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Roller Skating At Barry Island.
Some of my best memories of Barry Island are from the week-ends I used to go to the skating rink which was situated above the block of shops on the sea side of the pleasure park overlooking the prom and sea. ...Read more
A memory of Barry Island in 1960 by
Memories Of Stanford Le Hope
I too have many memories of Stanford-le-Hope. I was born in Orsett hospital. My mother came from South Wales whilst my father came from Ashford in Middlesex. The reason they came to live here was my aunt ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope
Life In Northolt
I moved to Northolt in 1970 with my step father, Alan Souster, my mother Gwen and my older sister Cindy. Our first home was Flat, Block 74, Dabbs Hill Lane. Below us in No.2 was Mr & Mrs Peg & their sons Andrew and Roy. ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1973 by
Cycle Shop & Steggles
My memories of the small block of shops was the Penny Farthing cycle fixed to the wall outside the cycle shop. That shop had all you needed for your bike and more, like the elastic we needed for our catapaults. Hard to get ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1960 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
Faringford Road
During my time in training as a 16 year old student for just one year I had lodged at my grandparents, Fred and FLorence Clarke. Quite surprisingly whilst coming from a small hamlet nestling within Oxfordshire I settled ...Read more
A memory of Stratford St Mary in 1975 by
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
A memory of Greenford by
Battersea Dogs Home
I don't really have much of a memory of Battersea but lived there with my mom and her friend Charlie, who I believe was a big man and very loud and kind. He had three children; Carolin, Marylin but I forget the boy's name. I ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1972
My Month At Sheephatch School Camp
On 4th March 1946, about fifty children from Dury Falls School, Hornchurch, were taken by coach to Sheephatch School camp. We slept in double bunks in dormitories; did lessons during the day and went for many ...Read more
A memory of Frensham in 1946 by
My Early Chidhood
I was born at 32 Pisgah Road which was the bottom end cottage of a row of three opposite Pisgah Chapel. The cottages had no back entrances. There was a pathway running in front of the three cottages with an outside toilet ...Read more
A memory of Talywain in 1945 by
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This view shows clearly the vestry block (to the right of the chancel) which was added in the 1880s.
Sad to say, investors were unimpressed, and only the road layout and a hotel block and shops were built.
On the right, the two Ford Populars and the Morris Eight Series 1 tourer are parked outside the Home and Colonial Stores (now a pizza parlour and a video hire shop) and the block of three chain shops -
There were also two brick mounting blocks about 15 inches high for the less agile people to mount their horses: one outside Burgesses the bakers (opposite the present car park) and one by the entrance
The block of buildings incorporating the Hotel Central and Lennards shoe shop (right) all have different occupants.
By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.
By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.
The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane
The great blocks of quarried stone, some 70,000 tons of which were transported from here annually, were utilised not only in the construction of many famous buildings in London from the time of James
This was blocked in 1210, and so was an arcade in the north wall of the western old nave, which is now the porch.
The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.
The upper floors of the blocks were given over to offices catering for the total life of the busy town.
After a royal luncheon, the Duke had a tour of the town centre and the new Keay House office block.
Poulett Lodge, formerly the home of Earl Poulett at the top of Cross Deep, was demolished in 1933 and replaced with a block of flats, called Thames Eyot.
'The hill of lime or loose stones' is one meaning suggested in a recent book, or if we believe the name has a Celtic derivation, we end up with 'the shelter on a rock'; but no one can really pin the meaning
Opposite is a parade of shops and an office block which still houses Lloyds Bank, but the road now has a complex set of traffic junctions.
Only at the back on the Ashley Avenue side are the car park and office block allowed to rise to their full height.
The old two-storey workshops that could be found everywhere began to be replaced by bigger buildings, often of two or three storeys, with the ground floor brick, and the upper weatherboarded.
The house (now a Town Council Community Centre), the stable block (now the Town Museum) and the immediate gardens eventually became the home in 1902 of Dr William Stainthorpe, who extended the house

Later, this became the administrative block for the Manor Hospital and, although damaged by a flying bomb in the Second World War, the building is still largely intact, and has recently been converted
They formed a hotel company which, for £900, bought from Peter Bruff the street block to the east of the pier.
It also survived a fire in the central office block occupied by a computer firm in 1994. The fate of Zetland Mill on Queen Street South was more typical.
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