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A Long Time Ago
I lived in Codsall Wood between 1944 and 1952. I attended Albrighton Infants School between 1950 and 1952, I still have my school cap, the only names I can remember was the dinner lady a Mrs Orange and 2 other pupils Darryl Massey ...Read more
A memory of Albrighton in 1951 by
Perhaps A Year Or Two Early
I'm not absolutely sure the garden was as spick and span as this at the turn of the sixties, but it wasn't that long before it became this way. It had been a ruin until the early fifties when a brutalist electricity sub ...Read more
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Progress And Change
Being raised in Buckhurst Hill was a childhood experience I feel very lucky to have enjoyed. I was raised in the small cottage at 58 Epping New Road aptly named "Ivy Cottage". Located on the edge of the yard owned by W&C ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1940 by
Selby Infants School
Hello, I have some fond memories of my old school....but also some not so fond ones! Remember Miss Hingley bringing me to the front of the class after an assembly as I had been spotted chatting!....she slapped me on the legs so much I ...Read more
A memory of Selby by
Skewen 1983 4
I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain. We had moved ...Read more
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Convalescence 1960’s Style
My Grandmother was sent to Woodhurst Hospital, Peas Pottage, to convalesce following suffering from Bronchial Pneumonia. At the time we were living in Stockwell, South London, and for a small child it seemed to be a long ...Read more
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Halfway House ...
After two ''BIG C'' scares and an operation I finally managed to get back to the HALFWAY HOUSE (Sept 09)....seemed just like yesterday Steve and Kim were so friendly...How the area had changed oxton school had gone also Birkenhead ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead in 2009 by
Highwood Hospital, Brentwood
My father (Peter Winslow) was in charge of salaries and wages for the Brentwood District group of hospitals in the early 60s and he was based at Highwood Hospital. His offices were at one time in the Limes, the building in ...Read more
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The Old Tomato Nursery
In the Fifties my family used to live in Gipsy Road. Once a month, or so, I was taken to visit friends of my stepmother, Uncle Andy and Auntie Kit, who lived at the Bexleyheath end of Long Lane. This involved a long walk to get ...Read more
A memory of Welling
Coronation Day
My mother took short term housekeeping positions and in 1953 we lived in Westbrook House in Westbrook village, looking after Sir Edgar and Lady Ludlow Hewitt. He was a gentleman farmer and I sometimes drove around his land with him in ...Read more
A memory of Bromham in 1953 by
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A short distance away behind the church, to the right, we can see the ornate window and gable end of the Methodist church (now the village hall).
The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.
This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn.
Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.
For a short time in the middle of the 19th century, copper was mined in Dry Cove above Tilberthwaite.
Village lanes and woodlands can be discovered and explored within a short distance from many moorings on the river Waveney, which separates Norfolk from Suffolk.
After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.
Lead mining brought much short-lived prosperity to this part of Swaledale, but the village quickly returned to its rural existence.
The first Knott End ferry began as a family business shortly after work on Fleetwood started, but in 1894, was taken over by the municipal council.
Maynscroft restaurant and café and the adjoining William's cycle shop (right) closed shortly after 1955 and became dwellings.
This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.
The church of St James, with its broach spire and Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the nave, was newly seated and restored in 1854-55.
This traffic reached such levels that it could not cope, and a new one was built a short distance downstream.
In a few short years four large homes for sufferers from tuberculosis were established in the resort.
Beccles would still have been doing important business as a port when this photograph was taken.
Portreath was once a thriving little mining port at the terminus of Cornwall's first (horse-drawn) railway.
As an important naval port, Plymouth has always had a large contingent of military personnel stationed around its various districts.
With numbers of worshippers falling dramatically, and the prospect of the inner relief road being built, it was knocked down in 1980: a sadly short life for such a wonderful building, as this interior
Bishops Walk, the quiet riverside path, was shortly to be replaced by the main road to be known as Lambeth Palace Road and the Albert Embankment.
Often referred to affectionately as 'Cleveland's Matterhorn', the distinctive profile of Roseberry Topping lies a short distance to the west of Guisborough, between Pinchinthorpe and Great
The bridge was built in 1826 by Thomas Penson, who also built Llanidloes' Short Bridge in 1850.
As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.
The main canal ran from Whitby, now Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, to Autherley near Wolverhampton, through 46 sets of locks.
The four-centred arches cover a short chancel.
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