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Yesterday's Birch
I REMEMBER BIRCH IN 1960'S. THE VILLAGE SHOP WAS RUN BY A JEWISH MAN CALLED MR WOLFE. WHEN YOU CROSSED THE ROAD ON TO WHITTLE LANE THERE WAS A ROW OF HOUSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WHITE HART PUB . AS YOU WALKED UP THE ...Read more
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My Holiday In A Manor House
I went to fornethy residential school when I was five and nine years old and I was very happy thare I loved the long walks through the woods and walking down the stoney brae to the burn to paddle our ...Read more
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Moved To Barns Green In 1958
My family moved to Barns Green in 1958 purchasing Cootes Farm and then Bachelor's Farm shortly after (hardly large enough to be called farms, but that was their names). I was 15 at the time and had many friends and ...Read more
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Horton Kirby In The 1960's
I was born and brought up in Dartford but my aunt, Nora Hall, was housekeeper to Sir Edward Bligh and they had moved to Horton Kirby in 1961 from Swanley Village. Sir Edward took a ten-year lease upon the house that ...Read more
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Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle
My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more
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Growing Up
My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were ...Read more
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Dads First Cattle
My dad had a yard here before the houses were built back in the 40s. He bought his first cows and used to milk them in a barn there. I can remember as a small child being in the barn with mum and dad when an aeroplane crashed ...Read more
A memory of Lower Heyford in 1940 by
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I
Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox ...Read more
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The Tithe Barn And Harrow Museum
Moat Farm Park? I find this surprising as its claim to fame is surely the preserved buildings of the Tithe Barn and surroundings. The Barn itself is the site of Harrow Museum and hosts various fund raising ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow in 1985 by
The Welling Mods: Long Gone But Never Forgotten
We were like one huge crazy family, not only from Welling, but also from the surrounding towns of Blackfen, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Dartford, Eltham, Plumstead and Woolwich - even as far as from the other ...Read more
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Judging from the picture, these cars were definitely big boys' toys.
The 'Twa Brigs of Ayr' became famous thanks to a poem by Robert Burns. Things
High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).
Originally known as North Sunderland, Seahouses prospered on fishing, and for a while lime burning.
The photographer has the undivided attention of a group of children in this quiet wintry view.
Carrying Holburn Street over the Ferryhill Burn, South Bridge is an essential part of the great developments of the early 19th century.
The quarter boys above the church clock date from 1761, while the tea rooms (now Simon the Pieman, established in 1920 after this view was taken) replaced the Red Lion Inn which burned down in 1872.
Despite popular opposition, the school had to be demolished in June 1970.
This lighthouse, which is on the highest point of the island (180 ft above sea level), was built in 1829 as a gas-burning light and has been automated since 1927.
In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.
The tower of the church dates from the 14th century.
Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.
Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.
Burnt Farmhouse is isolated; it incorporates the remains of Field Place, which burned down in 1765.
On the right is that ubiquitous feature of west country beaches, the lime kiln.
The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.
During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.
During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.
In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.
The Old Mill 1914 'And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill'.
Visitors clamber over the site of the old castle.
The castle and church have long been popular with tourists, many of whom stay to sample the delights of the Old Rosslyn Inn.
It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.
In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.
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