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Memories
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Back In 1963
I was moved to Wickford with my family in December 1963, a hard winter, removal van had trouble getting up the unmade road. Coming from London, it was a bit of a sleepy village for me and especially for my teenage siblings. Had to wait ...Read more
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Best Four Years Of My Life As A Kid
We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The old ...Read more
A memory of Bishop Monkton by
The Teachers.
The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Beginnings
My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father ...Read more
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Memories Of Baby Burial At Dilston Maternity Hospital
by Mr Alex Hillary (April 6th 2007) - as reported to Susan Hedworth, Community Care Assistant No, we don’t get the snow like we used to! Like it was in 1941, I mean. I was a taxi driver at ...Read more
A memory of Corbridge by
Good Old Days
i lived at 13ward gardens just by the village green.spent my youth there until moving to new zealand when i was 25,spent many a day fishing for sticklebacks in the stream by the pond back in 1964,as i got older spent many an hour in the ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham by
Croglin 1958
When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the trees ...Read more
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Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa
In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more
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18 Two Meadows
As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more
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Pinner Mid 50's
I was fortunate enough to live in Pinner as a small child 8 & 9 years old. We lived on 9 Nower Hill, and I remember befriending the railway station ticket lady. She and I used to go out to the parking lot (which was gravel back then) ...Read more
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Captions
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The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School.
Peaceful Abberley might have become one of the notable battlefields of England and changed the course of history, had not the elusive Glyndwr slipped back across the Welsh Marches.
Parts of this building are claimed to go back at least to the 14th century.
This view shows the bank before its additional floor and new façade were added. Today's traffic has brought lights around a much-reduced traffic island, which has lost the trees and shrubs.
In the background, under its handsome pedimented clock, is the local Savings Bank.
Also buried here is the eccentric banking millionaire Jemmy Wood.
In this picture, the impressive County Hotel and Barclays Bank (built originally as a wine and spirit warehouse) can be seen on the corner, with the clock tower and the old Infirmary beyond.
It has been lived in by the Townley family since the 18th century, although the house itself dates back to around a century earlier.
Note the large chimney pots, dating back to a time when open fires were the only form of heating.
We can imagine its view of East Cliff and the harbour when we look at its back view in picture
It has been lived in by the Townley family since the 18th century, although the house itself dates back to around a century earlier.
The church of All Saints at Fawley dates back to Saxon times, though much of the present building is Norman or later. The church was bombed in 1940, but has now been carefully restored.
The shops and houses on the left back straight on to the sea.
The chancel was extensively rebuilt in the latter part of the 19th century, but the rest is considerably older, including the timber- framed porch, which dates back to late medieval times.
A lovely view taken from the end of the pier, looking back towards Saltburn and showing the buildings of the Marine Parade and the cliff lift leading up to them.
Soaring above the High Street is the spire of St Mary the Virgin Church, dating back to the 14th century. The even older tower is 13th-century.
Those pictured back on to what is now a miniature golf course and car park.
The chancel was extensively rebuilt in the latter part of the 19th century, but the rest is considerably older, including the timber-framed porch, which dates back to late medieval times.
The backs of the houses in Chaldon Way near the turning with Bradmore Way are viewed here from the footpath along the line of magnificent yews on the eastern slopes of Farthing Down.
This view, taken from the seafront looking back to the town, shows the quieter aspect of 'Belfast by the Sea', Bangor's affectionate nickname.
The gap leading off to the right between the buildings is Back Lane.
This view shows the tower of St Peter's Church from the now much-municipalised Reading bank. The church tower was rebuilt in 1878.
The lone tower dates back to the rebuilding of the 1530s, the rest of the church having been demolished in 1760.
The boulders and rocks are placed strategically along the mudflats to protect the banks from sea erosion and to safeguard the houses close by. Whitby
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