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School Holidays At Abington Park
I was born in 1951 in Lutterworth Road, Northampton just a 5 minutes' walk from one of the most beautiful parks in the country - Abington Park. Originally part of the Wantage family estate, it boasted a ...Read more
A memory of Little Billing in 1959 by
Monton Eccles
I was born in Monton, lived in Monton during my childhood and moved to Eccles. I went to Eccles Parish School which at the time was run by nuns. They taught us pretty well and watched over us even when we washed our hands, and if ...Read more
A memory of Eccles in 1973 by
Great Easton
I lived the first 22 years of my life in Great Easton amd it is a place that will remain with me forever. My family are recorded as being in the parish for 400 years and my late father was the last one to remain, ...Read more
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Personal Recollections
From age 11 to 16 I lived in Station Town from 1950 to 1955, at 2 Rodridge Street,( now thankfully the street has been demolished). When I saw the old photograph of the Main Street it was mostly as I remembered it. Booth's ...Read more
A memory of Wingate by
Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
St John's Gate Broad Street
St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more
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Uppermount School
I went to Uppermount School, it was my first school, and my teacher was called Miss Brown. We used to sing 'The Farmer's in his Den' and stand in a circle calling children into the centre for small forfeits. There was a ...Read more
A memory of Waterlooville in 1955 by
A Day At The Seaside Littlehampton C 1955
I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more
A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by
Langstone Memories
I grew up in Langstone, living at 'Longleat' on Catsash Road from 1961-1973. I attended Langstone Primary School from 1964-1969 and then Caerleon Comprehensive from 1969-1973. 'Longleat' was one of the four ...Read more
A memory of Langstone in 1961 by
The Old Days
Hi, I am Linda Atkinson, nee Halford, I was brought up on the Gypsy Lane estate, attending Woodhouse Junior school and remember the carnivals/parades held on the village green. My best friends were Nancy and Maria Churms, and ...Read more
A memory of Normanton by
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This view was taken 70 years after photograph 18642, and apart from the statuary missing from the bridge buttresses, the scene is timeless.
Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.
A boy runs across to meet his friend by the large green on the left. Perhaps they are going to meet some more friends and play a game of tag.
A fire on August Bank Holiday Monday 1931 destroyed a small seaward end pavilion, erected in 1907, along with the mid-length shelters and shops.
THE CHURCH c1960. Once known as Morton Foliot, the parish of Castle Morton runs a long way up to the Malvern Hills. St Gregory's Church dates from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
King Henry VIII built two defensive castles on either side of the Medina to protect the entrance to the older harbour at Newport.
The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade
A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.
The long pier was built to allow steamers to call at any state of the tide.
For much of the 1800s and up to the First World War, Farringdon Forge was run by a father and son - John and James Eade.
This view from the Wish Tower looks east towards the Pier: the water's edge is crowded with bathing machines, while the famous Grand Parade with Eastbourne's finest hotels runs along the left of the
The road dividing the village green in two can be seen running behind the bus shelter beside the tree on the left.
We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.
Portishead's Marine Lake lies in the recreation ground behind the Esplanade running along Woodhill Bay.
Many of the flowering plants enjoying the sun in this picture have been replaced by low-maintenance shrubs, including too many gloomy evergreens.
This is the entrance to Braunston Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. This is 2049 yards long, and it leaks quite appreciably; boaters must wear waterproofs when transiting.
The Cathedral Church of St Margaret Mary, with its elegant slim spire, was started in 1856 by Bishop Vaughan.
This attractive village lies just off the main road, where children sit beside the bus stop. The Blue Bus Company operated services in the area from 1916 until 1946.
The cliff on the right now has a row of houses at the top.
The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.
Here Parliament Street runs into the spacious thoroughfare of Whitehall which rushes onwards to join Trafalgar Square. On the extreme left is the diminutive gabled roof of the Horse Guards.
A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of
The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.
The South-west Gatehouse (left) stands on the site of the assassination of the 15-year- old Anglo-Saxon King Edward on the evening of 18 March 978.
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