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Childhood
I lived in Mayfield Road, which is where the foreground bollards are situated, from 1961 -1979. The junction was a little bit treacherous when cycling in the wet as I found out to my cost. Although a Girls school, boys could attend in ...Read more
A memory of Sanderstead in 1965 by
All Uphill
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three ...Read more
A memory of Kidsgrove in 1973 by
Kingsbury Pool And Area
Hello. I lived in Kingsbury from 1943 until 1962 when I moved to Canada. I lived off Old Church Lane. We walked to the pool with our sixpence and had to stand in line for what seemed hours - as they only would allow a ...Read more
A memory of Kingsbury in 1962 by
Chalk Pit & The Hunt
Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. ...Read more
A memory of Odiham in 1981 by
Marriage Between Ivy Alice Gillard To Robert Alexander Bent
This date Oct 6th, in 1945, while serving in the RCAF, I was married to Ivy Gillard in this olden church. It was a bright sunny day. Ivy came to Canada with our daughter Barbara in October of ...Read more
A memory of Paignton in 1945 by
Hop Picking
Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In the ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood in 1940 by
My Hometown
I was born in 1928 at Woodhill, Gressenhall and moved to Dereham at the age of 6yrs and left when I married some 20 years later. It was a happy childhood in spite of the war years, in fact it added to the excitement of those years, ...Read more
A memory of Dereham in 1940 by
Happy Days.......
I along with very many local girls over the years helped out at the Tea Gardens during the school holidays. I remember going to the front door a few times to ask if they had a job for me and being so scared I came away with an ice cream ...Read more
A memory of Bosherston in 1965 by
Working Life Memories.
As a boy of 11 or 12, I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up ...Read more
A memory of Washford by
Bubbles Up Your Bum!
Just look closely at the picture, sitting on top of the fountain was half the fun & excitement of coming to the pool. Water wings under my arms and the supervision of Granddad Russell I made my first attempt at learning to ...Read more
A memory of Plymouth in 1958 by
Captions
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Her close neighbour at nearby Rydal Mount was William Wordsworth, who had his own pew in the church; so did the family of Dr Arnold of Rugby School fame.
She came into service in 1958.
Working people usually had one set of clothes for work and another for best, and for a trip to the seaside the best clothes came out of the closet - or the pawn shop.
Lakeside is the settlement furthest away from the Lakeland mountains, but it is historically important as the entry point for large numbers of Victorian day visitors who came up from Lancashire by way
The Victorians came to Ilkley in their carriages, and later by train, to enjoy fresh air and the invigorating spa water. But sunshine can quickly disappear.
An old story says that King Alfred came here to build a palace, but instead he built a shipyard on the estuary of the Cuckmere nearby.
It is said that the ornate staircase in the Town House came from Standon Lordship. The white shed on the left stands next to the village pond where the villagers skated in winter.
The village began to expand in 1866-1867 when a local man came up with a scheme to transform it into a popular seaside resort.
Gilpin came to Houghton after being cleared of charges of heresy, but he was indicted a second time and was on his way to answer the charges when he broke his leg.
The Quaker Meeting House came in 1836, and next is Summerfield House, formerly an inn. Finally, on the right is the Wesleyan chapel of 1836.
Built for the Hussey family, the tower came into the council's hands in 1544 after Lord Hussey was executed by Henry VIII.
Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.
There is a story that when Charles Dickens lived at nearby Gadshill, he had a tunnel constructed that led under the main road and came up in his garden on the other side in the parish of Shorne; here he
The iron gates in the foreground came from Wellington College in 1922.
The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.
The end came not so much from power looms, but from printed imitations. In one Glasgow mill they used a treadmill worked by a Newfoundland dog.
The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)
The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.
The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with many such monuments, it came complete with a captured Russian cannon.
The space age came to Cornwall when this first dish, or antenna, was built in 1962; it received the first live television pictures via satellite from America.
The pilchard drivers came in at around 30ft in length; until the 1890s they had been open-decked. During the autumn the pilchard boats also went after herring.
The total bill came to £130 8s 6d, some of which went to '60 men of St Just who did nothing but drink beer to the value of 13s 6d'.
Richard Wootton soon came to head the Trainers' Championship, while Stanley was best known as a tutor of jockeys.
The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).
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