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To Sue Bradford Re St Patricks Open Air School Hayling
hallo sue, I tried to answer your message but when I clicked the message button nothing happened so I am writing to you on this page instead. Sister Bertha was the head teacher and Sister ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island by
Selsdon Garage
In 1964 I started work as an apprentice mechanic at Selsdon garage, which can just be seen at the start on the right of this photo. The main range of vehicles repaired was mostly BMC though we would work on all makes of cars, from ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon in 1964 by
Paddleing In The Valley Gardens
i was born in pontefract , paradise gardens, when i married at button park i moved away to leicester, when i came to visit my mum , i would take my children to the valley gardens to picnic and paddle in the pool there .
A memory of Pontefract by
Lewis Family
david lewis was my great grandad,,born in brightwell suffolk, he married charlotte ellen allan. davids father was also called david,.....my aunt winnie said he came from wales but all the records said brightwell ,,,so we have ...Read more
A memory of Brightwell by
High Rise
I moved to the high rise flats in 1972 and was glad to get one. The flats was new and had a lady to clean the stairs and front entrance every day. That would be hard to find today a cleaner to do that. the flats was 22 stories high. I ...Read more
A memory of Brentford End
Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s
I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left ...Read more
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Childhood At Wisborough Green School
I lived at Hawkhurst Court a few miles from Wisborough Green. I was at school in Wisborough Green in 1939 till my family moved in 1946. My younger sisters and brother also attended the same school. I ...Read more
A memory of Wisborough Green in 1940 by
Betton Hall
I was looking at the photo of Betton Hall and I think my aunty used to live there, Joyce Allen.
A memory of Market Drayton by
Yorkshire
Hello all you Yorkshire people, wherever you may now be... Here is a poem I wrote about good old York. Enjoy. Shopping in the Shambles on a snowy Christmas Eve Playing hide and seek in Acomb Wood Watching Andy Pandy by the fire in our ...Read more
A memory of York in 1955 by
Ye Old Tuck Shop And Mrs Price
My grandmother was Ann Elizabeth Price and lived in a beautiful house. She ran a little shop in the house and it was called YE OLD TUCK SHOPE. It is the most beautiful little village I have every seen. I remember the ...Read more
A memory of Lucton in 1962 by
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There is some activity around the base of the statue - are the two ladies selling flowers and button-holes?
The view looking north from the King's Head shows the National Provincial Bank on the left (now NatWest) and, opposite, the Button Shop (now the Wimborne Pottery).
Beyond lie Woolworth's and the distinctively-styled Burton's building. By the church stands a statue of Robert Peel, notable because his waistcoat is buttoned the wrong way.
It was famous for the production of button moulding, although, as in so many towns in the area, cotton was also produced here.
The lad outside the shop is wearing a sleeveless jumper, very characteristic of the period, and a more informal version of the buttoned waistcoat worn by the elderly man on the left.
A lone policeman in his high-buttoned tunic directs traffic emerging from the Ewell Road to cross the junction with Station Way, The Broadway and the High Street.
The Button Bros fascia sign on the left marks the location of the official supplier for uniforms and haircuts for the boys from Luton Grammar School.
Each boy would be required to climb the 150ft high mast from HMS 'Cordelia', and every year, cadets at the passing-out ceremony had to climb the rigging, the pride of place going to the 'button
line one side, and telegraph poles the other side of this section of the A2 from Rainham to Gillingham, where Mrs Hall had her hairdresser's shop, E H Chatfield was the confectioner and Len Button
Stockings, corsets and buttons from the old shop are on display in the museum.
Two men's outfitters existed side by side; Dunn & Co were part of a national chain selling 'gentlemanly' clothes: tweed jackets, caps and hats and sturdy gloves which fastened at the wrist with buttons
Two men's outfitters existed side by side; Dunn & Co were part of a national chain selling 'gentlemanly' clothes: tweed jackets, caps and hats and sturdy gloves which fastened at the wrist with buttons
Tuscan columns, inserted in 1812 by the Calne builder Button, replace the Norman originals.
They designed a uniform for formal occasions: frock coats, white waistcoats and fancy buttons with gilt anchors.
Until the railway came in 1842 it was an isolated rural community, best known for its fustian and for its cottage industry making silk buttons for the Macclesfield silk industry.
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