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Memories
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Lost Memories Of Childhood
I was a patient at the RLCH Heswall in the 1940s . Although my family came from Liverpool I was sent to the hospital with what we knew as a diseaesed hip bone which I later heard referred to as Perthe's Disease. I guess my ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1940 by
Netherthong Public Houses Part 1
This chapter is a work in progress and as it is more than the 1000 words allowed in this memory, I have split it into 2 sections. The current title is : Public House, inn, alehouse, tavern, pothouse, beer ...Read more
A memory of Netherthong by
Netherthong Public Houses Part 2
This is the second part of my ongoing research into the public houses in Netherthong. There is reference to two inns in Thongsbridge in 1853 - the Rose & Crown publican Hiram Earnshaw, and the Royal Oak with ...Read more
A memory of Netherthong by
Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final
Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more
A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by
Little Tudor 1900s To Present
Little Tudor was the cottage that my grandmother resided in when she was a young girl. It is located on The Green in Holyport, Maidenhead. She and her brothers and sisters grew up here in the 1900s. I visited it last ...Read more
A memory of Holyport in 1941 by
Birth.
I was born in Crystal Place Road Dulwich in July 1930. I did not know the full address until a few months ago. My family moved to Grove Park when I was six months old and my mother died in March 1932. My father died when I was thirteen. I never ...Read more
A memory of Dulwich in 1930 by
Summer Of 1990
I was lucky enough to go abroad for our family holiday every year. Towards the end of the 1980s my second holiday around August time would be to go to Treyarnon Bay with my best friend Becci and her parents, and I fell in love with ...Read more
A memory of St Merryn in 1990 by
Guard Of Honour
Seventy years ago, I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford and was selected to be included in the Guard of Honour when King George Vl visited in either April, May or June (memory not what it was at 88!) 1940. I do ...Read more
A memory of Upper Heyford in 1940 by
Hammer Cottage
I left Coolham 1n 1957 to go to sea to become a Salvage Diver. I was very fortunate to have achieved my ambition and became the senior diver within Admiralty Salvage. My family lived and owned Hammer Cottage, together with Saddlers ...Read more
A memory of Coolham in 1957 by
Pay Up On The Nail
'Cash on the Nail' the man said. . . and a century or so ago in Bristol he really meant it. For the deal would have been clinched on one of Bristol's four famous nails standing outside the Corn Exchange on Corn Street or, from the ...Read more
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Captions
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This coaching inn, which dated from Tudor times, was rebuilt in 1676 following the Great Fire of London in 1666.
St Thomas's dates from the 1840s, and was designed by Richard Lane.
Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.
This building is dated 1790, and is a little distance from the church.
On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.
It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.
The current building here dates from 1858, its predecessor having burned down.
The house was built in 1715 - or that, at least, is the date on the rainwater heads.
The church of St Stephen is thought to date originally from the 7th century; it is certainly recorded in a taxation document of 1254 as the church of 'Bottewara'.
The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.
The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.
It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.
Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.
The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860.
The arched tombs beneath the window date from the 14th century.
North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.
St Martin's Cottage (right) has the date 1661 over the porch.
There is a plaque dated 1622 on the chimney-stack.
At the corner with Sheep Street stands the town hall, which dates from 1767; on this building is a statue of the Bard presented by David Garrick.
Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly
Parts of this beautiful old building date back to the middle years of the 16th century.
The shop with the clock, at this date called The Shoe People, still sells shoes.
The church of St Peter and St Paul dates from the 13th century, but the magnificent tower was rebuilt in 1852.
Further on are the Jockey Club and a large shop, now Palmer's, dated 1832.
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