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The Anchor
I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The Anchor ...Read more
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Lennard's
Hi my name is Peter McGuire and i went to Lennard's from 1960 to 1965 My class was in upper 4A in the science lab at the back of the school. The teacher was Farrier (not sure of spelling) who left us in our year of GCE's . It may seem ...Read more
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Ex St Roberts Catholic School Harrogate
Born in Waterloo Street, Harrogate, in early 1940s. Attended above school until left in 1956. Started work at J.S.Driver, grocers on Beulah Street, Stan Wood manager. Remember 'Syncopated Sandy,' playing ...Read more
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Shops
Bryant's Post Office with Mrs Robson, a Queen Motherish figure always dressed in a black two piece, dishing out pensions, stamps and postal orders from the aloof position behind her cage. Duggie Bain's cobblers, the warm oily smell, my ...Read more
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Nostalgia
I used to walk past the prefabs twice a day. I lived in Cattistock Rd and, after finishing at Castlecombe at the age of eleven, went to Edgebury, so I would cross Elmstead Lane and walk up Walden Ave and back in the afternoon. My parents had ...Read more
A memory of Mottingham
Thorne As I Remember
So much and so little time; Green Top Primary School, happy days before the big move up to the Grammar School or North Eastern Road Secondary Boys. Mr Morris for metal work, Mr Snow for woodwork. Mr Colin Ella for religious ...Read more
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Thurstaston 66 To Today
I found Thurstaston when I was 10 years old. I lived in Norris Green and used to travel nearly every weekend for years. The tip was still open and if you where very lucky you could get a lift on the back of a bin wagon ...Read more
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More On Colindale
It's quite some time since I submitted my 'War Times, and a bit more' and having read a few later submissions I thought I might as well add a few more observations. Many have suggested that for those who moved away many years ago ...Read more
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Open Air Swimming Pool
Yes....it was cold. Not as cold as the grammar school open air pool mind when swimming lessons began in May term. My aunt Edith Baines used to teach at the open air pool, and by the end of the summer she was the colour of teak !
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Captions
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The River Bain flows out of Semerwater, the largest lake in the old North Riding, and into the Ure.
Howard's fine shop front on the left, now demolished, is now Baines Walk, leading to the 1990s Chesham Town Hall, named in honour of Arnold Baines, a councillor but also an eclectic local historian noted
This view shows the most striking, the Park Avenue Methodist church, a typical design by George Baines and Son, which dates from 1924.
On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's
Writing in 1822, Edward Baines said of the area that 'on the whole, Saddleworth is an interesting, though an uninviting part of the country, and the Mountaineers of this region, like those of Switzerland
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.
In 1824, Baines said that the hall was 'plain, comfortable and commodious', and that the exterior had recently been renovated with a coat of Roman cement.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was “a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter”.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
In this picture, Baines`s (in the distance, left) was still flourishing.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
When our cameraman visited Newton Aycliffe, it was still very much a new town and was still being developed by the Grenfell Baines Group.
It is drained by England's shortest river, the Bain, which runs into Wensleydale at Bainbridge.
Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.
Like Baines Charity School in Poulton, the children held a barring-out day once a year when by tradition the master was locked out.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
It was designed in 1905 by Albert Edward Lambert in standard red brick Gothic style, as opposed to the Art Nouveau of his contemporary George Baines.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.
