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Sunny 1950''s Sunday Mornings
I have many memories about the old St Mary's Church. Until I started thinking of them I realised that I have not got one involving a rainy day apart from when my Grandad was buried in the churchyard. He was laid ...Read more
A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1954 by
I Used To Come To Comerfords!
I bought my first motorbike from Comerfords in Thames Ditton (would have been at top right of this picture) in October 1973 - a Yamaha FS1e moped in 'Blackcurrant' metallic. But for up to two years earlier I would ...Read more
A memory of Long Ditton in 1972 by
Evacuation
I was evacuated about 1943. I can remember a field, I think of cauliflowers, opposite, and a bluebell wood somewhere at the bottom of the road. The people next door were called Ackridge(I don't know if that's spelt right), they had twins ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1943 by
Netherthong In The First World War Part 3
Private John Henry Hoyle was born in Wilson Square in 1879 and he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Teacher Battalion) in January 1916. He was reported as missing and his body was found on March ...Read more
A memory of Netherthong by
My Memories Of Kirkheaton
Kirkheaton was such a great place to live, I went to infant school at the bottom of Fields Way (I lived on Fields Way till I was 19 years old), I also went to Kirkheaton C of E School and can remember most of the teachers ...Read more
A memory of Kirkheaton in 1956 by
Left And Forgotten
I am now 66 and my memory of beautiful Mile Oak is as clear today as it was 55 years ago. Sadly I was one of them naughty boys (as you villagers branded us). My crime was taking 2/6p off a windowsill back here in Folke stone, one ...Read more
A memory of Mile Oak in 1955 by
All Saints Church, Little Bookham
This church is called All Saints' Church. It is next to the Manor House School to which I attended in the early 1990s. I was christened at this church and this weekend I will be getting married here. The ...Read more
A memory of Little Bookham by
Drayton Jottings
Drayton Jottings. Auntie Alice, in Kings Avenue, regularly seen, out on her front doorstep, she kept it clean, the 'raddled' red stone was buffed to a shine, 'Old fashioned traditions', here continued,so fine. one day, from ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton by
Holidays
I can remember coming into Diss station (1953 onwards) as if it was yesterday. I and my family came up from West Ewell, Surrey to stay with my aunt and uncle at Redgrave every year for our school summer holiday. My cousins and my sister Julie ...Read more
A memory of Diss by
My Dear Home Town Of Bournemouth
I was born there in 1928, in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and lived in Bournemouth till 1962. There is no where like Bournemouth, lovely beaches, stores, theatres, the Chines, and Shell Bay. An excursion to ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by
Captions
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Gatward's is still there, but John Jackson's business has gone: replaced by the Midland Bank.
There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.
Barclays Bank on the extreme right was built in the early 19th century. It is now owned by Dewhurst the butcher, and apart from a rather more modern frontage, survives intact.
Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.
This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.
GMC executives came over from the US to get work back to normal after the war. Much of the firm's success was due to David Jones, the industry's longest-serving design executive.
This monastery lies west of the church, along what is in effect a back lane; its main building, here seen from the north-east with the lane on its left, is of the 1850s and built in a suitably
Perhaps his greatest innings at the Oval was against Australia in 1926, when he made a century to help bring back the Ashes to England.
Moon Hotel purchased the neighbouring premises of Dingley's, drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned and built as we see it today, set back
In the photograph we are looking towards the quay, further back along the same road we saw in 48336. The name 'Richardson' is on a sunblind over a shop front.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
The Black Lion was rebuilt in c1840, but stands on the site of an earlier inn of the same name, which can be traced back to c1660.
By 1931 Stourbridge housewives were paying close on 9d a pound.The price of a dozen eggs had risen from 1s 3d in 1914 to a massive 4s 6d by 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 6d.
Today it is a restaurant, and stands to the north of the 1960s flyover across the A272, which leads back to Haywards Heath.
The oldest surviving houses date back to the 17th century.
This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.
Perhaps his greatest innings at the Oval was against Australia in 1926, when he made a century to help bring back the Ashes to England.
A cumbersome sit-up-and-beg bicycle with panniers on the back has been left leaning against one of the stone pillars around the small front garden of the house whose windows have been thrown open to the
It moved here to these new buildings on Derby Road (now called Back Lane) in 1859, having outgrown the original premises.
The route then heads east back to the Mendips to visit another celebrated tourist attraction, Wookey Hole.
Christ Church is by Sir G G Scott, of 1851, and replaces Holy Rood in the grounds of the mansion owned by the Goddard family - their history there traces back to 1560.
This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.
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