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Memories
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School Days
I lived in Ridgeway, Langwith Junction. Mum would give me a shilling to go to the pictures matinee at the Empire on Saturday morning. It cost 7 pence to go in and 5 pence for sweets, it would be packed with kids, you coudn't hear ...Read more
A memory of Langwith Lodge in 1952 by
Clach Eile Air Achairn
After many years, I came once more to Kiltarlity and saw again the post office, where my late father and his brother grew up. Robert, the elder, became the post master and lived there until his death. Donald, my father, left ...Read more
A memory of Kiltarlity in 1990 by
Jeff Bromley A Place In History! 1944 1963 2013
I hope this memory of Normacot is the first of many to be placed by me and then hopefully by others. I was born in 1944 in Lower Spring Road, (opposite Garbetts Toffee Factory), one of a family of 5 ...Read more
A memory of Normacot by
Cookridge Once Fields And Farms
I moved from Holbeck in 1948 into one of the first estates to be built in North West Leeds, Ireland Wood (Raynels). In 1950 I went to Cookridge School, then a wooden hut right slap bang opposite where Cookridge fire ...Read more
A memory of Cookridge in 1950 by
My Home
My name is Keith Howlett and I was born there in 1946, my father came from Filby and my mother from Norwich. My father was a master grocer and then he became the post master. My first school was Stokesby and then I went to Duncan Hall School ...Read more
A memory of Stokesby in 1946
Wickham Bishops Born And Bred
In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. I ...Read more
A memory of Wickham Bishops by
Sweet Shop
We used to go into a sweet shop in the High Street and buy Wagon Wheels. I am sure they were bigger then than they are now! One of the children whose parents owned the sweet shop had a snake! We were fascinated. Snakes as pets were ...Read more
A memory of Billingshurst in 1953 by
Wallingford During The Second World War
I arrived in Wallingford as a 10 year old boy with my sister and mother on a cold winter February night. We had been bombed out from our house in Dagenham just a few days before and my brother, who was ...Read more
A memory of Wallingford in 1943 by
Redhill 1961
I remember the Teddy Boys and 'winkle pickers'. Our baby-sitter used to rock and roll in the living room, and us kids used to laugh because we could see her underwear when her flared skirt twirled! She used to paint our nails for us with ...Read more
A memory of Redhill in 1961 by
Eversley, 1971 1983
Dear Jan, I have found this website quite by chance! I first moved to Eversley with my family as a child (aged 6) in July 1971. My mother became the sub postmistress and we lived in the purpose build, red brick 5 bedroomed house ...Read more
A memory of Eversley by
Captions
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A thatched cottage is the post office. A sign on the rickety telegraph pole advertises a public telephone, and fixed to the nearby wall is a bus timetable proclaiming that this is a fare stage.
Nowadays, we have been sucked in to thinking that convenience shopping is something wonderful, village shops, post offices, and even pubs are in decline.
The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.
He sold the shop to the Stowmarket Co-op in 1975 and retained the post office. The Ipswich Co- op built a new store, which masks the right side of the buildings.
The small building behind the finger post was Cooper's butcher's shop (centre left). To the right is the Victorian village hall, now a house.
This post mill was rebuilt in 1788 and 1844, retaining a main beam dated 1644. It was featured in an early film about milling in 1939, And Now They Rest.
The eclectic mix of architectural styles, ranging from the thatched roof of the single-storey old post office and the slab-fronted agricultural dwelling next to it, to the generously featured
The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.
One of the pubs in the village is called the Kremlin - most appropriate in a cold winter.
The shops between Pottle's and Poole Corner were demolished to make way for the old post office and an ironmonger's.
The Great Tower, dating from the 15th century, has seen many different tenants, including, briefly, a post office!
A typical post Second World War shopping centre, with a range of shops designed to meet most of the local needs of those living in these suburbs of Middlesbrough.
These harsh new concrete structures replaced shops on this side of Queen Street - the retention of an old lamp-post (with a new top) does little to compensate.
The post office is the black and white half-timbered building on the left.
The post office (right) may have been purposely built in the late 19th century; outside is the red letter box and telephone kiosk.
The driver of the Triumph Herald 1200 patiently waits, with his window wound down, for his wife to post a letter and buy a newspaper.
On the left is the facade of the Post Office. The High Street is noted for its Arcade shopping centre, which dates back to 1901 and includes ornamental stained glass.
The little post office no doubt did a brisk trade, doubling up as a general store.
The big Greek portico of the General Post Office of 1818 is prominent in the centre of the picture. It played a central part in the Easter Rising in 1916.
Or could it be that his local is Fred Ireland's saloon bar, next to the first lamp post on the right?
The Huer's House is identical today, even down to the granite railing posts. Sited up on the headland near the harbour, this is where the huer waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals.
Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.
An old lamp-post stands at the end of the street.
Next to the post office, Snow's the butchers were well-known for their Piggy Porker sausages - indeed, they used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.
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