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New Homes In Upchurch Oak Lane
This line of new homes was built 1956/7 by local builder Gransden. Mr Gransden the owner had an office/yard/joinery factory in Oak Lane just below Wallbridge Lane and he and his family lived in Wallbridge Lane. This ...Read more
A memory of Upchurch in 1956 by
Portishead Our First House
My wife and I bought our first house at Portishead, South Road, it was £2,200, we could only borrow, so the monthly payment was the same as a week's wages, no overtime or my wife's wages taken into consideration. We ...Read more
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North Greenford In The Late 40s And 50s
I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats ...Read more
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Early '50s
Lived Wolverley - Just a few items on Kiddr from dim recall -town cinema - a screening of a western, Jeff Chandler as Indian warrior - Cochise? -a bigtop circus - Billy Smart or similar, at top of the big hill nr rly Station ...Read more
A memory of Kidderminster in 1952 by
Carn Barges
For me the memory of Carn Barges brings with it another story. That of the life of Derek and Jeannie Tangye. For a number of years they had been looking for their ideal escape from it all place to live. One day whilst on holiday in ...Read more
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My Memories Of Mitcham
I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by
Fishing In The Stort Neil Riley
I was 6 years old when I first went fishing at Sawbridgeworth. We lived in Sayesbury Road from 1948 to 1960 and at the back of our house was Chalk Farm, where I spent a lot of time playing football with the ...Read more
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The Happy Times
My name is Peter Russell was born at 61 Woodlands Road 1937 and enjoyed all my young life in Southall until I moved to Waterlooville near Portsmouth in 1961, I went to Beaconsfield Rd I/J school and then onto Featherstone Rd ...Read more
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Brentford Arriving By Bike Along The Canal.
I am cycling along the canal and have just passed under the railway bridge. I pass under the great metal warehouse. Quickly there is a rattle as I cross the little bridge by the gauging lock, which is ...Read more
A memory of Brentford in 1961 by
Bordeston Secondary Modern School (Hanwell)
Bordeston school was pretty boring for many pupils. Woodwork was ok, and there was a school barge which you could work on instead of detention. There seemed to be a preoccupation with corporal ...Read more
A memory of Hanwell in 1960 by
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Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.
In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.
It exported corn, cider and Charleton stone, and among its imports was limestone, brought up in barges to be fired in kilns and used on the soil.
From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.
From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.
Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of
The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.
On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.
This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as grandstands
Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.
In the early years china clay was brought by barge to Winsford, where it was trans-shipped into horse-drawn wagons and taken by road to the Potteries.
On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.
The promenade was formerly the towing path for barges and boats with meadows to the south, but these are now tamed, and the southern part is now occupied by the very modern Rivermead Leisure Centre
Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by steam-driven vessels.
The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.
Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.
The riverside promenade is said to be built on a foundation of rubble-filled barges sunk in the 19th century.
The bascules carrying the roadway are in their fully raised position to allow tall-masted ships and sailing barges to pass through, giving a clearance of 140 feet and a width of 200 feet.
This view looks across the Main Bay from the pier, with two Thames sailing barges in the centre of the picture.
A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.
The River Gipping, made navigable in 1793, is off to the right, with locks which enable barges to go upstream.
To the right is now moored one of the Oxford College Barges seen in earlier views.
This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.
Here, we see sailing barges beached on the far shore.
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