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The Ferry Boatman Disaster
Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers ...Read more
A memory of Ryton
Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
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The Other Side Of The Coin
Miss hopefully ' what I have to say will come as a surprise to you . If so I am sorry but it is all true Your father peter was a brutal cold heartless child molester I was one of is boys in the kids home he ran The ...Read more
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Vague Memories
I was born in February 1941 and have vague memories of living in Watchet sometime in 1943/1944 for a period of almost two years. My mother (Kathleen/Kitty) and her sister (Olive) rented a house which I believe was on the Doniford Road. ...Read more
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Searching For 1950s Neighbours
Hello there, My stepfather has asked me to search for three people that he knew in the 1950s and early '60s in Steventon. My stepfather is Robert Orchard from Pembrokeshire, Wales. He worked for the electricity ...Read more
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Days Kids
My memories of Mexborough were playing by the canal down ferry boat lane of church street , canal barges would come along and we would open the old bridge and let them through and the boat man would throw us pennies for our help. We would ...Read more
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16 In 1966 Croydon
In 1966 my first job was as an office junior for the Bought Leger Department at Findus for Nestle on the 18th floor. One of my jobs was to open the post and someone sent in their false teeth because they had bitten into a fish ...Read more
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My Early Days At Stokesby
Ruby Gowen born Stokesby 1933 now known as Elizabeth Robinson. Among my early memories is being taken “down the Ferry” to see the steamship the Queen of the Broads go by. First in the distance the smoke would appear and ...Read more
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Kingswear, Me, And My Dog.
He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided ...Read more
A memory of Kingswear
More Research Of One Of The Houseboats In The Photo.
With reference to the Polish Motor Torpedo Boat houseboat in the photo ('Hippocampus/S-8/HMTB 427'), I have done some more research using the local Electoral Registers (held in Winchester and ...Read more
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Is this how Ebenezer Howard envisioned that his second Utopia would eventually look, when he founded it in 1919?
Here we see two horse-drawn narrow boats, the 'Linnet' and the 'Evelyn', belonging to George Garside, at the attractively sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.
The two significant features in this photograph are the nets drying over the sea wall and the way in which the fishing boat is being handled.
The curving railway line in the near distance suggests that the photographer was looking east from the B3074.
This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.
This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge's graceful character.
The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.
Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.
The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway was a single broad-gauge line, which opened in April 1867, and connected with the Bristol & Exeter Railway at Bedminster.
The Esplanade 1899.
Here in the right foreground we see the Tolsey building raised on columns, with its broad clock projecting from the gable.
This fine building was built on the site of the relocated lifeboat station; its façade betrays its construction in stages.
Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.
Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.
The Rose and Crown is dated to 1641. The town's main hotel, the Royal George, is mentioned in Mrs Gaskell's novel 'Cranford'.
The broad verges and continuous avenue of trees bring green, open space to the High Street and make it an attractive place to explore.
The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.
The wooden bridge spans the spur to the Delph. Here, iron ore deposits colour the water bright orange. There were two canal and tunnel systems, one set higher than the other.
On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.
A quaint wooden footbridge gives this pedestrian relatively quick access over the River Blyth where it is joined by Buss Creek to the coastal town of Southwold.
The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.
Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.
The exporting of coal has ceased by this date, and the loading gear and coal trolleys are long gone.
The shops along the Causeway, facing the Ouse basin, have changed very little.
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