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Lake Way Happy Memories
My sister and, I have such fond memories of 'our' bungalow in Lake Way- Happy Returns. Its door was painted purple. Our week in Jaywick was the highlight of our year. We were so excited to go there. I was only eight when we ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick in 1976
Long Hot Summer Days In Platt Feilds Park
Aged 8-11ish my friends and I would catch the 85 bus from Chorlton- cum-hardy bus station or walk if we were skint to Platt Fields Park with a plastic bag with brown sauce or salad cream butties in and a ...Read more
A memory of Fallowfield in 1974 by
Hart Road Service Station
I used to be the foreman in the garage, I am Maltese, so anybody about my age (67) will probably remember me repairing cars there. The service station was owned by Mr Willetts who lived on the corner of Kenneth Road with ...Read more
A memory of Thundersley in 1965 by
My Lost Family
The railway signal box at Pontllanfraith had Home Rule plastered on the side. My aunts Gladis Holvey and Gwen Durham and Dorothy - I am their nephew Phyllis's boy Roger, and the trips to Barry Island in Uncle's Fred's bus - he ...Read more
A memory of Cefn in 1962
Nurse Hampton
On August 13, 1961 I took up residence as a student nurse in Lindsay Smith House across from the hospital. It was the day the Berlin wall went up, and, as I recall, the day before the grouse shooting season began. I was 19 ...Read more
A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by
Dimbath Pond
My name is David Diamond. I was born in Blackmill 63 years ago (in a house called Glas yn Ys - Blue Island in english) my fond memories are of going up to the Dimbath pond along with my mates with our father's shovels and spades to ...Read more
A memory of Blackmill in 1960 by
The Bucks Head And London Road
Opposite the Majestic Cinema, you can just see the Tudor brickwork of the Bucks Head Inn, on the London Road corner. It was very rare that my Dad would go in, but we would be sent there at certain times of the year. A ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by
I Lived Here From 1951 To 1975 (Ish)
I lived in Dagnam Park Drive near Sedgefield Crescent and remember............Petersfield, Hilldene and Whitchurch shops, the "1st, 2nd and 3rd" woods as we referred to them, starting in Dagnam Park Drive, heading ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill in 1957 by
Ryton Willows And The Tidal Stone
It was about 1957 and before, when the Willows was a place to picnic on a Saturday and Sunday afternoons. It was a very popular place, with the Shuggy boats and the river to play in, and there were houseboats galore ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1957 by
To Sea
The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1950 by
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Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.
The church, that sits astride a mound, is the largest medieval church on the island; its roof is constructed with half a mile of black oak timbers.
Dumbell was a banker, a director of the Laxey mines and a Deemster (justice of the Tynwald), but the failure of his bank on Saturday 3rd February 1900 ('Black Saturday') was one of the greatest financial
There is a great increase in street furniture such as lamp posts, flagpoles and traffic islands, whose black and white paintwork is a hangover from wartime blackout conditions.
The majestic 14th-century St Patrick's Church was not completed until after the Black Death, which wiped out half the village's population.
The square classical building with a pediment is Monkton Hill Wesleyan church, which stands on the site of the Black Horse (this inn is documented in 1750; it was built on land belonging to Monkton Manor
Dr James was not one to spare the rod, but his successor, Dr Henry Ingles, was known as 'The Black Tiger' for the severity of his rule.
