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Perivale Maternity Hospital
I too was born at the Perivale maternity hospital in 1949, and at the time we lived in a prefab at Gurnell Grove somewhere near Cuckoo Hill I think, if anyone has photos of these prefabs perhaps you could email me one ...Read more
A memory of Perivale in 1949 by
Sports Galore
Although it was a fair walk or bike ride away from my Wembley Park home at Barn Rise, I regularly used to play tennis in this wonderful park, always around the time of Wimbledon when everyone rushed out to play. From memory there ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1965 by
Muchalls
My sister and I lived at the other side of the Muchalls crossroads on the road to Cookney, a little way from the village. There we had an idylic childhood of sorts (though we were far from well-off). We had the freedom of the ...Read more
A memory of Muchalls in 1971
The Sun
The building on the left is the Sun pub, which we used to visit when in the sixth form at Stanborough school in the 1970s . Our teachers used it too as it wasn't far from our school so we used to go there more on weekend evenings... We ...Read more
A memory of Lemsford
School At Burslem Junior Tech
I lived in Blythe Bridge and travelled to school at the Burslem Junior Technical College in Moorland Road, Burslem over a period between 1943 to 1945. The journey by train on the old loop line was a lot of fun. I ...Read more
A memory of Burslem in 1944 by
Spondon During War
I occasionally came to live with my sister in Spondon during the war years. I lived in Ockbrook Road, the house was named Tarbet House. At the rear across two fields was an anti-aircraft battery of four guns, which when they ...Read more
A memory of Spondon in 1942 by
Billys Greengrocer
Billy's Greengorcer - a small shop on the corner of Hebron Street where you could buy fruit and veg, and almost anything else. In those years there was not an awful lot of choice.. two lots of potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, and ...Read more
A memory of Heyside in 1951 by
When I Lived In Strichen
We came to Strichen from the Auchnagatt area in 1949 and I went to Strichen primary and secondary schools. It was real sad when the old school was knocked down. I stayed out at Newmill which was also Michies brewery and ...Read more
A memory of Strichen in 1967 by
The War Years
I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more
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In the Sixties 100,000 visitors a year were holidaying at Rockley Sands Caravan Park; it covered some 600 acres of harbourside heathland and pine wood.
Eight years later, the South Pavilion at the end of the pier was destroyed by fire.
The pier at this popular seaside resort was swept away in gales during the 1970s.
The royal family still enjoy their Christmas every year at Sandringham. Most of the family get together, and they can enjoy themselves in complete privacy in this their favourite retreat.
Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance
The port has seen many changes since its beginnings in the mid 1800s.
Pewsey is a small town in the middle of the Vale that bears its name, noted for its white horse cut into the downland at Milk Hill.
These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.
The Gothic-style monument at the end of the road is still in place; it is a drinking fountain presented to the town by the Hon Mark Rolle in 1870. The building on the left is the town hall.
The box hedges cut into the shape of chessmen in the splendid topiary garden at Haseley Court are well worth seeing.
Children play at the south end of the beach. Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.
The nearby hamlet of Staylittle allegedly took its name from a village blacksmith who was so quick at shoeing horses that his smithy became known as Stay-a-Little.
This is a revealing picture of changing times.
At one time straddling the county boundary with Huntingdonshire, Everton was listed as Euretone in the Domesday Book.
While the cathedral is the main feature of Ely, the town has also been a market town for many years.
The Thames falls by three feet and six inches at Shiplake Lock. Alfred Tennyson was married in Shiplake church in 1850.
The gatehouse and gardeners' cottages on the approach to Errwood Hall at Goyt's Bridge in the Goyt Valley.
At this stage only the nave had been completed in its austere early English Gothic style.
The weekly market held in the old Market Square was moved in October 1963 to the site of the old cattle market behind Broadway.
Ornamental towers at each end adorn the viaduct, which carries the railway over the River Teme into Wales.
Thatched roofs predominate in this turn-of-the-century view of Madingley.
The ferry terminal is in the centre of this photograph. The ferry services were essential to the hundreds of men who travelled to the shipyards and engine works at Middleton.
At this time practically all the ships operating out of Dartmouth were powered by coal.
At the bottom of the picture is the Bull Hotel, host to Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1876, when he was Poet Laureate.
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