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My Childhood In Knatts Valley
I was born in Knatts Valley, in a bungalow belonging to George and Elsie Lines of Lynwood, friends of my mother and father. George became my Godfather, and one of my names is also George. I was supposed to have been ...Read more
A memory of Otford in 1940 by
The Grocers Next To Morgan's!
Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more
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Reminiscences Of Portsmouth In The Late 1930s
I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more
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Some Childhood Years In Sorbie 1932 T0 1937
The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up ...Read more
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Mclaren High School Callander
I was eight years old when I became a pupil at McLaren High School. The Rector was a fine gentleman who wore a tail coat and striped trousers. His name was Mr Leckie. We also had a janitor who wore a uniform and had ...Read more
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Summer Holidays
The sun always seemed to shine on our annual summer holiday to my grandmother's at Emmanuel Road. What excitement running down West hill to the town and the beach. There was always a ride on the boating lake, you could smell the ...Read more
A memory of Hastings in 1955 by
Tidworth In The Mid 1950's
I attended this school in September of 1953 until December 1954, when I left and went to Salisbury College of Further Education. My father was in the army and we came back from Germany in July 1953 to live in ...Read more
A memory of North Tidworth in 1953 by
Bestwood Lodge
After browsing this site in search of any information or memories about Bestwood Lodge. Nothing comes up other than Bestwood Village. So I thought I would add my own. So here goes...........Is there anyone out there who ...Read more
A memory of Bestwood Village
Victoria Park Latchford
I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and ...Read more
A memory of Warrington in 1945
Laurel Cottages
A few years ago, along with two of my daughters, I came to look for Laurel Cottages as my mother had lived there up to her death in September 1942. My mother, Mona Braithwaite, was a cook and lived at 9 Laurel Cottages. ...Read more
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Stoborough Garage (centre) was owned for many years by Gordon Hands, who was also the motor engineer at Holton Heath.
The Dialect Writers' Memorial, erected in 1900, was sometimes referred to as the Poets` Memorial.
This stone arch was built in 1869 to carry raw materials to the iron furnaces. A pedestrian tunnel was added beside the main arch owing to the increase in traffic.
Described once as 'a magnificent little cathedral' there has been a church on this site since at least the 11th century.
This photograph shows the great arch at the eastern end of the abbey. It formed part of the structure above which was built the lantern tower and spire.
Compare this view of the nave to the 1924 photograph. Above the altar we can see a decorated screen, which has long been removed.
This view shows the junction of Boar Lane and Briggate, looking towards the Corn Exchange.
The building in the centre with the white-framed doorway has a sign telling us that it is the Eagle at Cookley. The building has now gone, but the pub has moved next door.
Notice the boys playing cricket in the foreground - old boys still come to play a game each year. Now an International College, St Michael's was formerly a choir school.
The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.
Cheltenham's famous racecourse is named Prestbury Park after the village that is situated at its outskirts. Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.
The road is named after the Tontine Hotel, which was built in 1783 to accommodate visitors coming to see the new bridge.
Undoubtedly this is one of the most romantic medieval sites in all of England.
Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.
The tomb (right) contains the remains of Gertrude, Marchioness of Exeter (died 1558), whose husband, Henry Courtenay, was a grandson of Edward IV and Commissioner at the trial of Anne Boleyn.
The pulpit was less then 20 years old when this picture was taken, as it was donated by H G Sturt, MP (later Lord Alington), of Crichel, near Wimborne, in 1868.
The Guests, who made their fortune in the South Wales iron industry during the industrial revolution, sold Canford Manor in 1923, when it became a public school.
The King's Head dates back to at least 1726, but it underwent a major reconstruction in the 1880s.
The great surging waterfall (the word 'force' is derived from the Old Norse 'foss' ) at Skelwith has been a great visitor attraction since Victorian times.
The seal of Queen Victoria was photographed around the end of her reign, which lasted from 1837 to 1901.
Traffic was still so light in the 1920s that the Mall was not treated as a major artery of even a short cut.
This peaceful village developed as a group of farmhouses around a village green, which until recently was rectangular in shape.
Today's motorists can but marvel at the wide expanse of road on offer here.
Milk used to be carried around in churns on carts for customers to purchase it by the jug-full (centre left). This view is looking along residential Hartington Street.
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