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The Hersham Flood – September 1968
During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more
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Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
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Bristol City Docks 1989
Two of the cranes were purchased by 'City Dock Ventures' and two by the city council. All four were put into the museums care in 1989. Although the electricity supply to them was cut in 1974, one has been restored and ...Read more
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Cranford Shops 1980s 2010
Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more
A memory of Cranford
The Passing Of A Grand Old Theatre
The old Grand Theatre at Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne was one of well over 65 theatres and cinemas in the city in the heyday of entertainment. Kenneth More in repertory, Winifred Atwell playing her ...Read more
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Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne
I was born in Moorland Crescent in the 1950’s. This council housing estate was built a few decades earlier and has a variety of different style good quality houses. Most people had nice gardens with flowers etc ...Read more
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What Happened To Me
My name was Lynette Evans I’d just like to say hi to everyone that has shared memories of Splott. I remember so much, so clearly, I was barely 3 years old when I moved from Llanharran to Portmanmore Road. It was a ...Read more
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A Yokels Tale
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more
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Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is
I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington ...Read more
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Avonmouth Docks And Bocm Silcocks
In 1977 I finished a Teacher Training Course at Redland College in Bristol. I was in need of a temporary job and was to find one in Avonmouth Docks where BOCM Silcocks (who had produced animal feed from grain and ...Read more
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Cabs await their next customers.
It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.
This was one of the principal cab ranks in Manchester, and licensing, fares and conditions were regulated by the local authority.
Note the cabs and brakes alongside the Scott Monument.
Cabs await their next fares.
Cabs await their next fares.
It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.
The cabs in the picture include the famous hansom cab, designed and built by Charles Hansom of Manchester.
Horse-drawn cabs were fairly expensive.
Horse-drawn cabs wait for custom outside the imposing neo-Classical Shire Hall, built 1834-5 by Charles Day of Bristol, and Henry Rowe, Worcester's own city architect.
Here we see horse-drawn cabs waiting for passengers in the Square.
A hansom cab waits for a fare outside the entrance to Christ's College.
A tractor, without a cab for the driver, hauls its trailer through the centre of the village.
The gazebo was provided as a shelter for the horse-drawn cab drivers, who are plying for business alongside.
London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers’ drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages.
Behind rises the 303-foot spire of the Roman Catholic St Walburge's Church, which was completed in 1866 to a design by Joseph Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab.
In the first half of the century this roundabout was filled with hansom cabs, and later from 1904 by the rattle of trams.
A hansom cab waits for a fare outside the entrance to Christ's College in 1908.
A motorised bus waits for shoppers in Station Square alongside the horse-drawn cabs.
However, the cabs and carts are still relying on horse-power.
The cab rank and shelter have, of course, gone; further along to the right is now the grossly porticoed entrance to the Angel Place Shopping Centre.
The gazebo was provided as a shelter for the horse-drawn cab drivers, who are plying for business alongside.
As late as the 1940s, there was only one bus, a few motor taxis and some horse-drawn cabs on the island.
The Roman Catholic church, which is dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury, was designed by J A Hansom, who was also the architect for Birmingham Town Hall; he is best remembered for the Hansom cab.
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