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Happy Days
This photo shows what was known as the black shed just above the first bridge on the river Gele, to the left of the photo was the school field at the bottom of Berth Glyd where I was born. If you go up Gypsy Lane you will come to an ...Read more
A memory of Abergele in 1950 by
Evacuated To Great West Farm
My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London ...Read more
A memory of Quethiock by
Dunstaffnage War Years
Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more
A memory of Oban by
Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's
I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill by
My Memories Of Melworking At Leybourne Grange Hospital
Hi yes I remember my time at the hospital well,I worked in the play therapy from 1971 to 1976. I loved working at the hospital and have many happy memories. I worked as a night nurse for two ...Read more
A memory of West Malling by
School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
A memory of Fenham by
Breaking In A Yearling
A further photo of my father Charlie King breaking in a yearling.
A memory of Newmarket by
Beachbank Caravan Site, Ulrome, East Yorkshire.
My Grandparents Sydney and Ellen Simpson built Beachbank between the world wars. Sydney had served in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and left seriously injured but that never prevented them from buying this ...Read more
A memory of Ulrome by
When We Were Young!
Way back in the early 1950's my friends and I went everywhere on our cycles. On one occasion three of us set out from Grays and went across the ferry at Tilbury to Gravesend then down the old A road to Canterbury where we had ...Read more
A memory of Corringham by
Downshall Secondary School
I have very fond memories of Downshall Secondary where I was between 1958 and 1962. I used to live in Downshall Avenue, and we used to walk everywhere, to school, to Seven Kings Park and the park up Meads Lane. We ...Read more
A memory of Seven Kings in 1960 by
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Here we see some fine brick houses, some with decorative bargeboards and Flemish-style gables.
A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway. The mill site is now lost to Crawley New Town development.
An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.
Behind is the brick Borough Bridge of 1870, nicknamed 'Lunatic Bridge' because of its unnecessarily high arches.
There is a white brick Gothic battlemented arch between the first and second group. The pump was the gift of William Makin, farmer at the Hall, in 1854; it was made by Ransomes & Sims of Ipswich.
Aneurin Bevin, Tredegar's most famous son, wrote of the coalminer's lot: 'In other trades, there are a thousand diversions to break the monotony of the work - the passing traffic, the morning newspaper
The gable-end (left) is thatched St Francis Cottage, and the brick, stone and tile cottages are Brookdale and No 5 (right).
Straight ahead is the White Hart, an 18th-century colour-washed brick building. Still trading, it has toothed eaves and an old tiled roof.
A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.
On the left stands the Angel Hotel of chequered brick, which dates from the 18th century. The hotel was later completely modernized in 1989.
Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family, with everything included in the cost.
Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and
On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house. The town is renowned for its public school, Gresham's, founded in 1555 by John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London.
The local limestone has been used in the past as building material, most notably to cement together the bricks of Durham Cathedral.
The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.
It is a double-pile brick building with five bays of cross casement windows and stone dressings. The Parker coat of arms ornaments the broken scrolled pediment.
The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.
On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.
There are early 17th-century buildings here, which have been considerably altered over the centuries; these have had brick façades built over their front walls.
To the south, across the Sleaford to Skegness Road, an alley leads to Lord Cromwell's College just beyond the road frontage buildings; it is another 15th-century brick building, known as the Old College
The chimney of a fire brick works stands out in Calstock, and there is evidence of market gardening in the foreground.
Beyond is Pillar House, a timber-framed building with a Victorian brick façade. On the next corner is the 16th-century Bull (John Esling was the landlord), now closed.
The brick building (centre) was Carter's cycle shop, and beyond it was Wells' the electrician.
Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.
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