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The Good Old Days
I was born in Luton in the 1940s and remember well the shops in Manchester Street with WG Durrants butchers on the corner of Manchester Street and Bridge Street. Next door in Bridge Street was a garage and further along Manchester ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Selsdon Parade Residential Flat
My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon in 1982 by
St Malachys Primary School 1951 To 1956
I was born in Manchester in 1945, and moved with my family to Kingsly Crescent Collyhurst flats. My father died in 1948, and my mother, brother Joe and I moved to Elizabeth-Ann Street, Collyhurst, where we ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1951 by
Born On Sutton Flats
I was born on Sutton Flats (now demolished) Pendleton in 1941. My first vague memory was sitting under a table with a blanket draped over it and a lit candle (must have been an air-raid on at the time). My first real memory was a ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Collyhurst Flats, Southern Drive
Lived at 17 Southern Drive, went to St Oswalds. One of my memories was helping Harry the firewood lad; he used to sell firewood from his handcart. Marco real ice-cream. Harry Wilkinson in the chip shop - if you put ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1952 by
Growing Up In Penge (1947 Onwards)
I have said that my early life began in Penge in 1947, but that is only as far back as I can remember. Although I was still only two then, I do have a very good memory. I can remember while I was in a pram outside the ...Read more
A memory of Penge in 1947 by
High Cross House And Dorothy Elmhirsts Steinway Grand Piano
On the beautiful Dartington Hall Estate there is a unique “International Modernist House”, now used as a gallery, just to the north-east of Dartington Hall School. High Cross House ...Read more
A memory of Dartington Hall in 2012 by
Triangle Row
We moved in to number 13 after we got married. Our first visitor was unfortunately a policeman with a warrant for the previous owners arrest. I'm sure we were not alone in the house. We often used to hear an over the door type bell ...Read more
A memory of Norland Town in 1984 by
Warwick Gardens Flats & Goston Gardens And Winterbourne School
Hi my name back in the 60's was Jacqueline Hadley, I lived with Mum & Dad and my brother Philip for 2 years in Warwick Gardens flats on London Rd and later moved to 43 Goston ...Read more
A memory of Thornton Heath in 1960 by
Cuperhead Across From Alan St. Skyscraper Flats
Before we moved to the flats in Cuperhead, we lived in Culzean Place which were very small tin houses /maisonettes. We were a family of 5 at that time till we moved to the flats in Cuperhead, then ...Read more
A memory of Coatbridge in 1959
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Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.
Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.
At its western end, between Shaftmoor Lane and Fox Hollies Road, there is a parade of early 20th-century shops, and opposite there is a late 20th-century supermarket.
The church has tombs and fine brasses to the L'Estrange family; it also has a restored painted screen and a late Norman font.
In The Square is the Crown Hotel, a late Georgian coaching inn known in the 1890s as George Payne's Family and Commercial Hotel (straight ahead).
This view from the water meadows is a very well known one, and relatively little changed today, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller – he or she would be able to see fourteen
This view from the water meadows is a very well known one and relatively little changed, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller when there were fourteen parish church towers
A later view, shows the Winter Gardens now completing the arc of guest houses and other buildings that overlook the wide promenade.
Lee on the Solent grew as a late Victorian development.
Although first founded in the 7th century by St Cuthbert, the present priory church and ruins relate to a later Augustinian community established in about 1190.
We may be thankful that although a later entrance building was wrecked by fire, both the older theatre and music pavilion can still be seen today, and the pier remains successful.
This photo depicts a later restoration (which included the demolition of a chimney).
It is noted for its parish church, which combines Anglo- Saxon detail and features with Norman work, a late 11th-century phase cumbersomely termed Saxo-Norman Overlap.
There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.
But its small museum remembers a later warrior, Lawrence of Arabia, who lived not far away until his death in 1935.
A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.
On the right is a later extension to the Jubilee Hall of 1889. The white bow-fronted house is Mizpah of 1877, and beyond is High House of 1879.
At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.
Beyond, on the corner with Mill Street, is No 26, Weston's, a stationers and newsagents, an earlier building re-fronted in the 19th century with a late Victorian shop-front.
The nave and aisles date from about 1210 with a later square-topped tower. Henry Burnaby Greene, Rector, diverted the road around a pseudo-Saxon cross by the rectory gate.
Porlock's church, dedicated to the 6th-century Welsh Celtic saint Dubricius, has a 13th-century tower with a later shingled spire which is curiously truncated.
The churchyard was the setting for the Snettisham Ghost, a late Victorian apparition described by the writer Andrew Lang and others.
Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.
The pub dates from about 1840, and used to have a later elaborate arched canopy, now long gone. The pub is now called the Villagers.
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