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Marianne Thornton School
I went to Marianne Thornton school from the day it was built until I left in 1961. I used to be at Elmfield School in Balham but they had this new school built on the West Side of Clapham Common. I moved from ...Read more
A memory of Clapham in 1961 by
Home Is Where The Heart Is
I was born in Tooting Police Stn or nic as Dad called it. He was a home beat officer there for years. I spent most of my younger days down in the horse stables grooming or mucking out. We lived in flat no 1 and it was ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1958 by
Pontypool Town Centre
I lived in Upper Bridge Street and remember a few of the shops in town, I think! On the corner of Upper Bridge Street and the Bell Pitch was Franketti's fish shop with an awesome Art Nouveau till and free chips if you took ...Read more
A memory of Pontypool in 1960 by
The Day We Set Earith On Fire
Well . . . not all of it! My dad was enlisted USAF stationed at Alconbury 1959-1960 and he found us a place on High Street that we shared with a number of other people. I believe it was one of the first three ...Read more
A memory of Earith in 1960 by
Those Were The Days
July early 60's you could not move on the beach for holidaymakers, all the deck chairs would be sold out and Bill & Pat Ramsay would be playing music over the speakers. The Spartan club - weight lifters would be there - ...Read more
A memory of Aberdeen in 1960
The Gables Boys Home.1960s.
I was at the Gables Boys Home for approx a year and a half, from 1966 to half way through 1967, I was taken there because I was always bunking off school, and the little tin god authorities in those days decided that was ...Read more
A memory of Maldon in 1966 by
The Happy Days
To Mary Muir, I remember you very well. Those were the days. I started school then in February aged 4 and a half years old. I remember all my teachers. I wonder if these names ring a bell, Miss Todd, Miss Taylor, Miss Cuthbert, ...Read more
A memory of Lumphinnans in 1957 by
Horror!
I have very unhappy memories of this school, particularly of Miss Pedly, the matron, and the head of the boys side, My Williams. It was a cold heartless place. Fortunatly my parents removed me after four? terms. A very clear memory is ...Read more
A memory of Limpsfield in 1943 by
Gibbet Street
This used to be at the side of the old fire station where the metro club is now. It was moved to make way for the Aarchen way. I think they used it as a rubbish tip.
A memory of Halifax in 1969 by
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Captions
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The local policeman (centre) goes on his daily beat around this peaceful village – a sight not to be seen now. The nearby River Avon attracts anglers.
Unfortunately, a month later his Welsh rival, J G Parry-Williams, was killed attempting to beat the record.
The duffle-coats and beat- niks, the anti-war protests and folk clubs that started then are just a year or so away, and now only a memory.
The duffle-coats and beat- niks, the anti-war protests and folk clubs that started then are just a year or so away, and now only a memory.
But the misericords are especially delightful, with exotic animals, a mermaid, and even a comic carving of a woman beating her husband with a ladle.
With the amount of coal traffic in the past there would be at least two tracks running up to Treherbert, whilst the actual population of the villages would not justify even a single track railway today
The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are.They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.
Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.
The 'chat' part is either an Old English personal name 'Ceatta', or the word 'ceat', which means 'piece of wet ground'. In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn.
The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.The 'chat' part is either an Old English personal name 'Ceatta', or the word 'ceat', which means 'piece of wet ground
It was a sad day for Walmer and Deal when on 22 March 1996 the Royal Marines beat a final retreat and ended a 300-year association with the towns.
Burnt Oak will never be at the cutting edge of the tourist industry, but as we look north towards Edgware, we can see that the buildings on the left of this view are of some interest.
However, it has been accepted that the natural movement of the coastline cannot be halted unless it be at an unacceptable cost to the taxpayer for the benefit of very few.
In 1831, a year the old man on the left of the picture might well have remembered, Tewkesbury's population of just 5780 returned two MPs to Parliament, though this did not beat Old Sarum, whose seven electors
Note the mast on PF114: at deck level it appears to be at least two feet thick. The zulu beam to length ratio was in the order of 1:4.
Major Mulcaster, who had completed a survey of the building, said that the water of the Lea was sufficient for the powder mill, but a factory to make other ordnance should, he suggested, be at
They were so successful that Richards clocked up 259 wins, beating the record previously held by Fred Archer since 1885.
The club lost two FA cup finals in 1929 and 1934 before winning at long last in 1939, when they beat Wolves 4-1.
His apparent bravado as the Armada was sighted in the English Channel – 'We have time to finish the game, and beat the Spaniards afterwards' – was dictated by the mundane fact that the tide was against
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