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Schooldays
I attended Ayr Academy when it was a primary school but left at the end of P.4 when that department closed. But I returned in 1963 after passing the eleven plus, much to my primary school teacher's surprise. So many memories of school. Wandering ...Read more
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A Great Place To Work
I had a part-time job at this Petrol Station in 1969 when I secured a job in Canada and left England, never to permanently return. I was working full-time in Portsmouth Dockyard at the time, but this station provided much needed ...Read more
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Rye Hill Park Prefabs
hi, as a child I lived in the prefabs on Rye Hill Park, now flats. I remember the Rossi ice cream horse and cart that used to stop at the bottom of the hill and lemon ice was my favourite. The park was our playground and my ...Read more
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Long Warm Sunny Days
I was probably about 8 years old when this photo was taken, and I can clearly remember spending many summer days at the lido with my friends. I was talking to my granddaughter who is now 8 yrs old but living in Singapore, and so or ...Read more
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Clifton Bed Sit
In 1962-3 I rented a bed-sit in Hughenden Road Clifton for my final year at Bristol Uni. Shared with another chap, also a student. The winter was the year when snow seemed to fall over many nights, the pavements were very slippery with ...Read more
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My Childhood Growing Up At The Storey Arms
My grandmother used to live at the storey arms and ran the transport cafe which it was then and lorry drivers would sleep over in 1 of the many bedrooms while travelling on thier journey, Such an ...Read more
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Brockwell Primary
I lived on Leander Rd. in the 60's and went to Brockwell Primary school...I remember playing football with a tennis ball at playtime...it was so much fun, with my friends...I never forget this one boy names Angus...he was lanky but ...Read more
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The 1980s
I’m not giving my name, but I have always taken as I found, and Malim AKA Mallett was actually really nice to me and stopped me from getting bullied by another kid, and never attempted anything weird with me or any of my friends. Now ...Read more
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The Three Ways Community Centre Arundel Drive
The Three Ways Community Centre in Arundel Drive holds many happy memories for many people of Boreham Wood. You might be interested to know that the name came from the three, roads, Cranes Way. Manor ...Read more
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Happy Days
Hi, I was born in Wombwell at my Grandparents home in Cemetary Rd. My Grandad was the manager of the Co-op grocery shop on high st. George Woolston. My mum was born in Wombwell and her brother. What i remember and loved ...Read more
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There is a large entrance arch on the right, before the weather-boarded wall, leading to a charming walled garden; it has recently been planted with the plants that would have been there in Tudor times
The lady on the bridge would very likely be going to the shops - she is just about to pass over the second arch of the railway bridge which accommodated the branch line forking off to Midhurst
As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.
Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.
The interior of St George's Chapel is wide rather than high, an effect partly due to the consistent use of four-centred arches. The stalls were provided in 1478-85, carved by William Berkely.
Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.
The arched windows on Tollgate Cottage (centre right) look out on what was a turnpike toll road. Beyond are Havering Cottage and Solways (top right).
bedding schemes, typical of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, a gravelled path led to the Monks' Walk and the old chestnut tree (in the clump of trees to the right of the priory arch,
A Watney's Red Barrel illuminated sign (a much-advertised keg beer of the time) hangs below the main sign.
The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.
For such a small village, St Mary's is quite a large church.
There is also a Victorian east window and niches to left and right of the low panelled chancel arch. The tall west tower has diagonal buttresses, with buttress shafts and pinnacles in relief.
Much of the rest of the church, the present nave and aisles to the left, are later medieval with heavy Victorian restoration.
The brick-faced building with arched windows was the Angel Inn, which had an orchard and yard where the customers played quoits.
Designed by Christopher Wren in 1672 as a triumphal arch, Temple Bar originally stood at the top of Fleet Street in London.
At this date Queen Victoria's statue can still be seen (just visible, centre left); and between the bank and the Queen's Hotel the narrow gabled building with the big arched window is the
The slipway for the launching of rowing lifeboats was blocked up and moved to the land-facing side; the small arched window marks where the old exit emerged.
It now has a much larger traffic island around it, and during the holiday season it is a very busy place indeed. Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.
This photograph was taken in the days when Uttoxeter had a much larger market.
The corbels on the arches of the nave are worth a close examination.
Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the
It now has a much larger traffic island around it, and during the holiday season it is a very busy place indeed. Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.
Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the early
The name is said to originate from the mustering of troops during the English Civil War in the 17th century, but it could equally originate from a much earlier 13th-century charter allowing animals
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