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Brant Broughton
Have just been reading the posts about Brant Broughton. My great-grandfather, George Pearce, was the publican who kept the Red Lion. My grandfather, Reginal Pearce, and his wife Edith took over the tenancy from him. My father ...Read more
A memory of Brant Broughton by
Hyde So Many Fond Memories.
Nightingales on the corner opposite the post office. What a wonderful smell when you walked in. The cafe (Booth's?) just up from CABLE shoes where I started work at age 14, best chips and gravy ever! Ibbotson's bakery where ...Read more
A memory of Hyde by
High Road Shops
I lived in No 2 Shabden Cottages with my mother and grandfather. Our name then was Wood. I was 6 years old in 1952 and this is my memory. The shops on the left of the road were: the newsagent/sweet shop run by Mr & Mrs Butcher. ...Read more
A memory of Chipstead in 1952 by
Hendon Fire Station
After my training as a Fireman I was posted to Hendon Blue Watch who were a great bunch of guys but notorious for their practical jokes! We had many a pint in the Greyhound and the Chequers, after work. Bye for now, Jim Rabbitts.
A memory of Hendon in 1970 by
My Grandfather Ernest Harrison
My grandfather Ernest Harrison was born in Burton in Lonsdale in 1880 to John Parker Harrison a master tailor one of 3 boys and 12 girls (some died young). My grandfather told us of a time when he skated on a ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1880 by
Schooldays In The 40s And 50s
I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm and ...Read more
A memory of Matching Green by
The Odeon, Hounslow West 1940
I remember going to the Odeon every Saturday morning, it cost 6d (about 2 new pence). We used to go to the 'pictures', as it was called then, as a family most weeks, and I well remember coming out at the end of the film ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow in 1940 by
Chelmsford, Car, Duke Street, 1925.
The car would have been parked outside where the Duke Street Post Office once stood. The man behind it about to step on the pavement has just crossed Broomfield Road into Duke Street. Behind him can be seen the ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsford by
Troedy Best Place In The World To Grow Up
1953, my first day of school, holding hands with Brian Brown going down the street to the bottom gate of school was my first real memory of Troedy. We all took care of each other those days, we shared ...Read more
A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1953 by
Pinewood, Bagshot
The house in the background is Pinewood, built by my great grandfather, Sir Howard Elphinstone, VC, KGB etc. He was one of the first soldiers in the Crimean War to win a VC. His VC is now in the Imperial War Museum. He was born ...Read more
A memory of Bagshot in 1880 by
Captions
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The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.
The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.
Built in Portland stone and costing £30,000, it was one of the most impressive memorials to be built by a provincial town.
The Lower Promenade was built in 1934-35 at a cost of £15,000 and opened in June 1935. It is a lovely place to sit in the sun and look at the sea and chat to your friends.
A week's stay here cost around 59s.
In September 1909 the 7623yds long Rivelin Tunnel was completed at a cost of £150,000.
Weekly tickets costing 1s (5p) were available for regular visitors.
In 1912 the entrance kiosks were rebuilt with more exotic roofs; beyond is the then new bulbous-roofed Music Pavilion, erected in 1924 at a cost of £15,000.
The market hall was built in 1888 at a cost of £6,000; it lasted less than 100 years, being demolished in 1986.
The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.
Admittance through the tollgate cost a penny, but a bathchair and attendant was 6d and a perambulator and attendant 3d.
The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.
The shop window has a display of boats and a poster asking 'When will Alec Rose arrive?'
The cost isn't helped by the fact that each winter around half a million starlings roost on the bridge!
A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner
A fast rowing boat, a lobster pot and promenaders give an idea of how the Promenade looked in the last years of Victoria's reign.
Even after taking transportation costs into account, cheap labour enabled the Italians to undersell heavy-woollen Yorkshire-made products.
A survey of the cathedral's west tower in 1971 found serious structural problems, and repairs costing over £500,000 were undertaken in 1974.
The poster on the right tells us that a single fare to Cowes cost 4 1/2d and 9d return.
Construction cost £3,000 of which £1,500 was given by Rev Joseph Bradney.
In the foreground is a poster advertising the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, which was opened by the Prince of Wales and ran from May to October 1887.
This shows a view towards Camberley, with the newly opened Municipal Offices on the right, built at a cost of £2,339. Next to them is the Victoria Hotel.
Viscountess Barrington provided funds towards its cost, and Princess Beatrice officially opened it in 1925.
A mineral drink, crush drink or milk shake was 6d (2p), and TT milk cost only 4d (2p). The pot of tea, however, is unpriced.
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