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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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Lost Opportunity?
I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home ...Read more
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60 Years On And I Still Love It!
My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community ...Read more
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Jr Robinson And Maison Drayton
The farthest shop on the left was owned by my grandparents and I lived there until I was 3 with my parents, Ivan and Betty Robinson. They sold prams and baby goods. My mother Evelyn Betty McTurk did ...Read more
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Southall Memories
My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more
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199 Havant Road, Drayton
I was born on 6th feb 1944 at 199 Havant Road, Drayton and had a happy childhood there with my 5 sisters and parents. My father was a painter and decorator and we lived in the house until the late '50s. I ...Read more
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The Bakery
In my school days I used to go to the bakery with my school pal George. It was owned by Mr Rhodes, George's father. Helping to make all the bread-cakes-pork pies, Mr Rhodes would put a pork belly joint in the oven for our breakfast. Can ...Read more
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Memories Of Ambleside And The Lakes
We as a family first stayed at Rothay Manor in Ambleside in 1953 and it was then that I had my first experiences in fell walking, trout fishing and negotiating the nearby "Stepping Stones" across the river ...Read more
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Family Connections.
My grandfather, William Simpson Bruchshaw, is the man coming out of the greenhouse with the plant in his hand. He was head gardener to Mr Munro Walker until Mr Walker died. My grandfather's youngest brother, Henry, was farm ...Read more
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Weekends At Chapel Row
I didn't live in Bucklebury but was born in Cold Ash where I lived prior to moving to Thatcham. Unfortunately my father died as the result of a motor cycle accident when I was eight years old, and social care being what it ...Read more
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The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.
The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.
Beyond the war memorial is a drystone wall topped by the sign that reads Broadway Lane.
Drayton's thatched, grey lias war memorial stands across Church Street from the Drayton Arms.
Tyrley (pronounced Turley) Locks consists of a flight of five locks south of Market Drayton.
It gained importance from the ferry which it operated over the Ouse to Fen Drayton.
Market Drayton's weekly market (every Wednesday) is still famous in Shropshire, drawing people from all over the county.
On the next 'terrace' up is Middle Limpley Stoke, its narrow winding lane flanked by dry stone and mortared walls.
the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by traditional Cotswold dry stone
Note the dry stone wall in the foreground.
A bystander sits on the drystone wall to the left and watches their progress.
The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale, towards Grange and Rosthwaite.
The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale, towards Grange and Rosthwaite.
Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.
Market Drayton stands on a hill-top site overlooking the River Tern, which flows in the foreground of this photograph, and the settlement probably originated in prehistoric times.
Behind a dry stone wall All Saints' Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.
Behind a dry stone wall All Saints Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.
The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe
Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.
Burnsall lies in the heart of Wharfedale, where the drystone walls spread like a net over the fells, as can be seen in the background of this picture.
Fishing nets are left out to dry on the cobbles at the top of the beach.
Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.
The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake
The drystone-walled fields lead up to the rocky heights of Kinder Scout, at 2,088ft the highest point in the Peak District.
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