Maps

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Books

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Memories

271 memories found. Showing results 121 to 130.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar And Darlington In The 40’s And 50’s

QUEEN ELIZABETH GRAMMAR AND DARLINGTON IN THE 40’s and 50’s I was born and lived for 18 years in Pensbury Street. Then Hargreave terrace. And grateful for the 1944 Education Act. Still. ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Robin Matthews

Zoo And Other Seafront Memories

I definately remember the little zoo on the front of the esplanade probably in the 1960's. There were some birds and possibly a monkey but I remember particularly a huge tortoise ( it may have been a turtle), which was ...Read more

A memory of Largs by toots1.gk

The Primary School

I might be wrong with the year but, this is about the time the old primary school (Shore Road), moved into the new school at Bendarroch Park. My last class room at the old school was in the Gibson Hall (where from memory our ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead in 1960 by Andrew Bain

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 Mary Hill

Fa Cup Final 1971

Bentalls was a big shop, especially if like me you'd grown up in small villages & army bases. I can remember seeing a bespoke luxury car being parked between the escalators. Not having a TV at my aunts house in Raynes ...Read more

A memory of Kingston Upon Thames by bru.enzer

Schooldays

I attended Ayr Academy when it was a primary school but left at the end of P.4 when that department closed. But I returned in 1963 after passing the eleven plus, much to my primary school teacher's surprise. So many memories of school. Wandering ...Read more

A memory of Ayr by whiteborros

Growing Up In Mount

We moved to Mount 1962, I started school at Darran Las Infant School. Then moved on to the Comprehensive. How big it looked and the kids where so grown up. The grounds where just beautiful and the old house was incredible. The ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by uksteveandsue

I Join The Railway.

I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth Chronicle ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

Happy Days In Rosington

I was born in Rossington in 1952 and lived on Clay Flat Lane with my mum and dadTo & MAry Atkinson, brother John and sister Paula. Dad worked in Rosso pit for many years, like a lot of Rosso residents. Myearliest memory ...Read more

A memory of New Rossington by honeydog12

Share Your Experience Staff Who Reported The Abuse.

I am asking PLEASE. If you are one of the members of staff reading this who reported the abuse just before castle school was closed down. I have knowledge for the true reason why Stanhope castle school ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by Ian Lambert

Captions

293 captions found. Showing results 289 to 312.

Caption For Cambridge, Hobbs Pavilion 1931

Between 1905 and 1934 he played in 61 test matches and scored a record 61,237 runs.

Caption For Stroud, Butter Row, The Old Pike House 1925

For example, 'stage coaches, post chaises or sociable Berlins' cost 3d, droves of oxen or cows 3d per score and calves or hogs a halfpenny less.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1950

On 30 August 1940, a 100kg bomb scored a direct hit on Park Street bus depot, killing one person and creating a temporary bus shortage.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Grazing Sheep In A Field Versus Sellergarth 2004

Abbot Bankes, accompanied by more than a score of monks, forcefully evicted the entire population of the village, and then proceeded to raze the village to the ground; he left the villagers to their own

Caption For Laindon, Station 2005

Scores of farms went out of cultivation, and rents fell rapidly.