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The Mayfair Carriage Company
For the last 35 years I have owned by uncle Frank's 1956 Morris Cowley ( reg 330 HHX). For many years I drove it as my preferred vehicle and then, sadly, it sat in a barn until 2 years ago when I began it's recommission. ...Read more
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Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore by
Fond Memories
I first visited Borth as a toddler in the early 60's, with my Uncle Dai from Machynlleth. I used to visit him and his wife to stay with them for holidays. As he had worked the railways he used to take me from Mach to Borth on the train ...Read more
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Evacuted To Borth Y Gest 1940 1
Hi there, my mum was evacuated early in the Second World War to Borth y Gest from New Ferry on The Wirral, with her sister, they stayed for 2 years or so at Wendon, a large modern flat roofed house, it was owned ...Read more
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The Newsagent In Minster High Street
I have only just seen this site for the first time and was very surprised to see the photograph of the newsagent's shop in the High Street. My mother's sister Elsie Atwell, nee Keen was married to ...Read more
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The Bells Of Aber Dovey
My brothers and I would cycle from Borth to Ynyslas sand dunes from where we could see the village of Aber Dovey nestled on the other side of the estuary. We were told that on a clear day if you listened carefully you would hear ...Read more
A memory of Aberdyfi
Families Of St Blazey In The 40s/50s.
My father was one of the local butchers, Jack Grigg. He and my mother ran the shop opposite the church. My grandfather was John Charles Grigg who lived at a house called Mount View at the bottom of Rose Hill. ...Read more
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Black Faces
I was born in Addlestone in what was Kingthorpe nursing home in 1944 (no nhs then)my father worked for Vickers Armstrong at Byfleet. My father was born in Cailard road Byfleet the same road as my mother was born. He is now 96 years old and ...Read more
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Over The Railway Tracks
This church was over the railway which ran along the back of Borth. The track that leads to it was at the end of the platform on the street side. The church is on a small hill which on the other side was a WW2 lookout. There was a ...Read more
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Burgh Heath
I used to live near Burgh Heath. The Sugar Bowl had a swimming pool, as did the Galleon, across the road. I went to school at Greenacre, Banstead, and the school children had swimming lessons at the Sugar Bowl
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Captions
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This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.
Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.
The square is named after the founder of the burgh.
To the north of Borth lies Ynyslas, which consists of a fine series of sand dunes, many now protected as a National Nature Reserve.
This is the original nucleus of Borth village from which picture No 30253 was taken (page 59).
This small village had a café, the Dolybont Café (centre), whose sign was visible from the road between Talybont and Borth – the proprietors hoped that holidaymakers would stop on their way to or from
St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.
This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.
were planted to commemorate AE Housman, the poet most famous for his volume of poems 'A Shropshire Lad' - one poem begins 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough
also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the King's nephew - also called Richard - died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs
Medieval Gothic arches can be seen beyond the splendid cedar's spreading boughs, while the rest of the house has more of a Tudor character.
Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War. There are said to be smugglers' caves in the rocks below it.
Only the Burgh Heath Parade and the petrol station are recognisable today in this view from The Green, Reigate Road.
Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of
also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the king's nephew, also called Richard, died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs
Clydebank became a burgh in 1886. The swelling population certainly seems to be causing congestion on this narrow bridge.
A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.
The mansion of the mighty 15th-century De Burgh family, with a great central hall and long side wings, it is a miracle it survived, having at various times been a prison, a factory and tenements.
It was made a royal burgh in 1592. In January of that year a hoard of silver coins dating from the time of Robert III were unearthed near the ruins of the cathedral.
Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.
Dumfries itself became a royal burgh in the 12th century, but the two towns were not officially amalgamated until 1929.
An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.
Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.
To the north of the north porch there is a massive, very ancient yew tree, its weary boughs propped on posts. It is thought to be as old as the Norman church itself.
