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Joining Marianne Thornton School When First Opened
Hi I was at a school in Balham for 1 year before we moved into the brand new MT School. The first year at Balham school was horrible we had a very strict teacher called Miss Smart. She used to ...Read more
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1950s In Hook Heath, Woking
In 1949/50 my parents moved to Little Morton, Hook Heath Road when I was 2 years old. The house (now advertised as having 6 bedrooms) seemed enormous and the garden was very large. In about 1960 my parents sold part of it ...Read more
A memory of Hook Heath
Memories Of Market Drayton
This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands West; ...Read more
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"Jeffery" Sweet Shop
My Husband can remember going to a Sweet Shop in Devizes that was owned by his Aunt & Uncle. He says it was in the High Street Devizes. He can remember stepping up into it. We can find no trace of it. His Aunt & Uncle were ...Read more
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Talke A Forgotten Village
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more
A memory of Talke in 1959
Suntrap School. 1956 To 1961.
My name is Terry Hendy. I attended Suntrap school from 1956to 1961. I have very happy memories of the school and although away from home I was very well looked after and fed well. 1 saw the photo of Mr Brooks and Mr Campbell ...Read more
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The Welling Mods: Long Gone But Never Forgotten
We were like one huge crazy family, not only from Welling, but also from the surrounding towns of Blackfen, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Dartford, Eltham, Plumstead and Woolwich - even as far as from the other ...Read more
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Haywards Heath, The Sergison Arms C1960
I was a fairly regular customer at "The Serg" from about 1955 to 1967. Mr Turner was the first landlord I knew and he was succeeded by Stan and Betty Allen who came from "The Charter" at Epsom.
A memory of Haywards Heath
Charles Arthur Samphier Born12 5 1937 Wyatts Green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts Stores ...Read more
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Happy Days
I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more
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It is a curious Tudor 'alien' in the Georgian and Victorian town centre.
The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here
It is possible that one of them lay on the site of Ware Mill, later part of the factory of Allen & Hanbury.
John Macadam, who is remembered in the church, once employed a local man, George Allen, to manufacture an iron ring.
A prominent monument inside commemorates Wedgwood Allen of the Royal Flying Corps as a knight in armour.
A war memorial at Colehill, which is situated just above the River Allen and not far from Wimborne.
A discreet industrial intrusion into this agricultural plain on the River Allen, this paper mill had been in operation for more than 100 years when this photograph was taken, and continues
Shops include the premises of William Frederick Allen, tailor and woollen draper, Henry Aggso, piano manufacturers and Mattacks, booksellers.
Fred Thacker waxes lyrical about Boulters Lock and its unspoilt setting in his 'Thames Highway' - 'a memory of Boulters Lock this which compensates for all the alien things of Maidenhead', he says.
Bridge Cottage Tea Parlour (centre) doubled as a newsagent's under the ownership of Edgar Allen, and also advertised a wide range of entertainments, from 'Viva Zapata' at the Lyric Cinema, Bridport, to
Now part of the City of Bath, this once provided access to the Bath stone quarries of the 18th-century magnate Ralph Allen.
This was Allen Bridge, but it fell into disrepair in the 18th century and was eventually replaced at the same spot by the present structure, known as Canford Bridge.
It was dissolved as an alien house in 1411, and none of the original premises survived.
A glass and steel addition can be seen cantilevered from the back of the building, purposely built as the Excelsior Studios by photographer Charles Smith Allen.
Mr Leonard Alden, who ran a tailor and outfitter's business, had one of these houses.
Swinburne's happier lyrics may have been inspired by his frequent visits to the Isle of Wight, though the greater body of his work has a bleakness and pessimism that seems alien to this beauti-
Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.
Its poor students were provided with furnished rooms, and meals that were taken communally; alien concepts to the well-heeled of Oxford and Cambridge.
The premises of Allen's, the grocers, behind the horses are now occupied by a stove and kitchen shop, and the building on the right is now a private house.
The premises of Allen's, the grocers, behind the horses are now occupied by a stove and kitchen shop, and the building on the right is now a private house.
W E Allen was the chemist and next door, F C Rump sold cigarettes and picture postcards.
This picturesque village sits in a beautiful valley between the Rivers Camel and Allen.
Situated at the head of the valley of the East Allen, Allenheads was an important centre for the lead-mining industry from the late 18th to the mid 19th century; the mines here produced around 14 per
The near absence of motor cars makes street scenes such as this seem quite alien to us now.
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