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Memories

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The Brampton Hawk Moth Club.

Searching for wildlife to keep as pets was a major diversion for a small group of boys in my class at Brampton Road Primary School during the 1950's. Anything that moved on the ground or swam around in ponds and streams ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Standon Life.

I had a wonderful childhood growing up in Standon. I went to the old school in Standon High Street. We walked across the road to have dinner in the village hall. We had the luxury of a swimming pool - outdoor changing rooms. We had drinking ...Read more

A memory of Standon by Melanie Tharby

1 Station Road

I lived at the address which was the house on the corner of hogmoor Road and Station Road. The house was wood not tin as stated and was painted cream. Corrals coal were the owners and a coal yard was at the rear of the house,. . adjacent on ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by John Watts

Grand Living At Moresdale Hall, Lambrigg

We came to a deserted Moresdale Hall in the 1980s and spent several years refurbishing it. Because it had 2 front doors and 2 staircases we were able to divide it and share it with my brother's family. It ...Read more

A memory of Moresdale Hall

Derek Hall’s Pensax School Memories

As I was brought up in Menith Wood from the late fifties until the early sixties I attended Pensax School where Miss Jones and Mrs Attwood were our teachers for every lesson. I remember some of my school friends like ...Read more

A memory of Pensax by Derek Hall

Old Roman Terrace

Hi my name is Morgan Smith and I was born at 61 Queen St. Swinton in my Nan Callis' house on the 9th 7 1948 then moved to 248 Wath Rd Mexborough into a terraced house across from the jet garage on Roman terrace. I went to Roman ...Read more

A memory of Mexborough by Morgan Smith

Into The Woods

As a child of the Fifties I spent many a school holiday and weekend exploring and playing in our local woods with two chums. We knew them separately as Bostall, Abbey and Lesnes woods, before they were known collectively as Lesnes ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Brampton Road Primary School

I began my school days during the 1950's at Brampton Road Primary School, Bexleyheath. My over-riding memory is a time of innocence, wonder and happiness, where we were given freedom to learn and be creative in a ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

The Jarretts Of Ermington

My mother's maiden name was Jarrett, her father was Fred Jarrett who along with his brother Jim ran a small building company. I lived in Ermington from 1957-1974 and was related, or so it seemed, to almost everyone within a ...Read more

A memory of Ermington by Chris Stephens

Hartford Secondary Modern School

Me and my late twin brother started at this school in 1953, the school was mixed. We were the first ones to be there, it was a brand new school. Fred Beech was the headmaster, he was a grand man and would always ...Read more

A memory of Northwich in 1953 by Peter Drinkwater

Captions

583 captions found. Showing results 409 to 432.

Caption For Clumber Park, C1955

Clumber Park, like Rufford, is heavily wooded; it was enclosed out of Sherwood Forest, that great forest that extends from Worksop southwards almost to Nottingham.

Caption For Alfold, The Village C1950

Here we see another Crown Inn deep in the Fold country, and this one is still a licensed premises!

Caption For Wallasea Island, Ferry Pier C1965

The floating jetty we see here has disappeared, to be replaced by a more substantial structure, but large chunks of the original wood still litter the marshes.

Caption For Capel Curig, The Llugwy Valley 1891

This photograph shows the wooded valley at Capel Curig. In the Victorian era it was very popular with anglers, and there were coaches carrying visitors from Betws-y-Coed to Bangor and Llanberis.

Caption For Palnackie, The Harbour C1960

The village of Palnackie is set in a region of wooded hills and streams.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, View From Belsfield Hotel 1896

Bowness Bay opens out into the north basin of the lake; Hen Holme island is backed by wooded Claiffe Heights and the mountains around Langdale.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 1893

The view shows an abundance of public houses and hotels. At far right three stand side by side - the Theatre Royal, then Clarence and (out of picture) the Cambrian.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 2004

The view shows an abundance of public houses and hotels. At far right three stand side by side - the Theatre Royal, then Clarence and (out of picture) the Cambrian.

Caption For Penrith, From Elm Terrace 1893

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

Caption For Bala, The Town And The Lake 1931

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

Caption For Garboldisham, The Post Office C1955

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Caption For Lyndhurst, High Street 1897

Lyndhurst is the 'capital' of the New Forest, a bustling tourist base at the heart of this wooded region.

Caption For Abergele, Market Street 1890

This pleasant market town lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the 'honky-tonk' north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

Caption For Witley, Village 1906

Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel

Caption For Penrith, Market Place 1893

It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

Caption For Lickey, The Cofton Wood Pleasure Grounds C1955

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Caption For Darwen, Bold Venture Park 1895

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

Caption For Tickhill, Market Place C1955

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

Caption For Culbone, The Smallest Parish Church In England 1929

Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road

Caption For Chiddingfold, Village And Pond 1902

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village C1950

The forests had deposits of iron ore, and supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.The church of St Margaret, with a shingled broach spire,

Caption For Bewdley, Severn Side (North) C1940

At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.

Caption For Gisburn, The Bridge 1921

In this typically well-wooded river scene, we can see lavish use of stone in walls and bridge that could stand for centuries.

Caption For Kinver, The Canal C1955

Unlike many of its rivals, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire never sold out to the railway companies, some of whom made a policy of buying up canals, then running them down so that they could gradually