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Astrall Hall
We holidayed in Torquay in july 1965 we was a group of kids from The Hollies children's home in sidcup Kent..by what I remember the YMCA hotel was called the castle hotel..would this be the same one or was there more then one YMCA hotels in Torquay in those days
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Au Pair Girl
I have been a au pair girl in Warlingham 40 years ago. I never forget my time in the family. Good memories and a beautiful family. francoise
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Audley End My Favourite Place In Th Whole World
My mother and father met at the cricket ground at Audley End in the early 1930's - my father was a shepherd on the estate and my mother was a ladies maid at the Mansion. My father's hobby was ...Read more
A memory of Audley End
Aunt Joan
I remember my Aunt Joan who lived outside Lochgilphead at Castleton in a cottage there. She lived with my Aunt Katie. Joan used to work in what would now be the equivalent of the Jobcentre - cannot remember the name. She was never ...Read more
A memory of Lochgilphead in 1960
Aunty Eliza And Her Son Alf
Great Aunty Liza lived in an area called Buckland Wharf in a long, low, white bungalow where time stood still except the Grandfather Clock ticked in her "parlour" to tell us otherwise. The room was very ...Read more
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Aunty Bell's
My dad was a geordie and every year when I was a kid we would always visit his hometown, Jarrow, N Newcastle. I loved the northeast with all the different beaches and everything about it, as I got older I loved the northeast more, ...Read more
A memory of Whitley Bay in 1975
Aveley An Age Away.
I lived in Aveley Villiage from when I was born in 1957 until we moved to the Kennington Estate about 1971. We had a funny house in Church View which seemed to be back to front compared to some of my friends houses. Our end of ...Read more
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Bbc Film Archive
Never went to the school but my late father purchased a goat from there. It had a pedigree as long as your arm. A number of years later someone who worked at the school turned up on our doorstep (over 100 miles away) to check how the ...Read more
A memory of Manaccan by
Bill Durrant
I remember helping out Bill in the Empire .I have very good memories about the cinema and spent a lot of time in the projector room . Pop Witicker used to be the owner of this cinema and I remember him very well .
A memory of Crumlin in 1958
Bishop Wordsworth's School In The 1960s
I attended Bishop Wordsworth's School between 1964 and 1967 arriving when I was 14. I had previously gone to a very prestigious grammar school in north London which in fact was awful. Discipline was non-existent, ...Read more
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As well as portable gangways, boat-carts were also used to get trippers to and from the sailing boats.
All the familiar seaside fun is here: happy holiday-makers digging in the sand, deckchairs and bathing machines fill this evocative picture of Edwardian Broadstairs.The steps and the lift house are
The quality of Brydon's work is well brought out in this view; I have heard visitors commenting on the remarkable survival of so much Roman work!
More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.
Some consider the Talbot Inn to be the best, in architectural terms, in the whole of the country, and even the finest in England.
Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church.
A quiet day in the Market Place when it reverts to its more usual function of bus station and car park.
The jetty has played an important part in English history, as it was from here that Admiral Nelson set out to join his fleet and fight many of his most famous battles.
This photograph shows the holiday season in full swing. The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.
Their poster proclaims 'on with the show', and they have attracted a large crowd, some watching from the ledge in front of the bandstand.
Beyond the overdressed Victorian beachgoers are a number of stalls selling ice creams and other refreshments.
At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.
Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
The only attractions on offer here are boat trips and donkey rides; to the far right, on the water's edge, are a number of wheeled bathing machines.
In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry. The top of the sea wall provides additional seating and a pagoda shelter adorns the prom- enade.
A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard
The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.
Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.
The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.
One early visitor to the new resort was Mr Tregonwell, who bathed in the sea and walked the dunes of Mudeford.
High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.
By the 1950s the first high rise hotels had appeared; also, Bournemouth's old trams had given way to trolley-buses, hence the overhead lines.
Felixstowe was a genteel seaside resort built around a wide shingle bay which offered excellent, safe bathing.
Nailsworth may not be the most attractive town in the Cotswolds, but the student of industrial archaeology will find it a fascinating place to visit.
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