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When We Were Kids: Part 2
My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left ...Read more
A memory of Fishcross in 1950 by
Growing Up With The Dinosaurs.
I lived in Thicket Grove which had the Thicket public house at the top. Crystal Palace Park was a very short walk away. During the school holidays we would spend our days in the park. Mum would pack us a picnic ...Read more
A memory of Crystal Palace in 1953 by
St. Catherines Church
I was at Mount Pleasant School as a boarder for 6 years from 1946 to 1952. The school was in Dalmeny Road but apparently was taken down in 1965. I have been trying to find anyone who attended this school. Before going to ...Read more
A memory of Southbourne in 1948 by
Good Memories
I spent a few days in London for the Queens Diamond Jubilee last year. I decided to pay a visit to where I use to live in Welling. After reading some of the stories it certainly brought back memories. Like going to the Embassy on ...Read more
A memory of Welling in 1950 by
Goodrington
I was born in 1948 in Wallasy Cheshire, now Merseyside. As my maternal grandparents lived in Plympton, we used to spend two or three weeks with them every year. A day out to Goodrington was very popular, travelling by train from ...Read more
A memory of Paignton by
Curls
I originally remember the (now) Debenhams being a bomb site on which cars were parked, then a new department store was built called Curls. The top floor boasted a verandah restaurant where, if I was good whilst out shopping, my mum would ...Read more
A memory of Norwich by
Greenford Gardens
We moved to 1 Greenford Gardens in 1936 from Northolt; it was a great place to grow up. Spent most of the time in Ravenor Park playing football/cricket, went to Bethams then Costons Junior with Mr Blount the Headmaster who ...Read more
A memory of Greenford in 1940 by
Wallsend 1954 68
Born in the Green Maternity Hosp 1954, lived in Windsor Drive, Howden, Sandown Gardens, Howden and Prospect Ave. I remember being taken to the Masons Arms at Bigges Main in a pushchair, parked outside the corrugated iron lean to ...Read more
A memory of Wallsend by
My First 21 Years
I was born on 5th July 1948, we lived in one of the houses behind the Wheatsheaf hotel. Our neighbours there were the Wilcocks and the Browns. My Dad, worked as a driver for a furniture company and a coalman and I remember he ...Read more
A memory of Queensbury by
Early Years In Park Road
Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. ...Read more
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A Ford Consul heads out of Fareham. West Street is a mile long, and this section is now pedestrianised.
The King's Head in The Street in Capel, a village now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road, is now a private house, and its once sterile car park is now an attractive front garden
In later years, well-to-do visitors stayed at the Walton Park Hotel, where rooms were 4s 6d. and dinner 5s a head, whilst those on a health trip could experience various water tortures on offer at the
The building with the two cars parked outside is The Nag's Head (formerly The White Lion), which dates from the first part of the 1700s.
Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.
Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.
This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not a dying tree.
This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not a dying tree.
Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.
Baldock Street leads northwards out of Ware towards Thundridge. The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.
The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.
The Queen's Head (left) dates from c1580. It was renovated in 1982-83 when the gents' loos were removed from the car park.
Manufactured by Walter Mcfarlane & Company of Possil Park, Glasgow, it cost the princely sum of £1,000.
The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.
A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.
The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.
This attractive view is little changed today, except that the Green, predictably, is kept close-mown now, and woe betide any daisy that shows its head.
Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards
The great hunting parks remained, although partly used for farming. Woolcombing and framework knitting became the principal industries in Loughborough.
This shows the view looking along Reading Road, past the current Post Office and the Shell petrol pump, to the junction with Friday Street and into Duke Street as it heads towards the Market Place.
Often referred to as 'the Alpine village' because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas
The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.
The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.
In 1954 the old railway station buildings (where the car park is today outside the Albany) were replaced by the present booking office on London Road, and the platforms moved up to the other side
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