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Park Lane Junction With Wembley High Road
Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
My Favourite Days
I was born at my Nan and granddad's house in Three Firs Way, my mum and dad then moved to Omer's Rise when I was one and then we got a house back in Three Firs Way when I was two. I loved growing up there. I went to Bland ...Read more
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Jack's Shop
My grandparents lived in the school house in New Micklefield. I can remember Jack's shop across the road (Great North Road), which was a wooden structure that you climbed up to by steep steps. This was just to the side of the ...Read more
A memory of Micklefield by
John Griffiths Aka Griffo
I was born in the front bedroom of 3 lands bury Crescent in 1952. Loved the estate, our inter road football matches and playing on the old puff and billy railway track. I used to go fishing and swimming in the pontoon which ...Read more
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How Burghfield Common Has Change.
I have lived all my 60+ years in Burghfield Common and I have seen it totally transformed. I was born and brought up in Three Firs Way, and lived here until 1987 when I got married and moved to Hunters Hill. ...Read more
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More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
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Growing Up In Burghfield Common
We moved to burghfield in 1967, to Abbotts road, me and my sister went to Bland’s school then onto garlands and finally to the Willink. I remember the coal man he always had a black face and I was scared of ...Read more
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Son Of Sgt Bruce Krrc
My father was stationed at Chisledon Camp from 1939 to 1942. Living in Littlehampton on the south coast, threatened with invasion, my mother rented the end thatched cottage of the row of cottages which face the railway line ...Read more
A memory of Chiseldon in 1940 by
The Lane Pauline Johnson
I used to walk to Blands School through the lane with my friend Jean Brookes, we would often stop outside the Clark's (Terry) house and climb up the bank where we could see Jean's house across the field. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield in 1955 by
Hest Bank /Bolton Le Sands
I lived with my grandparents in Bolton le Sands. I used to cycle to Morecambe most mornings, to J. W. Blands, painters and decorators, where I was apprenticed, hail rain and snow. I knew every inch of the coast road, the ...Read more
A memory of Hest Bank in 1960 by
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The Roman road from the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow ran through what is now the racecourse, which stands on land formerly belonging to the Clay family of Piercefield House.
A superb view of the Chain Pier from the west, showing clearly the pier head, which was designed primarily as a landing-stage for cross-channel traffic; it opened in 1823.
The extension, apart from its importance as a landing stage for steamers, also sported a restaurant and a bandstand.
On the left is a landing stage or quay where we can just see a 2- ton crane.
Doubling as a landing stage for steamers, North Pier was the first of Blackpool's three to be built and opened in 1863.
Steamboat trips ran from a landing stage.
Though William was himself a farmer, he was also a land surveyor, property developer and investor in canals. He obtained Syerston in 1792 when he bought 500 acres from Lewis Fytche for £12,375.
They initially consisted of a jetty leading to a landing stage for boats, but they soon became fashionable promenades extending over the sea.
Though William was himself a farmer, he was also a land surveyor, property developer and investor in canals. He obtained Syerston in 1792 when he bought 500 acres from Lewis Fytche for £12,375.
In August 1405 a substantial French army in excess of 10,000 men landed here at the request of Owain Glyndwr.
Until the area became too built-up, Southbourne was used by pioneer aviators as a landing ground for their flying machines.
By 1894 Brighton's West Pier had been extensively rebuilt, and a landing stage had been added together with a new pavilion.
In 1927 Malcolm Campbell achieved a land speed record of 174.88 mph on Pendine Sands. Unfortunately, a month later his Welsh rival, J G Parry-Williams, was killed attempting to beat the record.
Passengers from Falmouth disembarked at the quay here when the tide prevented a landing at Truro.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.
Carrog, or Llansantffraid Glyndyfrdwy, is in the heart of the lands of Owain Glyndwr, the marcher lord.
He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.
It is thought that the Romans used Freckleton Naze as a landing place. Sail cloth weaving, boat building and corn milling flourished here until the 1920s.
Swanage pier is really a landing stage of immense proportions. It was originally some 1400 ft in length, designed to facilitate the export of Purbeck stone.
In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip
Saltwood dates back to at least the year 833, when it is mentioned as a land grant by King Egbert.
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