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Stanley Road, South Harrow
I lived with my foster family in Stanley Road South Harrow, during the war. Our house backed on to the gas works and I always wanted to climb the gasometer which I did eventually with a friend from across the road. At ...Read more
A memory of South Harrow in 1940 by
Good Teachers
Does anyone remember the teachers at the Sutton Primary School? The Headmaster Mr. Curwen, Mr. Andrews, Miss Staines, and Miss Walker. In those days we spent a lot of time outside in the countryside studying nature, dancing around ...Read more
A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1940 by
Hairdressers Barbers
Would anyone remember the name and exact location of a hairdressers/barbers shop in Kettering Regent Street area? Looking at late 1920's onwards.
A memory of Kettering by
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
A memory of Howden-le-Wear by
Children Of The War
MY BROTHER AND I WERE EVACUATED TO LAMPETER IN JULY OF 1944 COMING FROM LONDON AS OUR HOUSE WAS BOMBED. WE WERE TAKEN IN BY MARY AND JOHN POWELL IN "BARLEY MOW". EVEN THOUGH THESE WERE TRYING TIMES FOR OUR PARENTS, IT WAS THE HAPPIEST TIME OF MY CHILDHOOD. AUDREY [LATTER] VOELKER
A memory of Lampeter in 1944 by
Carnforth Lodge Lancaster Road
As a child in the 1960’s and 70’s I went several times with my family to visit Mrs Esther Pomfret (Auntie Ettie to us; she was a relation of my father's) at Carnforth Lodge, Lancaster Road. I don't think this is shown ...Read more
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Coney Hall 1950/60s
This picture brings back many memories. I was born in 1953 and lived in Coney Hall until 1972, attending school at Wickham Common and then Hawes Down Secondary. The view from where this picture was taken is not dramatically ...Read more
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Madeley As It Was
I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more
A memory of Madeley in 1949 by
Delamere By Sid Grant
The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside. My time spent there was from age ...Read more
A memory of Delamere in 1930 by
Just Down The Road From Us
Our family lived in the village of West Horsley all of my life, I was born in 51, my sister in 49 and my youngest sister 56. We used to bike down to Ripley and Ockham. I went to school at Sir Walter Raleigh, and Howard of ...Read more
A memory of Ripley in 1960 by
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Barley and fuel for the furnaces were brought to Stortford by water, and latterly by rail.
On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen
By this time the Vaults have disappeared to make way for the Barley Mow.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
The three shops on the right, where the barber's pole is, were demolished in the 1970s to make the entrance to Bowen Square.
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
East Anglia has a long tradition for growing malting barley, and Ipswich had a number of maltings. R & W Paul's was right on the dockside.
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley. It was modernised in about 1530, and again in 1627, when the gallery and stairs were inserted.
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley. It was modernised in about 1530, and again in 1627, when the gallery and stairs were inserted.
The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,
Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.
Local thatch was originally made of wheat, rye or barley straw, but now longer- lasting reed is often used.
The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.
It exported copper, iron, slate, barley, bobbins, gunpowder and leather all over the Empire.
The barber's pole which can just be made out on the left indicated a men's hairdressers.
The turrets, beyond the barber's shop, decorate the United Reformed Christ Church, which was built in 1865. The tall chimney rises above Crampoaks Mill, and was demolished around 1960.
The old Barley Mow public house was based in the last building on the left. We now take the road towards Yateley.
On the south bank of the river is the Barley Mow, which is featured in Three Men in a Boat.
The 16th-century premises of H F Smith are now a shop dealing in ethnic ornaments, whilst the barber's shop (see the stripy pole) now sells antiques. The girl's panama hat is typical of the period.
The Earl of Huntingdon lived nearby, and the village gets the other half of its name from his association with barley farming. The Queen Mother has made several visits to Earls Barton.
This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers
Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop. The shops to the left have been converted into private dwellings.
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