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Cobblers Shop Rockingham Road Swinton
My memory relates to the cobblers shop on Rockingham Road, Swinton as this was my grandad's shop, I used to walk down the back way, behind the houses to get to it, it is still a shoe repairers shop. ...Read more
A memory of Swinton in 1967
Lament On A London Landing
. When I was a gusty young airman So many seesaw sunny days Were spent with blue girls on Marlborough Downs Our only access, a path both straight and narrow, Thinnest and steepest in its final assent. Emotions ...Read more
A memory of Burderop Park in 1964 by
St Catherines School
I am trying to remember old schoolmates, Greham Humpries, Carol Taylor, Frank Birch (and sister), Julie wood ect. There were not many in the school but we had good times. I remember carrying coke in from the yard. I ...Read more
A memory of Barton Upon Irwell in 1958 by
Hill O Beath My Home
Hill of Beath was a great place to stay when I was young, running round streets playing cowboys with Brayan Snedon, Ross Mickey, playing football and training with the Haws, going to the little shop on Main Street and ...Read more
A memory of Hill of Beath in 1990 by
Boxing
When I was a young lad my father Gwilym Jones and Joe Collins of Avondale Street (Joe was, during the 1939-45 war, the army lightweight boxing champion of India) My father had been a professional boxer in his earlier years.They opened up ...Read more
A memory of Ynysboeth in 1948 by
Being In Garfield House Childrens Home,And Going To School In Crown Road, Dereham
My maiden name was Marion Grange, I am now known as Marion Yallop. I used to go to Crown Road, Dereham school, where I finished my school days from there in 1968. I ...Read more
A memory of Dereham in 1966 by
Park South
I can remember 1963 very well. I lived in Kingsway Close. My father was an insurance agent named Reg Dady and later became an assistant manager. I attended Swindon College and then joined my father as an insurance agent for United ...Read more
A memory of Swindon in 1963 by
Where I Was In '57
I don't recall to much of Cheadle Hulme. By the way my name is Brian Cheadle, and I was born in Swinton back in 1952. I remember Station Road. I was 10 years old when we came to Australia. We lived at 48 Warwick Street. ...Read more
A memory of Cheadle Hulme by
Heytesbury The Mill
I was born at 119 Park Street, Heytesbury in 1942; this was/is the last cottage on the right-hand side of the old A36 as you leave the village travelling towards Knook. I believe No119 and the adjoining No118 have long since ...Read more
A memory of Heytesbury in 1955 by
Deal By Deafault!
My wife spent many happy summers in Deal and Walmer with cousins/aunties/uncles/gran/gran-dad when on holiday from Swindon. She never stops talking about the Glen and mimicking her Welsh gran-dad saying he was going for a walk down ...Read more
A memory of Deal by
Captions
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This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.
The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.
Swinton and Pendlebury lie to the north-west of Salford. St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.
Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.
Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.
Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.
It was converted to a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists by T S Lansdown of Swindon in 1869 - it could accommodate a congregation of 1,000.
It was known as the Crown until about 1810, when it was renamed in honour of the Goddard family, the lords of the manor of High Swindon.
In 1905 Swindon was a busy manufacturing town which owed its wealth and commercial rise almost exclusively to the railway age in general and the inspiration of Sir Daniel Gooch in particular, who
Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about
These quarries had given Swindon an important industry long before the arrival of the GWR, for the stone was considered of excellent quality.
This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.
It provided the corn and cloth mills of Chalford with the means of finding new markets for their wares until this mode of transport was superseded by the Gloucester to Swindon railway line.
Looking North The main street of Old Swindon was first recorded in 1581.
The creator of the Queens Park concept was Maurice Williams, in his role as General Superintendent of Parks in Swindon.
The offices have suffered the same fate as the Town Hall - they have become too small for the intended council work with the massive expansion of Swindon.
They were built of concrete blocks by the Swindon development company Bradleys on land that was formerly Fuller & Maylam's nursery.
According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.
As railway services contracted, a major rationalisation in the 1980s saw the unthinkable happen - the Swindon works closed.
Thousands of Cheltenham people entered the world at St Paul's maternity hospital in Swindon Road, which was founded in 1948.
Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.
Next to these premises, by the bus stop, stands the sports shop of Harold Fleming, the famous footballer who played for Swindon Town from 1907-24; he was capped for England eleven times.
In 1914 Swindon Borough Council purchased both Coate Water and sections of disused canal within the town.
The Diamond stone sits alongside the Devizes to Swindon main road that goes through the village.
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