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Mid Eighties
From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more
A memory of West End in 1986 by
Reminders Of My Youth
I remember being taken to the village when I was very young - I believe one of my great uncles ran the Pub - One of the ubquitous Jermy Family - I am coming to Norfolk to try and research my roots at the end of July this ...Read more
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Haytor, Moorland Hotel Fire 1970
I was the manager of the Moorland Hotel from July 1967 until March, 6th 1970 when it burned down. The manager from whom I took over was called Brown and he before him was called Maurice Trew. The writer before ...Read more
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Graces Road
My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell by
Rothamsted
Much of the Farm Management Course I studied in Devon in the early 1970s was based on work done at Rothamsted. I felt very lucky to land a job here in 1975 and gradually to meet and even work with the authors of text books I had studied. ...Read more
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From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.
The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more
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Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
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David Christie
I lived at 5 belsyde ave from 1953 till 1972 with mum and dad and my sister Helen and two brothers Colin and Kenny. My dad ran the local scout troop - the 107th Glasgow. I had lots of friends including Ian Mcneil Kenny Hutton and ...Read more
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Ashhurst Way Memories
I was brought up from the age of two living in 63 Ashhurst Way and what lovely memories I have got. I was brought up in a large family. A lot of people I can remember are no longer with us and the friends I had Tony ...Read more
A memory of Rose Hill by
Chalk Pit & The Hunt
Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. ...Read more
A memory of Odiham in 1981 by
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This superb minster church was founded before 956; the present church was started in 1108 by the Archbishop of York, and the west towers were completed by about 1150.
Specimens of 'Little Trees', a species of deep water coral so named because of its shape, are sometimes washed up on the beach at Crackington.
Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster. This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.
The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too. The road at the centre of the picture leads to the ruins of Creake Abbey, which lies in a beautiful setting beside the stream.
At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
The lovely timber porch was left relatively untouched, however; and a grave-slab from an earlier church has recently been discovered beneath the pews. The rectory burned down in the 1950s.
Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London. Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.
High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).
Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today. The charcoal produced had a multitude of uses, particularly in the smelting of iron.
St George's is considered to be one of Sir Gilbert Scott's finest designs, and was built in 1854-58 as a replacement for the original parish church which had been destroyed by fire.
Felsted had two watermills at the time of the Domesday survey, and it is likely that Felsted Mill and Hartford End Mill are on the same two sites.
The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.
High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).
The Mill stood to the south of Rochford on the tidal estuary of the River Roach. Many mills existed along the tidal arms of the sea fingering into Essex which provided easy transport by water.
This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.
This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.
Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.
Visit the church at Yateley, and have a look at the glass in the 13th- century east window: it depicts Peter and John, and is the work of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west.
THE ACT OF UNION in 1707 was bitterly reviled at the time, and even for many years afterwards - Robert Burns echoed popular sentiment when he dismissed the Scottish commissioners with the lines
What remains of the Castle buildings is now overshadowed by a glass, steel and concrete edifice to its rear.
When lead was discovered in Weardale, the mining rights were granted to the bishops of Durham; by the 13th century, mining, smelting and charcoal burning and so on were on a large scale for the period.
This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.
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