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Childhood In Addlestone
I have many memories of Addlestone having lived there from 1940 to 1964. My family lived in Bourneside Road, at the far end was Coxes Lock Mill and the mill pond. We knew almost everybody that lived on Bois Hall estate. I ...Read more
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Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the war ...Read more
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The Steel Houses
Having lived in Brymbo in a very damp two up two down house in 'The Green' my parents were 'over the moon' to be given a new three bedroomed house; 23, Bryn Hedd, Southsea, (which means peaceful hill) became their home for ...Read more
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Early Memories
My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more
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Living In
When I moved to live on the Cricket Green with my parents in 1947, the previous tenants were called Bacon, and for many years afterwards, people would say "Oh you live in Bacons' old house" - my mother would seethe! My brother ...Read more
A memory of Hartley Wintney in 1950 by
Happy Days
The main memory that I have is growing up in a small village with lots of friends, the pear tree wall will last in my memory for ever, the meeting place for all, playing football on the green, fathers aginst the children, everyone was ...Read more
A memory of Haskayne in 1962 by
The Slate Islands Easdale
THE SLATE ISLANDS By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more
A memory of Easdale in 2005 by
Early Years Of My Life
I was born in 1936 in Shipley nursing home and we lived at 1 The Green, Micklethwaite until 1944. My father died in 1941 and my mother was left with me and brother John, surname Walker, to bring up on her own. I ...Read more
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Whitethorn Morris At Letchmore Heath
The Three Horseshoes is an attractive pub facing the village green and the war memorial at Letchmore Heath, a beautiful place between Elstree and Aldenham just outside Watford. This pub regularly attracts morris ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 2006 by
The Second World War
There was an air raid shelter under the green opposite the Three Jolly Wheelers pub. It comprised a number of concrete passageways. My mother my sister and I would use it on occasions when there was a particularly bad air ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1945 by
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'Tye' is a Suffolk and Essex term for an area of common pasture, usually called a common or a green. This view gives the impression of a large open area with houses along its boundary.
Almost ruinous when acquired by the National Trust as its first building in 1896, the clergy house was carefully restored.
The tall building behind the hip-roofed thatched cottage is a water tower, which has since been demolished. The general stores and fish and chip shop were owned by D A Chatters.
The Green Dragon Hotel, a stone-built 18th-century inn, is popular with residents and students from Lancaster University.
This tapering green with the church at the top is very similar to the green at Long Melford, although it is smaller.
The market originally took place on the Green, but was confined to the south side of it after the Chapel on the Green was built in 1805.
The market originally took place on the Green, but was confined to the south side of it after the Chapel on the Green was built in 1805.
In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as cottages.
Two children enjoy the riverside, as many still do today.
In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as cottages.
For many people, the pub on the corner of the green at Pirbright will always be known by its former name. There was much local outcry when it was changed to the Moorhen a few years ago.
The name of this long, narrow and very pretty open space is self-explanatory.
The Green c1955 We are looking across Newick's green from the pump towards the Bull Inn, famed at one time for the annual sports- man's suppers staged by Thomas Baden- Powell, cousin of the founder
The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.
We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp. The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.
A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.
The green now boasts a locally crafted village sign, and no parking is allowed!
Two children enjoy the riverside, as many still do today.
This tapering green with the church at the top is very similar to the green at Long Melford, although it is smaller.
It was originally just Tanworth, but the suffix was added in the 19th century to avoid confusion with Tamworth, which is now in Staffordshire but was then in Warwickshire.
There were once several ponds on the green: this is now the only one. The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.
This is taken from the north end of the Green, looking south towards Hall Street, showing the wide expanse of the Green, where fairs are still held.
The river Sow surrounds Stafford on three sides. This is the Green Bridge, over which traffic had to pass before entering through the Green Gate in the medi- eval walls.
The Axe and Compass faces the green, still marked by an ancient tree.
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