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Grain Fort
After the war in 1946 my father, a sergeant in the MPSC, was transfered to Darland camp in Gillingham but as there were no married quarters available there we, as a family, were billeted in the Coastguards quarters on the Isle of ...Read more
A memory of Isle of Grain in 1946 by
Fishing With Billy
Billy was a hero to we boys. In the daytime you could go crabbing with him; at night, out drifting. He drove an old open jeep and at times you would see five, six or even seven boys clinging to parts of this ex-US vehicle as it ...Read more
A memory of Downderry in 1955 by
1972
Married at the wonderful old church of St. Peter's Walton on the Hill, 5th July 1972. At this time, my parents were living at Tudor Court, Walton St. Walton on the Hill, and Mum, owned the shop below, Anne Cleeves. I had been over ...Read more
A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1972 by
Sacred Heart Church
This is Sacred Heart RC Church, in Accrington. It has now been demolished. I have many great memories and some not so great from this sacred place. I felt like I had to share this info, with you when I saw this picture. ...Read more
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Pattern Weaving At Reuben Gaunts Mill
My dad got me a job as a trainee pattern weaver at Gaunts mill in the main street of Farsley. I was 16/17 at the time. I learned a lot in that 18 months or so and I also met a beautiful girl called Doreen ...Read more
A memory of Farsley in 1960 by
Can We Get Married?
After a day down the front we sat just around the corner of the Donkey just past where the cars are. It was a great summer evening and we were just finishing the day with a drink. I thought it was the right time to ask ...Read more
A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1956 by
Our Honeymoon
These pictures bring back delightful memories! We spent a week of our honeymoon in the 16th century mill at Lydia Bridge. Across the lawn was a view of the brook and early spring flowers. We stepped outside to the sound of the ...Read more
A memory of South Brent in 1999 by
Gowers Bridge
Gowers bridge was not too far from where we lived and was a great place to take the children for a picnic, to learn to ride a tricycle and to skim stones across and see who won, then pick our way to Llyn Bwrw Eira, along the banks, ...Read more
A memory of Llanrwst in 1956 by
The Watford To Rickmansworth Railway In The Second World War
Croxley Green station is now - in the 21st century - merely a shadow of its former busy life. My Auntie Dorrie (Doris Lacey) worked at this station throughout the Second World War ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by
Looking Back
I was born in St Peters St, Islington, 1935, bombed out late 1943, with nowhere to go, had a makeshift home in Aloysius College for a time until we were given a place in 4 Montague Road, Honsey, N8, that's where I knew what it was like ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey in 1944 by
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At Cleobury Mortimer there is another giant of Wyre Forest, the Mawley Oak.
Both received a round of applause.
The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.
The earliest castle on the site was built during the reign of William the Conqueror, but the present structure dates from 1156, when work began on the stone shell keep.
650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.
At 195 grt and powered by a two-cylinder simple engine, she was used on local services on the Medway, though from 1901 she was based at Ramsgate during the summer season for excursion traffic.
As shipping lines tried to out-do one another, offering the very best of comfort combined with fast crossing times, transatlantic liners soon went from being sea- going first-class hotels to
Then less than two years later another oil tanker hit the bridge, to be followed by two floating cranes that inflicted more damage.
Six hundred years later, another invading army made Old Sarum its defensive home: the inner fortifications now contained a Norman castle and a cathedral.
Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.
George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.
We are approaching Chandler's Ford from Southampton along Bournemouth Road, altered from Southampton Road to avoid confusion with another road of that name.
When the Black Death raged through Europe, Ashwell was not spared, and a desperate villager scratched on the wall of the church: '1350 - miserable wild distracted the dregs of the people alone survive
As well as the Star Dining Rooms and the Pier Head Dining Room on its left, we have another on the very right of our view.
In 1925 it became the Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, with 400 campers in this building and another 100 men in permanent tents in the grounds. It later became Middleton Towers Holiday Camp.
The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.
Another quiet day in the High Street; perhaps the photograph was taken on a Wednesday, which was early closing day.
This is a fine view of Holy Cross Church with the Abbey Buildings on the left. The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Institute is on the right.
When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.
This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.
Augustus John was another native of the town.
Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on
Here we see another view of the main street. The jaunting car tells of the recent changes, and the lamps tell of a gasworks only waiting to be expanded.
The sundial was removed from its original mounting on the gable of the south transept in 1891 and re-erected near the west tower three years later.
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