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Looking Fo Nick Martin
In 1969 my friend Nick Martin, who lived in Hawkhurst, and I, hitch-hiked across to the Taj Mahal in India. Sadly I have lost touch with Nick and I wonder whether any of your contributors may be able to help us get back in contact again. John Hague
A memory of Hawkhurst by
Northolt Wonderland
I was born in Barnet in 1942, but the Germans bombed our house and killed my dad a few months later. I was sent to Wales to avoid the Blitz. (BlitzKrieg - Lightening strikes) after 5 years I found myself in Millway Gardens in ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire
In the post war years, as families rebuilt their lives again, Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able, bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet ...Read more
A memory of Tralee by
Two Year Student At Cheshire County Training College Crewe
It was an all-ladies' college when I attended. Many friendships were made. Memories of teaching practices at schools in Crew and surrounds. First year students had to go out in "digs" and were ...Read more
A memory of Crewe
The Hope Inn
I think it was 1949/50, I remember living along the canal side, Trafalgar Row it was called, over the other side from the Hope Inn. Somehow I think it was further up than Somerfield almost opposite the Empire. Most of my family used ...Read more
A memory of Wisbech in 1949 by
Annual Visit
My parents, Fred & Marjorie La Touche, always took us to visit our great aunt & uncle Curtis,who lived at Cottage of Content in Harris Barton.At one time this was a pub, (perhaps someone has a photo of it ) but then it ...Read more
A memory of Frampton Cotterell in 1945 by
When The Reverend Nichols Was The Rector
Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more
A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by
St Joseph's Convent School
I note that a couple of people have mentioned St Joseph's Convent School. Having attended that school from 1960 to 1966, I can confirm that the location was opposite Hoadley's and the building did indeed curve alongside ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill
Delamere
My best friend was sent here in the 1980s and the mental/physical abuse he suffered was profound. He was sent because his mother had a disability not him. He became successful but was never able to make sense of any close relationship and ...Read more
A memory of Delamere by
Ice Skating On The Port
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by
Captions
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Until 1948 divers had only been able to reach and explore Chamber 9.
They were also able to wave to passers-by.
The owners claimed to be able to seat two and a half thousand people in the marquees and refreshment rooms.
The King's forces at Worcester was thereby robbed of its most able field officer.
When sailing wherry you had to be able to sail very close to the wind, for the narrow waterways allowed no extravagant tacking manoeuvres.
There is a real art to punting.
Recaptured by the English in 1407, it fell again to Glyndwr in 1408, but he was only able to hold on to it for a few months before it was once again in English hands.
The challenge was met by new boarding houses, tall and each able to take in several families.
If we count four awnings down on the same side of the road, we will just be able to make out Boots.
Stagecoaches departed from here daily for all parts of the country until the railways put an end to them.
It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of
It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of
It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as 'invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of an
In 1940 both river and marshes froze, so it was possible to walk the whole way to Acle.
Gardens such as this should also be able to offer a private area where it is possible to reflect quietly, away from public gaze, but this is often a rare luxury.
The plots are small, and to use the land to its best advantage the owners have built upwards, not quite like a modern skyscraper but daring for its time.
The girl crossing the square would not be able to dawdle in the way she is doing today—this is now a very busy thoroughfare.
There are few cars other than those parked between the Cromwell statue and the war memorial, and people are able to pass the time of day in the middle of the road.
Gardens such as this should also be able to offer a private area where it is possible to reflect quietly, away from public gaze, but this is often a rare luxury.
Next to the Square's war memorial (out of view) stands a captured gun from a German First World War submarine, which was presented to Chepstow in recognition of the bravery of Able Seaman Williams VC,
Holyhead has seen a decline in recent years, although Swift was able to write in 1727 that it was 'scurvy, ill-provided and comfortless', so recent trends may have followed a pattern.
There is a real art to punting.
Now only small coastal steamers are able to navigate the difficult channels to reach the quayside.
This design is used because the Norfolk rivers are not powerful enough to work an overshot wheel.
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