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Timber
I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an excellent ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham by
A Child's View.
I moved to Woldingham with my Mother (she worked for Sir James and Lady Marshall at Whistlers Wood) when I was five years old (1951). I remember my Mother ordering food from Saffins and this I believe was delivered. Also remember ...Read more
A memory of Woldingham by
Childhood Memories
Knutsford holds a special place in my heart as I was born there in 1956 and spent nearly eight years of my childhood growing up in this then safe and close community. I have very strong memories of family, home, school and friends ...Read more
A memory of Knutsford in 1962 by
Village School
To the left of where the photographer was standing was the junior's playground of the old village school (St Mary and St Margaret's.) In 1963-4 we would have vacated the old buildings and moved into a new building in Southfield ...Read more
A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1965 by
My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My grandfather ...Read more
A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1952 by
Australians On The Cut 1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in ...Read more
A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by
My Wedding Day
Hi there, I was married in The Church of The Holy Cross on November 1st 1958. It was a very cold day as you would imagine, being Winter time, but it was a lovely sunny day. I remember walking up to the big doors on my father's arm and ...Read more
A memory of Daventry in 1958 by
Brixham
Coming to Brixham from just outside of London as an 11 year-old was a real culture shock. New smells (fish!) new sounds (seagulls) and new faces (the inhabitants of the south west certainly have distinct facial features...to say nothing of the ...Read more
A memory of Brixham in 1880 by
Moat Mount Youth Fc.
Not long after the completion of Worcester Crescent and Bedford Road, the construction of Ramillies Road I had acquired a large number of new friends, all boys. My parents had moved from Woodford Essex to 52 Worcester Crescent ...Read more
A memory of Mill Hill by
Lord Mayor Treloars Hospital 1953 1958
Starting when I was eleven I was a patient over 5 years for three spells, 2 years, 18 months and 9 months with an infected hip joint which became a deep routed abscess. Many different ‘ new’ antibiotics were tried to ...Read more
A memory of Alton by
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Our picture features Winter's jewellery shop and Petersgate Bridge.
The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.
The large colon- naded building is the Winter Villa, built by the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe for his wife, who found the winters at Mount Edgecumbe House a little too draughty.
The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.
The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.
The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.
During the winter the wooden boards of the 'Splashboard' and the temporary cabins had to be removed and stored inland.
It is a somewhat different story in the depths of winter, when this coast is regularly battered by storms.
On the left, turf is stacked drying in the sun for the winter.
In the 1890s it was thronged with skaters when the river froze in the severe winters of those days.
The farmer sits on his cutter as it slices through the sweet-smelling hay crop that will keep his stock through the bitter Dales winter.
old maltings on the left, this peaceful view cannot be easily replicated today, as the ground here fills up with cars in the summer months and sailing boats battened down for the bad weather in the winter
Somerleyton Hall's impressive cast iron and glass-domed winter garden, with its rich abundance of ferns, climbing plants and typical Victorian ornamentation.
The hay would later be stacked before being taken to a hay barn store for the winter feed for the livestock.
It was off to the pub for a pint of mild, best mild or best bitter; to the cabin for ices and iced drinks in summer and hot drinks (Bovril or Oxo) in winter.
Boscombe has considerable literary connections, for many writers have sought out its mild winter climate.
Tradition says that the harder the winter, the more leaves that appear.
The local church has a tablet and hatchments to the Paston family, and also a brass to John Winter, who was an MP for Norfolk in 1409.
The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.
The true New Forest pony can survive outdoors through all seasons, eating holly and furze tops during the winter.
Its Long Gallery, used for winter promenades among the ancestral portraits, is 160 ft long, and the 19th-century ceiling was replaced by a more accurately-proportioned one.
Another popular place in the winter months was George Scott's blacksmith's shop.
During the winter she did towing work on the Humber.
The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter.
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