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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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The Earl Of Rhone
I lived in Combe Martin from 1972-77 at that time the Earl of Rhone festival had been dead for a number of years.. myself and another lady called Pamela Watts decided we would revive it... and to that end it is why it is ...Read more
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Perfect Place
My name was Sandra Goodfellow when I was born at home in Erbistock in 1954. I lived on Twining hill. I had a very happy childhood there with my three siblings, Mum and Dad. I started Erbistock school in 1957. It was a cosy, two ...Read more
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Drayton Jottings
Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, ...Read more
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Happy Holiday Memories
I now live in Lincolnshire but my father and family are native to Weston Rhyn and many family members still live in the area. I spent many happy holidays in Weston Rhyn as a schoolboy, I stayed at my aunt's house in ...Read more
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Postwar Childhood In Knypersley
Born in 1940 at Tunstall Rd, I spent hours of my childhood at the edge of Cowlishaw Walker's pool, reached through our neighbour, Mrs Sargent's garden, which sloped steeply up to the railings round the pool. I ...Read more
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Holbeach Bank School Indebted
We didn't have modern technology, it wasn't invented then anyway when arriving at our village school to learn our lessons each day. We didn't need endless classrooms with miles of corridor to walk, just a desk ...Read more
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Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill
It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more
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Reeling In The Years
Oh the wonderful warm penny bread rolls at the tiny Bakery on the right hand side of the street! I remember the smell, the texture the taste. And I remember Mrs Rhymes too thanks so much for posting this...
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1956 1968 Memories Of Perivale And Perivale School
I started at the nursery class at Perivale infants school in September 1956 aged 4 starting in the nursery class. The assistant was call Miss Whale we also had a French teacher and she made a little ...Read more
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Monks from the former abbey at nearby Athelney are reputed to have built part of the church and carved its bench ends with figures, some of which are depicted jumping over rhynes.
We are looking along a rhyne, or ditch, across the Levels; little has changed here today. The Brent Knoll Inn, named after the 500ft hill that it faces, is still there.
Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight villages satirically described in a rhyme attributed to William Shakespeare and penned after a heavy drinking session.
At RAF Cottesmore, a few miles away, the biggest armada of aircraft ever seen in Rutland prepared to move off for Arnhem, where paratroops were to seize a crossing over the Rhine.
It puts me so much in mind of the beautiful Rhine...'
Cley (rhymes with sky), once a busy port, is now a sleepy village, where nothing much has changed since this photograph was taken.
It puts me so much in mind of the beautiful Rhine...'
An ancient rhyme runs: 'The two great Cows that in loud thunder roar, This on the eastern, that the western shore, Where Newport enters stately Wight'”.
The events prompted the bucolic rhyme “Chelmsford church and Writtle steeple both fell down, but killed no people”.
Banbury is famous for its cross, a nursery rhyme and its cakes. The latter, made with spicy fruit pastry, were first produced in 1638.
It was rebuilt in the 16th century by John Horner of nursery rhyme fame, who acquired three manors at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
It was one of the schoolboys here, Thomas Brown, who coined the rhyme (about a master): 'I do not love thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee
'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme. The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter.
His hobby was to write a rhyme relating to the career of every local criminal who had been executed and then sent to him for dissection.
Circling Frome, we head north to the Mells Stream valley and Mells village, the home of the Horners, the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner's family.
Neolithic, or New Stone Age, men arrived from France and the Rhine, crossing the nascent channel on rafts. They brought cattle, seed corn and pottery.
A copy of the 13th-century text of 'The Lay of Havelock the Dane', a 3001-line rhyming poem telling the legend, can be found in Grimsby public library.
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