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Mitcham
I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Norbury
Suntrap School. 1956 To 1961.
My name is Terry Hendy. I attended Suntrap school from 1956to 1961. I have very happy memories of the school and although away from home I was very well looked after and fed well. 1 saw the photo of Mr Brooks and Mr Campbell ...Read more
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St.Matthias Youth Club 1950s
I was born in December 1939 in Redhill Hospital which then changed to Edgware General. My parents Bill and Gladys Wyness lived in Marlow Court, Colindeep Lane and my maternal grandparents lived in Chalfont Court also in ...Read more
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Living Over A Chemist's Shop.
My name is Peter Seager-Thomas. The shop on the corner (LHS) was Shewells the Chemist. Mr Shewell and my father had studied together and whilst our future home was being built, in Upper Brighton Road, Mr Shewell put the ...Read more
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Growing Up In Fareham
I was born in Brighton Sussex. After travelling from station to station, as my father was in the RAF (I'll miss out that part of the story), My mother Eileen,sister Shirley & I moved to Fareham after the 2nd WW, I was 9 yrs ...Read more
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Teenage Years.
I went to Brigg Grammar from 1947 until 1951. I then worked at Peacock & Binningtons until I emigrated to Canada in 1956. I have fond memories of Brigg, often fishing in the Ancholme, cycling to Cleethorpes and looking for sticklebacks and frogspawn in swales. Paul Brighton
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Brighton Teacher Training College.
The house on the far right of the terrace was no 9 which together with no 8 formed the premises of Brighton Teacher Training College, which I attended in 1956-58. The road on the left hand side of the picture (just visible) is Paston Place. This eastern area of Brighton is known as Kemp Town.
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Burgh Heath
My grandparents always considered that Burgh Heath was the best village to live in. At one time, it had two swimming pools, two tea rooms and pubs for locals to meet. One pub had a projection room and offered children a free Saturday ...Read more
A memory of Burgh Heath
Family
I have no memory of Coaley, however my family name Deighton crops up with John Edward Deighton. Just wondering if Deighton is a common name in the Coaley area. John Edward died in the early 1950s.He had several sons and a daughter, including My ...Read more
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Croydon Thornton Heath And Norbury
I was born and brought up in Croydon and although I now live in the Channel Islands I still regard it as my home. I remember living in Northborough Road, Norbury and attending Norbury Manor Infants School only ...Read more
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In 1901 they expanded operations to the south coast when they bought the Brighton, Worthing & South Coast Steamboat Co.
Burgh Heath is very suburban, and its east side is blighted by the roaring traffic of the dual carriageway A217 Reigate road, which merges with the A23 Brighton road at Horley, south of Redhill
Between the wars, Brighton boomed: by the mid-1930s it was packed at weekends.
In the middle distance the London Brighton and South Coast Railway lines cut across Brighton Road on a level crossing.
Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.
As in Bognor, the name of The Steyne was copied from Brighton where the Steine was the lively focus of a successful seaside resort, but Worthing never proved as lively as Brighton.
Brighton is the biggest and most lively and cosmopolitan of the Sussex resorts.
There were two swimming pools in New Brighton.
We are looking along Egremont's Promenade towards New Brighton from Tobin Street.
Hove, a small fishing village west of Brighton, developed slowly from the mid 19th century onwards.
Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.
Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.
The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.
A train on the Smitham railway bridge adds interest to this photograph of the northern end of Brighton Road shopping area.
The leading two are Wallasey ferries, one probably heading for New Brighton and packed with day trippers for the once-popular resort.
Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.
According to local legend this was created at the order of the Prince Regent, who used the London to Brighton road to travel to his Pavilion by the sea at Brighton.
If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.
Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841.
It is thought that he named this new town to rival Brighton on the south coast, but his home in North Everton was next to Brighton le-Sands, a part of Liverpool, so maybe that is where the name came from
Artists such as Millais and Leighton sought inspiration in local scenes, and a host of Victorian and Edwardian amateurs followed their example.
Like Brighton Chain Pier, Margate Jetty once had a camera obscura.
It was for many years an important staging post on the Hastings to Brighton turnpike road.
This exotic architectural confection reminds us of the Pavilion at Brighton, with its oriental domes and minarets.
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