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War Time
I was born in Northern Ireland and lived in Belfast. One night the German Lufwaffa bombed Belfast - there were 1000 or more were killed that night. I and my brothers and sisters were evacuated to my home town in Lurgan in Co Armagh. ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1942 by
War Memorial
contrary to your statement under history, of the memorial, it was not placed in a field , theres no field there , its part of the dene on a popular and very well used walk down to the bathing hole where we used swim and parents ...Read more
A memory of Witton Gilbert by
Walker From 46 To The 70's
I was born in Walker 1946 to be accurate. They were slums even though the women did their best to keep them clean and rodent free. I remember my mum doing the washing in the wash-house in the back yard, she had to start a ...Read more
A memory of Byker in 1959 by
Various
We lived in Derrinton Road, it was a very long road. I remember the sweetshop that we called 'the old girls'. She had a window full of toys that we used to spend ages looking at. Even at the age of 5 and 6 we had so much freedom, we went ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1968 by
Trying To Remember The Road I Lived On
Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother ...Read more
A memory of Heston in 1949 by
Treco Bay
We stayed in a small caravan the first holiday we had in Porthcawl during the miners fortnight holiday in June many years ago. Other wise it would be day or afternoon trips to Porthcawl and other seaside resorts along the South Wales coast ...Read more
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Train Crash Going Down To Padiham Power Station.My Father Was The Train Driver Edward John Shackleton
Not sure of the year it was in the 1970;s my dad told his fireman to jump, as there was to much weight on the back.Has it was going down to padiham ...Read more
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Tracing My Ancestors
Hello all, my name is Steve Lane and I found this site whilst tracing my family. As a kid I lived in [Conningsby Court] Armfield Cresent. My dad Alf Lane used to drink in the Buck's Head and as a kid I remember sitting outside ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1960 by
Town Hall Mitcham
I have mentioned before that I used to live in the Town Hall Mitcham in the 1950's My Dad used to be the caretaker there and I was then known as Pat Parkings.I used to know Margaret Gray, Doreen Humphries. Brian Wilkes and Teddy ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1952 by
Time I,Ll Never Fotget
Hi, my name was Joan Handyside, I was there between 1955-59 and I loved every minute. I played netball for the county, passed my lifesaving and had a great time. Cross country up to lone pine, the teacher ...Read more
A memory of Marton in 1955 by
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This view has changed little, although the pub's black and white walls have been painted over.
This is how the village must have looked when the writer Eric Parker passed this way while researching his book 'Highways & Byways in Surrey', published in 1908.
For 400 years, until the family line died out, the influential Shireburnes lived at Stonyhurst.
Castle Road leads to the Square.
On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.
Construction of Colchester Castle is thought to have started around 1080, and in 1101 it was granted to Eudo the Steward by Henry I.
Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.
The castle is now much restored by the Marquis of Bute, with its water defences reinstated.
The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners.
The smith's main task was the shoeing of horses, but he turned his hand to a great variety of jobs that involved the working of metal.
When Frith's photographer went to Belfast it was not his intention to record its industries, but he knew he had to take note of the fame of the fabric known world-wide as Irish Linen.
It is the smallest Norman keep in England, and last saw action at the end of the Civil War, when Colonel Ashton's forces barricaded themselves in the castle demanding the pay that was owed them.
Having built the pier, the next move by Peter Bruff and the directors of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company was to build a hotel.
But Godard, wishing to rule, kills the King's daughters and instructs a local warrior and fisherman, Grim, to drown Havelock at sea.
However, all this changed with the coming of the railways.
The Harrison Drive Baths were opened in 1932 by Lord Derby, and were hence known as the Derby Baths.
Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon.
Haverthwaite village is in two parts, but they are quite close together.
The village itself is a mix of stone and local brick, as in the terrace on the right.
On the right we can see a finger post pointing to the church.
The pub pictured here, the Spinner and Bergamot, was built in 1792, and is named after two racehorses.
The Baths, opened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895, used brine recently discovered under Stafford Common during the search for a good water supply.
Although most associate Bath's waters with the Georgian or Roman period, the spring-fed baths were very popular in Tudor and Stuart times.
On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.
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