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Memories
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Old School Friends
I attended the local Pelham County Secondary Boys School which was close by. A number of my friends who attended came from outlying districts such as Carshalton, Chessington, Tolworth and Walton on Thames, travelling by Southern ...Read more
A memory of Wimbledon by
Home
My memory goes back to the time my mother and father lived in Ponti and it was a very happy time. My father passed away in 1956, killed in Bristol and my father asked my mother to marry him in the bandstand in Ponti Park and they had a good ...Read more
A memory of Pontypridd in 1940 by
School Days
As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more
A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by
Beginnings
My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My ...Read more
A memory of Crantock by
Memories Of Baby Burial At Dilston Maternity Hospital
by Mr Alex Hillary (April 6th 2007) - as reported to Susan Hedworth, Community Care Assistant No, we don’t get the snow like we used to! Like it was in 1941, I mean. I was a taxi driver at ...Read more
A memory of Corbridge by
Croglin 1958
When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the ...Read more
A memory of Croglin by
18 Two Meadows
As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more
A memory of Hemsby by
Wrinstead Court
I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also ...Read more
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A Schoolboy's View Of Bexleyheath In The Early 1950s
I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by
Paras At Watchfield In The 1950s
Yes, I lived on the Watchfield housing estate from 1952 to 1953. Large numbers of paras and their equipment were dropped regularly at the airfield. Trainees jumped from large silver barrage balloons, but ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield in 1953 by
Captions
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Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.
Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.
With a massive replanting programme set to recreate its original horticultural splendour, last year's Green Flag award for excellence came as little surprise.
The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver Light Railway
Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.
Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.
The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland!
The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.
The Colts' fortune came from Sir Thomas, Privy Councillor to Edward IV.
These originally came from Chile.
Many Northumberland resorts are famed for the quality of their sands, but alas for Newbiggin - both pollution and wave action have taken their toll.
The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.
Before the M4 motorway existed, traffic from London came through Datchet en route to Windsor.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.
Until a by-pass came in 1990, it carried both the A36 and A361.
This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times.
Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.
In later centuries, the port of West Bay was opened downstream and goods came once more by sea and into this ancient town.
The famed Kendal bowmen at the Battle of Flodden Field (1513) were clad in home-spun Kendal Green cloth.
The Corbet Arms Hotel is named for an important Shropshire family that came to England with William the Conqueror.
It contains 17th-century panelling which originally came from Devon.
The village is probably most famous as the home of the Bluebell Railway, a popular attraction since it came into private ownership in the early 1960s.
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