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Madeley As It Was
I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more
A memory of Madeley in 1949 by
Police House 1939 45
The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House'). On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'. From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the ...Read more
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39londonroad
I was born in Hackbridge in 1944. I lived there until 1953 when my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins put me on a plane on May 2 to join my father who had emigrated to Canada the year before. My mother, who had lived in ...Read more
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Memories Of A Little Boy In Upper Beeding 1952 1954
As I get older I remember some of my early childhood in the UK. I was asked by my Grandson about my early life so am writing it down in a form of a book. My first memories are of going to ...Read more
A memory of Upper Beeding in 1952 by
Happy Days
I have many fond memories of Bodiam and the Castle, from when I was 1 year old in 1943, until I was 15. Along with dear Mum and my two sisters, our whole extended family on my mum's side consisting of several families would move to ...Read more
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The Dreaded Climb Up The Hill
When I was a lad, my mum would take me shopping in Folkestone's town centre. Probably to Sainsbury's in Sandgate Road, Timothy Whites, etc. Being that we lived Wood Avenue area, we would walk down Dover Road & ...Read more
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My Fading Memories
I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The ...Read more
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Wickham Bishops Born And Bred
In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. ...Read more
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Runaway Train
The day of my nan's funeral, a goods train from Newbury's brakes failed, and the signalman switched the train to another track, thus averting a major disaster as a passenger train that was nearly full was heading into ...Read more
A memory of Whitchurch in 1955 by
Newmarket Hospital
I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my ...Read more
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In one form or another is has stood on the site for centuries; it carries the main road from the south; it is a symbol of the involvement by the town's citizens with their river.
Running parallel to the south of the road, the Great Ouse meanders between the two towns, and Houghton took advantage of both road and waterborne trade.
Except in this enclave, it is difficult to imagine that Kingsbury did not originate in the 1930s as part of the engulfing suburban sea.
This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.
The church, mainly of the 14th century, stands within a grassy churchyard, close to the A6 Leicester-Loughborough Road.
This splendid view shows both the flight and boats.
Both are 15th-century timber-framed houses built for prosperous farmers.
The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.
The cinema and the row of shops were built in the 1930s on the site of the Rose and Crown Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1922.
Yet another evocative photograph from the past. Right is the Southdown booking office, with No. 9 the Square accommodating A G Suthers run by electrician 'Cherry' Messam.
This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.
There is another 18th-century house on the opposite side of the street, built in 1769 as Rev James Rooker`s Academy (right).
Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.
Yet another clothier's church, St Mary's at Steeple Ashton had a steeple, as the village name implies, but it was blown down in 1670. Stone vaulting in the nave has been replaced with wood.
It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.
The girl carrying a baby (left) and the children playing in the boats are noticeably not visitors.
vestiges of the same industry in Bradford on Avon (it produced, among others things, the rubber washers used worldwide in aero- sol cans) are about to undergo commercial and residential development on the
On the third Tuesday in September, the Harpenden Statty Fair (Statute Fair) was held on the common close to the pond and the adjacent Triangle.
The River Beane runs close to the church, and is liable to heavy flooding.
Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street
Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all
The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.
Muster Green is another open space maintained by the local council, and it flanks the A272.
The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic
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