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The Day The Tide Came In
Is this Joane, Stuart, Mandy and Claire in the sinky sand
A memory of Amble by
Queen Square School 1857 1969.
Of course l did'nt realise how picturesque the building was when l was a pupil there 1955-1958. Fortunately, Edward Callum did and his painting is "normally" displayed in Wardown Museum. (Hopefully in its entirety cos little ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Little Green/The Old Forge
I visited the house with my 2nd cousins as their mother, Ethel Smith, and my grandmother, Rosa Matilda Smith, lived in the house with their family for many, many years until the last of the Smiths living in the house died, ...Read more
A memory of Mells in 1972 by
Lived Worked And Played Here
My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was born ...Read more
A memory of Battle by
Home
I grew up in Welling in a house on Ridley Road. My mother lived in that house for over 60 years until she died this past January. I have 3 sisters - that was a tiny house with 1 bathroom, at times we seemed to really fill the place - felt more ...Read more
A memory of Welling by
Juvenile Wrecking Crew.
I think it mite have been one Sunday in 1954 (cos the plant was nearly deserted) when me, my older bro Roy and 2 or 3 other kids from Hart Lane wound up in the new car parking area of General Motors Vauxhall. As all the cars keys ...Read more
A memory of Luton
My Happy Childhood In Berkhamsted.
I was born at the Grange Nursing Home in Berkhamsted on November 19th, 1950. My parents were John and Marjorie Stanborough, my father was a school teacher at Park View School which later reverted to Westfield. We ...Read more
A memory of Berkhamsted by
The Mall
I used to work at Burnside high class stationers which was opposite where this photo was taken. Opposite Burnsides was the National Provisional Bank where there was a suspected bank raid - all the detectives were dressed as window cleaners and ...Read more
A memory of Ealing in 1947 by
Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.
I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more
A memory of Brynamman by
A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more
A memory of Dollar in 1951 by
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It is famed for a carved pillar featuring entwined ribbands.
In 1860 the house was occupied by George and Elizabeth Torr, and by 1879 it was famed for its gardens and its annual display of azaleas, but in the mid 1920s it was turned into a school for girls.
Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings
The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.
Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished
Built in the 1780s as the Miners` Arms, this premises changed its name to the Wizard Inn in 1843.
The two claimed to be going hunting, but came instead to Eccleshall; here they were baptized by Bishop Chad.
Comic genius Peter Sellers probably came here many times during his childhood. It is seemingly a hot summer's day in Southsea, yet there is just one child wearing shorts.
It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.
There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.
There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.
This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.
Kidderminster owes its fame to the manufacture of carpets, but had prospered from the weaving trade long before that.
When a new rector came to Chipstead's church of St Margaret in 1809, he got something of a shock. It had become quite dilapidated and very unholy indeed.
The institute, which offered a range of evening classes for workers, and was famed for its penny lectures, was one of the earlier projects linked with a major redevelopment of the town centre
As at Tipton and Wednesbury, the 30 ft seam of Thick Coal was near the surface at Bilston.Though there is evidence for coal pits at the time of Edward I, Bilston came into its own during the 19th century
Its parish church, Christ Church, was erected in 1837, shortly after Queen Victoria came to the throne.
For the pub to be advertising a 'large car park' at this date suggests that the clientele came from outside the village, and that they were somewhat up-market to be car owners in the '50s.
This architecturally busy Tudorbethan house, built after 1871, is now (in 2000) a hotel and conference centre set in tranquil parkland; that parkland came into being through the 1440s destruction of a
Porth means 'harbour', and sailing traders came in here to be beached and unloaded at low tide. The private hotel and boarding house (right) has stables available for visitors.
The railway came to Burton in 1839 with the opening of the Birmingham & Derby Junction.
North Walk was destroyed when the Lynton and Barnstaple railway came through in 1898. Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street.
The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912. By this time, in any case, Pierrots were being supplanted by non-costumed 'fol-de-rol' entertainers.
The anchor to the right would hold the boat in the foreground in place when the next tide came in.
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