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1937 Onwards
Born in Oakwood Rd Hilsea In 1937with memories of watching Dog Fights in the sky from our Anderson Air Raid shelter during the early part of WW2 before going up to Dunstaffnage in Scotland in 1943 when my father who was a Shipwright in ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
Alan Stewart?
Among the lovely pictures of 1950s Oakwood is a picture of a lake in Oakwood Park for model boats which I used in the late forties and early 50s. Sailing boats there was a favourite pastime of my friend and neighbour (at the time) Alan ...Read more
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Any One Remember Him
My husband was Tony Nelson.One of the 9 Nelson children born in Vernon Place Birkenhead.He was born in 1939 and lived his entire life in Birkenhead.He spent his youth going out in New Brighton and Liverpool.He was well known in ...Read more
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Adam's Hill, Clent
The 1860s saw the passing of my 3x great-grandparents Thomas and Sarah Waldron and the marriage of their grand-daughter Ellen to William Huxley, my great-grandparents. These Huxleys lived at Yew Tree Cottage and Bank Cottage before ...Read more
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An Evacuee During World War Ii
My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July ...Read more
A memory of East Clandon in 1940 by
Awalk With Grandfather
A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, when ...Read more
A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by
Boac Turriff House Freight Revenue 1961 69
Does any one remember these times on the 6th floor and passenger revenue floors 9 and 10. Some names Tom Abel. Ray Pullen. June Hills. Milla Pucholt Phylis Palmer Jean Elmy Hilda Jordan Jim Simpson Gregg Smee ...Read more
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Bass Fishing
I turned eighteen in 1965. It was around this time that I had a tendency, upon coming home from the pub (in the summer), to have a black coffee, tie a rod onto the bike, and head off for Southwick via Brighton (about 35 miles from ...Read more
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Blundellsands
Memories include, the erosion, sniggery woods, coronation park and the erratic glacier boulder, the boating lake. Fort Crosby, the bike shop at Brighton-le-sands. The swimming pool down on the shore, the big houses down merrilocks ...Read more
A memory of Blundellsands in 1960 by
Boarders
When I was just a little lad - my dad was the senior carpenter for Croydon and I remember that one summer school holiday I was with him in his lorry and we marked out the boarders of New Addington with chestnut fencing. One year I was ...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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