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A Schoolboy's View Of Bexleyheath In The Early 1950s
I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by
A Search In Progress
Finchingfield to me, in my younger days, was a place that Dad would take Mum and me to on a Sunday afternoon drive. Never to stop for very long but it is a place that leaves a snapshot in your memory. Being an adopted ...Read more
A memory of Finchingfield in 1952 by
A Seaside Holiday At Allhallows
My earliest memories of the seaside are from the 1950's. We lived in Bexleyheath and - like most people - did not own a car in those far off austerity years after the war. For this reason our summer holidays were ...Read more
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A Small Childs Memorys Of North Seaton
I was born Patricia Gowans in 1957. My mam was Ettie Humble, my dad was John Gowans and we lived 3 Third Single Row with my nana and grandad Gowans. My dad worked at the pit till it closed, then he went ...Read more
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
I remember living at 6 Prospect Terrace, it was a two up two down terraced house with an outside toilet & coalhouse. My mum had four children, as you can imagine the house was a bit of a squeeze. My earliest ...Read more
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A Very Fine Pub
A very fine pub, that's if you can find it, in the middle of nowhere, deep inside Perry Wood. It's worth looking for. This used to be the Perry Wood winkle club in the 1960s and 1970s, where you would get your winkle out of your ...Read more
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A Visit By An American Soldier (Professor) During Wwii
My uncle Joe Wolff was an American Soldier during WWII and spent the summer of 1942 stationed in various places in Wiltshire including Tottenham House. Although he was a private he was very ...Read more
A memory of Marlborough in 1942 by
A Visit To London In 1953
At this time I was a resident at a K.C.C. children's home at Hadlow near Tonbridge Kent. During the summer holidays a friend - Paul Thornton - and I though it would be a good idea to visit London, with very little ...Read more
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A Wartime Bevin Boy
My introduction to the Monckton mining community began on a bitter cold March Monday morning in 1944. The wartime Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin had decreed that I should become one of his boys. So here I was at ...Read more
A memory of Royston in 1944
An Ancestor Found
A recent discovery that my great-great-great-grandparents lived in Tollard Royal, where 3 times gt grandfather Francis Faris was the (black)smith, drew me to the village out of curiosity and in search of any tangible ...Read more
A memory of Tollard Royal in 2011 by
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Looking west from the choir towards the nave.
The Fishpond has been a central feature of Matlock Bath since the village became an important resort and spa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Cars have replaced horses, and just out of shot, on the right, would be the Rose and Crown public house. Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.
This postcard shows the parish church of St Martin in the centre, and clockwise from the top left, the village centre; the `Roman` Baths in the Nook; Lover`s Leap; and the view down from the Bank.
The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.
A tremendous visual change here is that there are now no breakwater defences along the beach. The bathing huts are still there, and so is the glorious sand.
The large central building used to be the coastguard station, and the half-moon battery at its front is now provided with seats instead of guns, making it a favourite place to relax
It later became the Grammar School. By the turn of the century, it was able to boast a 'Grand tepid swimming bath ... Pure milk from own dairy farm.
The Bath Arms Hotel building dates from 1732. Reg Cundick gives an interesting history of it in his book.
This is the main road through the village looking towards Hutton Hill.
Two of Westgate's leading hotels were the Beach House Hotel on the left, and the large St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment (centre).
At the bottom of Fore Street - down by the harbour and therefore handy for the maritime fraternity - are two pubs, the George and the Prince of Wales, both of which claim to be the oldest hostelry in
The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.
Even half a century ago the relatively safe bathing at Lepe brought in thousands of tourists and the car parks were soon full on hot summer days. In the background is the Isle of Wight.
Sail boats and bathing machines dominate the beach area between the North Pier and the South Jetty. In the distance we get some idea of the development of this end of the town.
The Bowl Inn, when Georges' Beers was still a family run brewery. Scottish Courage's Bristol brewery is said to be the largest in the UK now dedicated to the brewing of real ale.
The town eventually got its open-air swimming baths. They look so freshly painted and the onlookers are so numerous that we might suspect that this picture was shot on the opening day.
Chesterfield Road c1955 Eckington township is situated 6 miles north-east of Chesterfield and 7 miles south-east of Sheffield, and may be the place mentioned in the early 11th- century will of
Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.
The Dropping Well is a petrifying well, similar to those at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects that fall into it.
Despite the importance of nearby cities such as Bath or the cathedral city of Wells, Taunton proudly remains the County Town of Somerset.
The lake was not just used for boating.
The Jubilee Bridge across the River Derwent at Matlock Bath is seen here fitted out for the Matlock Illuminations it was erected in honour of Queen Victoria's jubilee.
Serried ranks of bathing tents and a crowded beach spell out summer fun at Broadstairs during the early twentieth century.
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