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Memories
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Childhood In Withyham
We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school ...Read more
A memory of Withyham by
Grouse Beating
As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate. I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The ...Read more
A memory of Arkengarthdale in 1960 by
Pandora’s Box
I’ve just found this website, I had already spoken to Thomsons after finding out about case and seeing it in the daily record. I had a terrible abusive childhood and I was sent to Fornethy several times from 1971 - ...Read more
A memory of Fornethy Residential School by
Last Bus Home
So you missed the last bus home, in my case to Castlemilk from St. Enoch's Square, after a night at the Locarno. It is winter, cold, wet and windy and you know you have to do it. Stand and wait for the number '2' bus to get me into ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow in 1968 by
Saturday Cinema
I was born in 1950 at my grandparents house on Quebec Street, in the Werneth/Westwood area. I lived in Limeside at 86, Pine Tree Road and attended Limehurst junior school and then went on to Hollins Secondary school. Saturday always ...Read more
A memory of Oldham by
Tiny Post Office.
Mr and Mrs Raines ran an efficient postal service from this humble shed at the bottom of their garden in 1908. There was surely hardly room to swing a mail sack. The slot through which villagers poked their letters is at the ...Read more
A memory of North Wootton
My Home
I was born in the third house along on this photo and I like to think that the child in the photo next to the telegraph pole is in fact me. My Mum and Dad had six of us children and quite often my Mother would be looking after an elderly ...Read more
A memory of Othery in 1955 by
The Old Outdoor Swimming Pool
During the summer holidays we would visit the outdoor swimming pool in Bath Road. The first indication when near to the entrance was the strong smell of chlorine and the sound of the two water fountains. No matter what ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Eric Galley
My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue ...Read more
A memory of Highams Park by
Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales ...Read more
A memory of Mullion
Captions
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St Mary's church is best known for its most unusual detached three-storey belfry.
The large building in the background is the Post Office, which was open from seven in the morning till ten at night.
North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.
The northern end of the Post Office (just visible down Basket Street in the centre) would now be on Royal Parade outside Dingles.
Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.
The post office and stores survives.
St Mary's church is best known for its most unusual detached three-storey belfry.
This view shows Lake's Art and Literature Shop on the left and part of the main Post Office on the right.
The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing.
A sign on the wall of the post office informs customers that a public telephone can be used here.
In the 1880s and 90s post offices often opened longer hours than they do today; from 7.00am to 9.00pm was common.
Notice the very decorative lamp post on the right-hand side of the road in the photograph below.
Picket Post is a tiny hamlet on the high road between Ringwood and the New Forest.
Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.
It is lunch time in the village; the post office is closed, and the lady street vendor is resting on her cart.
In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns.
The post office stores stands on a corner in the centre of the village near the church, and is still trading today.
On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.
A building has architectural pretensions on the right, in front of which the gas lamp post, with leaning boys, appears to be standing in the gutter and not on the pavement.
The wooden posts on the right are all that remains of the two original piers.
In the early to mid 19th century Mrs Wigley kept a post office in one of these cottages.
Viewed from the direction of Bryn Euryn, the prominence of the Victoria Pier is clear; Colwyn Bay sought to rival nearby Llandudno as the main attraction, as post-war mass tourism brought
The mill was built in 1857 on the site of an earlier post mill.
This post mill was moved to here from Aldringham in 1922, and was altered to drive a waterpump to provide water supplies for a holiday village.
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