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Queen's Road L6

This was my grandparents home for many years and I visited it many times with my dad. My recollections of it were firstly, the size of the house! In it's heyday, it was considered posh and my grandparents employed a maid. The ...Read more

A memory of Everton by Andrew Pettigrew

Memories Of Hartford

I went to The Little School which was by the crossroads in Hartford. Part of The Grange School. Housed the kindergarten and the 1s. I was there 1964 - 1966. My teachers hers included Mrs Wood, Miss Hatton. The playground ...Read more

A memory of Hartford by Liz Hicks

Doon The Den

I stayed in Denhead and used to play down the den almost every day. We used to go to school via the gap either next to Ciff Bells house or the gap next to smiths shop. We used to go along the cliffs behind the scrappiest then straight ...Read more

A memory of Kennoway by John Walker

The Back House

I was born in Sedgefield and lived in North Bitchburn until I was 7 years old, me and my twin sister Elizabeth and my mam amd dad who worked at the pipe yard. We lived in no 1a Constantine Terrace, it was the back half of ...Read more

A memory of North Bitchburn by Margaret Cummings

Happy Days At Port Ann

I lived in Port Ann for 16 years. I have a lot of memories of Port Ann, I would go to the blue rocks and go swimming - be there all day and sit under the bridge and hide when you get called in for your bed, or even ...Read more

A memory of Port Ann

Bridge Road

We use to live at number 19 Bridge Road. My earliest memory is watching a parrot flying across Greenham's field behind the prefab. We never has a bathroom only a out side loo. Our bath night was on a sunday. A old tin bath infront of the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by ladyunicorn20709

Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

Doddlebugs And V2s Plus!

I moved to Lymington Road, Dagenham, in 1939, across the road from the school. At first I attended Green Lane School - same as Dudley Moor. I even had the same piano teacher. Miss Hoggard. But she gave up on me. In the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Joan Fitzgerald

"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.

Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by ted.hunwick

Happy Days Of Youth.

My first memories of Motherwell was living down the Daisy Park at 18 Braidhurst Street and watching the new housing scene being built opposite my house ,the old mill used provide a perfect brae for our bogies which consisted an ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by Alexander Mc Bride

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Caption For Petersfield, The Lake C1955

Known in Petersfield as 'the Pond' and created out of three very boggy areas in 1732, this spot has never ceased to attract visitors from miles around.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1896

Pictured here only two years after opening, the lake, created from a 'malarial bog' by damming the Nant Fawr Brook, proved extremely problematic.

Caption For Bethersden, Forge Hill C1955

Then, the well-to-do of the area used to have their coaches drawn by oxen in order to negotiate safely the boggy roads, which in bad weather were reputed to be the worst in Kent.

Caption For Ditchling, High Street C1965

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Caption For Moore, The School C1955

Moore is so called because this was once very boggy land close to the river.

Caption For Bethersden, Village C1955

Before modern road surfaces spread to the countryside, Bethersden had the reputation of having the worst, most boggy roads in Kent.

Caption For Redhill, Market Hall 1899

Constructed on boggy, rough moorland in 1860, the foundations for this building required deep excavation.

Caption For Mobberley, Mill Lane C1955

Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

Caption For Ditchling, High Street C1965

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

Caption For Tregaron, Pont Eynon 1933

The bog is now protected.

Caption For Sudbury, North Street 1895

On the right is the White Horse, run by George Rampling; next door is Boggis's the drapers in the 18th-century building with dormer windows; then comes William Alston's 'Second Hand Furniture Warehouse

Caption For Chelmsford, Roman Road 2005

One was wide, the other boggy.