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My Memories Of Broadstone
My earliest memories of Broadstone stem from about 1937 when I was five years old. We lived in Southbourne at the time and frequently went to Broadstone at weekends to visit my "aunt Flo" and her family who lived at Lower ...Read more
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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more
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Old Friends
I lived in Smallfield during the war years, firstly in Broadbridge Cottages surrounded by barrage balloons and then New Road. My best friend was Sandra Steel, remember all the children in the road had chickenpox at the same time. We ...Read more
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Paras At Watchfield In The 1950s
Yes, I lived on the Watchfield housing estate from 1952 to 1953. Large numbers of paras and their equipment were dropped regularly at the airfield. Trainees jumped from large silver barrage balloons, but experienced ...Read more
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When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
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A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more
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The Weekly Trip To Watford
I was not born when the photo was taken in 1906 but I do well remember our weekly shopping trips to the Watford market just after world war two. There would always be time to visit the top end of the high street to admire ...Read more
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Boyhood Memories From 1952
It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the streets ...Read more
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Salfords Memories Of A Small Boy
We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old school, ...Read more
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Happy Days
I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more
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In 1911, a balloon took off from Pitchcroft during celebrations for the coronation of George V, and even today people taking scenic flights with Worcester Balloons still start their journey on Pitchcroft
In the late 11th century, a Benedictine priory was founded by Hamelin de Ballon—a conquering Norman lord needed the legitimacy of the church's support.
In the late 11th century, a Benedictine priory was founded by Hamelin de Ballon - a conquering Norman lord needed the legitimacy of the church's support.
This is the spot were the War Office meteorological balloon 'Saladdin', with Malmesbury MP Walter Powell in its gondola, disappeared from sight on the afternoon of 10 December 1881.
The road extends to the now defunct railway line as 20th-century Countesthorpe balloons in an amoebic sprawl westwards towards Cosby and Whetstone.
Viewed shortly after its restoration, this cross with a shaft and a figure of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century - the ball on top dates from the time of Queen Anne.
The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.
During World War II, and after, Cardington became part of Britain's air defence system and produced barrage balloons and trained the personnel to handle them.
A train has just left Holborn Viaduct Station and thunders south over the bridge, steam ballooning out over the roofs.
Its place in history was the disappearance out to sea from here of William Powell MP, the member for Malmesbury, in a run-away balloon after an aborted clifftop landing on 10 December 1881.
In 1862 Henry Coxwell, a local aviation pioneer who soared to the height of 26,000 feet in a balloon in 1862, is also buried here.
started with a service for the Alderley Oddfellows at St Mary's, after which they paraded up the hill to the Wizard, where there was a mixture of entertainment, including races, donkey rides, balloon
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