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A Different Time,And A Different Place.
My name is John Kilby,and I lived in 63 Sydney Road at the beginning of World war 2-it belonged to my grand oarent who had bought it for 800 poumds in 1926 I think.I am 85 now,but my memory is still pretty ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Barry Island
I remember the Donkeys in Barry Island very well some times i used to go for a ride on a donkey on the beach at Barry. That was many years a go when i was young we used to go to Barry Island quite often on day or afternoon trips as we ...Read more
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Chideock School
I started school at the age of five following in the footsteps of my brother John and sister Pam and walking each day to school from Quarr Lane, sometimes we used the footpath starting at Frogmore farm and coming out above the ...Read more
A memory of Chideock in 1943 by
Hemsby Illuminated Cottage Garden
I have many happy memories of going on holiday to Hemsby in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I remember we used to stay on the sand dunes in a wooden chalet-type building with no running water and an outside toilet, ...Read more
A memory of Hemsby in 1969 by
Major Lester Girls School Holiday
During the late '50s and early '60s, 4th Year girls from Major Lester CP School, Liverpool stayed here for a week each summer. For many of the children this was their first holiday and a wonderful experience of ...Read more
A memory of Penmaenmawr in 1960 by
"Bre's Tree" Linslade Bedfordshire
I lost my wife on new years eve 2021 following three years of her illness with vascular dementia. No one really told me how things would progress with this dreadful illness and so I just tried my hardest to cram ...Read more
A memory of Linslade by
"Somewhere Beyond The Sea...My Lover Waits For Me.."
As a young lad I had great eyesight for long distances. As we sat on the pebbled beach at Southsea it was always me that first spotted a slight bump in the horizon as the then huge incoming ocean ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth in 1955 by
"Westcliffe Belle" Pleasure Boat, At Her Mooring Just To The West Of The Pier.
IIRC, the "Westcliffe Belle" was a conversion by Johnson & Jago, Boatbuilders of leigh-on-Sea, of one of the big sailing yawls or ketches that had worked off the ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea by
''''burnham Beeches''''
.... as a little girl, I always remember going here with my Mum, my Aunt Edith and my cousin Dick. Mum would say we are going to 'Burnham Beeches today'. I could never quite understand when we got there, where the sand and sea was ... ...Read more
A memory of Burnham by
'the Annie'.
The owner was my grandfather George Rowe. My father, his son, was born in Tenby in 1905 and died in late 1999 aged 93 years. You might be interested to learn that the boat (M26) in the middle of your picture was called ''The Annie'' and was ...Read more
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Just visible on the left is the roof of Beech Cottage, by 1927 owned by Sidney Howard Smith.
Over the parish boundary in Carshalton in what was named Carshalton Beeches, lavender fields were developed in the years after after 1905.
The beech tree after which the hotel is named has long disappeared.
Lord Beeching closed this branch line in 1964.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.
In the autumn the beech trees of Cranham turn a glorious gold, attracting visitors from far and wide.
We are looking west over the village pond into Manor Road; the house on the left is The Beeches.
The road climbs here along the chalk amid the beech woods of the Paradise Plantation.
Dr Beeching axed the line in 1964, although the tall, slim station building can be seen to this day.
Situated at the top of a steepish hill on the road from Heswall, the entrance to Beech Farm is on the right in our picture.
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is also well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham
With the coming of the Beeching cuts, trains to Cleethorpes virtually disappeared, and Wonderland correspondingly suffered - as has the station.
With the coming of the Beeching cuts, trains to Cleethorpes virtually disappeared, and Wonderland correspondingly suffered - as has the station.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
The road forward has been a cul-de-sac since Lord Beeching closed the railway in 1964, giving room for a by-pass to Andover and Basingstoke and the roundabout now facing the White Hart Inn.
This picturesque quarter of Tetbury leads from the north-east corner of the Chipping to a triangular green with a splendid copper beech tree.
Ash, wych elm and beech trees line the valley to augment this glorious spot.
The busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war
This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.
Before the Beeching axe fell, trains stopped at Rudgwick, on the line between Horsham and Guildford.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
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