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Caravan Holiday In 50s
My parents had a caravan at The Old Coastguards close to Seasalter Sailing Club from 50s to 70s. It had only 3 caravans on it. I regularly got up early as a child to accompany the site owner, a super guy, while he followed the ...Read more
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Happy Times
During the last war my father served in the Merchant Navy and saw Aberdaron from the sea, that was to be the beginning of many trips and a life-long love of the village. I started going to Aberdaron at about the age of six and have been ...Read more
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Peckham The Fishmonger
My great grandfather, Henry William Peckham was a fishmonger, mentioned in Brown's Directory of 1882. He is reputed to have owned some land on the coast/beach/promenade at Douglas. Here fish was sold 'on the front' from a ...Read more
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Heswall Beach
I remember staying at the hospital and going to Heswall beach and playing on the aeroplane in the back garden at the hospital,it was about 1965
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"Bre's Tree" Linslade Bedfordshire
I lost my wife on new years eve 2021 following three years of her illness with vascular dementia. No one really told me how things would progress with this dreadful illness and so I just tried my hardest to cram ...Read more
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Snapshots
As a very little boy we moved from Birkenhead in the North West, Merseyside to Luton. It was the 1950s and my Dad had a job in Vauxhall's. His brother Tom was already a General Foreman there and his younger brother John (that's what we all called ...Read more
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25 Years In Beaconsfield.
Born in Wembley, I arrived in the New Town of Beaconsfield in 1957 aged 5. With my younger sister and my parents. I left home at 17 but returned occasionally until 1981 when my parents moved to Scotland. I lived in ...Read more
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Bognor Childhoo Holidays
I came down to Bognor with my family for a three week holiday every summer in the late 50s early 60s, first from Redhill and then from Godalming, Surrey It was mostly on the train, and the last time we came it was in our ...Read more
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Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties
My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play with, ...Read more
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60 Years On And I Still Love It!
My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community centre ...Read more
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Just visible on the left is the roof of Beech Cottage, by 1927 owned by Sidney Howard Smith.
Over the parish boundary in Carshalton in what was named Carshalton Beeches, lavender fields were developed in the years after after 1905.
The beech tree after which the hotel is named has long disappeared.
Lord Beeching closed this branch line in 1964.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.
In the autumn the beech trees of Cranham turn a glorious gold, attracting visitors from far and wide.
We are looking west over the village pond into Manor Road; the house on the left is The Beeches.
The road climbs here along the chalk amid the beech woods of the Paradise Plantation.
Dr Beeching axed the line in 1964, although the tall, slim station building can be seen to this day.
Situated at the top of a steepish hill on the road from Heswall, the entrance to Beech Farm is on the right in our picture.
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is also well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham
With the coming of the Beeching cuts, trains to Cleethorpes virtually disappeared, and Wonderland correspondingly suffered - as has the station.
With the coming of the Beeching cuts, trains to Cleethorpes virtually disappeared, and Wonderland correspondingly suffered - as has the station.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
The road forward has been a cul-de-sac since Lord Beeching closed the railway in 1964, giving room for a by-pass to Andover and Basingstoke and the roundabout now facing the White Hart Inn.
This picturesque quarter of Tetbury leads from the north-east corner of the Chipping to a triangular green with a splendid copper beech tree.
Ash, wych elm and beech trees line the valley to augment this glorious spot.
The busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war
This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.
Before the Beeching axe fell, trains stopped at Rudgwick, on the line between Horsham and Guildford.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
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