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In the 70’s my father Lawrence Bond owned this hotel. It was a wonderful place but the drink driving rule came out and of course ruined business,
I have such fantastic memories of staying there with my son. I so desperately want to know what happens/happened to it.. I would love to hear from any past customers. I would also love to know what ever happened to Angela and David Hobson who had the garage down ...see more
Hi I was just wondering where the name Benty Heath Lane, (Little Sutton)?Hooton came from and how old is this lane,
regards val
Browsing through these pictures of NewtonAbbot reminded me of the Saturday job I had at the hardware store. Still feel an affinity with these type places that are left! Happy days at the Grammar School 1964 to 1970.
I went to live at 75 macadam square when I was 3 years old, in 1955. I went to Stanhope lines school at the top of middle hill. Then on to manor park school near north camp. The headmistress there was called Mrs Woolner. I loved living there. Going to abc cinema on Saturday morning 6d for cinema and 6d for sweets in Woolworths. Some of my siblings were born in Princess Margaret Louise maternity hospital. ...see more
Anyone familiar with Burgess Hill (I lived there from 1956 until 2012) will know that this photo is incorrectly titled. London Road is some way off to the south - turn left at distant St John's church spire. We are of course looking from Station Hill (which is the bridge over the railway line) down towards the junction of Church Road and Station Road which branches off to the left.
To the right of the ...see more
My grandparents lived in the school house in New Micklefield. I can remember Jack's shop across the road (Great North Road), which was a wooden structure that you climbed up to by steep steps. This was just to the side of the railway. I can remember the post office on Blands Row and the Co-op next to the fire station. I have a photograph that my father took of my aunt working in the Co-op back in the 1960s.
My nan Eliza Geal or Jelly as she was known, worked at Pitts Cottage doing the cooking in the 50-60s she lived at Park Cottages just down the road and her husband Sunny worked on the Squerrys Estate which was run by a Major Warde, his son John took over and I remember Nan and Sunny doffing their hat's and half bowing when they went by. I lived in Moorhouse just over the border and my parents ran the youth club in St ...see more
Hope someone spots this, and can help!
My Grandad, John Greaves, was born in March 1881 in Leasingthorne. HIs mother was pregnant, unmarried, and living with her parents and siblings in Northumberland. She was seen as bringing shame on the family, and they were stoned out of the village, and moved to Leasingthorne. Like almost everyone at the time, the family were miners. My grandad's mother and father ...see more
Was it Frank and Peggy Spencers over the John Colliers men's wear store Joan Watson?. Re your 7/12 memory. Jim Hawkins
Sometime back I moved into 87 southbury rd enfield,whitch is now a move on house for recovering alchoholics,i find the area quite intresting as it has a lot of history,such as forty halls,and the old bank,ect,but I was wondering does anyone know of the history of 87 southbury road, it looks like it was once 2 houses whitch were made into one,someone told me it used to be a care home before it was a move on house, any info would be appreciated.
I have written about my family in a series of books called the Douglas Trilogy; www.mytruthliesintheruins.com
I visited Wilbrighton Hall about 15 years ago and took many pictures that I would gladly share. Acquired in 1305 by Sir William Bagot with his new wife Eleanora of Lovaine, widow of William de Ferres, and widow of Sir William Douglas of Scotland who died a prisoner 6 November 1298 in the White ...see more
Millers Yard was in Grove Street opposite the Old Oxford Bus Company.
Millers yard was founded by Mr Edward R Miller given its name of E.R. Miller until the late 40s / Early Fifty’s when sold to Mr Ivor P James, later taking on Partner Mr Len L Strong.
The name of the company was then founded as E. R. Miller (Wantage) Ltd, Haulage
Proprietors IP James & LL Strong.
Mr Edward Miller in early stages ran it ...see more
lived in Alnmouth for 2 years until August 1965 went to school when Mr Smart was Head Teacher and then on to Dukes before moving to Singapore memories of the golf course and caddying at Foxton for pocket money. Mrs Callum ran the local shop the Schooner Hotel and my fist girl friend was Joanna Percy we lived at Riverside Road or Northumberland Avenue not quite sure oh such a long time ago hope to go up again for a holiday soon
I was at Frilsham House School from about 1947-53, when the headmaster was 'Mr Ward Clarke',* who had founded the school not many years before. There were only about 50 boys. London, where I lived, was bleak at the time, with bomb damage and - in winter - frequent fogs which could be dangerous for a bronchitic child. Although separation from parents for up to three months at a time, with ...see more
I worked at Dhalling Mhor for about 7 weeks during May & June 1975 while on a long holiday from Australia. Also sang in the choir at Kirn Parish Church during that time. Great memories of that beautiful spot.
I vaguely remember Sibley's Butchers in Hornchurch.
In the early 50's I used to go in the shop and watch my uncle, Reginald Brett, cutting up and selling meat, offal, sausages etc. For a young lad it was very interesting. At the end of the day I would help him sweep the sawdust floor and he always gave me a shilling. He worked there until his retirement which was about, I think, 1970. He travelled every day ...see more
My name is John barnikel. I was born on January 25th 1943 in the back bedroom of my grandmother's house at 46 bond st.I had my tonsils removed at the cottage hospital when I was five. I remember queuing up with my mother to receive ration books.Windsor park was my playground and endeared me to nature.I went to the st judes elementary school until I was eleven, then went to strode,s school in egham joined ...see more
I visited and stayed at Barcote Manor twice in the 60’s and certainly in 1964. At the time it was owned by Mercantile Bank of India, who had purchased it prior or during WW2 to house their bank documentation. My father took over for a week in the summer, to allow the resident caretaker, Mr Bowley, to take a holiday and my Mother and brother and myself, aged 14 in 1964, went with him.
I recall my father ...see more
I lived in The Vale flats from 1953. First in Beech Avenue and then Larch Avenue. I first went to East Acton school before John Perryn and finally Bromyard Avenue, which was later renamed Faraday School just before I left in 1966. I enjoyed my time in the area before leaving to join the Royal Navy in 1967. I remember the shops over the road from the flats. The small post office, the butchers at the end and the ...see more
I was born at 12a Coronation Close, Blenden (near Danson Park and Bexley woods) in July of 1947.
My family shared the house with my nan and aunts, Molly and Olive for the first 5 years of my life (we then moved to Temple Hill Estate in Dartford).
I remember the Express Dairyman would stop at our house for a cuppa with my nan and we would feed the horse.
We would often walk into Bexleyheath Broadway ...see more
Born on the 4th January 1939 in 14 Council Cottages, son of Jack and Francis Cole and cared for by my Gran and Granddad who lived opposite, I had super baby years, although Dad was away fighting. I can vaguely remember sleeping in the Anderson shelter in a house in Bough Beech where Mum used to work.
Better are my memories of the school in Four Elms, where we were all in the same class room, ...see more
I am the dark haired young man sitting upright in the boat in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph taken in 1961. The boat was the Judith Mary built by Percy Mitchell for my late father, Spencer Clarke, in Portmellon in 1949. I have a cine film of the boat being launched and in fact have cine films dating from 1949, through the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties taken in Gorran Haven before video took ...see more
I remember 1952 the year of the great smog, making my way back from school along Dundonald Road towards my home in Graham Road. I had to follow the railings along the recreation ground because I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face - I was 5 at the time. After I married at St Marys Church up Wimbledon Hill, I moved to my first house I owned at Clarence Road where I stayed until 1978.
Saturday morning ...see more
I went to a home in Harold wood called wouldstock and the children home was run by mr and Mrs papwoth they was very nice people I was there 1969 there was a boy called Tom Dooley I look up the home gone now so meny good memories I wonder what happened to mr and Mrs papwoth it funny how you think back from there I went to a hassoberry school hazel lane bishstrofod had fun there there was a miss donlope she was south Africa miss evens miss Bogg miss Dollier like to know what happened to them
My family moved to South Ockendon in 1953, into a new house at 164 Daiglen Drive, on the housing estate just outside the village.
We shopped in the village and my father took the train from there every day to his work in London.
I went to Palmers School for Girls in Grays, taking the bus every day, but the rest of my life was spent with friends who lived nearby, either on the estate or, like Anita and ...see more
I was born in Littlehampton in 1950. My Grandad had a grocers shop in Maxwell Road and my Father had a green grocer / sweet shop in Church Street,next to the Palladium cinema. both shops were called Bere & Son. I went to Connaught Rd junior school and Maud Allan for girls. I would love to get in contact with people I went to school with, left Littlehampton in 1965 . My name was Jennifer Bere. I have lots of ...see more
My parents bought our house in Mansfield Gardens in 1934 for £500. It had no garage but nobody in the road had a car anyway. My name was Jenifer Shearring. I went to North Street Primary School, infants and juniors from1950 to 1957 and then I went to Hornchurch Grammar School from 1957 to 1963. I remember a lot of the shops that others have mentioned, like Alings the bakers and Fentimans - in fact I was ...see more
I attended the Silver Jubilee School in Grove Rd. from 1966, when I failed my 11 plus! to about 1971. I have mixed memories about the school, but the music department saved me, and many other aspiring musicians under the great guidance of Mr. Lawford Smith.
At this time my elder brother Michael Constable worked at P.C. Waits men's clothing shop in the market square.
I have fond memories of the market ...see more
I first came across Burnt Yates while looking over the UK for towns with funny names, Burnt Yates stood out as by far the best. I then later did a presentation on it for my civics final in school. Me and my friends are currently doing lots of research and are attempting to make a Burnt Yates subreddit
My brothers and I would cycle from Borth to Ynyslas sand dunes from where we could see the village of Aber Dovey nestled on the other side of the estuary. We were told that on a clear day if you listened carefully you would hear church bells ringing beneath the waves. Due to the fast moving tidal flow around the estuary we were always careful not wander out too far onto the sand banks. The dunes were a peaceful haven for rabbits and wildlife.
I was born in Wrexham and spent the first 10 years of my life living in Bryn Estyn Rd, Rhosnesni. I attended Covent School, Gerald Street, then Borras Park Junior. I then went to Bromfield School where my dad was a teacher. A lot of my friends went to St Davids and I remember missing them so much. But it seems spending those years in same school as my Dad was meant to be as he died when I was 21.
When i was 10 we ...see more
I first attended the Infant junior house from 1965 I was just over 2 nearly 3 when I went there. My Mother couldnt get a place for me in the Nursery in Wrexham which I think was Holt Rd. I remember quite a bit, I am sure I stayed there till 1971 and it was going to close. I then went to the New School in Borras Park.
I spent a few years in Sister E's class but my memories of her are not great. I ...see more
In the early seventies, I was a student at Sarum St Michael College of Education in the Cathedral Close.
The weekends were incredibly boring, with nothing to do and nowhere to have fun.
Until, a friend asked me if I would like to work as a "Serving Wench",at Medieval Banquets hosted at the Bay Tree Restaurant in Salisbury.
Suddenly, my weekends changed , and every weekend was pure ...see more
I am writing a history of my father and he was born in Battersea (Cologne Road) in 1916 and lived there until he joined the army in 1939. He attended Plough Road School And he was a member of the 4th Battersea Scout Troop. I am interested in connecting with anyone who knew that area in 1920{s and 1930’s and I am particularly interested in finding out the history of the houses in the Cologne Road area.
i am 62 years old and the memories of this place never goes away every single day i have thought about this horrible place for 55 years it still haunts me , i was in primary school when the nurse asked me if i would like to go a lovely little holiday i lived in Bridgeton at the time i was so excited about i couldn't wait to go , i was meant to go for 2 weeks but because i did not put on any ...see more
The previous writer mentionedTilly Biggins who was my uncles stepmother. I stayed with her many times when I was very young. She was born in Victorian times and still dressed in lace up boots, long skirts and big hats. No running water in the cottage just a pump in the back garden where she grew her own vegetables. Earth lavatory outside and all the cooking done on a fireside oven and irons in the living room. The ...see more
On the corner of Oaklands Road and Boston Road was Platts store. All grocery items could be purchased and at the back was a post office. Hanwell had two post offices the other being in the Broadway.
My name is Andrew Jones was at Bassaleg from 1961-1967. A vivid memory was running the forge lane dash which was supposed to be exactly 1 mile. Some of the slower guys used to hitch a lift back and were dropoped off from the back of a lorry! I have the memory of Mr Richards the woodwork teacher, as i took up a split sscissors rack with the ...see more
Does anyone remember the Sunderland Forge in Pilgrim street.
I was sent to the convent after my Father died in 1953. My Uncle had been educated there many years previously. I can confirm the recollections that have been put here of the vicious way in which some of the Nuns treated us. I suffered from the effects of whooping cough and regularly put into a separate room to recuperate. I vividly remember one of the Nuns telling me that I was wicked because I had been ...see more
I wrote the 11 plus exam in Woodhurst in about 1949 and passed! Miracles will never cease!
The school bus didn't come into Woodhurst so we rode our bicycles to Oldhurst, parked them in the garage there (6d a week I think we paid to park there). I remember the bus was overcrowded and I had a pretty girl sit on my knee a few times for the ride.
The old Abbey building didn't seem to ...see more
This church was over the railway which ran along the back of Borth. The track that leads to it was at the end of the platform on the street side. The church is on a small hill which on the other side was a WW2 lookout. There was a wedding there one summer - we would go blackberry picking in the nearby lane.
Does anyone know of this cottage on the green where some of my relatives lived around the second world war time. Family name was Phillips and Wallace. I understand that they now rest in St. Mary the Virgin Church.
Does this cottage or the family names ring a bell with anyone, please?
John Wilkin
I lived with my grandparents for a few years in the 40's at 2 College Road, Hextable. My grandma was a teacher at Crockenhill School, Mrs Avery and grandad worked at the nursery. I think the neighbours were called Twelvetrees.
Unfortunately my mother was very ill in the Brompton Hospital, London and actually came home to Hextable and passed away there. She is buried at St Pauls, Old Swanley. I remember going to ...see more
I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The day after her funeral, I took my husband, eldest son and his wife for a walk from Sudbury Town to Wembey High Street, Ealing Road, One Tree Hill and Horsenden. There may be a few ...see more
As I have a terminal illness my children had asked me to write some short stories of my life.
Some of the most enjoyable and memorable ones were when living in Tulse Hill.
I looked on the internet for Centre 70 Tulse Hill and found it albeit in a different place.
Around 1970 I set up the Centre 70 One Parent Family Association with the Rev Ralph Blow - the Methodist Minister of the ...see more
My grandfather remembers going to a pub on Stretford Road with my grandmother and their friends. He can't remember the name of the pub as they all called it "Winnies" after the landlady Winifred who had a husband called Tom and a son also called Tom. If anyone remembers this pub or my grandparents Faye Ellis or Dave Hayes please get in touch. :)
i hated morden when i was a child, sunday was a dead day, no shops open, i couldn't wait to get away, now 72 years later & living in the north east of england, happily married for 51 years i still have feelings for the the place, my parents are buried there, i visit very rarely, but i cant wait to get back to the north east, but i still miss morden
We moved to Ealing when I was 5 and at 11 I went to NHEHS and we bought the school uniform at Abernethies on the corner of Uxbridge Rd. I loved that area. Next to the taxi rank there was a Polish deli...oh the baked sultana cheesecake. In Uxbridge Rd towards Sanders there was Fullers cake shop, walnut cake there!
The Caprice coffee bar was out of bounds for me but my brother went. Opposite there was briefly a ...see more
I was born in Aberdeen in 1942 and later that year the Germans started to bomb Aberdeen so it was decided to relocate to New Pitsligo to make things easier for the family in general, My grandfather was born and brought up in Bonnykelly and he had an old school friend, Rob Chalmers, who rented a property to us attached to his at the south end of the village - 144 High Street. We lived there until ...see more
I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss Delmege lived in a cottage at the end of the lane behind the main school building. They were like a good cop/bad cop duo - Miss Delmege was the strict one. I loved my ballet lessons with ...see more
Speciality was sepia tint photography
My younger brother was born at Balidon House on 29th July 1960. He is the son of John William Edward Barthorpe, who served in the Royal Navy and at the time of my brother's birth was based on the Aircraft Carrier Ark Royal as a Royal Navy Artificer specialising in weapons deployment, and Pearl Margaret Joan Barthorpe nee Chapman, a house wife who had lived her whole life in Yeovil, and whose father has worked ...see more
I was born at home in Seaforth Avenue in 1948 and had a happy childhood riding my tricycle around to the shops, walking across the fields to Green Lane Primary School, climbing the elm trees en route, going to Sunday School at Holy Cross and spending time at the library. I remember the chemist Mr Griffiths, Wisemans, Express Dairy, ironmongers, haberdashers and fish shop. Mum shopped at the co-op and received ...see more
I moved to trowbridge when i was 5 and now am 55 and living in rumney. My childhood memories are of fields and lanes now gone forever. I remember standing outside the dairy that was on greenway road just past hendre road and looking down over vast fields and flats that are now saint mellons. there were no houses , just cows and fields and trees. I also was always down the lanes that ran off trowbridge ...see more
my father was a chef at the crown Hotel in 1955.name CLARKE.
I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my kites on Penn Common, I skated on frozen ponds (No skates - I couldn't afford them) in the distant fields, built snowmen on the green spaces on our estate, fished for minnows in West ...see more
School 80 kids age 4 to 11 but you knew everyone.
Boxing Day - Tug of War, men against women with one or two men dressed as women.
Riding bikes through the Ford. Also the other Ford that was unsuitable for motors.
The post office and shop which was Semi detached with the Headmaster's house.
The church and the Baptist chapel which was later sold and converted to a house. The church hall which was also the ...see more
Miss Brook head,miss coyne deputy Both down the lodge,behind lodge was field kept ponies & donkeys.
Trampoline was great! Fete of stalls & crazy wobble bikes, basement was a disco, old piano too. Smoking in shrubbery behind shed by incinerator, jumping back wall to town & my number was (32 ).
1973》76. Teresa D.
The Broadway Wimbledon was brought to a near halt in December 1952 for four days. The Gaumont cinema in the back of this photo had to close on the third day because of the smog in the auditorium. I lived in Craven Gardens and the smog was down to less of a metre in front of your face and you could not see your feet.
Want to share names etc; memories of pupils at London Rd County Primary School from 1961-1965 ??
My maiden name was margaret greenfield and I used to go to st batholomews church regularly and I was confirmed there in about 1951. I was friendly with a girl named Brenda Falcus who lived in granville drive. My sister now lives at 73 granville drive which was a council house originally but she has now bought it. Do you remember the shop that used to be along there on the corner. Before those houses were built we used to play along there and used to build dens to.play in
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My maiden name was margaret greenfield and I used to go to st batholomews church regularly and I was confirmed there in about 1951. I was friendly with a girl named Brenda Falcus who lived in granville drive. My sister now lives at 73 granville drive which was a council house originally but she has now bought it. Do you remember the shop that used to be along there on the corner. Before those houses were built we used to play along there and used to build dens to.play in
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St Johns was a great place ... there were many **** holes but that place was generally good. Met some great friends- Grear sports facilities- squash court I loved - Malcolm Field Hazel Hankins Jerry Raffael Mr Scott ... all great staff - Wendy the cook. Even a trip to Taize in France - must be 40 years now. Makes me smile so must have been ok
I was born at Bruntshields Farm Lochmaben in 1938 Moved to Threewell Brae at the beginning of the war after the war moved to Victoria Park in lockerbie but only foe about 2 years before we moved to Paisley.
I have many wonderful memories of my very young years in this area.
John Campbell
The boy in the photograph is my grandfather, Herbert Ward, who was born in Winchester in 1911.
In the 1950s our family company " T. Smart & Sons (Contractors) Ltd " supplied large pit props to A. E. Johnson at Gorsley Wood who had a sawmill there . The timber was cut up into coverboards that were sent on the Kent Coal Fields.
The shop on the right. 1-3 High Street was opened by my father, Arthur Tordoff in 1930. I was born at 47 Jeremy lane, in the front room, in 1947. The upstairs was a toy showroom and every Christmas we had a Grotto and Santa came.
I was brought up in 82 Bonny Downs Road from the age of 7 in 1949 through to circa 1960 when my family moved to 11 Pickering Avenue to facilitate the demolition and redevelopment of the properties in that area. I have some great memories. But my one regret in life is letting a very beautiful young woman walk out of my life when I was in East Ham Grammar School in 1958/59. Her name was Mary ...see more
These cottages are still there. My wife came close to buying one of them many years ago. More recently, I was walking from Llangoed to Beaumaris when I noticed laminate sheets with a red poppy tied onto the gates of 2 or 3 of them. This would have been during the 100 years anniversary of WW1. The sheets told the story of men who had joined up from the houses & died in France. Must have had a devastating effect on such a small, close knit community.
A sobering thought.
My parents lived at 3 Bradgate cottages, my brother would have gone to Slater street school mid to late 50's. My mum worked at the factory on the corner which is derelict. The garden backed on to the river.
I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just 'The Camp'. There were a good few families living there that I remember and they formed a friendly community of people that were waiting for council houses in some of the nearby villages. ...see more
Many memories of my childhood days in Tolworth , lived on sunray estate in Firdene virtually from birth , went to Knollmead primary then Hollyfeild , remember going down path at side of Knollmead school and railway track to the rec where we played in the trees and on the witches hat and swings , we also climed over fence to play football in Decca sports feild , remember swimming pool at Knollmead , great fun in the ...see more
The first time I went to Old Wives Lees and that would have been in the Summer of 1957. Some friends in the road where I lived made this journey every year, it was their and their families only opportunity of a holiday because we were all drawn from working class stock. They spent from mid June until early September in the hop fields of this area of Kent, which even now is in quite a desolate spot - ...see more
It would have been roundabout the mid ‘70’s when I first went to Glen Etive & Glencoe. A group of us went up in a 1966 BMC/Commer mini bus. As the owner said, it was coloured cream, maroon, & rust. I learnt a lot about mechanics working on the bus with Bob at weekends, can remember us hitch hiking to local scrap yards in Somerset for parts. Bob White & his wife, Hilary, were leaders of the local ...see more
I was born at Green Hedges Westmeston in February 1944. My father who was in the navy had been sent back to sea so my mother was alone except for my brother of 2 . He developed whooping cough so the person she was staying with didn’t want them there anymore. (She obviously didn’t want whooping cough either). I understand the local doctor helped her to find somewhere to stay (she took my brother up to ...see more
In 2000 a friend of mine who is a builder was extending his house and erecting a new double garage at his house in Lower Cippenham Lane, I was there to do the brickwork. Chatting away he told me that when he was digging the trenches for the footings he came across a metal object dug it out and thought it looked like a bomb, he said he leant it against a wall and thought no more about it until his small daughter ...see more
Can anyone help my memory has gone of the name of the Record Shop that was next to Tooting Broadway Station number 2 Mitcham Rd , I bought many singles and albums there in the 60's and 70's someone suggested Goodness Records but that doesnt ring a bell can anyone remember?
My parents had a holiday cabin (hut) on Bogany Farm when Archie Kirkwood was the farmer. Most of my summer holidays from birth until the mid-70s was spent there
Many days were spent fishing for perch and pike at Loch Ascog. Mentored by Archie and Danny; brothers who were skilful anglers. The evenings were spent at campfires with singing, storytelling and shaping our identity.
I recall ...see more
It was amazing to look back at some of these photos..remembering them well. We as a family lived at 35 stratford road which was then a council house owned by the fire brigade, father worked in the fire station which was then in cainscross road. Mother worked at the lido in Stratford park in the basket room, where us siblings use to get into the lido free on a daily basis exciting times. Our ...see more