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Endless Summers.
i remember in the mid 60s my friends and i jumping off the farleigh bridge, how on earth we didn't break our necks i will never know, we stayed almost every summer week-end in the hopping huts, and had to come back to london late ...Read more
A memory of East Farleigh by
Cradley Heath, 60s, 70s.
Hi there, Just thought I would see if there are any other people who remember their childhood in Cradley Heath? I lived on the Codsall est. Meadow Walk to be precise, here are a few memories I have of the best childhood ...Read more
A memory of Cradley Heath by
Changing Times
I was a Chiddingfold child. My father was from Milford (Cozens) and his mother and father owned the little newsagents/grocery shop on Manor Road. My mum was from Shackleford (Reffold) and I didn't move far away - Godalming, and ...Read more
A memory of Chiddingfold in 1970 by
Broomfield Lane
I wasn't around in 1913, but went to Broussa School on Broomfield Lane from 1961-1963. It was there I first heard of the Beatles! A girl in the middle school brought in the 'Please please me' album and played it to us 10 year olds at ...Read more
A memory of Hale in 1962 by
Broken Cross Post Office
my parents owned the piost office from about 1958-1965 - their names were albert (bill) edward wild and dorothy emma wild and the inscription on the board read "AE and DE Wild" before they owned it , it belonged to Vera and ...Read more
A memory of Prestbury in 1960 by
Youngest Boy In School
I also remember Badingham. For over a year I was the youngest boy in the school and I too got lost just after starting, getting the 708 bus back iinstead of the 718. I also remember the mill pond and breaking my wrist while ...Read more
A memory of Fetcham in 1963 by
Young Patrol, Eskdale 1965
As an Essex Police Cadet I went to the Eskdale Outward Bound Centre in 1964/65 where I was subsequently elected the leader of Young Patrol. Every morning between 6-7am we were woken and had to run down to the lake and ...Read more
A memory of Eskdale Green by
Ww1 Admiralty Class Destroyer Hms Sylph
H.M.S. Sylph went hard aground on Aberavon Beach after breaking her towing hawsers during a storm while being towed across Swansea Bay to be scrapped in Newport. This was in April 1927. Attempts to ...Read more
A memory of Pontrhydyfen in 1920 by
Wrotham Road
Yes, I used to go to Wrotham Road for rock & roll, they were the early days from 1960 to 1963 and it was the meeting place for the lads. I remember taking a break from dancing and going into the Lord Kitchener pub Friday night when ...Read more
A memory of Welling in 1960 by
Wrestling And The Fire.
My earliest memories of the old Hove Town Hall are of a massively impressive red brick building opposite which was a 'Gamleys' toy shop to which I'd be taken by my mother whenever we had enough money! There used to be professional ...Read more
A memory of Hove in 1971
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It is certainly not unlikely that these men and boys are workers at what remained of the indigenous ironworking industry after the 1877 collapse.
Constructed from granite blocks cemented together with 'puzzellani', a special hardening material developed from volcanic dust extracted from the slopes of Mount Etna, the lighthouse was
A top of the range television set - twice the size of the little boxes on which the nation viewed the Coronation two years earlier - stands in the communal room at the end of the first line of Golden Acre
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line.
We are looking westwards along Leys Avenue; we can just see the last of the Georgian-style shops and flats in the distance.
The cliff line of Dorset breaks to give access to a small cove and the village of Burton Bradstock, with the River Bride gurgling away to the end of Chesil Beach.
This is a lovely environment for children to go to school; here they have been photographed during their break.
As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.
It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.
Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.
Porthleven's large harbour was built in 1811 to load copper and tin; it is an important haven on the exposed east shore of Mount's Bay.
The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.
Until Blackpool's third pier was built at South Shore in 1893, the one here was known as South Pier.
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line.
The lake has attracted racing skiffs, ferry steamers and fishing punts in its time. The boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs.
The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.
Looking north towards the pier, the photograph shows the promenade before the Winter Gardens were built. The tide is well in and horses have been taken down to soak their legs in the salt-water.
For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian. Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian. Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.
Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.
An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout. Sturgeon have also been caught here.
That much-maligned but vital facility of the motorway network, the service station, was an early landmark.
A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.
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