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Walker From 46 To The 70's
I was born in Walker 1946 to be accurate. They were slums even though the women did their best to keep them clean and rodent free. I remember my mum doing the washing in the wash-house in the back yard, she had to start a ...Read more
A memory of Byker in 1959 by
Growing Up On St Michaels Estate, Brereton
I would love to hear from anyone who lived on St Michaels in the 50's and 60's. We lived on the big green at 45. We had a large horse chestnut in the garden, which has gone now. Deakins keps the grocers shop ...Read more
A memory of Rugeley in 1959 by
Y M C A Manchester
Hi. My old firm, Harry S. Fairhuirst and Sons, were the architects who designed the YMCA in Peter Street. In the 1970's I took over responsiblity for the R & M of the building and this contiinued until my retirement. Who ...Read more
A memory of Manchester in 1964 by
Thurstaston 66 To Today
I found Thurstaston when I was 10 years old. I lived in Norris Green and used to travel nearly every weekend for years. The tip was still open and if you where very lucky you could get a lift on the back of a bin wagon ...Read more
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Thorne As I Remember
So much and so little time; Green Top Primary School, happy days before the big move up to the Grammar School or North Eastern Road Secondary Boys. Mr Morris for metal work, Mr Snow for woodwork. Mr Colin Ella for religious ...Read more
A memory of Thorne by
The Anchor
I was born on the Anchor in 1941. The houses were set back from the road with rough patch of ground in front of them where Pat Collin's fair used to set up every year in the summer. From the canal bridge on the left was the pub, The Anchor ...Read more
A memory of Deepfields by
The Primary School
I might be wrong with the year but, this is about the time the old primary school (Shore Road), moved into the new school at Bendarroch Park. My last class room at the old school was in the Gibson Hall (where from memory our ...Read more
A memory of Garelochhead in 1960 by
Stondon Massey The Place Where I Was Born
I was 5 years old when the Second World War started. My father Alec Lawlor and mother Thirza Booty Lawlor along with my little brother Brian and myself were living in Bristol, West England at the time. ...Read more
A memory of Stondon Massey in 1940 by
Steventon Hill Reservoir
Back in the good old 60's I was looking for work as a labourer and noticed that something was going on at Steventon Hill. I walked up the track and met foreman Charlie Bain who gave me a start doing the ground work and ...Read more
A memory of Fawley in 1962 by
St Botolph's School
Started my school life here in 1967 and was at St Botolph's school, or as it was known to us as just ropewalk school. I have very fond memories of the place and some rather nasty ones of a particular teacher called Mrs ...Read more
A memory of Knottingley in 1967 by
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The River Bain flows out of Semerwater, the largest lake in the old North Riding, and into the Ure.
Howard's fine shop front on the left, now demolished, is now Baines Walk, leading to the 1990s Chesham Town Hall, named in honour of Arnold Baines, a councillor but also an eclectic local historian noted
This view shows the most striking, the Park Avenue Methodist church, a typical design by George Baines and Son, which dates from 1924.
On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's
Writing in 1822, Edward Baines said of the area that 'on the whole, Saddleworth is an interesting, though an uninviting part of the country, and the Mountaineers of this region, like those of Switzerland
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.
In 1824, Baines said that the hall was 'plain, comfortable and commodious', and that the exterior had recently been renovated with a coat of Roman cement.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.
In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was “a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter”.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
In this picture, Baines`s (in the distance, left) was still flourishing.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
When our cameraman visited Newton Aycliffe, it was still very much a new town and was still being developed by the Grenfell Baines Group.
It is drained by England's shortest river, the Bain, which runs into Wensleydale at Bainbridge.
Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.
Like Baines Charity School in Poulton, the children held a barring-out day once a year when by tradition the master was locked out.
The Bain is just 6 miles in length and reputed to be the shortest river in England.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.
It was designed in 1905 by Albert Edward Lambert in standard red brick Gothic style, as opposed to the Art Nouveau of his contemporary George Baines.
Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.
Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain.
Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.