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Boyhood Memories From 1952
It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the streets ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by
River Row
My family lived in the end cottage in River Row,our garden backed on to the river and railway line beyond.My brother and I were aged 3 and 4 years old and I can remember waving to my father as he went to work in the pits, the train was a ...Read more
A memory of Treherbert in 1951 by
Fenland Farming Around Peterborough
On reading the book 'PETERBOROUGH A Miscellany' a couple of items are incorrect by my own knowledge and experience. Page 4 : 'Dockey' was a word almost exclusive to fen farmworkers, it was the break taken at ...Read more
A memory of Peterborough in 1952 by
Mossford Garage
I started work at the age of 15 years as 'the boy', apprentice mechanic at Mossford garage. I remember going down the High Street to Pither's bakeries to get ham and cheese rolls, as well as pies for the mechanic's tea breaks. The ...Read more
A memory of Barkingside in 1965 by
Childhood
In the 1960s I lived in Ogilvie Terrace and spent lots of days wandering happy and safe in Deri. I remember the nut wood, picking whinberries, Doreen's shop, the gas pipes where we balanced and luckily did not come to harm, the horse-shoe rock ...Read more
A memory of Deri in 1960 by
Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960
My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to the ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by
Early 1950s
I was born in Dartord where I lived in Stanham Road until I moved at the age of 9 years. Childhood friends I remember are Anthony Artist, Janet Cork, Michael Burville (not sure of spelling of surname). My next door neighbour was the ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1953 by
To School Along The Prom
I lived in Mochdre, and went to the grammar school, 1955-1962. Getting off the bus at the station we would walk along the prom, skipping stones in the sea, or dodging the waves during stormy high tides. Then we would walk ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1955 by
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Evacuee
I was evacuated from London to Oxford with Burlington School on 1st September 1939. At first we had our lessons in the old Milham Ford School premises but after a few weeks transferred to the new school in Marston where we shared the ...Read more
A memory of Oxford in 1940 by
Captions
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Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.
The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.
This red brick tower mill was built in 1784 and was disused by 1870. It was converted into a house in 1914, and now forms part of large private country house.
Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.
This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling. The tall chimney pots are all the same size. A flint walled outbuilding has a corrugated steel roof.
This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring
This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of
The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford. Today it is best known for the striking Tudor Rose brickwork maze set into the courtyard.
The Rush Cutters has a late 16th-century core, evident in the octagonal brick chimneys on the right and the massive stack behind the left hip. The houseboat is a real period piece.
The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.
Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail. It is located on a remote hilltop surrounded by woodland. The mill has now been converted into a private house.
This is a Kentish white weatherboarded smock mill with a two-storey octagonal brick base, powered by four eliptic spring sails and winded by a fantail. It has now gone, and the site is built over.
Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.
These Georgian brick-fronted houses were lived in by Jane and Ann Taylor from 1796 to 1811.
The rambling Tudor brick house stands on the site of an Augustinian monastery, and fragments of the original abbey were used in its construction.
She had been sold for breaking-up to R Taylor of Bury.
Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
Note the tall leaning brick chimneys behind.
Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along
Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting
Pinza was ridden by Gordon Richards, who had just been awarded a knighthood in the coronation honours, and whose long, record-breaking career only lacked a victory in the Derby.
This idyllic view shows a once-familiar sight, horses having well-earned break from pulling their carts.
Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey's army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county.
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