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A Wonderful Time
My family and I lived at 157 Wilmslow Road, it had just been built so all of us who lived on the road moved in around the same time, and it was a wonderful. My parents George and Thelma Goddard, had the three of us then, Georgina, ...Read more
A memory of Handforth in 1955 by
Graham Kinnear Memories Of Brandon High School From Australia
Brandon High School, Motherwell, Scotland. Reminiscences by Graham Kinnear May 2023. Living in Australia since 1980. I was so fascinated by fun and games and adventures, that ...Read more
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Family Connections.
The gentleman in the foreground of the Quadrant in the dark suit is my father Albert (Bert) Brandon a local business man. He opened a fruit and flower shop at 12 Albion Street which was previously his mother's shop and sold ...Read more
A memory of Dunstable by
An Old Mans Memories
I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford. My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
Evacuee Memory
My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a hardware shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr ...Read more
A memory of St Day in 1940 by
60s /Irby
Born 1959 & lived down the bottom of Coombe Road. Looking at the pics of the village I can remember the daily uphill trudge with mum to the shops. Ok I was in a pushchair on the way up but that became a shopping trolley on the way ...Read more
A memory of Irby by
Boyhood
I was born in 1922 in Mundford where my Father was the village policeman. We had no motor car, indeed in those days there were not many people who could afford this luxury. The village was small, however it was self-contained and provided ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
My Esh Winning Childhood
I lived in Brandon Road in the house next door to the Majestic Cinema from about 1940 to 1946. The house in those days was called Dent Dale which was written on the glass panel above the door. I used to go to the school ...Read more
A memory of Esh Winning by
Oddington 1946 1959
I was born in Moreton in Marsh and lived the first 13 years of my life in Oddington. My father was a farmer and we lived at Green Farm right in the middle of the village. We used to have the village bonfire (November ...Read more
A memory of Lower Oddington by
Tales Of College Green
This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
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This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.
Brandon's on the right is now Brandon House, and Broadway Court beyond lost its shopfronts in the 1980s.
Brandon was famous for its flint knapping industry, which supplied gunflints throughout the world.
This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.
This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.
Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.
Taken from the footbridge over the river, the towerless Christchurch was designed by Raphael Brandon and dates from the 1860s.
On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,
Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.
As Bristolians had enjoyed free access rights to Brandon Hill since the 16th century, the Radicals simply held their meetings there, attracting large crowds; they were almost impossible to police.
The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On
Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.
The church is Holy Trinity by David Brandon, built in the 1840s in flint pebbles and stone, with further Victorian additions in brick and stone.
The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.
To the left of the Clocktower and the County Hall is the Jacobean-style Town Hall and Corn Exchange building by Brandon, dated 1865.
This attractive three-storey building is in the Jacobean and Tudor style much favoured by its builder, David Brandon.
The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.
The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On
David Brandon rebuilt the hospital in 1859 to 1862 in a similar style to the earlier one; it had been a Georgian country house, with wings added in 1832.
Brandon's department store with its classical pilasters concealing its steel frame is now shops and offices.
Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything
At the end of the broad drive leading to the castle grounds are the fine entrance gates, beyond which is the 12th-century church of St Brandon.
It also evidently stocked Daren bread - a popular Hovis-like brand in its day.
Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.
