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Childhood Memories
I remember this scene very well, my two sisters and I spent many freezing hours (even in the summer) in the cold water of Valence swimming pool. We could buy a ticket in the morning and get a pass to go home for some lunch and ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1970 by
Growing Up In Brighton Road
I remember my happy childhood in Brighton Road so well. We lived at 114, heading toward the Portsmouth road. My grandfather had built the house. It lay back from the road. Mr and Mrs Harper ran the paper shop that had ...Read more
A memory of Surbiton in 1952
Meeting My Great Grandparents
My name is Margret Russell. My maiden name was Margret Lewis. I live in Australia. My father Wilfred Charles Lewis was born in Taunton Somerset. His maternal grandparents were Martha (nee Harris) and Samuel ...Read more
A memory of Kingston St Mary by
Convent Of The Visitation Bridport Dorset
CHAPTER TWO School Years - Convent of the Visitation 1939-1945 One’s school years leave an indelible impression on one for good or bad. My views over these years in this regard, have modified ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1940 by
Memories
I was born in Upton in 1961 and was brought up and attendent at the infant school there as well as attending Sunday School and being in the church choir for quite a few years. The people I remember are Mrs Gibson the ...Read more
A memory of Upton by
Glanaman Square
Further to previous postings this photograph is of Glanaman square taken from near the front of Bryn Seion chapel where the pelican crossing is now. The first shop, with awning, is now the chemists - then ran by Hubert Jones. The ...Read more
A memory of Glanaman in 1978 by
Holiday Memory
In the previous two years we'd had our holiday in South Devon, but in 1958, for some reason, my father decided we would stay in Lerryn, & booked himself, mother & I into a B&B (possibly The Old Forge?) by the river. I was ...Read more
A memory of Lerryn in 1958 by
National Service
In 1955 I was posted from Catterick Camp to Burniston Barracks Scarborough. I believe the barracks have now gone. It was sited on one of the best vantage points, over looking Peasholm Park, the castle, and views towards the ...Read more
A memory of Scarborough in 1955 by
The Blacksmiths
Having moved to the village with my family in 1965 I rememeber this to be the old forge and watching the blacksmith shoeing horses. Next door was the post office with a small telephone exchange and a phone box that would cost 2p to make a call.
A memory of Shamley Green in 1970
Hotel Continental, 1962
My parents, Nancy and Tony Harris, managed the hotel at this time and whilst there I was born in Cromer, returning to live for a couple of years, before they took up another posting elsewhere. I do have vague memories of ...Read more
A memory of Mundesley in 1962 by
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It opened in February 1887 at a cost of £43,067. The Town Hall, which incorporates the magistrates' court and the council offices, is built of Scottish granite and Storeton stone.
It was replaced with an ornamental garden at a cost of £200.
A unit of the Majestic class of nine battleships completed between 1895 and 1898 at a cost of approximately £1 million each.
In Great Oaks, a new fire station was officially opened in 1962 by Alderman G F Chaplin, CBE, JP, Chairman of Essex County Council; it took two years to build and cost about £62,000.
The cost of the land was £251,177 for 375 acres, but some of that was set aside for housing.
HMS 'Gleaner' cost £63,798, and was completed at Sheerness in 1890. Displacing 735 tons, she was armed with 1 x 4.7-inch QF and 4 x 3-pdr QFs.
The 60 foot by 200 foot plot would originally have cost around £50. Basildon Council fears that the building may be demolished, as there is no preservation order on the site.
If it was a National Trust property, and the cost was £5 to go in, there would be only a quarter of the visitors.
The total cost of the building was £7,465.
The conversion of the 18th-century house into a Gothic mansion was costly, to say the least. No money was spared on the interior and fittings.
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