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Childhood Memories Of South Molton
This is a belated response to Patricia Huxtable who recorded her memories of South Molton on 28th May 2008. My name is Guy Alford, I too was born in South Molton in 1941. My father Cyril Henry Alford owned a ...Read more
A memory of South Molton by
Town Hall Fire
I also remember the town hall fire during the blitz. At that time the fire station was just behind the town hall and I understand that all the fire engines were deployed elsewhere during the night of the bombing. The story that ...Read more
A memory of Sale by
Apsley Cottage.
My father's family lived in the cottage with the arched windows next door to the post office. The house was named Apsley Cottage. My grandfather Henry Briggs was a career soldier in the Royal West Surrey Regiment. He served in the ...Read more
A memory of Ash in 1900 by
Re Meddicks In Knatts Valley
My parents bought land and built a house in Knatts Valley named Holmwood in 1926. My mother was the first postmistress in the valley. My brother and I both attended Kingsdown Primary School from 1932-42. We grew ...Read more
A memory of Knatts Valley in 1920 by
Memories Ofpalmers Buildings
We used to live in Gateshead but because father was away in the RAF he thought we should live closer to his brother who lived at 116 High Street East, Wallsend, so we managed somehow to get a house at 16 Third Street, ...Read more
A memory of Wallsend in 1942 by
Holloway Sanatorium
The ballroom had huge paintings on the walls. In particular I recall one of Sir Walter Raleigh. The patients' dining room had those lovely murals. We were issued a key which unlocked all of the doors in the hospital ...Read more
A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by
Air Raid
I was born in Laurel Avenue in 1936 and lived there until 1959. During the war we were bombed out of our house following an air raid during the night, when German bombers were trying to cut the main line between London and ...Read more
A memory of Potters Bar in 1950 by
Rogerson Hall
We use to travel with our relations for one week all together, about 12 of us. I believe the price for a week for a family of four was about £5.00. We traveled with WTA coaces from Maryland Point, Stratford E15, the coach company does ...Read more
A memory of Corton in 1949 by
Circa 1880s Blacksmith
I am tracing my ancestors as my mum and siblings were brought up in a home. Her grandfather was a Prison Warden at HMP Chelmsford around the 1900s and his father was a blacksmith. That's all we have apart from addresses ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsford by
Fond Memories
This photo is significant to me since I attended this school in the late 1930s/early 1940s. I was a member of Hanson House and played football on the sports field to the right of the pool. I rode a bicycle to school from Weyhill. I ...Read more
A memory of Andover by
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High above here an amusement park was established with an aerial ride, Japanese gardens and a switchback railway.
A cumbersome sit-up-and-beg bicycle with panniers on the back has been left leaning against one of the stone pillars around the small front garden of the house whose windows have been thrown open to the
A promenade walk had been established along the street in the 1880s, when some of the gardens were removed.
The precursor of Rhyl's amusement arcades, it advertised '... theatre, ballroom, restaurant, waxworks, winter garden, underground canal with gondolas, arcade of shops, zoo, sideshows, all provided on a
Just to the left of Tendring Garden is the war memorial, erected at the edge of Parsonage Field and unveiled in November 1920.
Originally there were four lions guarding the base of the monument, but a lightning strike in 1839 sent them crashing into the gardens of the houses below, and they were never replaced.
At the right in both views is Temple Island, the start of the course, with its gar- den temple by James Wyatt, erected in 1771 as a fishing lodge for Sambrook Freeman of Fawley Court.
The tree-covered island, now known as Newport Rest Garden, was the site of Flemming's serge factory for two hundred years.
The tree-covered island, now known as Newport Rest Garden, was the site of Flemming's serge factory for two hundred years.
The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.
Its winding streets and lanes are lined with slate-roofed stone cottages, some colour-washed, their gardens stuffed tight with exotic plants and palms.
The photograph shows the mill when the site was used as a tea garden.
The thatched cottage next to it has gone also, although bits have been retained as a garden wall.
In the picture we see large houses with garden walls of flint.
To the right the ivy-clad house is now a shop, Tendring Garden, and of course now without the railings.
Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.
The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.
It could accommodate ten matrons, who each had their own garden but had to share the water pump and the toilet.
The shop was demolished along with the gardens as part of the road widening scheme.
Gardens have been reused for new cottages, and extra storeys have been added for deserving relatives.
The setting was used in Disraeli's novel 'Sybil' - Disraeli stayed here in 1844, when he opened the garden allotments near Cottingley Bridge.
A parish notice board has been erected in the pillared garden of the next door cottage.
The towpaths of the River Gade, which ran behind Marlowes, were converted into quiet riverside walks and pleasure gardens designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, with fountains and bronze statues; this photograph
When it became a hazard to traffic, it was moved to Castle Gardens.
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