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A Boarder's Thoughts From The '60s
What an unexpected but pleasant surprise to have come across this picture of Pennthorpe Preparatory School in Rudgwick. Ironically I left the year it appears to have been taken and I remember my dormitory was on the ...Read more
A memory of Rudgwick by
An Unappreciated History
When you grow up in an ancient city such as Hereford and have really no other frame of reference you don't fully grasp the enormity of the depth of history that buildings such as Hereford Cathedral embodied. The Romans ...Read more
A memory of Hereford in 1957 by
Addlestone Crossing
After getting off the bus from New Haw we would walk to Nan & Grandad's house. Passing over the crossing there was Wells Boot Stores on the right just before Alexandra Road. Down here, over the river, the Laundry and ...Read more
A memory of Addlestone in 1955 by
Aveley Secondary School
Omg, I remember so many of you. I started at Love Lane in 1965 and left in 1970. I was friends with Susan Harvey, Carol Head, Jackie Kirk, Karen Harman, Barbara Cox, Lesley Davidson, Libby Campbell, June Tyler, Liz Knapp, ...Read more
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Broad Oak Street
I was born in 1949 and then spent the next 15 years living there or visiting my grandparents in Broad Oak Street. The house in Broad Oak Street forms a part of my identity. I remember every nook and cranny - the coal cellar ...Read more
A memory of Nottingham in 1952 by
Battersea Town Hall
The impressive entrance on Lavender Hill actually led into the Council Offices, where I started work when I left school in 1966. At that time they had changed very little since their Victorian origins; there was a grand ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1966
Bellis Cafe
The hot summer of 1976 - I was 16 and studying for my O levels in between minding the shop for my adopted parents Bert and Mary Belli. Our cafe was one of two Belli cafes in the town, but of course I always thought ours was superior ...Read more
A memory of Blaenavon in 1976 by
Boating On The Broads
Two years after our first visit we came again, bringing our own river cruisers towed by our own cars. We had located a slipway to launch at Martham boatyard prior to starting the holiday. The location at Martham was ...Read more
A memory of Potter Heigham in 1970 by
Born In Lincoln
I was born in Lincoln Army Barracks on 7th November 1951. I do not remember my days there apart from leaving in 1955 when we moved abroad. I did pay a visit back there in 1977 but the barracks were being taken down, I am unsure ...Read more
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A mile from Wroxham Broad and spanning the Bure is this lovely old single-span bridge, partially hidden by a passing sail.
This tiny settlement is set in a remote area of the Broads, where willows and reed beds thrust out into the waters narrowing the passage.
With its broad greens, its sandy beach, the lighthouse on North Green, and its picturesque buildings, Southwold has long been popular.
The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.
This broad parade, named after Queen Victoria, runs along the East Cliff in front of Wellington Crescent and the lawns.
St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.
The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.
As with Whistler's other major Broad Street portrait, it was bought by the Boston Museum.
In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.
In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.
The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front
The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling
Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.
These cottages lie on the road down from the school, one of the first church schools in Somerset.
This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.
This view was taken standing against the old Butter Cross looking down the St Ives road.
This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station.
This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm).
Bonchurch stands on the steep slopes of St Boniface Down.
The majestic sweep of the fertile fields down to the coast is also marked by the workings and spoils of man's need for the stone that is quarried from the mountain on this stretch of the coast.
But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.
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