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655 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.

Happy Days Of Youth.

My first memories of Motherwell was living down the Daisy Park at 18 Braidhurst Street and watching the new housing scene being built opposite my house ,the old mill used provide a perfect brae for our bogies which consisted an old ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by Alexander Mc Bride

My Earliest Memories Of Dagenham

I came upon this site by chance and it brought back so many memories I thought I would share a few. I was born in Fritzlands Lane No. 151 this was my Grandparents house, at the age of 4 or 5 my Mum and Dad were ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham

St. Helens School

I went to st.helens school in valley road from 1955- 59 I remember miss tarry and miss howling who was very scary. If you got 3 very goods for your work you had to see miss howling for a gold star; however waiting to see her for this ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by quick_thinker2003

A 60's Lad In Hengoed

I started at Hengoed infants/juniors in 1960. I really enjoyed going to that school because I found the teachers so encouraging. I recall the headmaster was Mr Owen or perhaps Owens. I got the cane from him once I think and no doubt ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed by Robin Davies

Lunch Break

This is me on my lunch break from Midland Bank in Spencer Court. I am the tallest of the three people next to the lamppost. Lunch at the Crows nest or the upstairs cafe on Corporation Street near to Woolworths.

A memory of Corby by Anne Parsons

Alan Stewart?

Among the lovely pictures of 1950s Oakwood is a picture of a lake in Oakwood Park for model boats which I used in the late forties and early 50s. Sailing boats there was a favourite pastime of my friend and neighbour (at the time) Alan ...Read more

A memory of Oakwood by Roger Crunden

The Ferry Boatman Disaster

Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers had ...Read more

A memory of Ryton

Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

The Red Lion Pub And The 221 Bus.

Before I moved to The Ridgeway in 1955 I live in Woodall Drive and regularly used the 221 bus to trundle up Paines Lane past my school, and ending up in the space outside the RedLion pub. I remember how the bus rocked each ...Read more

A memory of Pinner by petereverett66

1958 To 1990

My parents moved from Hackney East London to Orchard Road in 1958, I was two years old. Orchard Road connected to New Road by way of a pedestrian break in a hedge between the two roads, New Road was unmade in those early days. A ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by michaelyoules

Captions

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Caption For Loftus, Coronation Park C1960

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

Caption For Coningsby, The Mill C1955

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

Caption For Mildenhall, The Old Bridge 1952

Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.

Caption For Hay On Wye, Crown Hotel C1955

Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.

Caption For Holkham, The Beach 1950

The beach is an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the dunes form a National Nature Reserve.

Caption For Stiffkey, Aa Camp C1955

The Stiffkey Anti-Aircraft training camp was erected as a satellite to the larger AA camp at Weybourne in the late 1930s.

Caption For Middle Rasen, The Church C1955

The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.

Caption For Beyton, The White Horse Inn C1960

The drainpipe (right) marks the division between the timber-framed building of 1694 to the left and a Victorian brick extension nearer to us.

Caption For Prittlewell, The Church 1891

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Caption For Salthouse, Cross Street C1955

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

Caption For Kingsland, The Angel Inn C1955

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

Caption For Shoeburyness, The Garrison Clock Tower C1955

This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.

Caption For Eastbourne, Marine Parade 1901

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

Caption For Colchester, St Boltolph's Priory And Church 1907

Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls. It was founded before 1100, but never grew very large.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

Caption For Clayton, Jack And Jill Windmills C1955

The Clayton Windmills were built in the 19th century. Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

Caption For Thame, High Street C1955

A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall. Thame became a market town during the 13th century, and its importance as a commercial centre is still evident today.

Caption For Chapel St Leonards, The Parade C1955

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

Caption For Partridge Green, The Mill C1950

It was dismantled in 1959 and the parts were taken to County Oak, near Gatwick Airport, but have not been reassembled.

Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower 1899

The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.

Caption For Ludford, Main Street C1955

This view looks east along the main street.

Caption For Launceston, Windmill Hill C1960

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Caption For Prittlewell, The Church 1891

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.