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Gone And Not Forgotten!

I can't believe no-one has bothered to write about LINSLADE, it may not be well known to the 'outsiders' but it's still worth a mention. My great-uncle, Robert Graham, used to work on Linslade railway station, he knew the ...Read more

A memory of Linslade in 1969 by Margaret Hogg

Days Gone By

My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1940 by Charles Hegarty

Paras

Hi, My father was stationed at Arnhem Camp in the 1960s, he was a paratrooper. The Paras at Watchfield were 16th Parachute Heavy Drop. I attended Watchfield Primary School and have fond memories of my time there, two teachers stand out in ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1965 by Terry Hanlon

Wonderful Times

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

Warden Point

I used to live in Cherry Tree Cottage, Warden Point in 1930, my father was Jock Martin, a sergeant in the R.A.F. stationed in Eastchurch. My mother was Phylis Woollett, daughter of Frank Woollett, mine host of the Crooked Billet. ...Read more

A memory of Warden in 1930 by Frank Martin

699 Green Lanes

Does anyone recall the name of the Timber Yard near to the Police Station before it became Travis Perkins?

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1960 by Bob Bell

Swimming Above Stepping Stones Weir At Bothal

Our Mam being an Ashington lassie, we returned to her birthplace when Mam divorced my father who she met before the Second World War - that was when Mam was in London and working in 'service'. We were ...Read more

A memory of Bothal in 1949 by Wullie Harries

Looking Back To The Early Days

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes

My Uncles Grave

This isnt really a memory as such but I'm after some help if anyone can. My uncle died before I was born and he was buried in Worfield. I know from my aunty that he isn't buried in the main graveyard but further up the hill, in a ...Read more

A memory of Worfield in 1960 by Benjamin Barlow

Leadership Course

We completed our Lance Bombadier Leadership training in these barracks, we referred to them as cavalry barracks (they are stables now). I was with 52 Bty 45 Fld Regt RA, stationed at Kirkee Barracks. One of my friends (Arnie ...Read more

A memory of Colchester in 1986 by Ross Grant

Captions

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Caption For Botley, The Railway Hotel And Station Entrance C1960

A memorial stone at the entrance to Botley station recalls the murder in 1800 of one Thomas Webb.

Caption For Raglan, The Village 1906

The road is Station Road, which today leads to the golf course.

Caption For Clovelly, From The Quay C1890

The lifeboat station opened in 1870 and shut in August 1988.

Caption For Mortehoe, C1900

Records from 1889 show builders, a station master and milliners among the trades listed, and people were coming from outside the parish to work.

Caption For Dorchester, Dorset Regiment Museum C1955

The Regent petrol station has been swept away to make more room for the Top o'Town car park.

Caption For Langdon Hills, The High Road C1950

Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

Caption For East Tisted, The Station 2004

Opened in 1903, the line ran between Alton and Fareham, with stations here, where the sign said 'Tisted for Selborne', Privett, West Meon, Droxford and Wickham.

Caption For New Quay, The Coastguard Station 1933

Beyond the coastguard station is the pier, built in 1835 with stone from a nearby quarry – the stone was brought here on a tramway.

Caption For Toller Porcorum, General View 1906

A view over Toller Porcorum, which shows its sometime railway station in the foreground. This village and its neighbour, Toller Fratrum, are usually referred to as Little and Big Toller.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Beach 1904

Part of it was a pumping station used to pump sea water to standpipes dotted around the town for Council workmen to draw off water to wash down the dusty streets.

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, Markhams Filling Station C1955

There is still a petrol station here today but it is linked to just one company.

Caption For Droxford, The Mill C1960

Churchill, the War Cabinet and the Allied Chiefs used the local railway station as their headquarters during the planning of D-Day in 1944, conducting operations in a special train based here.

Caption For Daventry, Recreation Ground C1965

The scene is backed by the then new police station.

Caption For Bishops Cleeve, Station Road C1955

A bygone era of rail travel is perpetuated in the name of this road, photographed some five years before the village station closed.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1955

The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.

Caption For Southwick, The Harbour C1965

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

Caption For Carnforth, Market Street 1898

Already busy with turnpike traffic, the railway's arrival encouraged more hotels, such as the Royal Station Hotel at the bottom of the street.

Caption For Lymington, Quay Hill C1955

Note the typical 1950s sign on the left - 'station and motor car ferry.' Just down on the right is R Ridgers' fish and chip saloon, and on the corner is a familiar pub sign.

Caption For Over Wallop, Rose Cottage C1965

Nearby is an old RAF Battle of Britain fighter station; 20 or so years before this picture was taken, the skies above the village would have echoed to the unforgettable sound of Spitfires and Hurricanes

Caption For Hope Under Dinmore, Markhams Filling Station C1955

There is still a petrol station here today but it is linked to just one company.

Caption For Richmond, Castle, The Keep And Robin Hood's Tower 1913

cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey from the railway station

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

The nearby airfield was used in World War II for bombers and then for training, with the 39 Regiment of Royal Engineers stationed here from 1966 onwards.

Caption For Aldeburgh, High Street C1955

In the distance Crabbe Street, named after the local poet the Rev George Crabbe, who inspired the work of Benjamin Britten, leads down to the beach and the lifeboat station.

Caption For Greenock, Princes Pier 1904

Owned by the Glasgow & South Western Railway, the pier was rebuilt and extended between 1892 and 1894, and more than £20,000 was spent by the company on alterations to the pier railway station.