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The Salford Girl 3
My maternal grandmother, born in 1885 in Salford, as a girl worked in the mills. Up to the time of her death in Ladywell hospital, at the age of 93, she always wore long clothes to her ankles and a woollen, thick shawl. When gran ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Boarding School
I went to st Roses convent in Stroud when I was eleven years old . The boarding house was up the lane called merrymeads. It was named st Bedes . I can remember going to the Holy Rosary church which was next to the convent . ...Read more
A memory of Stroud by
A Holliday At A Manor House
My name is Donna Boyd then Wilson. l went in 1968 then again in 72. I have good memories - so good I would have went back again if I could. l remember the long walks through the woods also walking ...Read more
A memory of Fornethy Residential School by
Childhood
I lived in Mayfield Road, which is where the foreground bollards are situated, from 1961 -1979. The junction was a little bit treacherous when cycling in the wet as I found out to my cost. Although a Girls school, boys could attend in ...Read more
A memory of Sanderstead in 1965 by
All Uphill
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three ...Read more
A memory of Kidsgrove in 1973 by
Kingsbury Pool And Area
Hello. I lived in Kingsbury from 1943 until 1962 when I moved to Canada. I lived off Old Church Lane. We walked to the pool with our sixpence and had to stand in line for what seemed hours - as they only would allow a ...Read more
A memory of Kingsbury in 1962 by
Chalk Pit & The Hunt
Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. ...Read more
A memory of Odiham in 1981 by
Marriage Between Ivy Alice Gillard To Robert Alexander Bent
This date Oct 6th, in 1945, while serving in the RCAF, I was married to Ivy Gillard in this olden church. It was a bright sunny day. Ivy came to Canada with our daughter Barbara in October ...Read more
A memory of Paignton in 1945 by
Hop Picking
Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood in 1940 by
My Hometown
I was born in 1928 at Woodhill, Gressenhall and moved to Dereham at the age of 6yrs and left when I married some 20 years later. It was a happy childhood in spite of the war years, in fact it added to the excitement of those years, ...Read more
A memory of Dereham in 1940 by
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In the decades following the First World War, Exmouth reached the heights of its fame as a holiday resort, thanks to the greater mobility offered by railway trains and motor vehicles
The railway came in 1848, and by 1890 the town had links with Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds, giving fast access to major trade markets.
The railway came to Elland before Halifax: it was on the Manchester to Leeds line from 1839.
The castle passed into the hands of the Neville family, and in 1471 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick.
Just eleven years later the railway came to Whitby, altering trading patterns completely.
By adopting a strategy that combined aggressive advertising with special offers, discounts and sales on specific lines, Lewis's was an immediate success; shoppers came from miles around in search of a
Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC.
Still more came in the late 19th century after the arrival of the railways.
Just eleven years later the railway came to Whitby, altering trading patterns completely.
The wide end of the Ironmarket was also known as Butchers' Row; even its supply of water came to the surface courtesy of the Butchery Pump.
After the railway came to Mundesley in 1898, it was anticipated that the village would be as popular as Cromer.
The names Crane Street and Crane Corner came from the use of the crane to transfer trucks onto the tramway.
Piped water came to the village in 1892 after an outbreak of typhus.
Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.
Its name refers to its position on the river Anton.
The latter write his poem 'Lamia' here, while Longfellow wrote a verse in praise of the ferruginous spring which issues out of the Chine, whose waters health-conscious visitors came to sample
Laleham was a tiny village when Dr Thomas Arnold, soon to be the formidable headmaster of Rugby School, came to live here in Regency times.
In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.
In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.
The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).
When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid out Coronation Gardens, which we can see here.
The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of
The Spirella Company came to Letchworth in 1910.
The very fine 15th-century gateway came from the Old Schools in Cambridge in c1754.
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