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St Malachys Primary School 1951 To 1956
I was born in Manchester in 1945, and moved with my family to Kingsly Crescent Collyhurst flats. My father died in 1948, and my mother, brother Joe and I moved to Elizabeth-Ann Street, Collyhurst, where ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1951 by
Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
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Betton A Rural Idyl
I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by
The Old Bakery
The building in the distance is the old bakery. When I was a child/teenager (in the 1960s) my grandparents (Bert and Annie Hurd) lived in a cottage just behind where this picture was taken, and whenever we visited them we would go ...Read more
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Boyhood Memories
As a child I lived in a lovely house called Glanafon next to the old County Stores bakery in St Clears with my mother Anglea and step-dad Malcolm, and my 2 sisters, Rosemarie and Teresa. Unfortunately Teresa passed away over 20 ...Read more
A memory of St Clears in 1976 by
Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
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Memories Of Bonfire Night In The 1950s
I grew up in Berwick Street, Liverpool. The best night of the year was Bonfire Night. My mates and I would collect bonny wood for ages before the big night and store it in a bombed out ...Read more
A memory of Fairfield in 1955 by
Gladstone Park
Our family moved from Churchill Road, Willesden to the country right out to Dudden Hill, in Normanby Road. The entrance to the park was just down the end of the road near the old iron bridge. There was a rather short ...Read more
A memory of Hendon in 1961 by
The Railway Inn
My Gran - Katherine Thomas - ran the Railway Inn (the Tap) for many years. My grandfather Thomas died shortly after I was born. My mother Hilda Jeffery (nee Thomas), my father William Jeffery and myself lived there. My mum died ...Read more
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Bombing Of Morland Avenue
Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1945
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The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.
The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.
A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.
Only the tower survives of the original church.
This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.
Construction of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr was commenced in the 14th century but the building was not completed until the late 15th or early 16th centuries.
Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.
Next to the gardener's house is the present-day rose garden, with delightful walkways and tropical houses.
The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.
This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.
Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called.
Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War.
This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.
In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.
The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.
Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.
In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different
Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping
Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.
The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons
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