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Saturday Morning Pictures
My lasting memory of the majestic cinema was going to Saturday morning pictures: with my sister Linda and all our mates watching Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Superman, The 3 Stooges and all the cartoons. I still love Tom and ...Read more
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Growing Up In Hendon 1945 1970
Being born in the front room of 7 First Avenue (which runs between Finchley Lane and Victoria Road) in September 1945 and living at that address until 1970 approximately, but my mother (Mary) and Father (Len) lived there ...Read more
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Hms Ganges
Until the mid '70s Shotley Gate was the home of HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training establishment. As 15 year old boys under training in 1964 we were allowed to visit the Post Office (see photograph in this collection) to draw money out ...Read more
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Special Memories Pier And Baths
When I was 9 we lived in a new block of flats (at that time) opposite the Pier and just across the road from the baths. I used to walk to Stanwell Rd School through the Park which was always beautiful. I actually never ...Read more
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The Peach Bar
I WAS ONE OF A GROUP OF LADS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS "THE LOCAL TEDDY BOY TYPES" WHO USED TO MEET UP AT THE PEACH BAR IN STONELEIGH BROADWAY IN THE SIXTIES. THIS WAS A COFFEE BAR RUN BY A LOVELY LADY CALLED IDA. THOSE WERE GREAT DAYS ...Read more
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A Wonderful Memory
I understand that we all can’t like the same thing, but Rookesbury Park was a wonderful school for me, I was so happy there. I was a little bugger. I knew the school better than any of the teachers. I ran wild. I knew all the ...Read more
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Jazz At The Peacock Inn
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone directories ...Read more
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Football Years
I played for the first Sudbrook Cricket Club football team. We came second in the East Gwent 2nd Division and got promoted. I played with: Dave Clements, Mike Keogh, Paul Little, Ivor Baker, Tony Cochrane, Bobby Noade, Darren Noade, ...Read more
A memory of Caldicot in 1980 by
A Dump Called Paradise
I lived in this house until I was 21. My father had already bought the property when this photo was taken and I was also born in 1955. My parents had no hot water, low ceilings, no bathroom or electricity when they moved in. He ...Read more
A memory of Bersham in 1964 by
Oakhanger, Hampshire
Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more
A memory of Oakhanger
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This photograph, taken in what is known as Above Bar, shows Bargate facing south.
Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.
The civil engineers of the future concentrate on their construction work, while a budding mountaineer attempts a climb of the stone wall (left).
Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.
The welcoming though deserted bar inside The Red Lion shows a typical pub interior, decorated with brass tankards, hunting horns and pewter plates.
This wintry scene was taken well out of the tourist season, and is hardly an invitation for the choc ices advertised in the snack bar.
Facilities at the racecourse have improved considerably since the fifties with the addition of new stands, hospitality suites and the Champagne and Seafood Bar.
Cove's London Hotel (centre left) is now the Moorish Wine Bar, and J H Easterbrook's Boot and Shoe Warehouse (left) is now two separate businesses.
This pub has a date of 1635 in sheep's knucklebones set in the floor of the bar.
In 1837 the local squire, Reverend Canon Rogers, commissioned James Rendell to design a harbour for the Loe.
The statue of Hull's leading writer, Andrew Marvell, has been moved; George Street became the new centre of entertainment.
Continuing through the village, we come to The Black Bull public house (centre); the parish church stands in the background.
Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.
This photograph shows the layout of Beverley well, with North Bar leading to the Market Place.
Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.
Nestling on the south bank of the Humber, the wide boulevard of Whitecross Street has changed little.
Built in the 1820s, and substantially altered in 1848, this building was variously the site of executions, a school, a courthouse and a venue for Swansea's Literature Festival.
Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.
The Pump Room (left, 48974) was constructed in 1842 over the sulphur wells.
The bar staff are in attendance, possibly waiting for customers after the Newton, Clifton and Salwick Field Day, very popular in the 1960s.
This view of Allerford's much photographed 15th-century packhorse bridge and ford looks much the same today.
As we look past the children paddling, the seaward end of the pier is terminated by the Kursaal of 1899, replacing a smaller 1888 one that had cost a mere £250.
We are looking towards the imposing building of the Presbyterian church in the distance and Groundwell Road.
All four bars still have their portcullises, but this is the only one that still works.
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