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A Spectacular Entrance To Central London.
Before my time, of course, but this is still a very familiar view to me . Not only did I intern (from Westminster Technical College Hotel School) at the Charing Cross Hotel on the right but also passed ...Read more
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Painful Memories Of Paulton Square.
As a frightened 7 year old, in 1950, I was plunged into an unfamiliar London life when my meddling and self righteous aunt unfortunately reminded my stepfather of fulfill his promise to my dying mother to 'take ...Read more
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The Hub Of My Young Universe
London's main railway stations truly are wonderful and Charing Cross was the one that I frequented the most as I travelled every weekday from Woolwich Arsenal in SE London to Green Park Underground, near the great ...Read more
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Memories At The Crows Nest Bungalow
During the mid 1960s I spent many a happy childhood holiday staying at the Crows Nest Bungalow at Reighton Gap. This bungalow was sited near the cliff edge, by the gorge overlooking the distant caravan site. ...Read more
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Early Days Of Blackhill
My name is Stephen Yallop. I lived in Blackhill from the early 1960s. I used to live in Gallagher Terrace. I went to the Tin Mill infant school, I remember the teachers as Mrs Dunne the headmistress. Mrs Ferguson ...Read more
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Number 2 Montague Terrace
Barbara Brian. I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1930 by
Evacuation Ww2
I recall being evacuated to Llansaint from London as a child of 7. I lived in a small sweet shop in the the village with a family named Phillips, or Philips. I am now 74 so my memories are not too sharp with regards to names and ...Read more
A memory of Llansaint in 1941 by
Memories
I was born in East Harlsey in 1946 and was educated in the village school which of course is now a private house, or is it two. I remember there being two classrooms and, if my memory is correct, the teacher was a Mrs Lyle?? I seem ...Read more
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Where I Grew Up
I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962. I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more
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What A Bike Ride!
I was born in Whitwell (Herts) in April 1949 and started my schooling at St Pauls Walden CE School in September 1953. This the hill on which I lived. As I grew older I used to ride my bike to school (very little ...Read more
A memory of Whitwell in 1955 by
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This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important
Also here was the Iron Hall which belonged to the castle chapel of St Mary, from which it drew rents.
Stewarts rope works, along with the iron foundries at Waddington, Longbottom, Briggs, and Beveridge all became defunct.
One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.
One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for
The Marine Gardens below the iron railings on the left are now taken up by the Embassy Centre and the Compass Gardens, whilst the row of boarding houses on the right are converted to food and drink businesses
Apparatus for wheelwrighting is nearby; there is an iron cone for forging circular iron rings, and a flat circular area for laying out wheels.
Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green.A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in
This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron Ages
Apparatus for wheelwrighting is nearby, and there is an iron cone for forging circular iron rings and a flat circular area for laying out wheels.
Other names in Blakeney refer to iron making, which was a thriving industry in these parts.
Fore Street heads east from the Market Place to cross the River Parrett on the iron bridge dated 1883; this replaced an early Coalbrookdale cast-iron bridge of 1795.
There were many small iron foundries and tin plate works a century and more ago, but cultivated riverside walks replaced them.
It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tail- pole.The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.
This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron
The Waterloo Iron Works opened in 1813 and closed in 1984, making way for housing. The schoolhouse survives complete with its arch into the works.
This area was connected with the iron industry. The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.
The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron. It is the tallest windmill of this type in Sussex.
In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.
The decorative cast iron octagonal bandstand was an original feature. It stands amidst semicircular flower beds, and forms the focal point of the gardens.
Next is the 1830s brick Foundry House, where Ward & Silver's iron foundry was established in the 1840s. Many of their cast-iron grave markers can be seen in the churchyard.
Little has changed at this junction; even the wrought iron railings on the left have avoided various wartime scrap iron drives and are still in place.
Warnham watermill is on the site of an iron furnace; it has been nicely restored to workable order. Warnham Mill Pond is a beautiful iron industry water source with a large earth dam behind the mill.
The Chequers pub (centre right) is now a private house; the next building has been demolished, but Chequers House, in the foreground, has been restored, and today sports fine wrought iron railings
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