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Mossband Camp
My father was a serving soldier, serving at the RAOC camp until 1948. We lived in the YMCA building in the camp itself and it had a large functions hall attached where one of our officers once entertained the children at Christmas ...Read more
A memory of Mossband Ho in 1947 by
St Mary School
At the top of the town towards the flats is St Mary's church. I used to attend St Mary's school which was situated behind the church. One day when everyone turned up for school it had been burned to the ground, I think I was ...Read more
A memory of Brierley Hill in 1965 by
The Fair Green
The Fair Green was one of the first places my sister Valerie Cooper (nee Hook) worked in her capacity as an apprentice horticulturist for the Mitcham Council. When she went for the job they told her that she would have to do the same ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1961 by
Ice Cream Cart
Can anyone remember the horse-drawn ice-cream cart, the guy had as I remember a green cart, a white coat and a whistle. His ice-cream was really good proper stuff, then soft ice-cream came along and that was it, he must have just packed ...Read more
A memory of Crook by
Childhood Memories
I moved to Spencer Avenue, Hayes, when I was 5 and the war had just finished. My earliest recollections were of starting school at Yeading Lane and walking there through thick snow. Luckily we had school dinners so mum ...Read more
A memory of Hayes in 1947 by
Butterflies
I believe my great uncle Edward Goodwin of Canon Court, Wateringbury, donated his Butterfly and Moth Collection to the Maidstone Museum on his death in 1934. Since that time I think the museum was burnt down, and of course, the butterfly collection too.
A memory of Maidstone in 1930 by
1939 To I960
I moved to Little Brickhill in 1939 when I was 2 years old, my last address in Little Brickhill was 10 Wyness Avenue. We were the first to move to to Wyness Avenue. I also knew Colonel Wyness who Wyness Avenue was named ...Read more
A memory of Little Brickhill by
My Childhood
My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My lifelong ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1955 by
Childhood Memories
My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more
A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by
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The huge marble font used today also dates from the time of John Cosin, who was a canon at Durham during the reign of Charles I, and later bishop under Charles II.
Lewis Carroll, son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of 20 years.
Lewis Carroll, the son of the first canon of the cathedral, visited his father here in Ripon over a span of twenty years.
The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who
We can see that the entrance is 40ft up the lighthouse, and can only be reached by climbing an iron ladder fixed to the outside of the 90ft structure.
The married lay canons were evicted from the Priory and the celibate Austins took over.
From the word go, the Romans probably installed a small military post beside the Can, on the site of the Iron Age houses. Whether or not it was continually manned, we do not know.
Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at. But his corpse was eventually covered and compressed by mud and sand.
This introductory chapter can only skim the surface to set the scene for what could be termed the photographic portrait of the town contained in the next five chapters.
The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.
Opposite is Cabon & Son, a hairdresser's. The post office (right) is unchanged, but the telephone box has been replaced.
The Wootton Academy, as it was called, stressed 'confidence, obedience, cleanliness', as well as corporal punishment and a ban on girlfriends.
When the quite recent Welsh ban on Sabbath day drinking was enforced, half the pub could serve alcohol and other was 'dry' on a Sunday. It must have been entertaining to witness!
It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.
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