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Grandfathers Memories
My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more
A memory of Cobham in 1946 by
Life As A Kid
I used to go to Usworth Park to play football or go bird nesting down the planton at Waterloo. I also used to go round collecting bottles to take back to shop and get the money for the pictures. We had 3 picture houses in ...Read more
A memory of Washington by
East Ham In The 1960s
In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1963 by
Happy Childhood
I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more
A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by
My Memories Of Salford
I was born in the upstairs back room of my maternal Gran's house at 20 John Street, Pendleton. I was told there was an air raid going on at the time. My first school was John Street where there was a play ground on the roof, ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1951 by
Childhood
Me and my sister used to go and stay in the school holidays with our great nanna, Mrs Hilda Pocklington, in her cottage at Walsbey Road, we used to love our time there. The tennis courts were out the back, and we often used to sit ...Read more
A memory of Market Rasen by
Schooling
We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent by
Queen Street Newton Heath
i was born on queen st newton heath 1962,went to briscolane scool for a sort while,lots of family lived in newton heath,would love to see pics of queen st,was pulled down years ago dont remember alot only brookdale park at the end of our st ,would love to see pics
A memory of Newton
Growing Up In Gilnahirk
My family moved from Leeds, Yorks to Gilnahirk when I was 11 months old - my parents had a house built in Gilnahirk Walk and we moved in when I was two. I and my two sisters had an idyllic childhood, we had so many places ...Read more
A memory of Belfast in 1961 by
Eirias Park And More
I was born in groes rd. and lived there with my mum and Nain and Taid. The park was wonderfull. Playing tennis golf ,sailing my yacht the swings the boating lake and wonderfull fireworks on 5 th nov. when the finale was a ...Read more
A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1950 by
Captions
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The church lay east of the circular garden, and Queen Victoria's statue is roughly where the detached bell tower was situated.
This photograph shows the statue of King Edward VII, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, at the corner of Union Street and Union Terrace.
Today this hill is a wonderful place to walk as it is largely taken over by the Queen's Wood Country Park with an extensive collection of trees from all over the world.
Thus Glasgow ended up with four railway termini but not a single through line, and to this day passengers have to walk or take a shuttle bus between Central and Queen Street.
The Duke of Clarence opened the Technical and Art College on the site of the old Thornes House in 1891, and this adjacent park (29 acres), once grazing land, was opened to the public on 6 July
The park was named after the Earl of Sefton, and is Liverpool's largest park, and larger than any of London's parks.
This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars. Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.
Today this hill is a wonderful place to walk as it is largely taken over by the Queen's Wood Country Park with an extensive collection of trees from all over the world.
Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison.
Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.
Although Queen's Park is now the only public park within the town, some very senior Loughburians will remember Burleigh Brook Park on Ashby Road.
At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.
By far the most impressive building in the parish, the Tudor mansion, with its octagonal wing turrets and a 50 acre park landscaped by Humphrey Repton in 1790, was the result of the redevelopment of
Members of the Royal Family still drive through Windsor Great Park to attend race meetings at Ascot.
This evocative late Victorian view with the youths posing beside Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Statue is very much an archive photograph: only the building to the left, a bank, now the
on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park
On the west side, Middlesex County Council built Ealing County Boys School in 1913 in Queen Anne style. It is now part of Ealing and West London College.
In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.
The Queen's Head (left) dates from c1580. It was renovated in 1982-83 when the gents' loos were removed from the car park.
The lines of parked vehicles on both sides of the road tend to detract from the architectural riches of the fine Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings that adorn this spacious street; they are evidence
on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park
There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.
One stop down the line from Enfield town, Bush Hill Park station was opened in 1880 to service this development by the Northern Estates Company.
In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.
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