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One Of The Worst And Two Of Best Years Of My Childhood
wake house (hereward the wake)1966 till 1969 I too was an inmate at that time ,the bullying from the bigger older boys made the place hell for the first year .then one evening i flipped out on ...Read more
A memory of Tiffield in 1966 by
Holmeleigh
I have remembered some of my old mates from the homes, in home 8 they were: Frederic Smith, Ray Cooke, Tim Farrow, Philip and Eddy Atter, John and Willy Dobbs, Raymond Boucher who was deaf and dumb, Cedric Harrison, Pete Hewson, John ...Read more
A memory of Horncastle in 1958 by
Wembley In The 1950's
I remember the lovely fresh bread smell from Aldridges the bakery at the Triagle, the Grove Fish and Chip shop's marvellous rock salmon and chips cooked in beef dripping of course, Killips department store's dumb waiter, learning to ...Read more
A memory of Egham by
Those Were The Days
I can still remember the times I spent sitting in the dumb waiter lift to go to the staff storeroom to liberate theres a few people id like to catch up with any alcohol they had...those were the days my friends.ive grown up alot since then but it was a beautiful school and they taught me alot
A memory of Bedgebury Park Sch in 1979 by
This Is My Grandma's House
The house on the left with the four attics was my Grandma's house. I have lots of fond memories of this house. I even had my own bedroom! Mine was the second attic from the left and it enjoyed a beautiful view of ...Read more
A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea in 1960 by
The War Years And A Life Of Bliss
During the Second World War my parents, my sister and I moved from Birmingham to stay with my paternal grandparents at New Mill Bridge wher my grandmother Harriet Cook owned and ran the local store "Cooks ...Read more
A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by
The Oval.
We lived on the corner of the oval adjoining Burnt Oak Road in a flat, 53b, above what was at the time an empty shop. It was wartime and we used to ride our bikes around the empty shop. Out the back was a garden and there was an iron fire ...Read more
A memory of Sidcup in 1942 by
The 50s And 60s
I lived with my parents, Ralph and Joan, "Bindy" and sister Judy, on Birchway, off Ack Lane East, then we moved to 17 Atholl Road. There were several families with children who my sister and I spent a lot of time with - Johnny ...Read more
A memory of Bramhall by
Swansea Deaf And Dumb School
I was born and bred in the Mount Pleasant area of Swansea, in which the D&D Institute was based. My schooling was Terrace Road infants & juniors. Lots of football in the street, Cwmdonkin Park and playing in and ...Read more
A memory of Swansea in 1970 by
Station Lane
I was born on Albert Street in 1936, so I have seen a few changes in Featherstone, I still live on Albert Street, I don't think I could live anywere else! Just a few houses down, nearer Station Lane, Station Lane was a lovely ...Read more
A memory of Featherstone in 1940 by
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This complex included the Deaf and Dumb School, and Henshaw's Blind Asylum, complete with its own chapel.
Steamers discharge their cargo by way of chutes into dumb barges.
Elmwood church was built in 1859, and shared the open ground on that side of town with Queens College and The Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
settlement in the parish of Stanton St Gabriel occupies a web of small lanes on the south-facing slopes of Hardown Hill and derives its name from three Old English words: 'mor' (barren, swampy ground), 'cumb
The little boy walking with his mother and sisters in the left foreground is wearing the young man's fashion of the day - a lumber jacket.
Spa water was discovered in 1744 by a farm labourer, John Shires, who was dumb - his mother had cut out his tongue when he was a young boy.
Catherine of Aragon was all for sending the corpse to Henry VIII who was campaigning in France, but instead it was sent to the Monastery of Sheen where it eventually finished up being dumped in a lumber
When this building was opened in 1849, it faced the almost-new Deaf and Dumb Institute; the two buildings extended this edge of Belfast, bringing a formal touch to it.
