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The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey
heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed by ...Read more
A memory of Laleham
Belgians In Birtley.
Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more
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Eynsford Mill
Further to my other posting, (Swanley, Born and Bred), as a young man I used to work at Eynsford Mill, it was owned by A. Filmer Jacobs, who also owned Shalford Mill, near Guildford, the company was known as Vulcanised Fibre, and they made ...Read more
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Always My Home
I was born and grew up in Kelsale. We lived at Rectory Cottages, my brother Perry and my parents, Pam and Aubrey Mann. My grandparents lived at Carlton and the family go back in both church registers to the 1600s. I loved reading ...Read more
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Wood Green In The Sixties
I was born in Newnham Road N 22 in 1940. I want to wood green junior school at the bottom of our road and then on to Tottenham Sec Mod (near the great Cambridge road). When I left school I was a locomotive fireman at Kentish ...Read more
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The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
Cobblers Shop
My father Richard Bradbury owned the shoe repair shops in swallownest. In 1946 with is war service savings he opened his shop on high street Sheffield . Which when he moved became the Halifax agency. In 1957 he opened his new premises ...Read more
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Happy Times
I went to live in Llanthony village around 1970 with my husband who was brought up at The Daren Farm, and our children Lynda and Andrew. We lived in The Cornmill which is directly opposite the old post office, it was called Mill Cottage ...Read more
A memory of Llanthony
Childhood Memories.
I grew up in the house at the end of the street which was called Cherry Cottage.I would be about 3 or 4 when the picture was taken. My mum had the large Yew tree on the right of the house front sawn down as it made the house dark. My ...Read more
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Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s
I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left in ...Read more
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As with many other villages in Surrey, the shops have either become houses (the one on the left with the blinds is now The Old Bakery), or secondary commercial premises - the post office on the right
He earned more than local fame when he stayed at his post, transmitting the new 'SOS' signal until the ship sank.
This scene has changed little: the post office has now expanded to take in the neighbouring shop, but the cottages and barns remain.
Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.
The fine Georgian house in the centre has housed the telephone exchange since 1925, when it was moved from the post office at Mr Gotelee's shop in the High Street.
Beyond is now MacDonalds and a modern post office. Further downhill, the houses now have single-storey shopfront projections.
On the right-hand-side are Latchmore's grocers, the Dog, the Methodist Chapel, and the Post Office. Note the decorative chimneys, right.
A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.
It served as the post office and general stores until around 1965. The wonderful sandy beaches of the Sands have a backdrop of stunning rock formations in shale and sandstone.
He was a great benefactor; his home was on Chipping's main street at what is now the post office.
The post office (near right) was run by F S Mowlam in the 1950s. Further on we see the gabled end of the White Hart Hotel.
mechanisation replaced them in the post-war world.
Outside the village store and post office a man in overalls unloads bread from his van, and an advertising sign depicts Capstan Cigarettes.
Free from traffic and flanked by the old cottages, this post-war scene evokes an essence of earlier village days.
Next to the post office (right) is the old Methodist church, now replaced by a new building. Near here is a butcher's shop over which early Methodists once met.
In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.
It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000 - the post office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.
Fleur-de-Lys, the timber-framed building, is one of Hailsham's most interesting and oldest buildings.
The Connaught Cafe, seen here on the left, is now a private house, but the post office next door remains.
By the post-war period traffic had increased, so traffic lights were installed (see K13018, pages 52). The KICS (Co-op) drapery building with Jacobean bay windows can be seen down Newland Street.
The first house on the left is named The Old Post Office, and the Old Cobblers Shop is further up the street.
The hospital's inaugural year was not without controversy – a minor furore ensued after an 'important post' was awarded to a sister of a city councillor.
This charming post office is still here, and overlooks the green and the beck.
An unusual, but often most welcome, combination of pharmacy and sub-post office, the building on the near left has performed the function under at least three owners to the knowledge
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