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St Mildreds Road
The road in the picture, St Mildred's, is where I grew up, opposite the "rec". As a young lad growing up, Minster offered all sorts of adventures; the marshes, the river Stour, Watchester Lane, the woods, fishing, ...Read more
A memory of Minster by
Family History Search Steel Family
I visited Dipton about fifteen years ago with my husband, after discovering that an ancestor, John Steel, who worked with Richard Trevithick on the building of the first steam locomotive in 1804, was born in ...Read more
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The Duke Of Kent Northhumberland Heath
I was born and lived in Hengist Road opposite Collindale Ave near Brook Street and the Rec as we called it, I'm Tony Messum and I shared with my Brother Michael, and Sister Patricia and my buddies ...Read more
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Tonsils
When I was about nine years old, the family doctor discovered a very bad case of tonsillitis. "Better have them removed as soon as possible." he tersely told my mother. With a brand new National Health in place, I was placed into Great ...Read more
A memory of Hemel Hempstead by
My Early Years In Ferniegair By Edwin Allsopp Living With Grandma Margaret Simon
I lived with my grandparents in the late 1940s at 201 Carlisle road Ferniegair, known as the huts which was opposite the gatehouse to the duke of Hamilton estate.My ...Read more
A memory of Ferniegair by
1957 Upwards Susan June Keeler
I was a little girl who was adopted to Cecil John Keeler and my first visit to Petham was as a 5yr old. My Granny Fanny keeler and had 5 sons. Dick.Ray.Ted.Cecil and Reg.Granny Keeler also had 3 daughters Daisy.Girlie and ...Read more
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Dartford During World War Ii
I was born in Ash Road Dartford in 1929, moved to Miskin Road about 1934, then to Halford Way, where we spent the war, and from where I left to get married at Holy Trinity Church in 1951. Earliest memories were of Miss ...Read more
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Happy Days In Bakersfields
I was born in Nottingham in 1939 and we lived on Parkdale Road, Bakersfields. Have many happy memories of Parkdale Junior School - Parkdale Cow Sheds! Mrs Stubbins taught the 5-year olds, then Miss Walmsley, Miss ...Read more
A memory of Nottingham in 1949 by
Happy Memories
I was born in 1943 at number 9 Dukes Crescent, Edlington. In 1953 my family moved to 33 Clark Avenue, Hill Top. This was the year I was 11 yrs old and I went to Hill Top School for girls. Most of my mother's siblings also ...Read more
A memory of New Edlington in 1953 by
Duke Street? Windsor
These are the old terrace houses across from where my Dad was born. Shame they can't be revived for housing.
A memory of Windsor
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Though now a substantial settlement, it was built on the site of a modest fishing village in the 1700s by the 3rd Duke of Argyll.
Chantrey's equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington was erected in the broad space created.
In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.
This view looks towards one of the entrances to the series of underground canals that extended to the Duke's pits at Walkden.
Monck was later created First Duke of Albermarle.
The rebuilding was carried out by Richard, Duke of York, between 1432 and 1460.
Almost no building work was carried out at Dudley Castle for the 200 years between 1340 and 1540, but in 1540 John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, set about rebuilding the residential block on
The charter granted by King Charles I gave Kingston the right to ban any other market within seven miles; this right has been used in recent times to stop markets operating in Putney, a
Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.
Work began in 1902 on a new basin, and it was opened by King Edward VII in July 1908. The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.
It was also the residence of the Duke's agent John Gilbert, who is thought to have played a major role in the design of the underground canal network used to bring coal out of his grace's mines.
The area from the Duke of Wellington statue to Market Street was once a large ornamental pond complete with fountains, which had delighted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their visit in 1840.
It was replaced by a new Wearmouth Bridge, officially opened by HRH the Duke of York in 1929. Just beyond is the North Eastern Railway's bridge over the Wear.
The offices were officially opened in July 1938 by HRH the Duke of Gloucester.
The alabaster effigies of the armour-clad John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and his wife Margaret lie recumbent on their elaborate 15th-century tomb in the presbytery.
When Ascot commemorated the accession of Edward VII by building a new grandstand, the Duke of Richmond responded by building an imposing two-tier grandstand to accommodate 10,000 persons at a cost of £40,000
From left to right we see the Duke of Wellington Inn, Green Oak Farm, and the post office, extended forward in 1966.
Steam power had been introduced into the RNLI in 1890 with the building of the 'Duke of Northumberland', but only five further examples were completed.
It is thought to have been influenced in style by King Henry VI during his stay in Bolton Hall.
It is The Duke of Richmond's estate, and has fine art collections.
Among its early visitors were Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the King of Portugal, the Duke of Wellington, Mr Gladstone, John Ruskin, and many others.
The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.
Chapel Street and Duke Street run down towards Bildeston Hall (right). The burial ground of the Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1844, is opposite the Hall.
Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.
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