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Memories
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Audenshaw Public Houses
I am trying to research a Thomas Wilkinson b 1803 in Audenshaw, married a Maria of Buxton, he was an Innkeeper in the 1820s and 1830s when several of his children were born. The 1841 census states that he is a Soda Water ...Read more
A memory of Audenshaw
My Favourite Place (God's Country)! Ystrad Mynach & Hengoed.
My most vivid memory of Hengoed Viaduct was when I travelled by train over the viaduct (Hengoed High Level) to Stoke on Trent in the summer of 1961. The whole family went and we stayed at my ...Read more
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1960s Motor Repairs
Does anyone remember Burtons motor accessories in Church Rd Caversham? When I had my first car, a 1934 Standard Nine I was always in the shop buying parts for it. Also for my following motors, A35, Austin Healey and MG Midget they ...Read more
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The 'preacher'
I lived in Burton, about 1958, with my parents, older sister Susan, and baby brother Anthony. We lived in Hornby House. Do you remember a man who used to stand at the Market Cross and preach to the locals? He used to shout so loud we could here it when we were in our house. Lizzie
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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
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Hounslow 1957 +
We lived in Lower Feltham and the bus took us to Hounslow which was a great place for shopping for the latest clothes...not that I had a lot of money to spend. In 1957 I started a Parke Davis in the Home Sales Dept. as a very junior ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow
Good Mates And Grown Ups
I was born in 1937 at Steed Road Muswell Hill. 1938 moved to 137 Northview Road opposite the alley leading to the playing fields. Used to go that way to school at Crouch End sec mod. First school Campsbourne Road Primary. It ...Read more
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Memories Of Erith
Erith was a great place to go when I was a kid as so many different shops and two department stores – Blundells and Micthell’s they were on opposite corners. I remember wondering around Micthell’s at Christmas time. I think Mitchell’s had ...Read more
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A Month Not In This World, An Inmate Of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield
It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked about ...Read more
A memory of Macclesfield
North Star 1949 North Harringay Secondary Boys School 1949
my late uncle mr martin harris left me his magazine about a trip the boys went onto. The boys names are..... form IV R ISSARTEL, K, GREENLAND, L TIMMS, A, BROWN, B, GOWER, J, CLIFFE, N, ...Read more
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Captions
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The New Pier (it dated from 1891) runs along the skyline of this view of the seafront, with its former Boundary Archway (separating Burton's town from Hastings) on the right.
Its position on the A444 between Nuneaton and Burton-on-Trent is belied in this rural idyll.
Burtons continues to occupy the building on the right.
Today, a chemist now occupies the left-hand side of the nearest building, whilst the chemist in this picture became Burton's in 1938.
Today, a chemist now occupies the left-hand side of the nearest building, whilst the chemist in this picture became Burton's in 1938.
Burtons the tailors is now an estate agents and mortgage shop.
The Hunmanby road on the left quickly leads to North Burton Hall.
This was the B3157 to West Bay and Burton Bradstock.
The bust - on a plinth to the left - is of Charles Sweet Willshire (1837-89), who was a liberal politician and municipal representative.
The bust on the plinth in the foreground is of Creighton Hutchinson, a local doctor and benefactor, who died in 1927.
The buses approach Burton's the tailors, built in 1939 on the site of the Britannia ale house.
Bretby Hall, or Bretby Park, which stands in its own 600-acre park near Burton on Trent, is a mock-Gothic, castellated pile built in 1813 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville; it is now used as a hospital.
Other than Burton, brewing in Staffordshire received a shot in the arm with the opening in 1992 of the Lichfield Brewery, which produces such delights as Resurrection Ale and Xpired.
Burtons has also gone, though the Victorian Grand Hotel on the opposite side of the street remains.
Burton is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque villages in the Wirral, and it is enhanced by the wonderful panorama over the Dee Estuary to the hills of Wales.
The Queen`s Hotel, which later became Burton's (right), stood in Cannon Street.
The cliff line of Dorset breaks to give access to a small cove and the village of Burton Bradstock, with the River Bride gurgling away to the end of Chesil Beach.
Cantors furniture store (right) is now a building society, while part of the Burton clothing store, centre, is now McDonalds.
In a few yards there were many clothes shops here, including Weaver to Wearer, Burtons and Fifty Shilling Tailors Ltd.
The Town Hall was given to Burton by Michael Bass, who also financed the building of St Paul's and St Margaret's churches.
The Hitchin Playhouse has been replaced by Burtons tailors, the first floor of which houses the Lucania Temperance Billiards Hall.
The Town Hall was given to Burton by Michael Bass, who also financed the building of St Paul's and St Margaret's churches.
The Town Hall was given to Burton by Michael Bass, who also financed the building of St Paul's and St Margaret's churches.
The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th-century Christian settlement at Burton.The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn,
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