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During The Second World War
This story is a memory during the Second World War. My father Samuel Fredrick Richardson was the air-raid warden. There was a brick shelter, built on the village green. Most of the village used to use it. One ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1940 by
Police Station
I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by
Shelfield Junior And Infants School And St Mark's Church
I went to Shelfield Junior School and have strong memories of the combined smell of bread being baked, fish and chips being cooked and the smell of horses kept in the stables - all ...Read more
A memory of Shelfield in 1941 by
1941 Kirkstall Forge Air Raids
The Armstrong family moved to Horsforth from Armley in 1938. I was only 1yr old so cannot remember the move. Mum and Dad bought a house at no 15 Charles Street. My earliest memories must have been in March 1941, the ...Read more
A memory of Horsforth by
When West Was East
My grandparents James & Emily Lee lived at 16 Station road from about 1938 to 1946, it was called East Horndon then. Part of that time my mother and I lived with them, most of the war years. My grandfather and my mother ...Read more
A memory of West Horndon by
By Gone Times
I was born in London in 1933 and later, when the Ideal Homes Estates were constructed, my parents with me, moved to Howard avenue at Bexley. Danson Park was the place to go to. Everything happened there. Firework displays ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Bareham Family
My Great grandfather Thomas Bareham lived at the Veldt Cottage which was next door to the Red Lion pub.He was also church warden at Great Holland Parish Church where he was well liked and respected. Although I live in Ipswich, I visit Great Holland and Clacton quite often.
A memory of Great Holland in 1930 by
School Days
I lived at 27 Radnor Street, last but one tennament to be flattened. My first year of school was at the "new high school", on Bouquanaran; 10 class rooms open, we had to scramble among the bricks to get to class. Then I went to ...Read more
A memory of Clydebank in 1940 by
Happy Youth
I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more
A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by
Campsite
My father was building the Power Station at Shoreham in the fifties and we had a tent here for many Summer months. The lads use to dare me to go to the Wardens control tower and say I was lost! They used to humour me and broadcast my ...Read more
A memory of Brighton in 1950 by
Captions
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On the corner next door is the public library, which was built in 1889 in part of the garden.
This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.
This was an era when labour-saving machines of all kinds were being invented for the home and garden.
The gardens were created in 1846 from the former Newbold Meadows, donated in 1836 by Edward Willes of Newbold Comyn.
Visitors relax in the splendour of Valley Gardens, and tea is served from the Sun Pavilion.
These views of the Embankment Gardens clearly show the results of continuing are and attention.
Punch and Judy, donkey rides, boating and a wooden refreshment hut where the renowned Cleveleys Gingerbreads were sold in 1927 were replaced when Jubilee Gardens was made.
This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.
The terraced and topiary gardens contain the first wisteria and mulberry ever to be planted in Britain, and were landscaped by Capability Brown and John Tradescant.
A fine view of a house whose gardens were compared by John Aubrey with 'the kingdom of heaven'.
The church on the right is St Mary-at-Lambeth, which has since become the Museum of Garden History.
The tower has been further reduced since 1951 to provide stone for garden walls.
Magnificent sea views are afforded from the Promenade, down the north coast in the direction of Hartlepool and beyond, hence the name of these gardens.
Gardens such as this were once a common feature.
The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.
The Shrubbery Gardens, shown in the above picture, were first enclosed in 1825.
The wall running almost the whole width of the picture surrounds the Dean's Court kitchen garden.
This is the same view as L130274, but taken hald a century later, with Millbank now covered by Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Here families stroll along the parade on the top of the cliffs, which was soon to be developed as Marine Gardens.
In the 17th century there was a popular bear garden at Bankside.This poor creature is urged to dance to bugle tunes played by his owner, who is probably an old soldier.
Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions.When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid out Coronation Gardens
Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden
At the end of the street is Gardener's, the gents' outfitter's.
The post box still stands in the garden of the shop at the corner of Station Road and Woodside Road, but the telephone box, peeping into the left of the photograph, has disappeared.
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