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Morecambe Musical Festival
From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands ...Read more
A memory of Morecambe in 1955 by
Mods
I went out with Robin hanson who lived on Babington road. we met at the ice rink my first serious relationship in 1962 we were both 16 he may have been slightly older. we went and saw the rollING Stones at Streatham locarno. we split up and got ...Read more
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Memory Lapse2
I remember when I was transferred from the children's hospital in Birmingham to Bryn Bras Castle at the age of about 9 yrs - I was in the hospital for about a week before being driven by a Health Visitor dressed in a navy blue ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island in 1944 by
Little Boy Left Home
My mam had died not so long ago when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother and sister, and my dad, we lived in Elm Street, near the wall at the river that came out of the Ebbw Vale steel works, a nasty smelly water way that would ...Read more
A memory of Cwm in 1946 by
Hanging On A Rope
Many a day I would walk into into York and would find time enough to walk along the Ouse River. I was approaching the railway bridge and saw four lads playing silly on a swing rope which was hanging but a few feet from the ...Read more
A memory of York in 1994 by
Fishing Under The Arches
I was born Marilynne Thompson at 17, The Lynch, Polesworth in January 1952. My mam and dad, Peg and Geoff Thompson both worked at Ensor's brickyard. When I was about two or three years old we moved to a cottage ...Read more
A memory of Polesworth in 1961 by
Endless Summers.
i remember in the mid 60s my friends and i jumping off the farleigh bridge, how on earth we didn't break our necks i will never know, we stayed almost every summer week-end in the hopping huts, and had to come back to london late ...Read more
A memory of East Farleigh by
Born And Bred In Hockham.
I was born in hockham 1953. my mum and brother still live there. lovely memories playing on the hill which it was called then. going too the lion pub and getting a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps going back on the ...Read more
A memory of Great Hockham by
Bells Close And Lemington As A Boy In The 70s
I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block ...Read more
A memory of Lemington in 1977 by
Being A Kid At Heart
Going swimming in Harpurhey swimming baths, in the old stone steps pool, then when we finished, was allowed to have a bath in the cast iron baths - brings back memories.
A memory of Harpurhey in 1976 by
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We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square.
Sherborne Park separated the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by
RECORDS of a harbour in Margate go back to the 14th century, when it appears to have been a small wooden structure sheltering the local fishing vessels.
Picturesque stone cottages line the main street through the village, which climbs from a bridge over Downham Beck to St Leonard's Church.
Stone lintels, dripstones above the windows fitted with 16 panes and glazing bars (left) go back to the days when Bashall Eaves was mainly self-supporting.
The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.
The Lighthouse c1960 The striking stone-built lighthouse at Southwick dates back to 1846; though no longer in use, it is still regarded fondly as a local landmark.
The stone jetty that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in the 1900s.
Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry.
The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.
We are looking eastwards back down the street.
The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters.
Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual
The stone-built building to the right of the Yelde Hall was a butcher's run by Greig & Co in the 1950s.
This ancient and beautiful village dates back to Saxon times.
The Red Lion, seen on the right, is the oldest inn in Adderbury, dating back to the 16th century.
Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods.
The town, once an important centre for the woollen trade, has many fine golden Cotswold stone buildings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when many affluent wool merchants made their home here
With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,
This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.
On each side of the bandstand are stone canopies protecting marble vases.
Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods.
The town's reputation for its fine market harks back to the 14th century, when the first rights were granted to the abbot of Cockersands.
Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.
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