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Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx
Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more
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Bramcote Hospital
I was there in 1982 or 83 (can't remember that clearly) for maybe 6 months. I was 8. I have similar memories to other commenters of the people who stood out there. There was a school on site. The P.E. teacher, made us run ...Read more
A memory of Bramcote
Low Bradley Farm
I lived in Low Bradley Farm in the late 60's early 70's with my dad Peter Dominey, Mam Dorothy Dominey and brother Christopher. I was only just over a year old when we moved onto the farm and left when I was 7. The farm was owned by a ...Read more
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Schooldays In Dearne
It's incredible how one can recall memories from a remarkably long time ago. In fact, I still remember that on my fourth birthday, I received two identical birthday cards from different people. I can even remember the ...Read more
A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by
School Days
As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more
A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by
Car Project.
The Morris car depicted in the photograph was overhauled and bodied by my late father, Arthur Parker, in 1951-2. He had removed the body from a c1937 Morris 8 van, overhauled the mechanics and the chassis, and built from scratch a new ...Read more
A memory of Duston in 1951 by
Memories Remembered
Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at Rock ...Read more
A memory of Lifton by
The Old Co Op.
I was born in Market Street in 1939. Later, because of the war, my mum left me in Millom for my grandad and grandma Kirby to look after me. Mum went back to be with my dad in heavily bombed Manchester. I spent the war years here and they ...Read more
A memory of Millom in 1940 by
The Plantations
Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well. Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself. I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more
A memory of Wigan in 1930 by
Council Workers
Does anybody remember Tam Ritchie and his band of merry men ? They were the council workers based at Dunivard Place always good for a laugh ! Tam lived in an old caravan which I think Marco Galli has rotting away in his yard at ...Read more
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Captions
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Rakes Lane goes off to the right.
Here we see an imaginative and creative new use for a selection of discarded farm implements, including a scythe, sickles, hay rake, spades, ploughshare and pitchforks, which has become a minor curiosity
There have been recent alterations to this junction between Rake and Station Roads.
Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of piping and rope adorning the window of the local ironmongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.
In case of fire, there were very long rakes which could remove the burning roof.
Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of pip- ing and rope adorning the window of the local iron- mongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.
The photograph was taken from Rake Corner, where there is a delightful thatched cottage.
The new church now stands on the highest point of Hilary's Brow, and was built from stone donated by Mrs Maddock from her quarry in Rake Lane.
Note that the foremast stands vertical, whilst the mizzen has a distinctive forward rake.
Running at right angles to each other, Eastham Rake and Bridle Road link at the junction with Stanley Lane and the A41 - New Chester Road.
Teas are still being served on the corner of The Village and Arrowe Park Road at the Stone House Café (U36010, right), and the Horse and Jockey Hotel still occupies the junction of Rake Lane
Teas are still being served on the corner of The Village and Arrowe Park Road at the Stone House Café (U36010, right), and the Horse and Jockey Hotel still occupies the junction of Rake Lane
There are numerous accounts of the destruction caused and carnage wreaked by a warship crossing the stern of another and raking it with gunfire at close quarters.
This is gripped by wheels that ensure the car stays on the rails, and by brake shoes that provide additional braking on the line's severe gradients.
Furthermore, we can see a row of horse-drawn brakes, which shows that the tourist trade was expanding.
Note the cabs and brakes alongside the Scott Monument.
This view is towards Milford Hill.The Co-op is next to the Cathedral Hotel, with a shooting-brake parked outside.This is the 'new' Co-op, replacing the original which burnt down in 1937.
This view is towards Milford Hill.The Co-op is next to the Cathedral Hotel, with a shooting-brake parked outside.This is the 'new' Co-op, replacing the original which burnt down in 1937.
The horse-drawn brakes in the foreground were used by sightseers - a trip round the harbour was an essential ingredient of a Ramsgate holiday.
Next to the front door on the left is a baking oven that projects outside the cottage from the ingle-nook fireplace.
Baked potatoes were even more popular with Londoners, and handcarts fitted with ovens and chimneys plied the streets offering inexpensive hot snacks.
She carried prisoners to Australia.The horse-drawn brakes in the foreground were used by sightseers.
When the trams first ran in 1901, only one had brakes strong enough to use the hill, so passengers had to change at the top.
Even when this photograph was taken, freshly baked bread and locally delivered milk were the order of the day.
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