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Childhood In Elmsleigh Road
I lived at number 42 Elmsleigh Road from 1947 until about 1963.My pals and I played in the street in safety as there were few cars. We played "tin can tommy" and "cannon" otherwise we were on Wandsworth Common climbing ...Read more
A memory of Wandsworth by
Margaret Beavan
My late wife Sandra stayed at the home, with her sister Carol, for 6 weeks in the summer of 1957. Sandra was just turned 11 and Carol 9 and a half. About 20 years ago Sandra and I went back to Heswall and, as others have commented, the ...Read more
A memory of Heswall by
Eric Galley
My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue junior ...Read more
A memory of Highams Park by
Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more
A memory of Mullion
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which to ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
The Bank Of England
The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more
A memory of London in 1963 by
Bagpuss
A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a reply ...Read more
A memory of Horrabridge by
After The War
I do not know the exact year that Doncaster had its first Royal visit after the Second World War had ended but all the school children in the parish were required to put on their best bibs and tuckers for school and ...Read more
A memory of Intake in 1946 by
Time For The Beach Miss Patricia May
This is one of my biggest memories of growing up in Port Isaac: On summer days my mum Joyce May would take me and my sister Elizebath to Port Gavern beach for the day. My mum would make a packed lunch for us to ...Read more
A memory of Port Isaac by
'greetings'
Not so much a memory, more of a mystery! Sorting through some old papers, I came across a driving license issued in April 1952 by Kent Council to my dad. The address was given as 'Greetings', Benenden, Kent. The mystery is that I was born ...Read more
A memory of Benenden by
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It was intended that the building would act as an annexe to the Savoy Hotel in London, which D'Oyly Carte owned; but no licence was granted, so the house came to be used as a private residence.
Going to sea at 16, he achieved fame and notoriety as both an explorer and buccaneer; amongst his exploits, he is remembered for having circumnavigated the globe three times.
The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name.
On either side of the High Street, some of the former well-stocked shops have become estate agents, marketing the many bungalows and houses that were built for families who came year after year to enjoy
They came to a shrine that was said to contain a phial of Christ's blood.
The air age came to Yarmouth as early as 1913, when an Air Station was established on the South Denes.
Once tourists came in horse-drawn carriages, then in charabancs, and latterly in cars and motor coaches.
Its majesty was attenuated somewhat when the Great Western Railway line from Wolverhampton to Chester came along and was built even higher.
The turnpike closed in 1872, and the building came down in the 1930s.
Fifies came in all sizes.
The town's own surveyor eventually came up with a plan for the present theatre.
It was only 10 ft long, ran on 10 inch wheels, and came with front-wheel drive and independent suspension.The battery was in the boot.
This old market town, famed for its manufacture of nails, is situated on the slopes of the Lickey Hills.
Then came houses and shops to create today's village on either side of the A322.
Close to the John Wynne Almshouses, buses turned in front of the buildings and the open space was used for stalls on market day and for attractions when the fair came to the town.
It stands outside St Mary's Catholic Church, which was built by John Lingard, who came to the village in 1811.
The town is famed for its major carpet business, founded in 1755 by Thomas Whitty.
The handcart with its large hamper which was parked by the pavement in picture 76862 (p.42-43), is still in the same spot.
When the railway came in 1850, it opened up the voracious wholesale markets of London and the Midlands and brought a measure of solid prosperity to the community.
After the opening of the railway from London to Brighton in 1841, the coaching era came quickly to a close.
Here we are looking back towards the way we came.
on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that many Londoners came
This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.
Old-fashioned, coach-built prams were still very much in evidence in 1965, though they were gradually rendered redundant as car ownership increased and foldaway buggies came into their own.
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