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My Three Years At Reedham
I recall walking past the gate-house with my mother on a Tuesday afternoon in March 1950. I was to start my lustrous career there for a period of three years, leaving in March 1953. Starting there was an real shock to the ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1950 by
Easneye Children's Home
I have a sketchy memory of my childhood in Easneye, between the ages of around 3-5 years old. I remember my mother dropping me off and being terrified. She said I was having a holiday but never came back for me. All ...Read more
A memory of Stanstead Abbotts in 1962 by
Holidays
I came to Soulby for a holiday when I was 8 with my mother and sister. We stayed in a caravan the other side of this shallow river - by the local shop. The caravan was owned by a local farmer who was either a family friend or distant relative. ...Read more
A memory of Soulby in 1961 by
Saxby Street
Does anyone remember Harry Wright's Coalyard. We lived immediately opposite at No. 54, on the corner of Pomfret Street. I came home early from school one day and realised I didn't have a key, so thought nothing of asking ...Read more
A memory of Irlams o' th' Height by
Coming Back Home
I came back to brierley bonk in 1966, complete with surfboard, after leaving BH in 1961 ,with my parents for Australia, to start a new life ?,well when i got back the place haden't really changed, Except me.I had left behind ...Read more
A memory of Brierley Hill in 1966 by
The Howard Family Of Barnes And Hammersmith
My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of my ...Read more
A memory of Barnes in 1870 by
The Convent
My father died the year after I was born and his employer Burton's, provided for myself and my three brothers to attend private schools, which is how I came from London to the Convent at the age of 4. I followed my brother Colin who had ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1947 by
Samuel Wright
I am researching my husbands family tree. His great grandad was Samuel Wright who was a coal hauler in Grimsby in 1883, on looking at the census further I found he came from Sudbourne in Suffolk. Terry [my husband] had no idea that his ...Read more
A memory of Sudbourne by
Madeley As It Was
I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more
A memory of Madeley in 1949 by
Arthog
From early 1960s onwards: At school in London we had 2 summer holidays at Min-y-Don. The first time we travelled by coach, we got lost and arrived in the dark. The following year we came by train from Paddington. We had to change at Gobowen ...Read more
A memory of Arthog by
Captions
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At this date, buses came up Market Street, around the Square and then proceeded up Market Street towards the Castle and turned left into King Street southwards, towards the south of the city.
The Victorians loved York, and before the railway came, travellers could get here either by stage or mail-coach; there was also a steamboat service to and from London.
The Victorians loved York, and before the railway came, travellers could get here either by stage or mail-coach; there was also a steamboat service to and from London.
The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.
It was only 10 ft long, ran on 10 inch wheels, and came with front-wheel drive and independent suspension.The battery was in the boot.
The cost was covered by sugar refiner Sir Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle fame. Over the years the building has been massively extended both behind, below and even over a street to the right.
Jane Austen came with Miss Beckford of Chawton House to visit Dr Newnham here in 1811. Afterwards she described him as 'her Doctor so dread Whose name it was Newnham'.
In 1950 the paper came out on a Friday and cost 2d (less than 1p), but by 1958 it was published on a Thursday and had gone up to 3d.
It was also famed for its absentee rectors, including Edward Trafford Leigh, who took himself off to Italy for his health in the 1830s.
The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912. By this time, in any case, Pierrots were being supplanted by non- costumed 'fol-de-rol' entertainers.
Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.
Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.
The silver sanctuary lamp came from the chapel at Dunkenhalgh, and so did the silver thurible and a large crucifix.
William of Wykeham, of 'manners maketh man' fame, died here in 1404.
Power lines are visible in the picture, but electricity came to Chilbolton much later than many other communities.
Inside there is a Jacobean chimneypiece that originally came from Pershore in Worcestershire. Behind the rectory, St James' Church is unusual in that it has a very wide nave and no aisles.
Methodism came to the town during the 1740s and 1750s through the efforts of John Cheesborough and John Wesley.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842, and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.
The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.
These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.
In 1965 all the cranes were dipped in salute when the body of Sir Winston Churchill came upstream from Tower Pier to Waterloo after his state funerall.
Many travellers on the Brighton line will remember the Monotype name, as it was advertised along the factory buildings which backed on to the railway line.
Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities. Some, such as Lady Nelson, widow of the Admiral, never left. She lies buried in the churchyard at nearby Littleham.
The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912. By this time, in any case, Pierrots were being supplanted by non-costumed 'fol-de-rol' entertainers.
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