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Early Memories
My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by
Fair Oak As It Was
My first day of school was September 1965 at Fair Oak Infants. It wasn't too bad the first day as my Mum was allowed to stay at the back of the classroom, but after that I was left on my own. I became very ...Read more
A memory of Fair Oak in 1965 by
Bromley House ( 'b' Block)
We moved here in 1976 and it was known as the Rochester Estate although some people still referred to them as ''THE DWELLINGS'' .I think they had been recently updated and they were trying to change the image. Consequently the block ...Read more
A memory of Walker by
Good Old Days
I often think back to the days of going around on my Raleigh Grifter, all my other friends on their choppers or a Raleigh Burner if you were really rich! We used to cycle up to Webheath Estate and think we were the ...Read more
A memory of Kilburn in 1981 by
Growing Up
I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1930 by
The N.H.S. Early Years To Retirement
The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for supplying ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1960 by
Traffic Lights At The Top Of The High Street
I lived in nearby Shirley and in the late 1950s I used to cycle through West Wickham to a fish and chip shop in Glebe Way on a Saturday evening for the family supper. I was in my teens at the time and ...Read more
A memory of West Wickham by
Raglan Street
I was born 1943 and lived with my mother and sister, Joan, in Raglan St., Lower Broughton. My mother was Barbara Joels who had lost her husband (our dad) in Casino, during the war. I remember attending St, Andrews Mixed Infants School, ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1940 by
Memories Of Dan Y Parc
Many of the things that happened at D Y P were taken as normal. During the winter we ran around in the snow without shoes on, and why? because we did not have a second pair of shoes. The only pair we had were school shoes ...Read more
A memory of Dan y Parc in 1953 by
Middle Ainton Part 5
Nearly every house had an outside brick coal shed, as this was the only method of heating and cooking. Most houses had a short set of about 2-3 steps in the middle due to the slope of the land they were built on, ...Read more
A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by
Captions
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The docks and cranes in the distance have been swept away, to be replaced by luxury apartment blocks and new shops.
Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.
the foundation stone for this impressive building in 1899 and donated his library of 250,000 books; after his death his family built a further wing in 1906, to the right of the porch block
The clay, dug out close by, and generally leaving a pond in its wake, will be mixed with straw and then either moulded into blocks or poured straight into shuttering to make the walls.
Many buildings have been replaced by 1960s and 1970s three-storey blocks of flats, and in the middle distance is St Wilfrid's Church, a 1968 building that adds little to Pevensey Bay's character.
A flock of sheep block the unmade road through the Winnats.
The corner block on the right is Samuel Webb's drapery shop at No 27 and 28 High Street.
Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.
This view, taken from the square of the National Gallery, was blocked by temporary wooden tiered seating erected for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession to St Paul's Cathedral.
We can see that the 1960s have arrived with this modern shop and office block, which is housing an enlarged Boots the Chemist.
The Palace, a cinema, was showing 'The Black Secret' in 1921; it was rebuilt in the 1960s as a four-storey block.
Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.
The Railway Hotel and two blocks of Tudor-style shops were built, but Howard's vision was scuppered by the Second World War.
Now the name is used by a new tower block which stands on the site.A horse-drawn carriage can be seen close to the shelter, the only form of transport in sight.
The farmhouse has some lovely details to the timber frame and some original pargetting; the small oriel window at the gable end was blocked when a modern chimney was built into an end room.
The block of modern flats on the left replaced a smaller group of houses that were destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War.
It is built in the form of a clover leaf, and below the walls is a Tudor block house.
Wootton Courtenay's stores, now a villagers' co-operative, lies opposite the one in this picture - at the end of the middle block on the left.
In the middle is a block built by Henry VIII in 1542 as a small fort opposite Calshot Castle.
By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.
The elegance of this 1860s stucco terrace with three-storey bay windows to each house and the long straight para- pet is now replaced by Grand Court, a higher block of 1960s flats: typical sea-front
Best ale in oak barrels is being delivered to the George Hotel, with some barrels blocking the pavement.
Almost all went on the right, in sequence: the Stonebow Centre, then a five storey office block replacing the tall Italianate building with urn finials, and then beyond is now the Silvergate Centre
The King's Arms is not all it seems: all the timber-framing to the left of the RAC sign is modern, dating from 1936 when a plain Georgian block, itself tricked out with fake timber-framing, was drastically
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