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Great Times
Hi my name is Doug Wilson. This site brought back so many memories. I was born in a bungalow in Wingletye Lane in August 1954 but moved to Great Gardens Road when I was 9 months old. From the time that I was allowed to cross the ...Read more
A memory of Hornchurch by
Re Betty Harris Memory
I was in Mrs Waddington's class at Wath Park Road from 1946 - 1950 and I have many happy memories of her. She was a great english teacher, always a happy smiling face, and she spoke of her daughter Betty many times. ...Read more
A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1948 by
Manvers. Old Big Yard Housing
My family and I lived in the old houses along the canal, there was a large archway leading into what we called the big yard, I was very small and can still remember the smell of the coal trains as we stood on the ...Read more
A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by
St Barnabas Mission
I remember as a kid being in the choir at the mission, in those days we had no choice but to attend, but they were good days, the crossings, the canal.
A memory of Pye Bridge in 1953 by
Not Greengates But Gods Green Acre
I was born in Bradford 1947 and grew up at Redcar Road. I remember Glovers the newsagents on the corner of this photo and across the road in New Line just down from the Roebuck pub my mum took me on the bus every ...Read more
A memory of Greengates in 1947 by
Early Days
I was born at home in Coleford Bridge Road in 1935 and grew up there, went to school in Frimley and lived in Mytchett until emigrating to Australia in 1964. In those early days life seemed very simple, only a handful of cars, making ...Read more
A memory of Mytchett in 1940 by
Blast From The Past.
Wow, did that ever shake me to the core. The names Richardson and Fairminer, Long and a few others sprang to mind as fellow pupils at the local Primary School. In those days I lived in Worsley Road. I can remember fishing ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
Joseph Williams Joe Bach
Joseph was my great-grandfather who lived at Tirbach Road. During his life he had much bad fortune. He lost a leg in an accident, his wife died at a young age and a daughter was drowned in the canal. According to a person ...Read more
A memory of Ystalyfera in 1930 by
Portaferry
I was born in Portaferry in 1943 but moved to England, aged just 5 years, when my mother remarried. My mother's family were Mcbrides and were well known in the town, my mother was one of 13 children although some of them did not reach ...Read more
A memory of Portaferry by
My Mother Was From Gilfach
I was four years old when I moved to Gilfach Goch with my sister Pauline and my dad Samual James Carson and my mam Sybil (Mills), she was from Gilfach and so was most of her family. We lived with my Gransher, Mark ...Read more
A memory of Gilfach Goch by
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The lock in the foreground leads to the Manchester Ship Canal and the larger docks to the right.
The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal’s civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.
This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand
Various industries flourished here in Victorian times: chalk was quarried, whiting and cement made, and a canal allowed passage through to the Thames.
During an apparently unsupervised night shift on 14 February 1818 at the local Colne Bridge Mills, a fallen candle caused a devastating fire in which seventeen girls perished - the youngest was aged just
The town of Runcorn is behind the bridge; the retaining wall of the Manchester Ship Canal can be seen along the edge of the River Mersey.
The organ tuner's candle fell down inside the mechanism while he was tuning the organ!
Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks
It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.
At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.
It was the arrival of the Leeds/Liverpool canal in 1810 that turned a hand-loom cottage industry into the giant of the Industrial Revolution.
Today there are numerous road, rail and foot bridges crossing both the river and the Ship Canal further south.
Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks
The 17th-century poet Matthew Prior allegedly nodded off here while reading the first edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, published in 1614, allowing dripping candle wax to perforate
Three forms of transport have cut through the area at various times: the main Roman road, later the A6, the Lancaster Canal, and the railways, all bringing prosperity and extra work to the area.
But later, during his visit in 1835 as a young cub newspaper reporter, he witnessed the burning of the west wing when the first marchioness was burnt to death after knocking over a lighted candle.
About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.
The congested canal bridge in the picture was replaced by a metal swingbridge in 1916, after very heated and protracted meetings between Glasgow Corporation and Clydebank Burgh regarding responsibility
Blackburn had started to expand with the canal age. Then, in 1797, its first turnpike, to Bolton, opened.
It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.
A canal to the town was finished in 1773, and the railway arrived in 1848 - it survived until 1967. Ripon Racecourse opened in June 1900.
It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.
It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.
It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.
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