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Learning To Swim On The Rye
I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London ...Read more
A memory of High Wycombe by
Lord Mayor Treloars Hospital 1953 1958
Starting when I was eleven I was a patient over 5 years for three spells, 2 years, 18 months and 9 months with an infected hip joint which became a deep routed abscess. Many different ‘ new’ antibiotics were tried ...Read more
A memory of Alton by
Sgt. Thomas Plaisted
I was stationed at Lakenheath from 1965 until 1968. I was a member of the 1979th Communications Squadron. While there, I was on the base softball team. We were realy good and won the UK Championship three consecutive years. Our ...Read more
A memory of Lakenheath by
Cambridge Hospital.
I used to live in Denmark square and I was 11 years of age. My friend Donna Meek lived in the army quarters. We used to adventure out behind the Cambridge hospital, were there was clear signs of bunkers that had been bombed, the ...Read more
A memory of Aldershot by
Memories Of Market Drayton
This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands ...Read more
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Happy Holiday Memories
I spent most weekends and school holidays in my Nan's little caravan on Pantymwyn Caravan Park from about 1974. I remember going to Mr Rich's for a gas bottle, going to the water stand as Nan's van was a little old thing lit ...Read more
A memory of Pantymwyn by
The Fairway
I was born at 28 The Fairway in 1946. There was (is) a wide grassed area down the centre of the road making it a kind of dual carriageway. In the years following the 2nd World War there were, "Pig bins", on several sections of the grass ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
Happy Days
My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
Happy Days
I went to Wescott Road school in 1950 then St Crispins 1956. I can recall quite a few shops. Herrings furniture where you could buy on HP with no checks, as Mr Herring assessed whether or not you looked trustworthy. NSS newsagents. Next ...Read more
A memory of Wokingham by
Bradford House
My daughters and I lived happily at Bradford House for seven years in the late 1990's ... The house was originally two 17th century cottages at right angles to each other. The Victorians then re-modelled one of the ...Read more
A memory of Bradford-on-Tone by
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Here we see another view of the street, which was cut in early Victorian times to become a channel of trade and industry.
Above the entrance is a gallery, and it was from here that a parson, ejected from the church by the Commonwealth, used to preach to the villagers.
Above the entrance is a gallery and it was from here that a parson, ejected from the church by the Commonwealth, used to preach to the villagers.
By 1906 the pier had been considerably widened and extended in length.
By 1906 the pier had been considerably widened and extended in length.
The tile-hung building to the right of the Square has woodwork elaborately carved with figures, fruit and mythical animals.
All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.
All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.
Just as they do today, buses 6 and 15 pass Charing Cross Station, where the forecourt is full of taxis - only two are old-fashioned hackney carriages.
The building on the left is now a bank, while a few doors down was the old lodging house for down-and-outs.
The estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private
In the distance, on the left of the picture, can just be seen Greta Hall, former home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
Holiday cottages line the bank, and in the background is a typical Broadland windpump, used for keeping the surrounding fields drained.
Now slightly nearer the town centre, we see more commercial and municipal buildings.
Kempsey lies between Worcester and Severn Stoke.
East Mill stood on the north side of East Road and was powered by the River Asker.
East Mill stood on the north side of East Road and was powered by the River Asker.
This chapter finishes across the next valley and up on the chalk ridge at Warlingham, 600 feet above sea level.
A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.
The Midland Bank and Woolworth's store draw the eye into this photograph of a remarkably traffic-free Square.
On the left is Porch House, a heavily-restored 16th-century house, now a bank, with the pavement passing through its ground floor.
The medieval bridge over the River Ouse was started in 1332 to connect Huntingdon with Godmanchester, and the respective authorities paid for three arches - note the different styles - with the builders
In the 19th century, banks often built very imposing buildings to reflect their status in everyday life.
There were a whole range of shops along the Broadway, ranging from a chemist's, a sweet shop, a gentlemen's outfitter's, a garage, a bank and the gas showroom, but competition was to follow from
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