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Post Office Sports Field
When I was a child in the 1940s, this sports field belonged to the Post Office. Occasionally there would be a horse in residence and this is where I had my first and only ride on such an animal. The stadium on the left caught ...Read more
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Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950
It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more
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Wokingham Shops
Anyone remember the petrol station ,next to saint Crispins school called Bourne and Thomas,a real traditional garage ,the thames trader tipper trucks moving the soil from the A329m ,green in colour ,think the company name was harry ...Read more
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Priestwood Square 1960s And 70s
I can remember the square not only for its shops but also as a meeting place . Most of our games back then involved huge amounts of our friends either playing war games or football matches over on the field opposite the ...Read more
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Wexham Rd Post Office
Hi Kevin, I think a Mr P.R.Poter ran the Upton Lea post office he wasthere in 1950s
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Heston As A Young Lad
I was born in West Middx Hospital in July 1942 and lived in Vicarage Farm Rd from then until about 1960. Went to Springwell Infants then onto Heston Junior School. Failed the 11+ so went to Heston Secondary Modern.Great teachers Mr ...Read more
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Evacuee In South Petherton
My Mother Joyce Ladbury was evacuated to South Petherton at the beginning of WW2 aged 9 years. She stayed with a few families but most of all loved the Gaylard family. Mrs Gaylard and twin daughters Gwen and Cis ( or ...Read more
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Post Office And Telephone Switchboard
I still have my post office savings book stamped Mere Warminster Wilts. I deposited 5/-. The telephonist use to sit almost in the doorway with a little switchboard our number was Mere 282. I think it was the shop with the blind next to the arch.
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Timperley Village
As a child I can remember my mum shopping in the Co-op, the shop on the right between the two parked cars. Next door was the toy shop and next door to that was the Midland Bank. Coming back the other way towards Mayfield Road, there was the post office and a new small Spar supermarket
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Western Esplanade, Alexandra Y.C. Dinghy Park. A Post Ww2 Facility.
As the classic 18ft long local dayboat classes became more expensive to build and maintain, there was an explosion of smaller, cheaper racing dinghy classes all round the UK, postWW2. ...Read more
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The Clock Tower pub on the extreme left is now called Broadways, while next door to it A W Luff is now a post office and convenience store.
The openness on the right has now given way to modern houses, and the post office and general store on the left is now a private house.
The post office survives here, with the garage converted to be part of it, while the rather fine late Victorian butcher's shopfront to the right has now been rebuilt as Wing Hung Chinese restaurant
that view were replaced by Dawes Close, a group of single storey cottages, built in 1959 for the Mary Gertrude Davies Trust, set around a small green whose access can be seen by the lamp post
The motor car in the centre of the picture is a Jowett Javelin - arguable one of the very best vehicles designed in post-war Britain.
The first house on the left is named The Old Post Office, and the Old Cobblers Shop is further up the street.
In this picture, there is a television aerial attached to the chimney, and the sign on the pillar box points the way to the Post Office.
The post office is on the left then Corney Manufacturing Jeweller.
These post- gale craft have small cuddy decks forward. This late 19th-century improvement afforded the fishermen some protection from the weather.
The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.
The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.
The trees, the bench and the post office remain.
Across the bridge is the Post Office and Store, the building with the two gables, while between it and the bridge, just discernible, is a concrete World War II concrete pillbox.
Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.
Good's Stores, bakery, Post Office and café was fire-damaged in the 1970s. The site has now been redeveloped for housing.
They were replaced soon after the war finished, in time for the great expansion in post-war tourism.
Standing outside the village Post Office on the left, the bewiskered elderly man leaning on two sticks and wearing a bowler hat was probably a figure of some status in the village, where there were a
On the right are Elm Cottages, of which four were later altered to shops and one pulled down to make way for a new post office (1896).
From the elevated position of St Andrew's Church we look down the Aire Valley, where now a dual carriageway leads into Keighley.
In medieval times Tickhill, which lies 4 miles south of Doncaster, was more important than Sheffield; its castle, built about 1130, was one of the most important in the north - we can just
Dickens's brain than Sam himself, but its counterpart in our everyday world is said to have lain in North Street, the King's Head, a vast establishment in the 18th century, now vanished, like the Post
Round the bend, past the old garage, the A271 continues as Gardner Street, the main shopping street of the village.
The King's Arms now serves as the post office and village store as well as a public house.
The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.The Tiger public house was once Church House—behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.
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