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Memories
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School Journey
As a sickly child, I missed much of my early schooling and eventually attended schools for the physically handicapped. My senior school was the Venetian School for boys in Camberwell, south London. We went on School Journeys during ...Read more
A memory of Rustington by
Searching For Long Lost Family
I'm searching for some information and to track down my husbands birth family. Do any of these names ring a bell please Born in the 50's we believe Carol Davies / scott Melvin davies John Phillips Around northolt area I believe X
A memory of Northolt by
Lost At Sea
I spent many of my younger years in the 60s at Ladram bay . One particular afternoonI took out a small Dingey with a Dutch friend and we did not arrive back until dark Only to see many lights on the beach we jumped out of the Dingey and ...Read more
A memory of Ladram Bay by
St Osyth, Essex Paradise Lost
My Grandmother already lived in St Osyth, so from 1927 to 1939 we always had two weeks vacation at St Osyth. Coming from London this was paradise. Water by the bucket from the hydrant (you had your own key for this). No ...Read more
A memory of St Osyth by
High Street, St. Mary Bourne
In the foreground are the village Almshouses, with two village shops also in view. The first is the Post Office stores and the other owned by Roy and Ruth Wells. Neither are there today.
A memory of St Mary Bourne in 1955 by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Pretty Little Ainstable
I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. ...Read more
A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by
Raf
As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more
A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by
Growing Up In Cold Ash
I spent the early years of my life in Cold Ash and Thatcham. We lived in a detached house on Cold Ash Hill called Midway. I believe it has since been renamed. The house was built by my grand father Alfred Gadd, the carpenter, ...Read more
A memory of Cold Ash by
Village Life
I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1940
Captions
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On Bridge Street, J T Jeffery's shop was later pulled down to accommodate the extension to the post office.
On the banks of the Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century
This post-war council development can be dated by the medallions which were set into the front brickwork at the time of building.
On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.
Hemmings' shopfront is a collage of mid 1950s consumer wares: for the smoker, there are Woodbines, Player's and Gold Flake; for the reader, Picture Post, Home Notes and the Leader.
Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.
The building is far older than it looks, and has a continuous jetty and fine crown post roof timbers.
Buildings opposite the signal box have all gone, but some shops and the Post Office with its domed cupola still remain.
A corner of the village near the church with Ching and Sons' wine merchants, general shop and post office.
It is the furthest away of these three shops (on the corner) which is the Post Office.
Beyond, then housing the Post Office, is Journey's End, which takes its name from local landowner R C Sherriff's best-known play.
Ferries crossed at this point since the 18th century, carrying not only people, carriages and goods but, from 1800, the post for the Truro coach.
Postbridge takes its name from the arched bridge that was built to carry the post road from Princetown in the south-west to Moretonhampstead in the north-east.
The stocks and whipping post were moved from their previous position against the Bridewell wall to protect them from the 'increase in traffic' generated by the newly- built Fire Station.
Note the pony and trap setting off for the road to Frome to the left of what is now a general store and post office.
This post mill ceased working in 1947, but its fabric and machinery are maintained by English Heritage.
Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office?
Another view of Low Row, showing the Post Office and the Methodist Chapel on the right.
It is still the village post office.
The university library is considered to be one of the finest post-Second World War buildings in the city.
The Post Office c1955 Melbury Osmond is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Arundell family.
Two RAC patrolmen saunter past the Hook Road post office (right), ignoring the few motor vehicles on the road.
A handsome brick building houses the post office and store in this tiny hamlet.
The range to the right of the Post Office has been rebuilt as Lipton House.
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