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Happy Days
I went to Wescott Road school in 1950 then St Crispins 1956. I can recall quite a few shops. Herrings furniture where you could buy on HP with no checks, as Mr Herring assessed whether or not you looked trustworthy. NSS newsagents. Next door ...Read more
A memory of Wokingham by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
Eunice Blakely Nursing At Bretby In 1956
In August 1956 I went to Bretby Hall as a Cadet nurse, in 1957 I became a student nurse but sadly had to leave in January 1958 because i developed Dermatitis .We spent so much time cleaning the wards, the trollies ...Read more
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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more
A memory of Harborne in 1940 by
Growing Up In Earl Shilton
I have fond memories of Earl Shilton around the 1950s. My first school was in Wood Street where I lived in a little old cottage, now knocked down. I remember celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at the school, ...Read more
A memory of Earl Shilton in 1950 by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do remember - ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Lafone Secondary School For Girls
It was in 1951 that I attended Lafone secondary school for girls. It was a brand new building and such a change from the other schools I had gone to. I loved it there. It was bright and airy ;had a science ...Read more
A memory of Hanworth by
A Walk For A Pint
I can remember vividly walking from Trafford Road in Salford, all the way up Eccles new Rd with my new wife. Why did we walk? because we had nowt, as we said then. We walked all the way, talking and planning our future. When we got to ...Read more
A memory of Eccles in 1970 by
Captions
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We look eastwards down Church Street from the Main Road on the south side of the Talbot Arms and Doon Beg (far left).
Car ownership is no longer confined to the rich, and the mass-produced, 'sit-up-and-beg' vehicles were now a common sight on the road.
Selling a few icifers was all too often the pretext for begging.
The Calf of Man looking in the general direction of Kione Beg and Gibdale Point.
Frith's photographer would have begged to differ.
As can be seen from the two television aerials sprouting above the rooftop on the right, modern innovations in home entertainment were already making their presence felt in the early sixties.
St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.
The shops behind the `sit up and beg` Ford and the Sunbeam Talbot 90 are occupied by Barnardos and Taylor`s the estate agents, while the whole of Fosters, outfitters, and the shop next door
The village observed old customs: Shrove Tuesday pancake collecting, and Collop Monday, when slices of bacon were begged for after pig killing.
Left of the building is Pudding Bag Lane, so called because like a pudding bag it had only one opening.
On the immediate right is the entrance to the long since demolished Pudding Bag Lane.
, while at J C Stanger flour was around 1s 3d for a 3lb bag; butter 2s 6d a pound; and eggs 3s 10d a dozen.
Our photographer seems to have left his carrying bag in shot, down in the bottom left corner.
This footbridge is still to be found in the village.
This photograph shows a mixed bag of buildings, many of which have since come down in the course of development.
The castle grounds were laid out as public gardens in 1870, and the ladies on the benches may well be nannies, enjoying the sunshine with their young charges.
Customers at the corner shop in c1955 would have paid 4d for a 14oz loaf, 1s 3d for a 3lb bag of flour, and 2s 6d for 1lb of butter.
They have been discharging coal or are loading bagged clay, whereas the berths across the dock are for loading bulk clay, which was tipped into the chutes from lorries.
The Boteler Grammar School was built in Bag Lane, off Church Street, on the outskirts of the medieval village of Warrington.
The hops are being measured the traditional way.
When the Ship Canal opened in 1894, traffic really was a mixed bag of sailing ships, steam ships and motor vessels.
They represent the bags of gold that he once gave to three girls to save them from destitution.
A cyclist, carrying a bag, rides into the distance.
The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.
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