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Park Place
When I was younger, my Mum and Dad moved from Liverpool and came to live in Crewe. We lived in the Huts from 1945 to 1957. I'm 84 years old now and I remember those days being the happiest times of my life. We lived at 53 Park Place and I ...Read more
A memory of Crewe by
Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire
In the post war years, as families rebuilt their lives again, Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able, bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet ...Read more
A memory of Tralee by
The Bakery
My Grandad was Ken Derham, the village baker. I lived at the bakery for a short time when I was aged about 9. I remember him making the bread and being allowed to help him fill the donuts with jam. I can still smell how wonderful the ...Read more
A memory of Meopham in 1975
'holiday House'.
I was born and lived the early years of my life in South Molton. My father had his own building firm there. In 1958 we moved to Croyde Bay my father having bought this large house on the cliffs above the bay for £1800. This photo ...Read more
A memory of Croyde by
Swimming In The Thames At Sunbury
We often went to the 'Beach' on the banks of the Thames, near to the swimming pool in the 1950's. My Aunt DeDe , My Mam and Cousins, Billy & Keith Taylor' ,they lived in The Avenue' and my siblings would spend ...Read more
A memory of Sunbury
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
My Banbury Grans Village
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. ...Read more
A memory of Warmington in 1940 by
Meadvale As A Living Village
When we first moved to "the estate" in the early fifties I would have to catch the bus into Reigate as I went to school in Holmesdale Road. The school I have forgotten about but what is memorable was the smell of the ...Read more
A memory of Reigate in 1957 by
The Bakery
In my school days I used to go to the bakery with my school pal George. It was owned by Mr Rhodes, George's father. Helping to make all the bread-cakes-pork pies, Mr Rhodes would put a pork belly joint in the oven for our breakfast. Can ...Read more
A memory of Hinstock by
Growing Up In Brentwood
We moved to Pilgrims Hatch in 1971, such fun living on the Estate with a never ending hotch potch of mates to street rake with - knock down ginger, ipp dipp dog sh*t, duck duck goose, conkers and kiss chase. We'd bike to Ken ...Read more
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Captions
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Signs on the wall of the house on the left advertise Lyon's Tea, Red Bell Tobacco and Borwick's Baking Powder.
The esplanade Hotel (left) stands on the north side of the Promenade; horse-drawn brakes wait for passengers from either the beach or the hotel, bound for the railway station in the town centre.
Still the biggest single employer in Chapel, Ferodo was founded by local man Herbert Froode (of which 'Ferodo' is an anagram) who first developed a brake block for horse-drawn carts and later successfully
A horse-drawn furniture van is drawn up outside the house beyond the horse brake.
It was used to bake bread, then very much a staple of the diet.
In its heyday, The Bell had a tap-room, two parlours, three bedrooms, three attics, beer- and liquor-cellars, a bake-office and a brewery.
Baked potatoes were even more popular with Londoners, and handcarts fitted with ovens and chimneys plied the streets offering inexpensive hot snacks.
As late as 1948 the Corporation secured a £200,000 loan from the Ministry of Transport for 35 new four-wheeled trams with all-metal bodies and fitted with air brakes, the first of which was delivered in
Vegetables would be grown mostly by the villagers themselves in their own back gardens; most would bake their own bread and cakes.
The women baked bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles
According to Eric Parker, scores of visitors to Leith Hill would alight at Holmwood railway station and be taken by horse-drawn brake to the foot of the hill - the rest of the
Denby Dale is perhaps most famous for its gargantuan meat and potato pies, first baked to celebrate the recovery of King George III from one of his many bouts of illness.
As late as 1948 the Corporation secured a £200,000 loan from the Ministry of Transport for 35 new four-wheeled trams with all-metal bodies and fitted with air brakes, the first of which was delivered
In front is a weird Morris Eight, with timber framed shooting brake character, a veteran of the 1930s.
Beyond are cottages which were at one time the parish poorhouse, where the worthy poor made lace and baked bread.
The ethos of the owners was to supply the public with old-fashioned home baking and cooking in a comfortable and pleasant environment.
During the First World War it was in use as a field kitchen, baking bread for the troops billeted in the town.
It stood twelve feet high, and there were a few remains; a dagger had survived, and fragments of a large half-baked urn and some calcified bones were also found.
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