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Burrow Hill Today
Burrow Hill School is now derelict. It closed in 1998 and I have just walked past the boarded-up site this afternoon. Although I have lived in Frimley Green since 1993 and seen one of its main buildings from within a ...Read more
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Lofthouse's Newsagents
So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano ...Read more
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Childhood In The Early 1950s
I lived in Gwespyr through the 1950s and have many happy memories, going to Picton primary school, being part of annual carnival, friends like Gareth Hughes, Roy Dowings, and not to forget Harry Thomas, our local ...Read more
A memory of Gwespyr
Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
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Memories Of My Family
I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go ...Read more
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Mountain Ash
My mom would talk about Mountain Ash, she was born in Quakers Yard in 1929, my nan, she was born in Llanrug in 1904, name was Griffiths, later she became Mrs Jackson and lived at 3 Field St. I am so sorry that I can't find any of ...Read more
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Farm At White Hill
My father Jenkin Evans and mother Valerie Evans lived at Potters Cross Farm, White Hill, Kinver from just before the Second World War. This is the farmhouse which you can see which still exists to this day. They raised four ...Read more
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Hemsby In The 70s And 80s
We started holidaying in Hemsby in the late 1970s. My parents loved it as we'd always had caravan holidays previously but now we had a chalet!! They always stayed at Belle Aire site. Hemsby was pretty spartan in those ...Read more
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Mixture
The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was ...Read more
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Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950
It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more
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Today's residents are more likely to skipper an expensive pleasure vessel.
The grounds became a park in the Victorian era, and more recently the 18th- century Old Palace has been enlarged to become part of the civic centre.
At first glance, this row of modern shops, named after the local Anstey Hall, has not changed since 1960; but closer inspection reveals new tenants in the shops, larger trees and flower beds, and more
The miniature railway was one of the major attractions of Drusilla's and still is, though the engines are somehow less utilitarian and more convincingly based on steam locomotives - the best one
Improved transport opened much of North Wales to the leisured classes, who were able to visit its grand and picturesque scenery, even in wilder and more remote locations.
Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.
Though smarter and more affluent today, much of St Mary Bourne is as it was when this photograph was taken.
Recent residents may have had cause to be grateful to Lord Dorchester for his patriarchal act.
A post office, a shop and a hairdresser's still serve a larger and more varied community.
Ships of 300 to 4,000 tons lay at the fore and aft buoys in the river, while others tied up at wharves.
South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts
This almost deserted beach at the village of Angmering-on-Sea dramatically contrasts with the crowds at the larger and more popular resorts.
It took a number of years to carry out the process of dividing up the land, laying out roads, digging drains, planting thorn hedges, improving the land, and harvesting the crops from more and more
Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.
The Angel Hotel on the left was one of three to cater for the motorist; the others were the George and Dragon and the Brunswick.
Here are more Essex weatherboard cottages with tiled roofs. Notice the sign for Teas and Hovis bread over one small shop.
Today's residents are more likely to commute to Sidmouth or Exeter. The rural dwellers of past times would have been amazed at the price of a property in Sidford in the 21st century.
Apart from the clothes that these three youngsters are wearing on the beach, little has changed here.
There are more houses among the trees on the hillside.
On this side of the river, and pulled well clear, is evidence of boating and fishing activity. The craft closer to the water is a twin-hulled catamaran, and more likely to be used purely for pleasure.
Its ornate style contrasts with the plainer stone houses that are more characteristic of the town.
In the distance are the houses of Clapham Common South Side, some of which survive from the 18th century and more from the 19th.
All along the Nene valley hereabouts are flooded iron ore pits, some of which have been turned into fishing or boating lakes.
In grander and more prosperous days Ashburton was one of the region's strategic stannary towns. Mining finally came to a halt in the 19th century.
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