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Growing Up In Hendon 1945 1970
Being born in the front room of 7 First Avenue (which runs between Finchley Lane and Victoria Road) in September 1945 and living at that address until 1970 approximately, but my mother (Mary) and Father (Len) lived there ...Read more
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Haigh Hall, Wigan
Dad would walk me from Hindley up to Plantation Gates then we would get the little train that ran from behind Haigh Hall plantation gates.Started walking in 1952 & went many times.
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54 Albert Road
I lived in 54 Albert Road, Parkstone, from 1962 until 1972. My paternal grandparents lived at 56 Albert Road, next door. They'd lived there from the 1930's onwards. The back garden was very big and long, plus sloped downhill. I used ...Read more
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My First Visit To England
We travelled down with a large group of Scottish NABC members from Edinburgh and the Lothian areas. My particulal journey commenced by coach to Liverpool where we continued by train to Hereford. On our arrival we were ...Read more
A memory of Nash in 1953 by
Early Years In Hindley
What - no memories of Hindley? I was born in 1935 (nee Pennington) at a house in Liverpool Road, just up from the Strangeways Pub (The Paddock). The area was called Navvies' Lump, and although the address was "Liverpool ...Read more
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Wartime Years In Llanarmon Yn Ial
Shortly after the outbreak of war, my Father who had a pet shop in Wallasey, evacuated the family to Llanarmon. We consisted of Dad, Mum, my brother Ray and myself. We moved into Rose Cottage in the ...Read more
A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1940 by
Sixpenny Handley, The Roe Buck Inn
My ancester Edward Dutch built and ran this hotel after the village fire in 1892 - as recorded in the censuses of the time. Take a look at my family history at www.thedutchfamily.co.uk/h_dutch.htm
A memory of Sixpenny Handley in 1890 by
Coombes Of Church Farm
I believe my Great Grandparents Annie and Maurice (Frank) Coombes lived and farmed at Church Farm during the 1920s. My father Thomas (Aubrey) Coombes used to spend most of his school holidays there as a boy. This ...Read more
A memory of Sixpenny Handley in 1920 by
Moreton School And The Radclyffe Family
Hello I would dearly love to hear from anyone who remembers my mother, myself and my sister when we lived at 'Crossways' with the Radclyffe family. My mother was their cook/housekeeper. It was the early ...Read more
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Good Old Days
I apprenticed at Luton Airport, having been a 'spotter' as a boy, you could stand next to a five foot fence adjacent to the taxiway and almost touch the wings as they went past! No terror worries then. I joined Court Line, who were ...Read more
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Despite a 20th-century road sign which carried the name '6d Handley', the Sixpenny really has nothing to do with money at all.
Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house
The bus on the left was owned by Victory Tours of Sixpenny Handley, still a major coach company.
This fine study of a horse and cart at Handley Pond portrays a rural scene that could have been observed at any period during the last thousand years.
This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.
The bus on the left was owned by Victory Tours of Sixpenny Handley, still a major coach company.
Not far from here in Palmerston Road, Handleys of Southsea, a department store and part of the Debenhams group, was 100 years old in 1967.
This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.
This fine study of a horse and cart at Handley Pond portrays a rural scene that could have been observed at any period during the last several centuries.
This is the main shopping street of Sleaford, and the Handley Memorial was the ideal place for a set of destination signs.
This is the main shopping street of Sleaford, and the Handley Memorial was the ideal place for a set of destination signs.
The two distant gables further downhill belong to the 1920s Handley Arcade, which passes behind the foreground buildings to emerge in Leeming Street, just out of view to the left, this time in a Classical
