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My Mother Was Evacuated To Buckinghamshire Twice!
Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many ...Read more
A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by
Mixture
The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Growing Up In Penge (1947 Onwards)
I have said that my early life began in Penge in 1947, but that is only as far back as I can remember. Although I was still only two then, I do have a very good memory. I can remember while I was in a pram outside ...Read more
A memory of Penge in 1947 by
The Carlton Ballroom
It was a must in the 1960's. The Carlton was in the High Street near the post office, a few steps were at the front, leading to the entrance and it was always packed. They had a bar upstairs where you stood drinking looking ...Read more
A memory of Slough
Family From Bibury
My memories from / about Bibury are: I was born there in Bibury Cotts - 15 April 1947. My parents were married there - George Lacey / Joyce Iles. My grandparents lived at number 8 Arlington Row. My parents marriage was actually a ...Read more
A memory of Bibury in 1960 by
The Ghost
My dad, even though married he was one for playing the field. Mother was taking care of my brother's kids (his wife had died, he was a Flight Sargent), Mother was miles away and Dad played about. One afternoon he had picked up ...Read more
A memory of Royston by
Memories
My mother Gwen Clayden worked at the Ritz cinema during the war years, and spent many evenings on the roof doing fire watch. As a teenager in the mid sixties I remember many shops along Darkes Lane including Woolworths opening (in the ...Read more
A memory of Potters Bar
Back To The Mid 1970s
1974-1975 I was a French assistant at Westlands School, Plainmoor in Torquay. I would often rent a cottage located in Woodleigh Road in Gara Bridge. This cottage belonged then to Mrs Wadstein who had a charming son named ...Read more
A memory of Woodleigh in 1975 by
Evacuation
I was evacuted from the Manchester area, together with younger brother Robert in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II. We arrived in Accrinton, and were taken to a school where we waited to be billited. After we had something ...Read more
A memory of Stanhill in 1940 by
My First Home
I lived in the prefab you can see on the right of this photograph, 4 Windsor Crescent, and moved there when I was one years old. I loved living there and have many happy memories. Already the council houses were being built ...Read more
A memory of Ingoldmells by
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The post office at Ayot was used by George Bernard Shaw in a rather lesser known play, 'A Village Wooing'.
It is now best known for its Chest Hospital, which was founded in 1905 to look after Post Office workers suffering from tuberculosis.
The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.
Lurking behind the post office is the parish church, which became a cathedral in 1919.
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
Ornate arbours and a Moorish-style pavilion provided seats sheltered from the wind and a floral hall hosted shows and concerts.
The posts on either side of the doorway have initials for the Drew family and the date 1649.
In the 1960s, farm land began to be sold off for development, and the village supports a post office and general store, together with two pubs - The Dog and Duck and The Ferguson Fawsitt, named after the
Barrel Rock (centre right, with the marker post) marks the end of Bude's breakwater. The first one was destroyed in a storm in 1838 and was replaced by one designed by James Walker.
It will come of little surprise that the pub thrives, whilst the Post Office is long gone.
This is a close-up of the statue of St Hubert on the post office.
Behind the post office lamp on the right the tall new Lloyds Bank building has altered the roof line.
The post-war tennis courts on the left are no longer there, and the grounds are now the venue for events such as open-air dramas and historical re-enactments.
The Grays Co-operative Society shops on the right are now the Post Office and Elm Park Pharmacy.
Looking west towards Court Haw, a horse and carriage wait patiently outside the little single-storey post office built on to the side of a large house, all now swept away.
Attractive lamp posts line the pavement. In the right hand corner the fencing around the War Memorial can be seen.
On the corner opposite the hotel is a post box inserted into a brick pillar for the convenience of the residents.
Opposite the parked car is now a petrol station, and to the right there is a convenience store and post office.
The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone. The Prince Albert (left), served in 1960 by Stroud Brewery, remains little changed.
This post mill is one of Suffolk's best-known tourist attractions. The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations.
An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.
Juby's is now partly the post office. Gordon Ince's gents' outfitter's next door remains, whilst the Fox (beyond) has closed - its yard has been turned into a precinct.
The Duke of Montagu, who lived there, held the post of Ambassador to the Court of Louis XIV, and brought back with him an impressive collection of French furniture and china.
On the left is the edge of the churchyard; beyond it lies Stanwick Post Office, and the premises of the local grocer and draper. Look closely. and you can spot the advertisement for Wall's ice cream.
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