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Pant
I lived in railway cottages in years 1944to1947app.my sister Catriona Kay died crossing the canal bridge coming home from school.my family now all passed away were father James. Mother Catherine. My brother robin aged 4 and myself Jim aged 2.
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The Canal
Hi,my name is Stephen Smith, I lived in Regent Crescent through the 50s and 60s. I guess you all remember the Rochdale canal that runs through Failsworth. What a great place to spend your time. Who needed Disneyland. We used to fish, make ...Read more
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Memories Of An 'outsider'
I was born in Colindale in 1937. My memories of Twickenham are of a piscatorial nature. I took up angling aged 10 or 11, a friend and I decided to have a go on 'The River', we had fished the Grand Union Canal and river Gade ...Read more
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Parkside. Memories Of The 50's And 60's
My name is Dennis Walsh, I was born in 1953 at 62, Park Side. I lived there until Dec 1965 when we moved to Sydney Australia. My earliest memories are of our house, which backed onto the park. It seemed like a ...Read more
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Great Leighs
we moved from Borham airfield just across a cornfield to a thatched cottage, the walls were wattle and daub which a farmer let out to farm workers normally, It had no electricity, flush toilet , bathroom, but it had heaps of room ...Read more
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Stan Laurel's Ulverston
The thin half of the world's greatest movie comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy, was born in Foundry Cottages, Ulverston, now Argyle St., in 1890. He was born and lived in his grandparents' home until the age of 6. His grandfather, ...Read more
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Escric Station
I was born on the 13 February 1957 at No2 Station cottage Escrick. No.2 was the middle cottage of 3. My father (Kenneth Hudson) was a fireman/driver on L.N.E.R. steam locos. For along time we had no electricity in the house, Lighting ...Read more
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My Family Lived Across The Road From Southall Dog Track
my granddad raced grayhounds there. my dad & his brothers lived lived there 2 thay live on the haverlock rd in old cottages that backed on to the canal MY GRANDADS NAME WAS . SAM DONNELLY
A memory of Southall
Evacuation World War 2 Sandiacre, Long Eaton.
I was evacuated with my mother to Sandiacre in 1944 at the age of 5. I would be so interested to find out the name of the road that we stayed at and any history of the lady who rented out her room and use ...Read more
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Chivenor 1949
I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to ...Read more
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Captions
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The originally 13th-century church has undergone substantial rebuilding, and is now graced by this curious 'candle- snuffer' shingled spire, incorporating small windows round it.
The pleasure craft in the photograph emphasise the failure of the canals for industrial transportation.
The tiny hamlet grew around a paper mill, opened in the 1840s by the Parke family beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
A pair of loaded working boats head south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.
Lydney's minuscule canal is no more than a mile in length, with just a single lock. Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.
This view of the Kennet and Avon Canal, taken from the Town Bridge, shows the site of Hungerford Wharf.
It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
A strange-looking craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.
When the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed, it was taken across the watershed of the River Arrow, which meant a loss of headwater for the Arrow.
Graceful sailing ships are clustered alongside the quay on the Exeter Canal at the north end. The warehouse and Customs buildings around the Basin and riverside are beautifully preserved.
Just over a hundred years ago, the Thames and its network of canals were used as much for transporting goods as for pleasure boating.
Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal. The Barracks is the headquarters of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements. Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.
Though there are a number of candles on the pulpit and in the chandelier suspended from the ceiling, it is likely that oil lamps would also have been used at this time.
Willington stands on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the Trent valley to the south of Derby.
To enable boats to trade further inland, in 1823-4 Lord Rolle dug a canal five miles to Torrington, but it eventually fell into disuse and was filled in.
The long straight character of the Shropshire Union canal is plain to see here. The builder, Thomas Telford, believed in cutting through hills and bridging valleys.
On the left is Chalford Station and, just below it, the Thames and Severn Canal.
Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.
The Shropshire Union canal runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, especially around the Wheaton Aston area.
The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell. A bloody Civil War battle took place near here in 1644.
The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal (above) with the river Weaver below. Narrowboats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.
the 2nd Infantry Brigade adopt a casual pose for the photographer amid the gorse bushes and sparse clumps of grass outside the Sergeants Mess at this camp on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke canal
The originally 13th-century church has undergone substantial rebuilding, and is now graced by this curious 'candle- snuffer' shingled spire, incorporating small windows round it.
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