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My Memories Of Selly Oak And Bournbrook
I was born Anne Shirley Crofts back of 622 Bristol Road (opposite where Aldi is now) in July 1944, brother Ronnie was born 1940, sister Vivienne was born 1942, and Alan was born 1947, between Riverton Road ...Read more
A memory of Selly Oak in 1954 by
Lawrence Family In East Molesey
On a holiday from Australia, today my husband and I visited East Molesey & Hampton Court. My mother's paternal family were the Lawrence's - Edward was a master butcher and had a shop in 156 Walton Road (now a ...Read more
A memory of East Molesey by
Bicycles And A Happy Hunting Ground.
Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, we ...Read more
A memory of New Milton in 1950 by
Boyhood Days
My aunts and uncles lived in East Howle and I was a regular visitor around and before 1950. The two families lived opposite one another in what I think may have been "railway cottages" and my cousins totalled 9. In those days you got ...Read more
A memory of East Howle
Poetry
This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
Boyhood Memories
I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by
Old Manor Cafe
My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In the ...Read more
A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1943 by
Doseley
When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad lived ...Read more
A memory of Doseley in 1944 by
Captions
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The watermill is late 18th-century, with a cast iron breast-shot wheel and three pairs of stones.
Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland
Sandsend is just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.
This photograph looks from the railway bridge towards the King's Head in Bulmer Road.
This fine seven-arch Grecian-style bridge over the River Don was built in 1850; it linked the village to Warmsworth, and replaced the ferry service.
Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.
Bridge Street, looking east.
Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.
The three remaining millstone grit pillars (there were originally four) have been here since the Bronze Age.
Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.
The three medieval churches of St Mary's, St Thomas à Becket and St Martin's were all gifted to the Priory by Robert and must have been a significant source of income.
This view shows the two bridges at Barton upon Irwell both swung to let the paddle steamer 'Ivanhoe' pass.
Construction of the M1's first 55 miles (including Milton Keynes's section) took 586 days - a bridge every three days and a mile of road every ten.
The three remaining millstone grit pillars (there were originally four) have been here since the Bronze Age.
The Chesterfield Canal, the Mother Drain and the River Idle all reach the River Trent at West Stockwith - the canal is the most southerly of the three.
This was not only a freight line for the reservoirs, but also a passenger railway between Pateley Bridge and Lofthouse from 1901 to 1929.
This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.
We are looking eastwards into the Welsh mountains along the high street from the railway bridge.
During the English Civil War the castle was the focal point of the town's defences, but there were other extensive fortifications including the Queen's Sconce, a star-shaped artillery emplacement, and
East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (left), was built by J and T Gale in 1784 and has been widened.
East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (left), was built by J and T Gale in 1784 and has been widened.
Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.
Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.
Three forms of transport have cut through the area at various times: the main Roman road, later the A6, the Lancaster Canal, and the railways, all bringing prosperity and extra work to the area.
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