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Ifo Please can any one remember the Bennett.s that lived in 41 east view station town in 1913. I have been told that Hannnah (nee Price ) was found under the bridge or at the bottom of a hill dead, I am doing my family tree. I know that there was a Elizabeth , violet. Ralphina , Father William bennett living . Hope that you an help thank you
Jacqie. Carlton house stood at the junction of ledsham road & the a41 chester road.It was purchased by Cartwright Bros. a local builders & partly demolished. The stables & the music room/billiard room still exist behind an arcade of shops (I think a firm that sells lawnmowers occupies this) This room was used during the war by the wvs & was known as the sewing room. The brick from the house was ...see more
I am trying to find out information about a Mill? that was situated in, mill lane, Great Sutton, I don't not have any information on this, only what I was told. Many years ago a person told me of a post card that they had of New Road, Little Sutton, the person was looking for the exact location of the part of New Road, and said, "On the photo is the Mill? in Mill Lane, can any one help or advise, thanks
THE KIDD IS ALRIGHT
The daylight had faded away and dusk was now dim enough to coax the streetlights to pop on, their vague orange light slowly getting brighter as their bulbs warmed. Meanwhile inside the Hamblett family home on Lakin Street a little boy stood, buttoning up his black duffle coat. His mother is at the kitchen table writing on the back of an envelope, coins stacked neatly next to her ...see more
I am wondering if anyone can help. I have posted in here (Little Sutton) as Great Sutton is only 1/4 mile away. I was hoping to get some information regarding a "Mill" that was in Mill Lane, Great Sutton. I cant find any information about this, but there was one, I think if would have been aprox. before 1930,s . My reason for believing there was a "Mill", many years ago I was talking to someone who had a ...see more
I lived in Broomwood Road from when I was born in 1954 until 1965 and went to Grays Farm Infants and Grays Farm Primary - Happy Days! Teachers I remember are Mrs Tuffley (infants) and Mr Rigg (Primary). I remember sitting outside the Broomwood Pub with a packet of crisps, the milkman Fred Plum coming round with his horse and milk cart and the rag & bone man and his horse & cart - ...see more
My late father spoke fondly of his time at a new secondary school which I think was called Sunderland Technical School. Mr Robinson was headmaster. Does anyone have any information regarding the school? He worked in Monkwearmouth Colliery until injured. He left Sunderland in 1933 but we returned annually for holidays, travelling by tram to Seaburn, getting a beach tent and eating Nottriani's ice creams! Happy days!
I don't have a memory. All I would like to know, is what stood here before? As the boulevard has some older houses and the Fox Hollies pub would have stood opposite, so would this have been waste ground or hedges or something? Just curious you understand. Do love all these old photographs of how things used to be yesteryear! Thank you.
i went to st nicholas school in the mid 70s i lived in chute forrest at 6 orchard cottages.have fond memories of mrs KINGS "bonfire day soup" and mr and mrs MAJORS were the teacchers. was good pals with david cherrington,rowan casson, hayley rolfe,christopher soper,linda soper,lucinda rolls,linda and keith webb lee merrit and karen merrit and ivor rainsford and gary king as well as andy king.i would love to find out the year i left chute so if anyone can remember i would be very grateful.
I lived on Beckbridge Estate in the very last prefab the communal hut was at the bottom of our garden. We were the last family to leave the estate when the prefabs were bulldozed. We went to live in Altofts.
hi i went to colfox school i was in class i-t ,i was at burton bradstock school for abit, parents move to yeovil in 1970
My nan was wondering if anyone remembered her from Dean rd, Willesden green and would love to get into contact with anyone who remembers.
moved into cllffe, north road in 1969, sold up in 1976 n moved to berrycourt cottages cooling street, would love some old photos of our home to scan and save, all would be returned, desperate for pics of berrycourt cottages
I was born in Bangour hospital in 1957 I lived in Garden City bents,I remember the pits as all my family were miners, my dad grandpa and uncles, I remember never being inside , the steam trains with the coal from the Lady pit, and the Fulshea steam engine
As my mother father and sister lived in Queens Road, Thames Ditton, there local maternity hospital was Bearsted Memorial Hospital which is where I entered the world on a foggy night in late October 1958. My father worked at the local American airbase at Bushey Park. He was one of a few drivers that would meet the a transatlantic plane from New York ( useualy Pan American airlines) on the runway at Heathrow ...see more
I have very distinct memories of living, as a young child, in one of two single decker buses near the beach at Talacre. I recall tall beds and paraffin lamps with tall glass chimneys. My father was originally from Liverpool but was posted to an Army base called Kinmel Camp, near Talacre. I was born in St Asaph in 1956 and christened at Bodelwyddan Church. My mother had a sister called ...see more
Born in 1956 my early memories were of Woodlands Road, and I remember Alan Sharp, and playing in the fields surrounding it. Dawpool School with Gabby Hayes, being there on the day the library opened, helping harvest with the Houghs and being in the choir at St Bartholomews, and being told to mime. Summer days playing on thurstaston common and long evenings playing football on the playing fields. Happy Days!
Hell yes! still haunts me to this day, the cruelty and memories (locked away) horrific time as a 7 year old in the 60's, with psoriasis... being so very cruelly treated by certain staff here.. place from hell!
My G Grandfather lived there up to 1897. Last known Licensee was Charles S. Douglas 1940 I believe the final year of trading was 1971
My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ill health drove a tractor. I remember cycling to Hatfield Heath on my little bike past the Turkey farm where I could see the heads of the turkeys. Nan told me at Christmas time they were ...see more
I lived in Battersea from about 1939 to 1949 when we moved to Hornsey in North London. We lived with my grandparents who owned the Southern Dining Rooms, a transport café opposite the marshalling yards, just at the end of the Dogs Home bridge. My grandmother's cooking was renowned up and down the country by the lorry drivers who regularly came to the café. It is no longer there. We ...see more
I USED TO STAY AT 32 FORT ROAD, NR HALSTEAD KENT WITH MY AUNTIE DEL AND UNCLE JIM THEIR DAUGHTER WAS BRENDA SURNAME PICOTT I WAS IN A THREE LEGGED RACE ONCE WITH A GIRL I THINK WAS JENIFER NOT COMPLETLY SURE, WE USED TO GO TO THE WOODS TO PICK BLUE BELLS MY UNCLE WAS A GUARD I THINK AT A VERY LARGE COMPOUND AT THE END OF FORT ROAD, AT A YOUNG AGE YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND LOCKED GATES I STAYED FOR MANY HOLIDAYS SOMEONE OUT THERE HELP PLEASE
During late 1960's early 1970's I live in the large farm house at the top of the hill. I had a wonderful playground. Amazing community of a wide social mix. Duncan Tucker flat-pack factory at the back of the village. I am interested in an shell shock survivor of the WW1. I have tried to look for any records but not, as ye,t sucessfull I would welcome any advice in this,
I remember in what must be 1952 I attended Chapter school for girls in Cliffe Road Frindsbury. Does anyone remember Joy Poynter, I believe she lived fairly close to the school. I think it must have been demolished because it seems to come under strood academy in Carnation Road now. I stayed at that school for a couple of years and then went on to Fort Pitt school for girls in the early/mid 50s. My surname at ...see more
Fond memories of the snails and the tubs.
Does anyone remember caprice coffee shop in morden, where mods and rockers met late fiftys early sisties
Does anyone have any memories or photos of the V2 bombing which killed 33 people in Hazelhurst Rd Tooting on the morning of 19th November 1944? We are planning a memorial service at St Mary's Church Summerstown on Sunday 16th Nov 2014 as a tribute to all those who died and plan to put together some sort of archive. There seems to be no memorial nor any plaque to show the tragedy that ...see more
My father Basil Leader was manager of the Co-op Funeral service which used to be the site of the Angel Inn and we lived in a maisonette above the premises. At the back were two branches of the river Colne - a fast flowing millstream where I used to catch crayfish and see kingfishers and a slower branch that iced over in winter where I skated in Winter. I attended Stanborough seventh Day adventist ...see more
Hi - I am the daughter of the late Fred Bignell and am interested in any information regarding his services in World War Two including any medals he may have received. It's 16yrs since he passed away and I would like some memorabilia to show my children since they never knew him and. My mum Sybil still lives at the old family home at 10 Ten Cottages and i have a lot of memories from the days I was growing up there. If anyone can help me with this I would be most grateful. Thank you.
I Remember Peglers when I used to deliver goods for them on a bike with a Basket on the front of it and the co-op was just across the road,A driver who delivered goods for them his name was frank who lived in belle view "Penygraig" asked to work for him after school for pocket money and tips.
I remember starting school at Westbury School. I loved it when my little sister Sharon Saint start infants there while i was in the juniors. ALways being protective I used to sneak round to the infants part and sit with her making sure she was safe
I went to a junior fellowship and then senior in St. Peter's rooms by the bowling green. Spent hours watching tennis at the courts in Leigh Rd. Haven't been back for many years, are they still there I wonder. Many happy memories of Hale village.
Silly this, I was only a few months old but have a memory of troops marching with troop carriers near here, the could have been marching from the Trading Estate area towards Windsor, was it before D day, was there some celebration in later years when I was older or did I inherit a memory from my parents or brother? nobody to ask now, any thoughts?
My first visit to Dulverton was on a cold and wet Easter Sunday 1984, and I absolutely fell in love with the place! Husband and I warmed ourselves with a mug of hot chocolate in a little café, possibly where the St Margaret's Hospice is now. We returned practically every year from then on until 2010, including one very wet Christmas, and one snowy on; how it changed over those years!. It is too far to travel for us now, ...see more
Nell tells about her stay in Brynteg, my great grandparents Rachel and Peter Povey lived at 24 Holborn Crescent - a council house. They knew the Wynne's, and Peter was a retired miner. Rachel died in at number 24 in 1942, Peter in 1950. There is still a whole host of my Povey relations living in and around Wrexham. Brynteg was a nice place and I once had a house by that name.
I used to go to school here. My family home was in Park Road which ran along one side of the school. I can remember this field and the bank in the middle of the photograph. We used to play cricket here.
Hi Lynda, I don't recall your name but recognise many of your memories. I remember Brertons, and I think the general store was Downeys, at least a Mr. Downey ran it. An assistant's name was Dixie. Also there was a shop called Troddens that also ran a small private library. My grandmother lived in Canterbury Road and later in Mollington Road. I lived in Barrington Road and went very often to Guinea Gap baths. ...see more
We moved to 2 Clutterbuck Rd in 1954 by the little grass island and moved out in 1965 to Methuen Way,great memories of playing around the estate, back fields community centre Corsham park and stone quarries,my friends lived nearby, Dave Taff,Pete Farmiloe and Tommy Wright,our next door neighbours were Mr& Mrs Lord he kept budgies as a hobby, my brother Romas also had a pigeon loft in the coal shed,great memories but seem so long ago
I was born at 16 high st troedrhiwfuwch in1948 I can remember the spring water pipe behind the school where as kids we would get a cold drink in summer . troedy was a great place I remember the coal fires in school and when my mother became the caretaker I would fetch the coal from the coalhouse for her
hello, My wife remembers going to Martello camp in Walton on the naze for holidays from the childrens home in Hornchurch in the late 1940 to 1950. They stayed in army style tents and kept all their gear in the Martello tower out of the rain! any one remember?
Does anyone remember the pageant to commemorate the Coronation held in the village? I was very cross because I had to go as a chimney sweep but I remember one of the girls was dressed as Queen Elizabeth 1 and was riding a white horse I was so envious of her. We were all given mugs. don't know what became of mine. I lived at The Lea and I remember they must have rented or borrowed a TV because we watched the ...see more
My very first job was working in Lewisham for Fred Morris. He was a huge fellow that used to drink in the pub my mum and step father drank in just on the Lee high Road. He was a wonderful man who knew that mum was struggling to buy me the things I needed as I got older. He offered me a Saturday job working on his fruit stall, to work every weekend and that gradually became every night after school too. The ...see more
I was born in Catford and from an early age knew the area well, having relatives in the area to visit. Great grandmother lived in Wellmeadow road and we lived in Broadfield Road from the 1960's onwards. Walking from ours to Lee high road and anywhere in between. I lived in leybridge court in the 1990's my first time having lived in a tower block and thought I would hat it, but it was ...see more
Whilst waiting for the 144 to come in i was playing a game of darts when a gentleman asked if i wanted a game.I said yes and we proceeded to play.Needless to say my opponent blew me off the board.When i enquired after his name he said ,Johnny Venn and he played for the Argus team
After going to the Regal Cinema i would take a shortcut to Sidemore going up the 48 steps and running like the clappers through the churchyard and out through the gate at the bottom.(Scary)
Brampton Road Street Party VE Day ?
My dad was born in a cottage at Freswick Castle on the 10th December 1917. He had 2 sisters (Lily and Bena) and one brother (David). All my memories of Freswick are happy ones. My family also extends to the Millers of Freswick, my dads mum was a Miller, unfortunately I don't know any of them. My dad was the only one of his immediate family to leave Freswick and move to Thurso, that is where I and two of my brothers were born. My elder 3 siblings were all born in Freswick.
Is there anyone out there who knows of the Kichin family, my father grew up in Cleator Moor Whitehaven Cumberland region,his name was Norman George Kitchin he was born in 1906, Norman had a sister called Beatrice, their fathers name was Henry Kitchin and was a coal miner in the area, Henry's wife was Lily Strickland. Alas that is all I have on family ...see more
I also lived in dunnimarle st
I was born in Aberdeen moved to highvalley field 1954 my step father was john hoy does anyone know of him .I now live in austraila
I was eleven when we left Liverpool on the RMS Sylvania on March 8th 1963. We landed in New York just in time for St.Patricks Day Parade in New York. Settled north of Boston in Massachusetts. Lived at 8 Penuel Road in Walton. Left Liverpool over 50 years ago. Still a Liverpool supporter!
I was born in Barking Hospital in 1967 but my family moved into Upney House at Faircross in 1953 I believe, this may have been when these were first built. I have lots of memories of Faircross Parade, mostly of the different shops that came and went. To my knowledge, the branch of Bartons Barkers in the late 1970's became one of the first bakers in the area to bake it's own bread on the premises. Preedy's newsagents ...see more
my mothers family still live in oldbury in albion street she has two sisters there
I as born in oldbury in 1950 so was my mother we left oldbury in the early 60s
I was born in hockham 1953. my mum and brother still live there. lovely memories playing on the hill which it was called then. going too the lion pub and getting a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps going back on the hill and sitting on the stone. the village has changed now too more houses and no shops. there were four shops to what I can remember.
My Mother's family all came from Rothesay, but our Family had moved from Port Bannatyne to Glasgow. But every summer we returned to my Granny's place at 3 Logie Place off of High Street, for our annual vacation. Even as young kids we would roam freely, down to the pier for a bit of fishing, or down to childrens corner for a swim, our out in a rowing boat to brave the waves from the steamers, up to the meadows for football or tennis. Happy days.
I lived at No. 16 Cowper Road from 1968 to 1978. A really lovely house, and many happy times spent there. We bought it for £5,500 and our mortgage was £20.00 a month.
My dad was born in Howden Clough but he had a rag warehouse at the Smithies cross roads opposite the Grey hound pub. He used to buy old clothing and rags from people known as 'totters' or from householders who took them to him. The 'totters' used many types of transport to collect and move their old clothing on. Some used horses and carts and others used vans. One man and his mother used an old pram and could ...see more
My parents took me for a fortnight 's holiday to Nefyn in 1957. We stayed with Mrs. S. Jones in Maes -y-Fynnon, Well Street from 20.07.1957 to 03.08.1957. The apartment cost 15 shillings. Our car was parked overnight in the Blue Motor Garage and cost £1.8.0 for the fortnight. Happy memories of a lovely holiday. I was 8 years old.
I started school in 1938 at Godfrey Ermans and the headmaster was Mr Stephenson. My cousin also went there. We lived on Peel Green Road.It was wartime and we had a shelter at school that we went into when there was a raid. Agreat treat was gathering Shatnell after the raids.I was there until I was Nine. My name then was Anne Flannery.
Shrove Tuesday Party, this party was held for the children of Prisoners of War, I think it was in the Winter Gardens, I am in the back row right hand side (see arrow), my father did not return, died in Ambon, Japanese POW
my father had always said there was a statue of an ancestor, after whom i was named, in chelmsford. as i live at the other side of the planet, new zealand, i have never been to check his story. but there he is. my father left england for new zealand in 1925. he never went back and passed away in 1980, aged 85. i am on facebook. look me up
Hello my name is Annette Smith Nee Brown known as Ann or Annie brown, I grew up in Peckham and I am very proud of the fact. I lived in flats called Rudbeck house from 1950 - 1968 which is in Radnor rd. Off commercial way. My mum and dad were Margaret, and Bill Brown ihave 2 sisters /3 brothers beryl,Maureen, Richard Billy and Tony. I would love to hear from our lovely neighbours Billy wells, Kathleen duff it ...see more
My nan was born 11 woodifield rows crook to her parents Thomas butcher who worked in the colliery he married Ethel butcher they had 4 children
Late in Feb 1945 (I think it was the 25th) I was at Geary's school when during the dinner break a neighbour of my own age Sheila Solomon told me that my house had been bombed. At the time I lived at 39 Hastings Ave. The house immediately behind us was in Hatley Ave and it together with ours was severely damaged and my mother seriously injured. After the war my family emigrated to South ...see more
I remember this so well, what wonderful innocent memories! My siblings and I would get a bus every day there and back from North Camp where we lived. I too remember the pink bus passes we had to guard with our lives. The playground games stick in my mind, skipping, ball games, clapping songs and "I'm Shirley Temple, the girl with curly hair......." we sang that endlessly to the actions. I remember the NAAFI ...see more
I was born in 192 Sutton Flats and Christened at St. Thomas's. My older brother Johnny and I were very happy there and both attended Halton Bank School. Our auntie, uncle and cousins lived close by in another block. (We were the Davis family.) In 1954 we moved to number 507. The little park was more or less at the bottom of our steps and the playground was at the back of us. School was ...see more
I am trying to locate descendants of Thomas Brown and Mary Gowers [Hornsby] who were born in Great Waltham and married in Great Waltham in 1843. They had 11 children one of whom was my great grandfather, Ezra Brown. He married Martha Rayment and they had 11 children in Little Waltham. Please contact me. Susan Sutton
Although I lived in Cookham Berkshire when I was about 11 yrs old, my parents decided to send me to boarding school. Which was St Finians, Cold Ash. It was a very emotional time being an only child, and I will never forget my first few days after arrival. I had now left my home, my parents, my pets and friends. But as the days rolled into weeks I became more settled. I loved the nuns, they certainly were ...see more
I was born at 221 Hedgely Road, Hebburn in 1938 and spent the war years there before moving to Prudhoe where my father Bob had started work at ICI. I still have some memories of the old town including the lakes, St bedes Well, my school St Oswalds, the Clock Hotel and the local St Oswalds church where I was christened. Are there still any folks around that remember Bob Firman and his brother Tom? I would love to hear from anyone who can throw some light on those old days.
I was born in Holywell. My dad worked at the Fenwick Pit. We lived in the colliery houses there. Onr door only and the coal house and toilet across the street. The lights in the street were gas lit as were. the lamps in. the house. To get gas my parents had to put sixpennce in tge metre. One nightt the gas had gone put and mam put thre oney in the metre. She forgot the lamp was still turned on and dad woke uo ...see more
Lived in Osborne rd opposite the church brings back fond mems seeing the pond as it use to be and the old clock does anyone remember the nursery before they put flats on it
It is seven o’clock in the morning and the bugler is sounding reveille to wake the men from their bed, the battalion are camped in Heysham head, towards the cookhouse the soldiers do lurch the noise is so deafening, It will wake the dead in Saint Peter’s Church. The peaceful gardens of paradise are now despoiled by a long line of infantry men all lined up and so precise. Some of the men have gone to ...see more
I never really knew of Weeford even tho I was born and brought up in Birmingham and travelled to Lichfield, Cannock and many places around that area. This fact changed tho a couple of years ago when after trying to find old frieinds, mates and old girl friends, I contacted the sister of a girlfriend of mine from back in the early 60's, 63-64 to be spot on.
I had met this girl at Spring Hill ice-rink in November ...see more
I remember helping out Bill in the Empire .I have very good memories about the cinema and spent a lot of time in the projector room . Pop Witicker used to be the owner of this cinema and I remember him very well .
Hi, Thanks for your comments. On my birth certificate my address is 37 Gunsite Farm. We left when I was two in 1964. However, I'm fascinated by its history. My mum was a single parent and had a caravan next door to another sing parent! Next time I'm in Hythe I will visit Lime Kiln Lane. Hopefully I'll find the old site.
My name is Christine Jackson (nee Poole). I lived in Middlesbrough, until the age of thirteen, when in 1972, my family migrated to Perth, Western Australia. We lived in Pallister Park until 1968, when we moved into my deceased grandmothers home, in Percy St (off Princes rd). I loved living, in this part of Middlesbrough and have so many fond memories. There was a great community spirit, with neighbours ...see more
I remember this beach well, especially the open air swimming pool which is also on a photograph here in this collection , I remember going on a school swimming session weekly ( Preston High school ) now john spence and dreading seeing the piece of card in the window telling us the temp of the water . It didnt really matter what the card said the temperature was . All I know is that it was bloody cold every time ...see more
My brother Joc lived in Cockleshell, Church Lane, on the Bush Estate in Eccles-on-Sea. I went for holidays and one of the first places we went to was the beach, from where we could see the Happisburgh Lighthouse to the north. There was also a lovely duck pond on the estate, and some very nice homes and caravans. We rose at 7am each morning and went to the beach for a good bracing walk. I loved ...see more
The lady with the rifle range in Battersea Park was Ma Surtees. She was friends with the boxer Freddie Mills who was later found shot dead in his car.
