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Great Aunty Rissa Dunckley (Nee Peake)
My Great Aunty Rissa married Mr John Dunckley of Collingtree and they lived at The Poplars (still there) until John died. After his death my aunts, Rissa Dunckley and Ethel Peake, remained in the house until ...Read more
A memory of Collingtree in 1930 by
Friars Children's Home, 31 Bradford Street, Bocking
My mother wrote her childhood memories about 10 years before she died in 1992. She was sent to Friars Children's Home for the sole purpose of working when she was 14 in about 1926. I think that her ...Read more
A memory of Bocking in 1920 by
Highwood Hospital
I spent nine months at Highwood Hospital between May and December 1951. I celebrated my 12th birthday in Poplars 3, a girls' ward almost at the end of the drive. I remember so many things about my time there I could almost write ...Read more
A memory of Brentwood in 1951 by
Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
A memory of Ash Vale by
Holidays In Lancing
When I was a child we had our annual holiday in Lancing. Mum, Dad and Grandad with my sister and I travelled from Reigate, in Surrey. I remember a kind friend who gave us a lift down until we had our own car to travel in - a black ...Read more
A memory of Lancing by
Growing Up In Wealdstone
Lived in Masons Avenue from 1959 to 1967. My aunt worked in the Poplar stores in the High Street. I can remember being fascinated as a child watching them pat the butter into small blocks in Sainsbury's and their blackcurrant ...Read more
A memory of Wealdstone by
Shenfield Memmory Lane
This is for anyone who was in the children's home in hutton poplars . My name rosie I was in serota house I remember the house parents were pat an bill an dsughter called Evelyn I remember Alan shiella devon lex michael ...Read more
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I Was In Hutton Poplars Childrens Home.
From the age of 3 until I was 15 years of age I was in Hutton poplars I was in Humber House Mr and Mrs Healy were in charge. I then after some years in Humber House was transferred to Windermere House with Mr and ...Read more
A memory of Shenfield
Domenic Reitzo
Domenic Reitzo was the model for this soldier. Born around 1860, he was an Italian immigrant who lived in the Lambeth area of London. He was a popular model for painters and sculpters at the Lambeth School of Art.
A memory of Exeter
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Distinctly lacking in moral uplift, they were of course immensely popular. Hanging on the rack are Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, Puck, Home Chat, Titbits and Handy.
Notice the roller-skating rink in the middle of the photograph - an activity that became very popular in the 1950s.
Often considered to be the prettiest village on Tyneside, Ryton in the early 19th century was a popular residential area for wealthy Newcastle businessmen and merchants, even though it would soon be given
The old Jenny Lind Hospital, here shown soon after completion, commemorated the city's affection for Jenny Lind, the mid 19th-century soprano superstar known as The Swedish Nightingale, who was a popular
Deal is a delightful small resort, which became very popular in Victorian times. It is best known for its attractive seafront, with its promenade and pier.
By the 1950s, with the advent of popular motoring, Broadway was starting to attract car-borne tourists in considerable numbers.
Punting was extremely popular with both sexes from the late 1890s, especially the method of 'pricking', rather than walking the length of the punt with the punt pole.
Straw hats are popular for both men and women.
Always a highly popular attraction, the miniature railway was opened in the Valley Gardens in 1947.
This was a popular destination for trippers. Marsden has good sands, and is well known for the grotto on the cliff, which also includes a restaurant and a haunted pub.
The Gorleston Pavilion (left), always a popular venue with its dance hall and theatre, is hosting the summer show— The Revumorists.
The coming of the railway in Victoria's time had made Lyndhurst very popular, though George III had resided there a century earlier.
Also, by this time photography was an increasingly popular hobby.
Touring caravan sites are now popular, and several are clustered in this northern area of town.
It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing. The larger machines shown here ran down to the water on rails, and had a number of cubicles.
The popular 10.25 inch narrow gauge railway, laid in 1949, is one the longest established in England. The line runs for half a mile round the smaller lake.
Budleigh really began to grow just after the Napoleonic wars, when it became popular as a genteel retreat.
Strolling along the pier was obviously a popular pastime, and many chose to dress to impress for the occasion — straw boaters and best bonnets, swagger sticks and parasols abound, together with white flannels
The line was opened in 1864 to link the iron industry of West Cumberland with coal from the West Durham coalfield, but it soon became popular with tourists visiting Keswick and the northern Lake District
It was built in 1936, and is a popular stopping place for day-trippers to the Downs and the coastal resorts. It was usual to have a drink on the outward and homeward journeys.
It became noted for its rose gardens and as the popular centre for the annual Carnival funfair. The picture shows some of the well-kept flower beds.
It is still a popular route, despite the construction of the unloved Dorchester bypass.
This Parade has always been a popular walking area, with its occasional views of the sea through the trees. Southend
Bovington is the home of the popular tank museum, where a great many tanks and armoured military vehicles can be seen.
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