysbury in 1955 by
My Grandparents The Lock Keepers, Mr And Mrs Denyer
I have very happy memories of my grandparents. My grandad had an enormous beard, and grandma always wore a long flowered apron. Grandad used to sit me on the handle of the lock gate while he slowly ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1940 by
Captions
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This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood.
Redundant barges, relics from the D-Day landings, were filled with concrete and sunk to extend the slipway.
To the right is the 'Lord Warden' sailing barge, and behind her is the old fish market, which was destroyed in World War I.
Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment
The furthest boat is a steam-powered tug, which will move the immaculate coal-laden barge.
The shallow-draught Thames sailing barge aground on the sands dominates this photograph, taken from the foot of the Elizabethan stone jetty.
Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar
The final cargo of corn arrived by barge from Hull in September 1931.
Opposite are the early 18th-century Red Lion Cottages, which have the same barge boards as the pub.
The ground-floor level of the picturesque building in the centre is now, rather unfortunately, a Burger King outlet.
The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.
In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.
This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.
Barges plying the Medway once tied up here.
Note how low barges could come up under the mills for unloading and refilling.
In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.
It must have been thirsty work on the barges.
Wareham Cement Works was situated beside Ridge Wharf, which also exported ball clay in barges hauled by steam launches.
The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.
The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods.
Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.
Behind the trees is the Foxton inclined plane, a late 19th-century engineering feat that lifted loaded barges up the hillside in a cradle.
In the foreground lies the Pool of London, the province of London watermen for generations.The river, at the end of Victoria’s reign, is still busy with flat barges and sailing ships.
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