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12a The Camp, Hanney Road, Steventon.
My memory of Steventon started in 1947. For those who don't know about Steventon Camp, it was a disused army camp about 1 to 2 miles from Steventon village, on the Hanney road. (I see the storage depot is still ...Read more
A memory of Steventon in 1947 by
146a High Street
I used to live at this address and went to Brionne Gardens Girls School (now Hillview). I loved living here, the estate agents we lived over is still there, I know this as I went back for a visit with my son in 2008 after 40 odd ...Read more
A memory of Tonbridge in 1960 by
1950s
My first introduction to Fairbourne I think was in 1953 (the same week that we heard that Everest had been conquered and the Coronation). As a child resident of St Christopher's Railway Orphanage in Derby, we went camping for the first time ...Read more
A memory of Fairbourne by
1950s Rosenau Rd.
Hi, I was born in 1946 at the South London Hospital for Women and lived for a while at 15 Etruria St. Battersea, it was near Dogs Home Bridge and Battersea Power Station, where my dad, Charlie Jones worked. Soon we moved ...Read more
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1960s & 70s
My grandparents (McNaught) lived in Henrietta Street, and my parents & I stayed with them for many holidays in the 60s and 70s. An uncle & aunt lived in George Street - they were retired teachers from Barrhill school. Another aunt ...Read more
A memory of Girvan by
1960s Holidays
My mum and dad had their annual holidays in Weymouth in the late 1950s through to the middle 1960s. My dad worked at Vauxhall Motors in Luton but always went on the train as he did not own a car! My earlist memories of visiting ...Read more
A memory of Weymouth in 1960 by
1960s Holidays In Newbiggin
My family, surname Ligema, were friends of Jim Highmoor who ran the scout group at Newbiggin during the 1950s and 60s. Mr Highmoor kindly let us stay for our holidays in the Scout Hut which was situated below the old ...Read more
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50s 60s Memories
I was born at 13 Alma Place (up the small alley from Argent Street) in 1952, moving to number 6 when I was 5. When I was 9 we moved to Sherfield Road, where I lived until 1970 when we finally moved to Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, ...Read more
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A Beautiful Place
I arrived in 1953 to live with my father and stepmother in Marbury. I have very mixed feelings of my life here. The countryside was beautiful, my love of nature and animal life has never left me. Bill's lawns (our name for the ...Read more
A memory of Marbury in 1953 by
A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955
I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more
A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by
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These boats moored in the Cut show how the commercial river trade of earlier times has now given way to pleasure boating.
Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.
The road is very different to its modern counterpart, and reflects how much the sea was the main way out of St Ives.
An Exmouth boatman stands barefoot on the Esplanade seeking customers for the many boat trips on offer.
Compared with the view of Porthminster Beach taken in 1890, this view indicates how much the holiday industry had taken over the St Ives beaches.
A fast rowing boat, a lobster pot and promenaders give an idea of how the Promenade looked in the last years of Victoria's reign.
The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach.
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
How fortunate that the industrial town of Middlesbrough could boast such a tranquil feature in its midst!
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
This picture shows how effectively it provides safe shelter for the limited number of craft it can hold.
A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.
This panoramic view shows how the town is hemmed in by sandstone cliffs.
The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.
There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.
This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.
HOW pleasing to end this visual and historical journey at Aldeburgh.
On the shore to the right a factory for the construction of Sunderland flying boats was established during the Second World War.
Lying opposite Castletown in Carrickey Bay, the inner harbour dries completely at low water, exposing an varied array of assorted weed and barnacle-covered rocks.
A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long.
This is the corner of the Bowness boating area which is used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid 19th century.
This is the corner of the Bowness boating area used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid19th century.
There are plenty of rowing boats for visitors at the Bowness Boat Station in this photograph, taken just six years after No 20451.
The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated.
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