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Working In Evesham Street
I remember Evesham Street in Redditch in the early sixties very well. I was 15, had just left school, and was working at Liptons the grocers which was about half way up on the left just past the department store. There was ...Read more
A memory of Redditch in 1963 by
Village Shop, Nether Alderley
It is often stated that the village shop was also the Post Office, but this is not true. There was a letter box (bar) in the wall, but the nearest Post Office was at Monk's Heath. The village shop was very small but sold a variety of products from chicken feed to postcards.
A memory of Nether Alderley by
The Beatty And Us
Like alot of young Kiwis, my wife and I started our OE (Overseas experience) in 1986, and in January 1987 found ourselves in Motspur Park as a result of applying and getting bar jobs at the Earl Beatty pub. Graeme and Marie ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park in 1987 by
Jazz At The Peacock Inn
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone directories ...Read more
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Living In Yorkletts
having lived in the village for most of my childhood I have lots of memories both good and bad things like having a close community spirit where all the children were known and we were always safe, but then there was useless ...Read more
A memory of Yorkletts in 1987 by
The Old Outdoor Swimming Pool
During the summer holidays we would visit the outdoor swimming pool in Bath Road. The first indication when near to the entrance was the strong smell of chlorine and the sound of the two water fountains. No matter what ...Read more
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My Local.
I remember the fire that destroyed this lovely hotel. Prior to that I was working at the Hunters Inn Hotel and Blackmoor Gate was my local. They had 4 great Danes which towered above the bar. Two were lost in the fire, also a young lady who ...Read more
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Burcot Grange
I went to Burcot Grange School in Mere Green. From 1961-1964 or there about. Mrs Keates was the Headmistress and her husband was the vicar. Mrs Shinner was deputy head. I got told off for dangling my legs out of the top floor ...Read more
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Crampy’s
I remember happy times at the Vine public house . It was renamed Crampy’s , due to Cecil Bowles ( the landlord ), being nicknamed Crampy. His little wife Marge used to work behind the bar also . We loved Marge . When Crampy was out of ...Read more
A memory of Wickham Market
Windmill Road, Brentford 1945
My parents, Nora & Harold (Jock) Palmer, lived at 112 Windmill Road, Brentford where I was brought up, along with my twin brother David and older brother Michael. Later we were joined by sister Janis and brother ...Read more
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At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.
Although it is sheltered and here looks relatively tranquil, the estuary has claimed many ships.
The archway to this bar dates from the 11th century; this is the oldest of York's gates.
Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.
Bedale is also just off the A1 and on the route into Wensleydale from Leeming Bar. This
We can see the monument topped by a dragon marking Temple Bar on the City boundary in the middle of the road.
This photograph shows the east end of London Road, with Sainsbury`s grocery shop to the right and the Capitol Cinema on the left.
This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.
The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.
We have moved nearer the High Street junction.
Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.
Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.
From the early days of caravan parks, it soon became apparent that visitors wanted the sites to become 'one stop shops' incorporating shopping and entertainment.
Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe
This panoramic view looks across the rapidly-drying mud flat called the Salty in the foreground, and shows the point jutting into the River Teign and the pier at the Den.
Looking towards the Bull Ring from Union Street, we see (right) the rebuilt Strafford Hotel and the former shops, now a café bar.
The bridge was not always as level, strong and wide as this.
Axmouth was once a considerable port, and boats navigated the River Axe as far as Colyton.
The pavilion has lost its minarets, but it is now equipped with both an indoor snack bar and a self-service buffet.
Huddled around the quay were Yarmouth's famous Rows, close to 140 narrow foot passages.
The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade.
'The newest fashion newspaper and the oldest-style tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago.'
Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving.
In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.
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