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Fond Memories
I first visited Borth as a toddler in the early 60's, with my Uncle Dai from Machynlleth. I used to visit him and his wife to stay with them for holidays. As he had worked the railways he used to take me from Mach to Borth on the ...Read more
A memory of Borth by
School Days
First school London Road Infants, a short time in Scotland and then the Church Infants, each school day walking from Theatre Street (two doors up from 'The Cherry Tree') through the market place and down Church Street. I moved on to ...Read more
A memory of Dereham in 1940 by
The Lodge Foxhunt
School days over, I came home to my mother who had married again to Walter Day who lived at the Lodge Foxhunt. I made friends with Joan and Betty Bennett. I sang in the Choir of All Saints Church in the village. Another friend was ...Read more
A memory of Waldron in 1945 by
Childhood
I lived in Danemore Lane just a few yards from Anglefield Corner from 1939 until I was married in 1961. I remember having to wait for ages to cross the road at weekends because there was so much traffic. As my father was a special constable he would be on duty to direct the traffic at weekends.
A memory of Blindley Heath in 1947 by
Spitfire
About 1943 - disabled Spitfire landed 30 yards from beach opposite Golden Hind cafe and just beyond hotel on right. 3 or 4 chaps stripped off, swam out and pulled pilot from aircraft. I hope pilot survived but don't know if he did. Does anyone know?
A memory of Deal in 1943 by
North Road Looking North From Church Street, Fen Street Junction
Previous memories talk about The Talbot Inn and on the left hand corner (Church Street Corner) Marshall's the newsagents . Before the village was bypassed around 1956 the Newsagents ...Read more
A memory of Stilton in 1954 by
Growing Up In Filton
I was born in Plymouth of Welsh parents, there was no work in Newport Wales when my Father got out of the Navy, so, we moved to my Grandparents house in 50 Wallscourt Rd Filton, until our house 13 Canberra Grove Filton became ...Read more
A memory of Filton in 1966 by
The Gatenby Family The Old Postoffice
I was born in 1942 at Oswaldkirk postoffice. My mother was the youngest of three sisters. Joyce the eldest was a nurse in Leeds, Olive the 2ed helped run the shop and postoffice, and my mother Nancy who also ...Read more
A memory of Oswaldkirk in 1942 by
Taylors On Port Hill
This is where my father (1924) and grandfather (1896) were born, their cottages were just round the corner slightly further up the hill, Gt Grandfather (1844) rented 2 cottages for his family of himself, his wife and 9 ...Read more
A memory of Hertford in 1920 by
Treowen Road
I was born in March ,1947 at 69,Treowen Road.It was a terrible winter,and the midwife who delivered me (Nurse Maiden) had to enter the house through the upstairs bedroom window because the snow was pilled up so high. I lived in treowen ...Read more
A memory of Crumlin in 1947 by
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soup kitchens, but there are records of the children of the island waiting expectantly outside the shipyard gates to ask the workers for any food they might have had left over after they came out of the yard
The flagpole, with a yard-arm, was used to send signals.
The raised section of pavement on the right is all that remains of the rope walk - a level section of about a hundred yards long, for making wagon ropes.
An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.
The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services.
Castle Street was earmarked for major change, encouraging Neville's to give up their rented yard and purchase a new site out at Common Farm, Leagrave, for £3,397.
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
It was 4,405 square yards in area, and 96ft high and 125ft high to the top of the central dome.
Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort).
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.
It is possible, too, to be a few hundred yards from the edge of an Essex town, and yet ostensibly be in the middle of the countryside.
Richard Edmondson made an application under the General Pier and Harbour Act; his plan was to have a pier 307 yards long, with a grand pavilion, a conservatory or winter gardens, a theatre, a concert room
As he climbed the steep main street he must have heard Samuel Govier's hammer crashing against steel in his yard, and seen the glowing fire and the shower of incandescent sparks through the dim doorway
They also built a large warehouse, and Sudell Court and Sudell's Yard appeared round it.
Owing to the restricted depth of the site, the drill yard and drill tower are placed at the side of the fire station and not at the rear, as is the standard practice.
In 1897 the commissioners were landlords to a yard employing nearly 9,000 on the County Down side.
A few hundred yards along Horsham Road is the Bush Inn.
however, demand for this service outgrew the location, and so Royal Mail decamped to Springburn, erecting the Automated Processing Centre where once had stood the engine-sheds and locomotive yards
In the yard at the back there is a rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th or 14th century.
The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).
The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).
Consider this: give or take a few yards, Guglielmo Marconi founded the world's first radio factory on the very spot where a 1st-century pagan temple had once stood.
Until 'mixed bathing' was allowed by the Council around 1906/8, the separate rows of bathing machines for the sexes had to be kept apart by a space of 50 yards.
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