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Pear Tree Lane House?
My grandmother (Edith Florence Pawley) worked in service in Shorne (I have a very badly damaged photo). I have a postcard written to her from her fiance, addressed to her c/o Mrs Levy, Court Wood, Pear tree Lane, Shorne, probably ...Read more
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Coming Into Halifax Via North Bridge
As a child we used to return in the car down the hill towards North Bridge and the game was to be the first to spot Wainhouse Tower amongst all the other mill chimneys there were at that time (late 50s/early ...Read more
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Carefree Summer
I took a job at Gibbs Mews during the summer school holiday of 1967. I had worked every school holiday since I was 14, but this was certainly one of the more memorable jobs. The brewhouse, kegging department and warehouse were all ...Read more
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Gorton Streets
Does anyone remember Dearoak st, I think it was just around the corner from the baths off queens road
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School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
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My Dad's Memories
My father’s family owned fishing cobbler boats in Staithes and its where my father grew up. He used to tell me stories how he used to bunk school and go out with his Uncle Jack in the fishing boats. The fishing families held an ...Read more
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Wrong Place
St Peters church is in the high street .....this must be the path from St Wilfrids chapel at Church Norton the former site of St Peters Church Thank you, we will alter our database. Ed.
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Recollections Of Llangwyfan Hospital
I am not too sure I can be the only one to contribute, but am glad to do so.i was a patient in 1959 as a young lad with tb and was so desolate to be away from my home and family,it is very clear in mind now all ...Read more
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1950 1960
I remember Tommie's fish and chip shop on Old Hall Street (they were the best) we used to call in after the pictures and the swimming baths. In the winter the pool was covered and dances every Saturday night is where we did our 'boy ...Read more
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Brought Up In 60's 70's
I lived with my mother and grandparents in a row of cottages near the station. we had no bathroom but used a tin bath once a week in the kitchen. We had an outside toilet and our water was spring water. my grandad ...Read more
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As well as portable gangways, boat-carts were also used to get trippers to and from the sailing boats.
All the familiar seaside fun is here: happy holiday-makers digging in the sand, deckchairs and bathing machines fill this evocative picture of Edwardian Broadstairs.The steps and the lift house are
The quality of Brydon's work is well brought out in this view; I have heard visitors commenting on the remarkable survival of so much Roman work!
More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.
Some consider the Talbot Inn to be the best, in architectural terms, in the whole of the country, and even the finest in England.
Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church.
A quiet day in the Market Place when it reverts to its more usual function of bus station and car park.
The jetty has played an important part in English history, as it was from here that Admiral Nelson set out to join his fleet and fight many of his most famous battles.
This photograph shows the holiday season in full swing. The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.
Their poster proclaims 'on with the show', and they have attracted a large crowd, some watching from the ledge in front of the bandstand.
Beyond the overdressed Victorian beachgoers are a number of stalls selling ice creams and other refreshments.
At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.
Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
The only attractions on offer here are boat trips and donkey rides; to the far right, on the water's edge, are a number of wheeled bathing machines.
In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry. The top of the sea wall provides additional seating and a pagoda shelter adorns the prom- enade.
A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard
The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.
Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.
The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.
One early visitor to the new resort was Mr Tregonwell, who bathed in the sea and walked the dunes of Mudeford.
High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.
By the 1950s the first high rise hotels had appeared; also, Bournemouth's old trams had given way to trolley-buses, hence the overhead lines.
Felixstowe was a genteel seaside resort built around a wide shingle bay which offered excellent, safe bathing.
Nailsworth may not be the most attractive town in the Cotswolds, but the student of industrial archaeology will find it a fascinating place to visit.
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