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Bryn Eitha
I was born in Bryn Eitha Penycae in February 1941, I too spent many happy hours playing in the area of Pentre near the old mill. I also knew of Crad The Garth as mentioned in another correspondence. All the local villages had characters ...Read more
A memory of Penycae in 1950
The Fun Fair
I don't know if they still do it but in the mid 1950's filled the entire Broad Street/High Street and surrounding streets were transformed into one gigantic bright, noisy, whirling, smelly and absolutely thrilling funfair!! ...Read more
A memory of Hereford in 1956 by
My Childhood
I lived in Erbistock till the age of 20, that was in 1981 when I emigrated to Australia. My mum still lives there, my dad passed away a couple of years ago, he was born in Erbistock and lived down Groves Lane for nearly 70 years. I ...Read more
A memory of Erbistock by
Once An Idyllic Dorset Village.
Since about the 1960s, Child Okeford became a totally different community from the one I first got to know in the early 1930's. The Watts (Harry and Dorothy) had farmed out of Laurel Farm for many decades and ...Read more
A memory of Child Okeford in 1930 by
Schooldays
I went to the High School in Ludlow from 1941 - 49 and then went back to teach there in about 1956. I had a flat in Broad Street just below where this picture stops and used to go to this church of St Laurence on a very regular basis- ...Read more
A memory of Ludlow in 1941 by
Good Old Days
I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore St next door lived Mr Brown he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden I used to watch him working. just a few doors away Bill Keast he was ...Read more
A memory of Lifton in 1960 by
Broad Street
My Great Great Grandfather, Abraham Alexander Caddick was Landlord of the Swan Inn in Broad Street around 1900.
A memory of Blaenavon in 1890 by
Broad Oak Street
I was born in 1949 and then spent the next 15 years living there or visiting my grandparents in Broad Oak Street. The house in Broad Oak Street forms a part of my identity. I remember every nook and cranny - the coal cellar ...Read more
A memory of Nottingham in 1952 by
My Memories Of Tooting In 1950's
I was born at salterford road off of south croft road in 1944 and I went to furzedown infants school I remember miss pottage I think she was the headmistress .can anyone enlighten me,,and my lovely teacher was miss ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1950 by
Sutton Flats And Pendleton High School.
I was born in 1946 and went to live on Sutton Flats when I was 5. We lived there in various flats until I was 21! By then, each block was known by a name rather than just a number and we lived at the top of ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1958 by
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This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.
This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.
The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.
This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the
Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the De Broase
Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.
The road, like Broad Street, is lined with young trees.
The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road
These robust characters earn their living all year round on dark-sailed wherries, which are dingier than the white-hulled craft we see here, including the large broads holiday cruiser.
North Lees, beneath the moors of Stanage Edge, is thought to be the model used by Charlotte Bronte for Thornfield Hall in her novel Jane Eyre.
A brick-built cottage on the lane leading to the broad has an unusual herringbone pattern on the ridge of its thatched roof.
The Parsonage Museum provides a fascinating insight into the bleak and often solitary life led by the Bronte family.
Edwin Broad, Cash Draper, has overflowed into the next door shop, and just arrived a little further down is an early chain store - Oliver's, the shoe shop.
The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.
Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.
The broad sweep of coastline stretches out towards Dungeness.
Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.
Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.
Its slim spire, set against a backdrop of trees, rises above the broad plain of the River Eden, and is visible for several miles away.
Next to it, the yacht has a deep hull, indicating that it is a sea-going boat not primarily intended for use on the broads.
The shop is baker, grocer and draper; as it was probably the only shop in the vil- lage, it needed to carry a broad range of goods.
Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.
One of the most beautiful of the many lovely Broads churches is St Helens at Ranworth, a short walk from the staithe.
Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).
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