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Eastville Park Bs5
Eastville Park is a large park with a small lake, just to the east of the M32. The lake at Eastville Park was instigated as part of a social scheme by Ernest Bevin (a well respected westcountryman) who later became Minister of ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Blaengarw Cooper Milkmen
I am a retired police officer who has been studying the family history of both my family and that of my wife, Jenifer Cooper. I am trying to trace relatives of the family and hope that someone may just know something of ...Read more
A memory of Blaengarw in 1930 by
Visits To Canvey Island
As a family, we used to visit Canvey quite often during the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and getting onto Canvey from the A13 was quite stressful in those days, you had to turn at the Tarpots and follow ...Read more
A memory of Hadleigh in 1958 by
School Classes
The basement, or I suppose crypt, of this building was used by the Technical College as an engineering workshop. We would traipse from the main building on Park Square along Waller Street to enter the workshop which was kitted out with ...Read more
A memory of Luton in 1951 by
Ashford
I used to work in the Chicken & Grill that was situated behind the tank in Ashford; it was a very busy little cafe especially lunchtimes; I met my second husband there; resulting in 42 years together till he died in 2006. Another ...Read more
A memory of Hothfield in 1961 by
How Sweet It Was
“I’ll have a very large J&B on the rocks,” the distinguished gentleman gave me his order. “And easy on the rocks,” he added. I hurried off to the bar and returned with the glass of Scotch. Dana Andrews looked up and ...Read more
A memory of Pitlochry in 1951 by
Domenic Reitzo
Domenic Reitzo was the model for this soldier. Born around 1860, he was an Italian immigrant who lived in the Lambeth area of London. He was a popular model for painters and sculpters at the Lambeth School of Art.
A memory of Exeter
Duke’s Wood School For Boys
I was at Duke’s Wood School in 1940/1 at the age 10 years (I’m not sure whether it was called that at that time). I stayed in the ‘Poplars’ dormitory and, as I recall, there was a veranda at the entrance to the dorm, not ...Read more
A memory of Hexham in 1941 by
Memories Of Iveston
I was born in 1934 and lived in Iveston for 18 years, leaving reluctantly in 1952. We first lived beside the duckpond, in the cottage attached to Letch Farm, run then or later by Mr and Mrs Harrison. Avis Harrison baked my ...Read more
A memory of Iveston in 1940 by
The Poplars The Maltsters Bottom Of London Road
This is the view looking down to the end of London Road where it meets the village. The road does a sharp turn to the left into the Market Place and behind the large tree is 'Top Bayles' grocers shop. ...Read more
A memory of Abridge in 1961
Captions
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As can be seen from this photograph, this was a popular spot to sit and relax on a sunny summer's day.
The pier has always been popular with fishermen, and catches of bass, bull huss, cod, conger, dab, dogfish, flounder, mullet, plaice, pouting and sole are common.
Canvey Island was a popular holiday resort in the 1950s. Well-ordered rows of caravans are ready to welcome summer visitors.
The 19th-century school is a popular choice with local families.
In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.
In the arena by the clock tower, Charlie and the Follies and the Jolly Jack Tars were popular concert parties every summer.
Not far from Chatburn and Clitheroe, Sawley would have been a popular day out even before the motor-car was common.
Few people then had a car, but cycling tours and holidays were a popular way of exploring the countryside.
This area is not as popular with most holidaymakers as the areas around the rivers Yare or Bure. But sailors appreciate the scenery here, which is equal to any landscape painted by Constable.
This is always been a popular place for a picnic, as we can see from the parked cars to the right of the bridge. Just upstream from the bridge is a set of stepping stones crossing the river.
By the early 1900s it was described as 'a venerable and rambling building' popular with cyclists, motor car enthusiasts and particularly artists, many of whom decorated the Swan's little parlour with their
The pools were mentioned in many recent local guidebooks as a popular place for fishermen.
Bowls was, for many years, regarded as a sport for older men, but it is now popular with both women and young men.
Also very popular was the sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to
The tower, which features a corbelled stair turret, dates from 1578; this was the time when what are now termed the Z3 castles were beginning to prove popular with Scottish lords.
Loch Lomond became a popular destination for day trippers from around Clydeside, especially after the opening of the Dumbarton & Balloch Joint Railway.
The abbey has been a popular attraction for painters for many years, including Landseer and Turner. The priory was founded in the 12th century, and building continued right up to the Dissolution.
the turret of the Chine Hotel, which served as a landmark for Channel shipping, prominent in the back- ground, the elegant row of Victorian houses along Undercliffe Road bears tribute to the enduring popularity
Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant entertainments of distinctly popular order.
Nestling below the tree and shrub covered cliffs, with (on this occasion) sun- drenched water, this popular seaside resort has always attracted not only regular tourists but, appropriately,
Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.
Today this area is covered in woodland, and has become a popular sport for walkers.
Boating is still popular here, although these days it is usually rowers, singly and in groups, that one sees racing up and down the river. The house is called Ferry Farm.
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