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We Emigrated To Australia In 1963 From Sandiacre
I was about 5 when my mum and dad moved us to Sandiacre from Nth Wingfield around 1955, we Loved our new council house in Coronation Avenue, my grandma and grandad lived in the first house on the ...Read more
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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
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
Happy Days.
Looking at the photos brought back so many happy memories, I lived at Homefield Gardens across the Heath & went to the Methodist School from 1956 to 1963. Miss Fletcher was the headmistress & I think Miss Watts was my teacher ...Read more
A memory of Burgh Heath by
Last Bus Home
So you missed the last bus home, in my case to Castlemilk from St. Enoch's Square, after a night at the Locarno. It is winter, cold, wet and windy and you know you have to do it. Stand and wait for the number '2' bus to get me into ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow in 1968 by
Edenhurst Preparatory School
Does anybody remember Edenhurst Preparatory School in Crowther Road? It was a private infants and primary school and I, Paul Evans, was there from the age of about 5 to 8 years. This was back in the early 1950s. ...Read more
A memory of Tettenhall by
Great Grandfather
It is strange to see one of the two portraits that hung in my grandparents' hallway, for sale on the web. Issac was born in 1837 in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire. Taught himself to read and write while an agricultural labourer, ...Read more
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Old Teacher At Martock C Of E Primary Scool
Hullo, Martock and Bower Hintoners of 1962! My name is Richard James. Currently I am 86 and still ‘ with it’ , I like to think. The happiest teaching year of my whole life was at Martock, and I was the ...Read more
A memory of Bower Hinton by
Entertaining The Tring Christmas Shoppers With Morris Dancing
Tring hosts a lovely Christmas shopping evening each year when the High Street is decorated, the shop windows have illuminated Christmas displays and stay open late and the place is ...Read more
A memory of Tring in 2004 by
75 Years Later
I was born in 1948 in the house then called 'Melita' a thatched house divided into three, it is the house at the very top of the holloway up on the bank, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas lived one side, Mr. and Mrs. Bezant the other, my parents ...Read more
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The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.
The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.
During the winter the wooden boards of the 'Splashboard' and the temporary cabins had to be removed and stored inland.
The library was founded after the Rev William Stone left his books to the Minster in 1686 and more were added in 1695.
In the 1890s it was thronged with skaters when the river froze in the severe winters of those days.
Somerleyton Hall's impressive cast iron and glass-domed winter garden, with its rich abundance of ferns, climbing plants and typical Victorian ornamentation.
There is no minster at Yetminster, but it does offer a very attractive 15th century parish church, with some excellent brasses and carved roof bosses.
Wimborne Minster dominates the winding streets of the medieval town to which it gives its name.
One is Lincoln Cathedral, the other is Beverley Minster.
The manor was granted to New Minster, later Hyde Abbey, at Winchester in 901, and the village subsequently became known as Abbotts Ann.
The true New Forest pony can survive outdoors through all seasons, eating holly and furze tops during the winter.
Low Petergate is one of the many narrow side-streets which lead up towards the towers of York Minster, seen in the centre background.
This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.
Its Long Gallery, used for winter promenades among the ancestral portraits, is 160 ft long, and the 19th-century ceiling was replaced by a more accurately-proportioned one.
This area was once the site of the Saxon Minster and burial ground.
Thick reed beds glow golden in winter sunshine, a magical sight with blue sky reflected in the water.
New Bridge is the starting point for canoe- ists embarking on the stretch of the river known as 'The Loop'— a three-mile white- water run downstream to Holne Bridge, tackled in winter when the
Valley Road appears unsurfaced: dusty in summer, a quagmire in winter.
As we can see, it was just a hop and a skip for the chantry priests to reach the Minster from their dwellings.
Scaffolding is in place on one of the Minster towers, as serious repairs were taking place.
Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.
Despite the relative shelter offered by Mounts Bay, winter storms can sometimes be ferocious.
John Glasman supplied stained glass for the East Window of York Minster.
Once known as Vicar's Lane and then Little Alice Lane, the street branches off to Minster Yard, where the Theatre Royal opened in 1730 - it was the first theatre in York.
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