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Growing Up In Woolton
My family from many generations back have liven in Woolton and Gateacre. I grew up in a house opposite the English Rose pub and went to Out Lane primary school. We spent our summer days playing in the orchard by Watergate ...Read more
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Pear Tree Lane House?
My grandmother (Edith Florence Pawley) worked in service in Shorne (I have a very badly damaged photo). I have a postcard written to her from her fiance, addressed to her c/o Mrs Levy, Court Wood, Pear tree Lane, Shorne, probably ...Read more
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Coming Into Halifax Via North Bridge
As a child we used to return in the car down the hill towards North Bridge and the game was to be the first to spot Wainhouse Tower amongst all the other mill chimneys there were at that time (late 50s/early ...Read more
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Carefree Summer
I took a job at Gibbs Mews during the summer school holiday of 1967. I had worked every school holiday since I was 14, but this was certainly one of the more memorable jobs. The brewhouse, kegging department and warehouse were all ...Read more
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Gorton Streets
Does anyone remember Dearoak st, I think it was just around the corner from the baths off queens road
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School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
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My Dad's Memories
My father’s family owned fishing cobbler boats in Staithes and its where my father grew up. He used to tell me stories how he used to bunk school and go out with his Uncle Jack in the fishing boats. The fishing families held an ...Read more
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Wrong Place
St Peters church is in the high street .....this must be the path from St Wilfrids chapel at Church Norton the former site of St Peters Church Thank you, we will alter our database. Ed.
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Recollections Of Llangwyfan Hospital
I am not too sure I can be the only one to contribute, but am glad to do so.i was a patient in 1959 as a young lad with tb and was so desolate to be away from my home and family,it is very clear in mind now all ...Read more
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Halcyon Days Of Summer
Oh how I loved this pool in the late 60's early 70's despite the freezing cold water and the foot bath from the changing rooms. It was the place to be. We walked from home at Malthouse Lane through the Abbey fields down ...Read more
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A scattered village on a hilltop in the centre of Sussex.
In 1926, the Sands railway station closed and was converted to amusement arcades housing hundreds of slot machines; there was also a helter-skelter and a skating rink.
This photograph was taken from under the arch of the gateway leading to Malmesbury Abbey, looking out towards the market cross.
In 1791 Bognor was re-named Hothamton after Sir Richard Hotham, whose intention was to change the village into 'a desirable sea-bathing resort' for those of the nobility and gentry wishing to avoid the
In Victorian times it was popular as a spa town, with visitors flocking to take the waters. During the season, the town's population of just more than 2,000 would more than double.
One of Anglesey's best-known sailing resorts, at the eastern end of the Menai Strait, Beaumaris was founded by Edward I, who built one of his great castles here, although it was never finished.
Built at the junction of two valleys, Nailsworth represents the transition between the old wool- based industry and more modern industries.
Here we see the first half of George Hudson's dream of outdoing Bath. The house where Bram Stoker stayed in 1890 is in the centre behind the lamppost.
Although the church is of relatively modern construction – it was built in the mid 1860s - the site has religious significance probably dating back to before the Norman Conquest.
Penarth was, until quite recently, merely the marine residence and bathing resort of the well-to-do inhabitants of Cardiff; now, however, it bids fair to become of far more than local importance.
In addition to pure air, Weston has an unlimited supply of pure water from a never-failing spring, owned by the town, which is said to have its source in the Mendip range of hills.
Sea bathing and swimming were now fashionable; here Bangor could hardly be beaten, with its rocky pools and coves.
The Mini first took to the road in 1959, so it was a novelty when this picture was taken (centre left).
For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.
This quiet resort takes its name from the salterns or salt pans used by the monks from the nearby Otterton Priory.
The parish church of St Andrew must be the most beautiful of all the fenland churches.
Curiously, as the Skindles Hotel expanded, it was cut in two by Mill Lane (which led to Taplow Mills).
The market town of Bedale is a few miles to the north-east of Masham.
The urns have been removed from the parapet, and a new doorway inserted since 1898. Everard's Commercial Hotel is to the left, and in the distance is the earlier Corn Exchange of 1836.
Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.
This low tide view from the Outer Breakwater looks northwards to Victoria Pier and the town as the Weymouth paddle- steamer 'Duchess of Devonshire' reverses away from the Cobb.
The main entrance to the pub is at the other side, but there is a gate giving access from the churchyard.
This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.
Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain have stayed at the local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.
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