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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which ...Read more
A memory of Harborne in 1940 by
Those Were The Days
I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated ...Read more
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Fair And Lake Wandle Park, Croydon
A travelling fair each summer here was both a delight and a way to earn a few shillings when the fair ended. I would help dismantle the rides and stalls, working hard from morning to evening for about five ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1947 by
Miner
My uncle Des emigrated from Dublin to Coronation Drive, Bolton On Dearne in 1950, he became a miner. In the course of writing letters home he told my mam that the streets of Bolton on Dearne were paved with gold, he had actually ...Read more
A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by
Visiting My Grandmother In Newton
Every school holiday from 1959 onwards, my brothers Tony, Brian, and later my sister Karen and I stayed with my grandmother Sarah Stones & Harold Stones. Gran owned the Stones greengrocers shop in High ...Read more
A memory of Newton-le-Willows by
Dartford Markets
My mum Dorothy Fewtrell and myself Margaret use to go to the market in the mid 50s - we would come home with baby rabbits and young chickens - it was a fun time. I think I was about 13. I used to go dancing above a shop in Dartford ...Read more
A memory of Dartford by
The Old Cobblers Shop
My name is Ian and have grown up in and still live in Bolton-le-Sands, living half way down Orchard Avenue for some 15 years now. I am looking for photographs on the old cobblers shop, adjoining barn and old haberdashery ...Read more
A memory of Bolton-le-Sands by
Jackson Boat Platt Fields
I too remember Jackson's Boat. Living off Derbyshire Lane in Stretford, we would make the mammoth walk down the canal to Jackson's Boat on a Sunday and have a drink sat outside, then walk all the way back. At Platt ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1960 by
Leave Things Alone
I lived on Frenchbarn Lane just across from St Peters church from 1960 to 1972, I was 5yrs old when I moved there. Coming from Salford docks area it was like moving into one of Enid Blytons books. A real farm just up the ...Read more
A memory of Blackley by
Harold Woods Heckmondwike
My father Douglas Bolton was at Harold Woods in Heckmondwike as a personal & safety training officer. Can any one remember him he was there in the late Sixties
A memory of Heckmondwike by
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Here, three fishing boats have their staysails set up to dry, while a small boat on the beach nearest the sea has an early outboard motor.
The ruins of Bolton Abbey are set alongside a sweeping bend in the River Wharfe.
Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.
This cruising converted narrow boat on the Grand Union was photographed a few months before the final northbound commercial operation: early in 1966, Roses Lime Juice sent their final cargo to the wharf
This hotel at Bolton Bridge is less than a mile from Bolton Abbey.
The boat on the left-hand side in front of the man on the jetty is used as a store for lobster pots.
Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake.The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.
The boat on the left is the Susannah.
The Great Hall at Castle Bolton had been converted to a restaurant for visitors when this photograph was taken.
The great ruined chancel of Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale is one of the great architectural treasures of the Yorkshire Dales.
The village of Bolton-le-Sands sits astride the A6, four miles north of Lancaster.
Hanging the sails out to dry along the railings are as equal a part of small vessel maintenance as working on the hull note the man by the upturned boat on the left-hand side.
Originally built in 1790 for Sir John Legard, Storrs Hall was purchased in 1806 by Col John Bolton, a local philanthropist, who from 1808-11 transformed it into the fine Georgian mansion we
The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually
A boat on a trailer here (left) confirms the ancient links between this community and the sea.
A parasol to be seen on the rearmost boat on the right, together with the voluminous dresses, is a reminder that in Edwardian days ladies still stayed firmly covered up.
The village lies next to Bolton on Swale five miles east of Richmond; it has the largest walled green in the whole of the country.
Born near Bolton in 1768, he established Preston's first cotton mill, known as the Yellow Factory, and founded a textile business that grew to be one of the biggest in the world.
Hest was part of Bolton-le-Sands, and was a hamlet near Morecambe Bay.
The two men in the rowing boat on the left-hand side prepare their craft for leaving the quay.
This is probably the longest-lived operational horse-drawn trip boat on the canal system.
The steamer 'Swift', launched in 1900 as the then largest boat on the lake, sits at the end of the pier, whilst a cluster of yachts, possibly racing, passes between the boat station and
The village was at the private entrance to Bolton Castle, and would have provided this massive stronghold with goods and trades.
Here we see a Humber keel boat on the river.
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