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Queen's Road L6
This was my grandparents home for many years and I visited it many times with my dad. My recollections of it were firstly, the size of the house! In it's heyday, it was considered posh and my grandparents employed a maid. The ...Read more
A memory of Everton by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
A memory of Market Harborough by
Best Holiday Ever
When I saw this photo, and read the memory by Jill Graham, I have to admit that tears filled my eyes. I stayed at Ashleigh with my parents and sister in the 60s. It was the first time that my parents had ever booked a holiday ...Read more
A memory of Allendale Town
Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do ...Read more
A memory of Newarthill by
Those Were The Days
I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated ...Read more
A memory of Cookridge by
Edward Lloyd
My great grandfather, Edward Lloyd, emigrated to the United States from Ffestiniog. He was a famous tenor in his day and had high ranking with the Eisteddfod both in Wales, and later, in upstate, NY. I am told by a cousin, ...Read more
A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1900 by
St Mary‘S Children’s Home For Babies
Hi, I was taken to St Mary‘s Nursery, Glen Park View, Leith Road, Gravesend as a baby awaiting adoption. I am curious to know more about this place but cannot find much information, if any on the internet. I ...Read more
A memory of Gravesend by
The Oriel, Racecourse And The Later 60 S
The racecourse was pretty much my home all my life, Kempton Avenue. Sorry, a bit of a personal ramble here mixed with my remeniscing about me to put into context; I was born in Ealing in 53 of Welsh family (5 older ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
The Old School House
In the early 60's the Old School House was used as the school art room. The sign on the right of the photograph belongs to a cafe known to pupils as "The Hags". When we had pocket money it was a treat to go to the Hags for hot buttered toast.
A memory of Felsted in 1960 by
Memories Of Baby Burial At Dilston Maternity Hospital
by Mr Alex Hillary (April 6th 2007) - as reported to Susan Hedworth, Community Care Assistant No, we don’t get the snow like we used to! Like it was in 1941, I mean. I was a taxi driver at ...Read more
A memory of Corbridge by
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The princess loved to entertain her friends here with tea and cakes, and butter and cheese made in the dairy from Danish cows which she had brought over from her homeland.
The war memorial opposite the Butter Cross is protected from traffic by railings.
Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures' - where the butter is made.
The limestone cliffs overhanging on the left of the photograph shade clumps of water-loving butterbur, the leaves of which were once used to keep butter cool and fresh.
We can see the school chapel beyond the open gates to the left of the Butter Cross.
The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.
The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.
The Butter Market was demolished in 1919, and the clock with its quarterjacks was transferred to the Guildhall tower.
Customers at the corner shop in c1955 would have paid 4d for a 14oz loaf, 1s 3d for a 3lb bag of flour, and 2s 6d for 1lb of butter.
below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke
Edwin Rule was described at the time as a grocer, draper and egg and butter dealer.
Inside, you could buy almost anything: there was paraffin, bacon, and butter in a glass cabinet, and sweets in glass jars.
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.
As the photograph clearly illustrates, the church was gloriously over-sized and over-opulent for an area dependent on butter, cheese and a little fishing.
Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures'—where the butter is made.The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.
It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.
To the left of Carfax there used to be a 'pennyless bench' where beggars sat and women sold butter.
The taller building straight ahead was Manor House Dairy, supplying butter, cheese and eggs.
The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter. I
The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.
The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market.
Butter Row School, in the foreground, stands detached some distance from the community it served.
The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market.
Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.
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