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Shooters Hill Grammar School 1951 1959
I was there from 1951-1959. Some of the happiest days of my life. A day started with assembly with prayers said and some hymns sung. An awful cacophony of weedy and breaking voices. Various announcements ...Read more
A memory of Shooters Hill
Remembering Gomshall
On Sunday last I was informed by a dear friend, that the Black Horse / Lavender Goose is no more. Sold apparently for development project. How sad that a building with such history is now nothing more than rubble. Another ...Read more
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Royal Masonic Schools Bushey (J Ston And Ston)
I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd ...Read more
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Memories Of Working At Ultra Tv Factory Fareham Hants.
My name is Rosalind....I was sixteen when I started work at the Ultra Tv factory in Gosport Rd, Fareham. Well many years have past by, my memory is a bit vague of remembering peoples names who I ...Read more
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Davidson Road School
Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more
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A Social Life Hub
I spent many happy evenings here as a young soldier in QARANC (army nursing corps) from December 1965 until early 1967 when I was posted to Germany. Just about everyone military stationed in Aldershot congregated here at some ...Read more
A memory of Aldershot
Smith The Grocer Of Chapel Road, Kessingland
My grandfather on my father's side, Jabez Herbert Henry Smith (known as Herbert) was born on 19th January 1885. At the tender age of 13 he was sent by his parents to take up a seven year apprenticeship ...Read more
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Early Mobile Days In Welling
Light-years before the introduction of the mobile phone, Welling in the 1950's had mobile networks of its own. These were weekly delivery services to households in and around local streets. As a young child I was always ...Read more
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Another Slice Of Life In Burghfield And Sulhampstead
My Grandfather George Thomas Cooper 1880 to 1957 lived at Hebron a Detached Victorian House ( which is opposite what today is Coopers Place, named after my late Father Phillip George ...Read more
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The Globe Cinema, Deepcut.
As a young child I spent a lot of time with my father in The Globe AKC cinema in the early 1960’s. At that time it was in Deepcut camp & was used by soldiers based in the camp. My father was the projectionist & ...Read more
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Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.
The Lamb and Flag Hotel, on the left beside the car, was another old inn which catered for travellers.
Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.
Yet another vanished Surrey watermill, testimony to a virtually forgotten source of power. This mill stood on the Pippbroook, a tributary of the Mole, but has now been demolished.
This view of the beach shows it in use by both holidaymakers and local fishermen.
There is one motor launch in the foreground and another on the right of the picture.
Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris.
It could be a Pierrot troupe, or even a minstrel show; both of these were popular acts at the time.
Dawlish began as two discrete hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.
Another fine period piece, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the
Both these buildings were demolished in 1923. Hiding much of the castle keep is the Toll Booth.
Both these buildings were demolished in 1923. Hiding much of the castle keep is the Toll Booth.
The Royal Marine Hotel on the left has now succumbed to a towering ten storey block of flats, Metropole Court, one of three architectural disasters along the sea front.
Both had been employed by the local magnates, the Lowther family, to manage their lands. This corner of Cumbria abounds in associations with the poet.
This is another of Tintern`s hotels, pictured not long after it had been transformed from the Carpenter`s Arms. Note the decorative brickwork and the many chimneys.
The hanging sign on the extreme left is that of the Stand Up Inn, whilst further along on the opposite side of the road is another pub, the Red Lion, which was originally a well used coaching
Another moment in the square caught by the camera. This appears to be lunchtime judging by the number of peo- ple taking their ease.
The village is home to both the College and the Shuttleworth Trust.
In the days before environmental concerns, both Par Beach and nearby Carlyon Bay were badly polluted by white, sticky clay runoff; as late as the seventies, it was clogging family washing machines after
Harbour Road is close to the sea. Both the Angel and the next building are clad in weatherboard. Further down the road on the right is the Globe Hotel.
A steam engine is about to enter the station to link up with a line of carriages that will bring another train load of holidaymakers to this balmy coast.
Here we see the lock itself, another busy scene. Only a few years earlier, every head would have been be-hatted.
The Old Bull's Head is on the left: this famous hostelry was originally built in 1472, and was rebuilt in 1617. Both Dr Johnson and Charles Dickens stayed here.
Here we see the lock itself, another busy scene. Only a few years earlier, every head would have been hatted.
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