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Baglan A Wartime Paradise
My Dad did his army training adjacent to Baglan during WW2. The hastily built barracks did not have enough bathroom facilities and asked local residents for permission for soldiers to have a bath in their houses. A super-kind ...Read more
A memory of Baglan
S T Joseph's Salesian School Burwash
I was a boarder at St joseph's from 1947 to 1951. We lived in Lincolnshire. My father was an OLD BOY of the Salesian School at Battersea and this was my start to follow him there. We traveled in special compartments ...Read more
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Boyhood Memories Of Lymington
My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father ...Read more
A memory of Lymington by
Russells And Dowdings
My mother, Edith Lucy 'Dot' Jeffery, was born in Penge in 1927, to a Lucy Russell, nee Dowding. She married in 1949 and moved into Queen Adelaide flats, and had me in 1950, before moving to Sidcup in 1955. Since that time, she lost ...Read more
A memory of Penge by
Childhood In Withyham
We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school ...Read more
A memory of Withyham by
Grouse Beating
As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more
A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by
Winter At The Hall
As a boy I remember the big open fireplace in the main hall, and the times the large glass sheet above the fireplace falling down - this was to be a yearly thing if I recall correctly. Other memories - making our own snow skis; ...Read more
A memory of Grassington in 1959 by
Ice Skating On The Port
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by
Golden Memories Of Childhood Days
Central Hall I believe used to house the big Saturday market!, Tooting was a Saturday trip out as a boy from Mitcham, I can vaguely remember many special days, going to the pictures, and the joke shop on the Mitcham ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1963 by
Captions
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This boy died of consumption when he was aged only 17. His mother was Betty Blount.
Just as they do today, the boys who lived in this historic town - Fordwich is the smallest town in Britain - enjoyed boating on the River Stour which ebbed and flowed between Canterbury and the sea.
The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.
A small boy plays on the posts.
No one knows how old the dance is; it could easily predate the Norman Conquest, and its meaning is also lost to us. Ten dancers take part accompanied by two musicians.
Shopkeepers stand at their doors at the little parade of shops; prams are parked outside, and a boy gazes longingly at the display of hoops.
The people in the photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their father
A boy appears to be sitting for the photographer, perhaps wanting to lead him in to reveal some of the caves' secrets.
On the balcony of Gunhill Place two ladies are taking tea (left), while nearest to us, a lady with a parasol and a young boy sit as far apart as possible.
In 1741 the mill was blown down in a storm killing a man and a boy - perhaps because the sails were 'back winded'. The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.
Delivery boys gather outside the main doors, carrying parcels to and from the city's shops and businesses.
A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.
Two girls seem unimpressed by a boy playing leapfrog on a summer`s day fifty years ago.
The exception is the young boy perched somewhat precariously upon the small boat; he appears to be wearing sea boots and a fishing smock.
Note the two boys on the left of the picture.
No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.
In this view, two old salts and a boy look out across the pier and the Menai Strait to the mountains of Snowdonia.
village watering hole on the road to neighbouring Widford prided itself on being 'the world's most exclusive pub', as evidenced by the signs proclaiming 'No teenager groups served or Teddy Boys
The chancel is the work of the local boy made good, the great Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, whose father was vicar of nearby Gawcott.
The two boys in the foreground seem to be more interested in setting up an oar than in the comings or goings of the steamer.
From it the camera-wary boy is dangling his line in the water, probably hoping to catch the perch which have generally been plentiful in Windermere.
The young teenage boy accompanied probably by his mother, with bathing suit in hand and towel draped nonchalantly over his left shoulder, add a note of gentle charm to this otherwise active
It was here that Plymouth Argyle played their first game in September 1885 — the club had been founded by five Dunheved College Old Boys.
It was here that Plymouth Argyle played their first game in September 1885 — the club had been founded by five Dunheved College Old Boys.
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