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Southall Memories
My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more
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School Days And After
I lived on the Shelley estate at 12 Crispsey Avenue and went to the primary school in Ongar town near the town hall. Later I went to the new primary school on the Shelley estate on Milton Crescent. On the Moreton Road ...Read more
A memory of Chipping Ongar by
Mods Of The 60s
I spent many happy holidays in Goodrinton. My first steady girlfriend came from Goodrington, her name was Sue Lethbridge. I understand she is married and moved to the USA. It would be nice to get in touch with her again ...Read more
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Happy Days
I came to live in Northwood Hills in 1946, aged 16 months. I attended Pinner Road Primary School and then on to Potter Street where I was a prefect in my final year. I had my tonsils out, aged 6 in the lovely old Cottage Hospital, ...Read more
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When Victor Value Came To Town
One sunny day in the late 1950's the next door neighbour came knocking at our door with some exciting news. A big new food store had opened on the Broadway, Bexleyheath,. It's a Supermarket, she said. It's Victor ...Read more
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Hard Times And Making Ends Meet
When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more
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Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.
As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more
A memory of Old Basford by
The Salford Girl 2
In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our ...Read more
A memory of Salford
The Old Forge Mells
We lived in this house also from 1965-67 ( I think ?). I was 5 years old in 1965 and my brothers and I started school at Locks Hill in Frome. The house came with a lovely naughty goat called Billy . My parents told us Little Jack ...Read more
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Jazz At The Peacock Inn
I remember the 1980's & early 1990's when Tony & Lorna Marsh the Peacock Inn's owners had jazz bands playing in the back bar on Friday evenings . I snapped some photos of Stan Tracey sitting on telephone ...Read more
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Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock
The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton.
The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver
Axminster is famed for its carpet business, founded in 1755 by Thomas Whitty.
However, various benefactors eventually came to the rescue, enabling the work to be completed.
Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.
Modernisation was embraced, and down everything came.
The Hippodrome on the left was where Gracie Fields, one of Rochdale`s most famous citizens, began her singing career: she came joint first in a talent show at the age of 10 and won 10s 6d.
The water in the foreground is Slapton Ley, famed for its bird life.
The harbour came under the control of the Dover Harbour Board in 1923, which developed it into one of the busiest ports in the world.
With the new houses came the park, a place for gentle exercise or relaxation and a favourite walk for nannies and their prams.
The famous diarist Samuel Pepys often came to Brampton, visiting his uncle.
He came from a wealthy family, and spent much of his fortune developing St Catharine's (named after the patron saint of learning).
The founder of the mill, Henry Portal, came from France, escaping to England during the persecution of the Huguenots.
Here we see the impressive edifice of the Queens Hotel, built in 1875 to cater for the large number of tourists who came to Saltburn for their holidays in the late Victorian period.
The name of this village is actually pronounced 'Beeley', and presumably honey production was once important here.
The house on the right with the gate was called Inwood House after the several generations of the Inwood family who came from nearby Neatham.
The Onslow family came here in 1642 - they once owned a good deal of land in the Guildford area.
On market day the whole square was full of activity and people came into Nottingham from all the surrounding villages.
The fame of Buxton as a Medieval spa grew and in Tudor times was greatly enhanced by the visits of Mary Queen of Scots who came to take the waters for her various illnesses, including rheumatism
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotand in 1842.
The castle was built in 1539, and came under the control of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
The cottage's window frames pay homage to the cast iron that came with the British industrial revolution.
The manufacturing of steel in the town came to an end in 1978.
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