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Places
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Memories
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I Lived Here In 1962
My Father had gone to New Zealand in search of new frontiers and my mother, older brother Martin and sister, Jane and myself were staying with my Nanna in Queen Street-we were there for over a year. Dad came home and we ...Read more
A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1962 by
Welsh Gem
I love this town so much as I spent my childhood here and they were very happy times. We had to move away for work reasons but I would move back tomorrow if I could. I visit every year for my trip down memory lane and it's a great relief that ...Read more
A memory of Conwy
Colindale In The 1950's
I lived in Sunny View (off Wakemans Hill) from 1953 to 1958, when we moved away. Dad worked at Curr Bros Laundry and later at the Vanden Plas works in Kingsbury. It was a very different world in those days.
A memory of Colindale by
Surveying At Newry
In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more
A memory of Llanfairfechan by
Memories Of Plas Y Nant
The Methodist Association of Youth Clubs (MAYC) had a big annual rally in London for many years. There was a tradition to throw pom-poms with your name and address attached to create pen friends. At one such weekend I ...Read more
A memory of Betws Garmon by
Tinker Tailor Solder Sailor 1916
Lynette Carter nee Evans My grandfather was Romany Gypsy, Stephen Evans, who better known as (Stinny)? During 1916 he lived in Gorseion, while his wife; my grandmother Mary Ellen Boswell lived in Gowerton. Nobody ...Read more
A memory of Gorseinon in 1900 by
1960s
We moved to the village in 1967 and lived in Garden Lane and Plas Maen. I have fond memories of the old school and childrens clubs in the village hall. I well remember when the fish and chip shop first opened in the village and people came ...Read more
A memory of Bodedern in 1966
The Plas Mynach Llanaber Road
60 odd years ago Plas Mynach was de-requisitioned from war service. I worked for a Mr Hamblin from Birmingham, he had purchased the building to reopen as a hotel after we had refurbished throughout. All food stuff was ...Read more
A memory of Barmouth in 1946 by
Esgairgeiliog 1956 1961
I was eleven when we moved into the new council estate, Aelybryn, in Esgairgeiliog. My mother had been born in Esgairgeiliog, and her mother was the local, unofficial, midwife of the village at the beginning of the 20th ...Read more
A memory of Esgairgeiliog in 1956 by
Llandybie In The Fifties
I was born there and spent my early years in Campbell Road. Back in those days there was a farm in the middle of the village, the Plas, and cows were kept in the field which were taken for milking to the old cowsheds then ...Read more
A memory of Llandybie
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Again built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick, the hotel was designed to cater for tourists and had its own private railway platform at the rear, bringing guests literally to the door of the
Swale House on the extreme left was the home of Joe and Veronica Pease, great hosts of balls and parties.
Also typical of Saltburn is the extensive mandatory use of white firebricks from the Pease Company for the construction of the town centre.
Here we see Hutton Hall from the north, showing the main entrance and driveway, the view that house party guests would first see upon arriving by carriage, having been brought up from the Pease's
Among the paddle-tugs working on the Tees in 1903 were the 'Sir Joseph Pease', built in 1896, and the 'Isaac Wilson' and 'Salt', both of 1889.
The Chairman of the Board of Governors was Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease; twenty years earlier, he had used Alfred Waterhouse to design his mansion, Hutton Hall, and one assumes this connection influenced
After the Hutton estate was bought by Joseph Whitwell Pease in the 1860s, the two rows of cottages were prettified by the addition of decorative porches.
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