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Countryside Memories Holidays In The 1950s
The journey from our home in North Essex to my grandparents’ home in North Derbyshire took almost a full day back in the 1950s, allowing of course for periodic stops along the way. The first, usually at ...Read more
A memory of Glossop in 1955 by
The Old Step Bridge Woking
This memory is very clear to me. As a resident of Horsell I would often walk down Brewery Road to Goldsworth School and over the step bridge, with its iron railings painted green in those days. My brother would take me along ...Read more
A memory of Woking in 1957 by
The Fox And Hounds
I remember when my first racing bike was bought for me. I bought a survey map of north west Kent and decided that I would go to Eynsford as I had been there many times by bus and now I had independant means and no limit as to ...Read more
A memory of Romney Street in 1956 by
Memories Of Lundhill
I remember playing down the hillies on what is now Wombwell Golf Course. This area was once a thriving pit, until in 1857 a large explosion brought death and misery to the area called Lundhill. 189 men and boys were killed. After ...Read more
A memory of Wombwell in 1950 by
Princes End Bred
I was bought up in Princes End from the age of 6, my brother and parents are still there. It's a bit dilapidated now but was brilliant when I was young. The community was full of families where generations lived just streets away ...Read more
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Weston Point I.C.I Recreation Club And Runcorn Town
Memory, Saturday Night Old Time dance upstairs in theI.C.I Club. My father played there on the drums. I was there with a girlfriend and her mother and father and grandmother, the old lady taught me a ...Read more
A memory of Runcorn in 1957 by
Training
I must have been one of the first on the training ship because I thought it was 1954 I was there, but if it is recorded as c1955 who am I to argue! I was there training for the merchant navy for about 12 weeks. I was the camp bugler until ...Read more
A memory of Sharpness in 1955 by
National Oil Refinery
I started work at the laboratory in the Llandarcy Oil Refinery in 1942 for the great weekly wage of one pound, one shilling and ninepence, when I was 16. Mostly women worked in the lab but once the war was over the company only ...Read more
A memory of Llandarcy in 1942
I Remember That Jane And Amber
Our family lived in Droitwich until 1965 when we moved to Australia. My brother and I went to Rashwood School and I remember that hill. I used to play rounders on the grassed area near the vegetable patch. The ...Read more
A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1960 by
My Memory Of Tong Castle By Babs Potts
My name is Irene Harriett Potts (nee Bryon), I was born 18-1-1921 at my granny's house in Bishops Wood (her name was Harriet Robinson). Our home was number 23 Offoxy Road, Tong, I lived there with my parents Louie ...Read more
A memory of Tong in 1930 by
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Tibberton is situated to the north-east of Worcester on the line of the Birmingham to Worcester Canal.
At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.
A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal. They were owned by Horsefield Ltd.
The mill is on the North Walsham and Dilham Canal. Sir William Cubitt, an engineer best known for inventing the prison treadmill, was born here in 1785.
The originally 13th-century church has undergone substantial rebuilding, and is now graced by this curious 'candle- snuffer' shingled spire, incorporating small windows round it.
At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.
A pair of loaded working boats head south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.
Lydney's minuscule canal is no more than a mile in length, with just a single lock. Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.
With so many canals recently restored for leisure purposes, this is a scene that is still very familiar to fishermen, walkers and boat people all over the country.
A strange-looking craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.
It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
This view of the Kennet and Avon Canal, taken from the Town Bridge, shows the site of Hungerford Wharf.
When the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed, it was taken across the watershed of the River Arrow, which meant a loss of headwater for the Arrow.
At the bottom of Wells Hill we can see the railway station, which came with the Bath and Bristol line in 1874, succeeding a canal and tramway for carrying coal.
Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.
A bridge crosses the canal just to the left of the picture.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
A canal and railway passed under the bridge. To the right is Brassknocker Hill.
The pieces (rolls) were delivered by canal boat, and after cutting were returned to Manchester for dyeing and finishing.
The traffic is now diverted down Silver Street (left), and the street lights have been replaced by the modern Richardson Candles.
The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements. Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.
Willington stands on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the Trent valley to the south of Derby.
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