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Castle Hill Close
I remember living in the post war prefabs,in I think it was called Castle Hill Close,number 4,right next to a power pylon.Yoy could walk across an empty field to the New Addington Hotel,then into Addington.I can always ...Read more
A memory of New Addington in 1948 by
Ancestor
My great grandmother was Margaret James who with her husband John, were tenent farmers near Calbeck from about 1897 to the late 1920's or early 1930's. My Mother told me that as a young girl, she, my Mother, spent her summers 'at the ...Read more
A memory of Caldbeck in 1960 by
Post War Brownsover
From the late 1940's to 1969 I remember this area as part housing, part prefabricated homes because of the war. Many old features were still around like barges carrying coal on the Oxford canal, the old disused mill, the huge ...Read more
A memory of Brownsover by
Summer Holidays
My grandparents lived in this village and I have many memories of my visits to the village as a child. One highlight was the walk down the lane to catch the bus to Penzance. Walking across the lane to the diary ...Read more
A memory of Trewoon
Tom Lizzie Cook
1948 - onwards. My Mother and her two cousins were brought up by their Aunt and Uncle as above and I spent all my childhood holidays with them. Great Aunt Liz was well known for her teas for visitors and ramblers from CHA Porlock. ...Read more
A memory of Culbone in 1948 by
4th Us Infantry Division In Tiverton
I live in Tiverton but only recently discovered that our town hosted the US 4th Infantry Division in the later stages of the 2nd World War. I have been helping the veterans of this Division (The Ivy Division) ...Read more
A memory of Tiverton in 1944 by
Lost Memories Of Childhood
I was a patient at the RLCH Heswall in the 1940s . Although my family came from Liverpool I was sent to the hospital with what we knew as a diseaesed hip bone which I later heard referred to as Perthe's Disease. I guess my ...Read more
A memory of Heswall in 1940 by
Ightham Village
My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss Tomkins ...Read more
A memory of Ightham by
Farming From Horses To Electronics
My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he ...Read more
A memory of Edingley in 1930 by
Westgate On Sea Holidays In The 1960s
My parents took myself and my late brother to Westgate on Sea almost every Easter from 1959 to 1971. Living in west London we caught the 2.40pm train from Victoria, arriving at Westgate on Sea about ...Read more
A memory of Westgate on Sea by
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The total cost was £3,700, and the architect was James Hicks of Redruth.
The parish church of St Margaret was rebuilt in the mid 19th century at a cost of around £3,000, having originally been erected in the late 15th century.
A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.
A mineral drink, crush drink or milk shake was 6d (2p), and TT milk cost only 4d (2p). The pot of tea, however, is unpriced. 'TT milk', incidentally, was milk that had been Tuberculin tested.
A mineral drink, crush drink or milk shake was 6d (2p), and TT milk cost only 4d (2p). The pot of tea, however, is unpriced. 'TT milk', incidentally, was milk that had been Tuberculin tested.
One such three-day visit by the king in 1634 is said to have cost the Duke £15,000, a phenomenal amount of money in 17th-century England.
Built from the bricks for which the town is famous, it cost £13,000, of which the Corporation borrowed £10,000.
Its excessive cost was once the talk of the city. Estimates ran as high as two and a half million pounds. In 1869 it was faced with cubes of Aberdeen granite.
The parish church of St Margaret was rebuilt in the mid 19th century at a cost of around £3,000, having originally been erected in the late 15th century.
Costing over £130,000 to build and opened in July 1864, the Assize Court was a blend of Early English and Victorian Gothic.
The Town Hall covered a site of nearly two acres; building began in 1868 and was completed in 1877 at a cost of about £1million.
The school was founded in 1632; its original buildings were supplemented in 1899 by those on the left, at a cost of more than three thousand pounds.
A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.
This village must qualify for having had one of the most short-lived halts in railway history.
Opened in 1883 the Edward Seward-designed South Wales and Monmouthshire Infirmary was built at a cost of £23,000.
Losses were so great that as early as 1901 the Gardens seriously considered dismantling the brute, and were only stopped from doing so because the costs would prove prohibitive.
The cost was defrayed by Lady Ann Warwick, the wife of Richard, Earl of Gloucester, later to be King Richard III.
The Grand Hotel at the west end of Charing Cross had rooms from 3s 6d a night, with dinner costing 5s.
However, after being blown down in a storm, the cost of its rebuilding in 1991 was over £17,000.
The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors
The hotel was built in 1816 at a cost of £677 5s. by William Belsher Parfett, from Eversley.
In fact there was a public outcry in the town at the time at the expense of the purchase - it cost £2,250.
This time, a poster advertises a concert party given by the Mahatmas. This scene has changed a great deal over the past few years with the new Exmouth dockland development.
Mr Barton gave the land and £1,000 towards the cost on condition that there should be no pew rents as there had been in the older church.
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