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Summer Of '63
Hello. Although I spent all of my early life - that is up to the age of 21 - in Penge, South London, I also spent some time(s) in Ash (Kent) during August to December, 1963. I have already written about my early life in ...Read more
A memory of Ash by
Childhood Memories Of Twycross
I remember moving to Twycross with Mum and Dad (Leslie and Louie Jones) and it was in the middle of the war. Dad had to go into the RAF and I remember going to Atherstone Station to meet him one day when he came home ...Read more
A memory of Twycross in 1941 by
Gisborough Hall Nursing Home
This photo rings back memories of delivering meat to nursing home on a bi weekly basis, In the 1960’s this hall was used as a nursing home and my dad supplied the meat. My memories were of the heat from the kitchen, ...Read more
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Oh To Be Young Again
I remember when I first moved to Aveley, I was 7 years old. My nan lived in the prefabs and my mother, brother and myself moved in with her until they were demolished when I was eight years old. Then we moved into Hall Avenue, most ...Read more
A memory of Aveley in 1960 by
Redhill 1942 1958
Just come across this site,so many memories ,the odeon,Market hall,animal Market,swimming baths etc but also worked at Cowleys ironmongers on Saturday's,delivered papers from nearby papers shop on Sunday's.went to st Mathews ...Read more
A memory of Redhill in 1950 by
A Day With My Granny Baird
back in the years 1947 /1950 ,my grand mother and I would spend a day at Hazelwood ,if I recall correctly by the steps they had a little carnival ,then we would make our way to the Floral hall ,which in those days had a ...Read more
A memory of Belfast in 1949 by
"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.
Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and 1955 ...Read more
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10 Grafton Road
My dad, Cecil Edwards, had a newsagents and tobacconists shop in Grafton Road. We lived behind and over the shop. One of my abiding memories is going to Woolworths in the High Street to spend my saved pocket money on Christmas ...Read more
A memory of New Malden in 1955 by
14th Bournemouth Cub Scouts (St Saviour's)
I moved to Bournemouth in 1954 when my dad got a job there with Williams Deacons Bank. He bought a house at 84 Petersfield Road, Boscombe. I went to Southbourne Junior School which was about two miles away so ...Read more
A memory of Boscombe in 1954 by
1930 2012
1935: went to Crowland Rd. School till 1939 - lived in Gladesmore Rd. Moved to Pelham Road 1939 with brother Derek and sister Connie. Started at Seven Sisters school. Evacuated to Baldock, I contracted diphtheria, thankfully survived, ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham in 1940 by
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There had been a house (probably half-timbered) at Bank Hall in the Middle Ages, but in about 1780 it was decided to improve the building, and the structure seen in the picture was the result.
An idyllic scene: flowers in the foreground, the lake and the boat house against a setting of trees and shrubs — but the chimney of Bank Hall Colliery is a reminder that we are in Burnley.
Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.
The design for this park cleverly concealed a mineral railway line, which crossed the park from Bank Hall Colliery (owned by the Thursbys) to join the mineral tramway, which served Rowley Colliery.
In the distance, on the right, is Bank Parade house, once the home of Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925).
Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.
In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the earliest outside London.
To the right is the grandiose Italianate bank of 1883 by the noted architect John Gibson, now the Natwest Bank; its fine banking hall has recently been very well restored.
The classical-style building on the left is the Midland Bank, claimed by many to be one of the town's finest buildings.
The classical-style building on the left is the Midland Bank, claimed by many to be one of the town’s finest build- ings.
Outside Chester stands Eaton Hall, seat of the Duke of Westminster.
Another view of the Old Hall Hotel at Hope, this time taken from the raised bank of the churchyard.
These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.
The classical-style building on the left is the Midland Bank, claimed by many to be one of the town's finest build- ings.
Barclays Bank, which has by now replaced part of the terrace on the left, dates from 1924: it is a typical example of the pretentious architecture beloved of banks.
Grattons, on the right, was replaced in the 1920s by the Midland Bank seen in photograph No 88415, now of course the HSBC bank.
The Barclays Bank building was designed in an Elizabethan style by William Eden Nesfield in 1874 - at the time it was the Gibson and Son bank.
Today, Little Mitton Hall is an hotel.
Today, Little Mitton Hall is an hotel.
We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat
Previously called South Street, this was redeveloped in the late 18th century.
We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.
On the right, occupying part of the Victoria Hall are the premises of the London City and Midland Bank.
On the left is the Lancaster and District Bank, which became part of National Westminster Bank.
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