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Grandfather
My grandfather, Thomas Richard Brown, was born in Northfleet in 1871. In the 1911 census he was living at Mill Cottages, South Darenth near Horten Kirby. He had a wife, Emma Brown, nee Nalson, and 4 children, Thomas, Richard, Enily ...Read more
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Lester Avenue E15
I was born at home in Lester Avenue in 1947. 9 of us lived in that 3 bedroomed house, and it never seemed overcrowded. There were 2 Grandparents, an Aunt, Uncle and Cousin, my Mum and Dad, my Sister and Me. I can remember going to ...Read more
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The Grocers Next To Morgan's!
Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1940 by
Thoughts Of This Lady.
Can anyone remember a teacher called Miss Miriam Roberts? The first class teacher for girls in the junior school Brynteg. The boys would have left infants school for Blacklane school in Pentre Broughton. She used to ...Read more
A memory of Brynteg in 1950
Written While I Can Still Remember .
My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more
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"Anne's Cafe"
I was born in Annes Cafe, Boroughbridge in 1940 (we were lodging there). Dad used to have a few beers in the Crown and the Three Greyhounds during WW2. Mum and Dad told me they used to go "skinny dipping" in the "fish ladders?" We ...Read more
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#11 Station Road Family 1916 Till Present
My family, the Wicketts, were the first family to move into #11 Station Road, just after it was built. I believe not long before my father, Wilfred, was born in 1916, or prehaps just after his birth(?). My ...Read more
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'lozells', Such An Exotic Sounding Place.
We lived in Gerrard Street, Lozells, until I was about 6. My father had an allotment where we would go and play, I still have a photo taken when I was about 4 of my father, older brother, and myself at the ...Read more
A memory of Birmingham in 1952 by
1/10d A Pint
The Cherry Tree was my main watering hole as I had so many friends in the area. Stan Chrees from Oakleigh Road, Bernard Downes, Edwin Hodson, to name but a few. Oh the days before mindless fruit machines, when pubs were ...Read more
A memory of Southgate in 1963 by
1890 The Year My Great Grand Mother Alice Maud Taylor Was Born
My great grand mother was born in 1890 and lived in Burton in Lonsdale all her 83 years. She was my guardian after my father died (Jim Coates) at the young age of 21 in 1969. My ...Read more
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In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan
Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the
Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the
Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street.
The Bourne stream runs through the area of Lower, Middle and Upper Bourne, joining the River Wey at Moor Park.
Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.
This picture should more properly be captioned 'The Bourne from Besbury.'
Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.
Though smarter and more affluent today, much of St Mary Bourne is as it was when this photograph was taken.
Taken from the end of the promenade by the Bourne Arms, the scene shows the once-busy steam ferry arriving from Fleetwood across the Wyre estuary.
Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town astride the River Bourne.
This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.
The Golden Lion, possibly an 18th-century pub, faces the lane that leads up to Bourn Hall.
This was once a place where sheep were washed in a stream (bourne), hence the name.
In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the tiny River Bourne. Other
This is a lovely environment for children to go to school; here they have been photographed during their break.
The Primitive Methodist movement was officially founded in Tunstall, in 1811, by Hugh Bourne and William Clowes.
Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town astride the River Bourne.
A neat Austin 8 is here heading for St Mary Bourne.
East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.
In 1823 John Butcher, a preacher from Bolton, was landed by fishing boat at Derby Haven and brought Primitive Methodism to the island.
The suburbs of Bournemouth, which have now sprawled out into the neighbouring countryside, began with the early construction of villa residences, each with its own garden - as suggested by Dr Granville
Its name, the white bourne, means the white stream.
Apart from the areas around the mouth of the Bourne Stream, much of Bournemouth was built to the rear of the long line of cliffs, necessitating many stairways down to the beach for energetic visitors
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