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Warts And All
From Ethel Charnock to Ethel Middleton when I migrated and married an Australian. I was born in 1933 attended St James Church of England, the eldest of four kids, two sisters and one brother. We lived in Needwood Street off ...Read more
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Wartime Memory
I wonder if any reader remembers a bizarre experiment which took place in 1941/2. Large containers of diesel, or some sort of oil, were placed at intervals outside houses on the grass verge. a short chimney was attached & topped ...Read more
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Wartime Evacuee
In1939 I was for a short while evacuated to Delabole with my elder brother, I have very few memories as I was 5 at the time,. We stayed with Mr & Mrs. Mules (amended from Mills 19.07.2018) They lived at "St. Michaels" a property ...Read more
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Wartime Evacuation To Auldgirth
My mother and I evacuated from Glasgow to Auldgirth in 1941 to escape the bombing immediately following the Clydebank bombing. We stayed with a wonderful family called Collins who were friends of my father's ...Read more
A memory of Auldgirth
Wareham, River Frome, 1954 66
My father and I had boats on the river for many years, on the moorings in the picture. The boat with the cabin sporting a port hole in the side belonged to me. I spent most of my childhood on Wareham's rivers, fishing and boating.
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Wardown Park Luton
In the days when we had "real" winters, (where did they go), Wardown Park Lake would freeze over and we would walk out over the ice and make slides. One year there were ice skaters on the lake and I borrowed an old pair that I had ...Read more
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War Time In Shirley
I was born in Croydon in 1936, and lived In West Way, Shirley. My mother could not bear to part with us, so we lived at home all through the war. A bomb was dropped into the garden next door. After six months it was discovered it ...Read more
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War Time Havant Road, Cosham
I was born in 1938 and my maternal grandparents lived in a tiny shop on Havant Road, Cosham. I remember I used to write to them occasionally which is how I remember the address. I can't ,though, recall the number. Their ...Read more
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Walthamstow In The 1940s
I was born in Thorpe Coombe Hospital in 1943, and lived in Corbett Road until I was seven - until I was 4, at number 37, with my mum, nan and grandpa, two aunts and one cousin; then at number 45, just me and my mum. ...Read more
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Walter Willson/Embassy Dancehall
Jean Sheard mentions the Embassy Dancehall. This was not actually opposite St Bartholomew's Church but a bit further north, a little short of the junction with Northumberland Avenue. In the mid 1950s young girls ...Read more
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Shortly after this picture was taken in 1906, cliff erosion caused a part of the building to collapse; the remainder was demolished in 1907.
The station, which lies a short distance to the left along Market Street, was used as a set during the filming of 'Brief Encounter'.
At 240ft long, she is just 10ft short of the size limit for the harbour.
Viewed shortly after its restoration, this cross with a shaft and a figure of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century - the ball on top dates from the time of Queen Anne.
The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.
Launceston was probably built shortly after the suppression of a Cornish rebellion in 1068.
The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.
970ft above sea level, Slack Top is a short distance from the cobbled streets of Heptonstall and was large enough to sustain the massive Mount Zion Baptist chapel (1878).
The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.
St Joseph's Catholic church stands in Arrowe Park Road, just a short step from the main cross-roads in the village.
This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.
The club house was rebuilt shortly before this photograph was taken.
It is hard to believe that when this pier was built, it was so far away from the town centre that the revenue it generated fell far short of what had been anticipated.
It is hard to believe that when this pier was built, it was so far away from the town centre that the revenue it generated fell far short of what had been anticipated.
Set a short distance away from the Cromer to Norwich road, Aldborough offers a spacious prospect with cottages grouped round a broad green.
The cottages were demolished shortly after this photograph was taken and have since been replaced by modern bungalows.
Today, the pub has been extended, and the A590 bypasses Haverthwaite, leaving this piece of road as a short cul-de-sac.
He died shortly after it was finished and William Rock bought it in 1888 to give to the town.
Notice the decorator up his ladder taking a short break to make sure he is in the picture.
At 621ft, it was much higher than Blackpool's, and was the tallest structure in Britain.Its life was somewhat short.
Yealmpton, always pronounced Yampton, stands on the River Yealm near to the end of its short journey from Dartmoor to the sea.
It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.
Sometimes a lot of change can take place in a very short time.
Now a United Reformed Church in weekly use, this flint church has lost its neighbouring large tree and the central bell tower and short spire.
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