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Memories

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Staying In The Manor Hotel On Holiday

When I was 12 years old my family came to Mundesley for the first time. We stayed in the Manor Hotel. It was me, my brother, mother and father and my lovely grannie. I remember loving my stay here, the food ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley by Maryjane Edgar

Walton Secondary Modern School For Boys Ambleside Avenue

Are there any Waltonians who remember the this school before it was pulled down? Or who have any knowledge of the previous school it replaced in 1936 known as the Central School. Next ...Read more

A memory of Walton-on-Thames by Dennis Hall

America Woods

I lived in the house called Abbotsford in about 1934 which to this day, stands by the side of the America Woods. Once a year, the scouts would camp in the field at the back of the house. I spent many happy times playing in those ...Read more

A memory of Shanklin by Claire Spencer

Life In Oxshott In 1940s And 50s Royal Kent School

I remember my first day at the Royal Kent School – 8th November 1948 – as recorded at entry no. 1450 in the school's original Admissions Register. It was a few weeks into the Autumn term, as in ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott by Rose Phillips

Tin School

I used to be at Acworth House before the Second World War. We used to play cricket and football at the Top Field. Our school was called Temporary School but we called it "Tin School"! After each meal to avoid a crush, each House ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by John Hing

Memories Of Harold Hill

Hi Janice Dinnick here, I lived at 3 Swindon Lane from 1950-1959 moved to Camborne Ave till 1969 when I married Bill Sodeau . My best friend was Susan Smith from Swindon Way she had sister Janet and brother Brian. I went ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Janice Sodeau

A B C Minors Saturday Morning At The Ritz

Queuing up to go and see our films on a Saturday morning and singing the song about the abc minors. The words are as follows.We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the abc and every Saturday we ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Kathleen White

Oban High School

I am andrew longridge and I attended Oban High school from, 1989 to 1963, after graduating I started a job as lab technician at Alginate Indistries In 1965 I emegrated to Canada and have been here ever since. As a boy growing up in ...Read more

A memory of Oban by Andrew Longridge

My First Kiss

My name was Sheila Moore and I lived in Nelson Road, Crouch End, Hornsey. I went to Rokesley Infants and Junior School until 1958. My best friends were Linda Firkins and Jant Miller but the kiss was from a boy called Gordon Thickbroom. I often wonder if he changed his name

A memory of Crouch End by Sheila White

Memories Of North Cheam

My friend and I now both 90 yrs old and still in daily contact! Although we live a long way from each other. My maiden name was Sheila Dwight and my friend's maiden name was Joan Byrn. We met age 5 yrs old at North Cheam ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by Sheila Ashe

Captions

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Caption For Chelmsford, Infirmary 1895

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

David Lewis built Boys' Clubs and Community Centres all over the north-west.

Caption For Basildon, 'brunswick' Lower Dunton Road, Langdon Hills 2005

Famous local boys the Dave Clark Five were the resident group at Mecca's Locarno, and Basildon's own Alison Moyet began hitting the headlines with her chart-topping records in the 1980s.

Caption For Chelmsford, Grammar School 1892

There was now space for 126 day-boys and 24 boarders.

Caption For Grantham, St Wulfram's Church, The Chained Library 1889

This boys' school is still a grammar school as it was in the early 1500s, but Latin grammar is not now one of its subjects.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Drummer Boy. This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Drummer Boy. This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

Caption For Berkhamsted, School C1960

Older residents still refer to the Castle Street and Kings Road campuses as the Boys' and Girls' Schools.

Caption For Glasgow, The Grand Hotel, Charing Cross 1897

belonging to a previous generation of building, had no green spaces at all, and the solitary tree that towered over the tenements of Sandyford is believed to have begun as a tiny seedling which a boy

Caption For Luton, The Andrew Carnegie Public Library 1924

At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans. The new Luton Modern School opened in 1908.

Caption For Dorking, High Street 1922

The red ball was kicked off by the boys at 3 o'clock, and the blue ball by the men, and then at 4 o'clock all the players took up the game with the white ball until the church clock chimed six.

Caption For Eton, Queen's School Chapel 1895

Three additional bays at the west end designed by Charles Blomfield were completed in 1926 to give seating for more than 500 boys.