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The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
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Anyone From Or Remember Barmore Street
Hello, I spent my early childhood in Barmore Street, which holds special memories. I do have an old photo showing a Street Party, which I will endeavour to upload (not sure how yet). The Queens Head Pub was on ...Read more
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Growing Up In A Small Village
My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more
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Lovely Holidays In Fleetwood
I was born in 1942, and most of my hoidays as a child were spent in Fleetwood. We usually stayed in Balmoral Terrace with the McGurk family who had a daughter called Marilyn. They also had a lovely golden spaniel which ...Read more
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Dow St Salford
I lived at 10 Dow St, Salford, during the 50s.. I remember there was a shop on the corner owned by Mrs Conner`s .. On a Saturday my mum would shop on Lwr Broughton Rd, and a treat would be to stop off at the Milk Bar for a ...Read more
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Tanktops And Bellbottoms
Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more
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Ernie Kidd
Ernie Kidd always wanted me to run cross country for my house Balmoral but at the same time I was boxing for Malmesbury. When I told him I had to box that evening and could do the cross country. He said ok but you had better win your boxing. He was a good teacher.Eric lewis
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40s/50s
Early memories of Buckhurst Hill. Re. Mark Brazier's message. Yes I remember the Three Colts and the French family. The son David was a close friend so I spent a lot of time there. I remember your mother and father Audrey and Ged ...Read more
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Milk Deliveries By Handcart
I spent the first ten years of my life living in Osborne Road and Stevens Dairy was at the end of the road. Mr Stevens used to deliver milk on a three wheeled handcart - customers would take out a jug and he would ladle the ...Read more
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842, and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.
Queen Victoria's Scottish physician Sir James Clark thought that the climate of upper Deeside might alleviate their rheumatism, and they took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847, subsequently rebuilding
The guns appear to bear more resemblance to those used at Waterloo than to those that would be used eight years later at the outbreak of the Great War.
A year after its opening, on 28 August 1851, Queen Victoria's Royal Train crossed the viaduct as it took the royal family to Balmoral Castle.
The creeper-covered frontage of Balmoral Cottage on the left was the home of William Finch and his wife at this time.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842 and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.
Now Lydney's industrial estate is situated in this area, although one commercial vessel - the MV Balmoral - still uses the port to carry pleasure passengers along the estuary in summer.
Following the death of Sir Robert Gordon in 1847, his brother the Earl of Aberdeen suggested that Victoria and Albert might like to take over the lease on Balmoral.
The present memorial, a Balmoral red granite column erected in 1912, supersedes a large stone (known as the 'Martyr Stone') which has since been taken to Dale Castle.