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Memories
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New Haven Bridge
I saw the first wooden pile hammered into the river bed, and watched it day by day until it was completed. Steel piles was driven into the river bed for the concrete structures, when they got well below the river bed it was that hard ...Read more
A memory of Boston by
Hopping In Kent
Now I can't say 100% that it was Marden but it just sticks in my mind. Although I am only 31 now I went hopping a couple of times with my family who were originally from Silvertown. The last time I went was in the early to mid ...Read more
A memory of Staplehurst in 1985 by
Miss Bee
Santa Lucia Hotel was owned and run by Marion Olive Barkway, better known as Miss Bee. Marion was my grandmother and we used to visit every Sunday afternoon to help out with evening meals. When I was small I remember standing on the ...Read more
A memory of Thorpe St Andrew in 1984 by
My Childhood
Well what can I say! My father was born in the village and of course my grandparents lived and died there.They lived at number 1 Maes ye Llan (probably spelt wrong) and with my dad living in Manchester bringing up 3 children ...Read more
A memory of Llanfair Talhaiarn by
Quieter, Carefree Days.
I am Pauline Morgan (nee Real) and I am the little girl standing by the boat, whilst my brother Cliff is wading through the water. The cabin cruiser on the opposite side of the river is 'Silver Swan' owned by Gilbert Hazel of ...Read more
A memory of Axmouth in 1954 by
A Game Of Soccer In The River
Every year there would be a game played in the river in the village using the bridges as goal posts and is, as far as I am aware still played today. It would be around 1955 that my late father, Frederick ...Read more
A memory of Bourton-on-the-Water in 1955 by
Coastguard Cottages Mawgan Porth
The old coastguard cottages at Mawgan Porth were leased by Mrs Kate Knight and her youngest daughter Winifred in about 1920 from Col Williams of Carnanton at St Mawgan. They ran a tearoom and let two of the ...Read more
A memory of Mawgan Porth by
College Road
Whilst staying with my Grandparents (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous thing ...Read more
A memory of Northfleet in 1950 by
I Remember
I have lived in Sherborne all my life from 1936 up until now and I hope to live a few more years yet. I remember the old turbine working at the river. A Fred Taylor looked after it to make electricity for Sherborne House ...Read more
A memory of Sherborne in 1940 by
The Careers Service College In Hextable
Kent College for the Careers Service was in College Road, Hextable. I was a student living in this college in 1987 and enjoyed my studies very much as the nature of the course tended towards exploring local ...Read more
A memory of Hextable in 1987 by
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At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.
At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.
Work began on the New River with funding from Hugh Myddleton in 1610, and despite a number of delays through objections by local landowners, the project was completed within a few years.
More than forty people were employed here collecting rags, which were sorted by women and children, washed in the river and laid out to dry in Laundry Meadow opposite the mill to the right of the photograph
From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river. A
Campaigns to clean up the riverside are enthusiastically supported and volunteer conservationists meet regularly intervals to clean up the riverbed at low tide and remove litter and unsightly vegetation
Campaigns to clean up the riverside are enthusiastically supported and volunteer conservationists meet regularly intervals to clean up the riverbed at low tide and remove litter and unsightly vegetation
in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.
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