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Holes, Hoardings & Hythe Ferry
On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar ...Read more
A memory of Southampton in 1954 by
A Winter Crossing On The North Sea
I well remember the King George Dock as I embarked here with 33rd Signal Regiment (a TAVR unit formerly known as the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry). We were en route to Germany having a posting ...Read more
A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1968 by
School Days
Hi Lads, It's great that after all this time there's been some contact in relation to school days at Bank Hall. It would be really good to meet up as Carl suggested, time is flying by and if I leave it much longer I will ...Read more
A memory of Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1975 by
Football Matches Between Port&High Clarence
I happened upon this site purely by accident, but it brought back some great memories. I am Pete Boland, young brother of Owen, a keen & very good footballer. I remember as a kid the matches ...Read more
A memory of Port Clarence by
Lynmouth Flood
My wife and I were staying in Middleham Cottages that night and escaped to the schoolhouse with other survivers. We escaped the village the next day, after a terrifying night, through the Lynmouth Hotel to the bridge by ladder ...Read more
A memory of Lynmouth in 1952 by
My Memories Of Hindringham
I was born in Hindringham to Eva and John (Jack) Smith and attended the village school (the one at the foot of Church Hill). The principal was Miss Flood and the infant teacher Miss McDonald. My mother ran the village ...Read more
A memory of Hindringham by
Growing Up In Dovercourt
I have been trying to remember the exact dates when we lived in Dovercourt but I think it was something like 1953-57, while my father worked for the railway at Parkeston Quay. We first rented a place in Shaftesbury ...Read more
A memory of Dovercourt in 1955 by
School Uniform And Schooldays
This was 1958 the time when I seriously got into drainpipes, drapes and rock 'n roll music. I was at Walbottle Secondary Modern School. I used to take in the leg width of my jeans by hand using a needle and thread to ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1958 by
The Potters Cottage On The Hilltop
I knew Fred Potter and his family in the early 1960s - Fred and I dated for a while. Many times we got off the bus on the main road (I lived in Nailsworth), often straight from school - he at Marling, me at ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe in 1962 by
Rowlands Castle Brickworks
Rowlands Castle Brickworks originally established during the 1880’s, and must have been the biggest employer at the time, next to agriculture. Not all the workforce came form Rowlands Castle, but from local ...Read more
A memory of Rowlands Castle in 1963 by
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What with regimental bands, parades, and reviews by land, and the Solent continually alive with yachts, steamboats, and battleships, it can never be dull.
A guidebook from this time advised visitors to Lyme to arrive by sea, for 'the journey by land is too tedious to be undertaken for pleasure'.
The church of St Thomas stands in the village, and nearby can be found Byland Abbey and Newburgh Priory. Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.
The Working Men's Club Union Convalescent Home at Pegwell Bay had a Mrs M E Boyland as superintendent, and B T Hall as secretary.
It is all here because this point along the River Deben has a steep shingle bank upon which boats can be landed or launched at any state of the tide.
Before the Great War, Amble was one of Northumberland's smaller fishing ports; the biggest catches tended to be landed at North Shields, Blyth and Newbiggin.
They were noted as being fast sailers, and needed to be, as their catches often had to be landed in time to be loaded on to scheduled express fish trains.
The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.
The corn has obviously been cut by hand and piled into small stacks to dry before threshing. But why was it not bundled neatly into stooks? The crop growing on the left appears to be reed.
It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.
Much of the job of excavating the site had been accomplished by hand, an arduous task necessitated by the close confines of the work and its steep backdrop.
On St Matthew Street opposite once lay Gilbert's Rugby Football Museum, where rugby balls had been made by hand since the first half of the 19th century.
