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A Summer Evening In Hanwell.
I meet one of my friends, he is going fishing, it is around 6:30pm. We go down Green Lane to the canal and turn right over the River Brent. He starts to fish between the locks. Mr Hunt from Studley Grange Road ...Read more
A memory of Hanwell in 1962 by
Paper Kids
Hello John, I was one of your dad's paper boys. I can't remember what year as I also delivered for Billy Evans, Stuart and Linda's dad. Just down the road in our village, if you remember not only that, but I delivered for Chaplins on ...Read more
A memory of Walsall Wood by
Clifton Road School
I also remember Miss Curtain and Miss Lidstone the stairs and the ice slides, Alan Newall lived in Regina road past the cross road towards the canal i lived at no 57 with my cousin Colin James who was a good friend of Alans. We used ...Read more
A memory of Southall by
Bredbury 1960s
i went to highfield secondary school in 1960 and most of the teachers mentioned were still there then including mr edwards headmaster i remember doing all the things you stated including going down star fields on pieces of cardboard ...Read more
A memory of Bredbury by
Semons Home
I also was born there in April 1943. I have memories of my father telling me of him walking along a canal bank so he could visit my mother, when he was on leave! Would like to know exactly where it was siituated, so I could visit the area. Always tell my family I was born on Ilkey moors!
A memory of Ilkley by
The Mystery Bridge Across The Mill Brook In Baguley.
The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms and ...Read more
A memory of Wythenshawe by
The Police Station
My earliest memories are of Aldringham. I was born in the Police Station on Mill Hill in 1937, the youngest of three children. My father was the local policeman, P.C. James McGuire. I often wonder now how my mother managed, with ...Read more
A memory of Aldringham by
Potted Early Years In Sale
My father was on his way home after his shift at metrovicks in Trafford park when saw the fire in the town hall. He stood on the bridge over the canal and watched it burn until the clock tower collapsed. I was born in sale cottage ...Read more
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Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
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Boarding School In Woking
When I was Five we lived in Byfleet and often visited the Woking Lido in Summer. I nearly killed myself by sliding down the slide unsupervised. Fortunately my father saw me and dragged me out. When I was Six my sister and I ...Read more
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These include a headless figure of Christ in the tympanum over the vestry door, as well as a number of corbels with carved heads which once served as candle-holders.
The Exeter Ship Canal, five miles long, reaches the sea at Topsham, and was built in 1564-6 after the building of a bridge at Countess Wear stopped the use of the river for trade.
The Thames and Severn Canal came this way, and the route of the old towpath can still be walked for considerable sections; but it is the pits left by extensive gravel extraction that have been
This was just one lock in the long climb from the west edge of London up the Chilterns: there were 25 miles and 42 locks on the Grand Junction Canal (later to become part of the Grand Union), the original
A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, which was intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.This used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and
This area was built by the mill owner Titus Salt as a model industrial village alongside a canal, river and railway, well away from the pollution of Bradford.
Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.
Constructed by Telford and Jessop to link the rivers Severn, Dee and Mersey, the Llangollen Canal is one of the most popular waterways in the country.
Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.
The precursor of Rhyl's amusement arcades, it advertised '... theatre, ballroom, restaurant, waxworks, winter garden, underground canal with gondolas, arcade of shops, zoo, sideshows, all provided on a
Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.
Edward Ridsdale operated waggons throughout Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal
Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was the son of a Scottish shepherd; he became famous for his masonry and bridge over the River Severn, and indeed for 1200 bridges, canals, harbours, aqueducts and other
The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city’s wool and lead exports.
Springfield had started to grow after the canal-basin arrived here. Holy Trinity was built in 1843 as a chapel of ease for the expanding population.
Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.
The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city's wool and lead exports.
Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.
The main A59 road from Liverpool to Preston runs through the centre of the village, and at the far end, rises over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.
The Bude Canal, in which these schooners are moored, was built in 1823 to carry sand inland to improve farmland, but it ended up carrying all manner of cargoes including coal from South Wales.
Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby. Only just visible on the horizon is part of Lancaster University.
In 1793 the Basin at Heybridge was dug out to provide access from the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal to the sea via the sea lock.
We are looking west from the canal towpath towards the town, with the church spire in the centre distance.
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