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Tooting Smells Like Home ........1970's 80's
The huge image of a beautiful woman's face comes to mind when I remember Tooting Broadway "Chelsea Girl". I used to love looking at all the lovely clothes and getting ideas so that I could walk down to "Huma ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1980 by
The War Years In Consett
I was born in Consett at 11 Newmarket Street in June 1933, though my parents were living in Norfolk and later on in Middlesex. I was sent back to live with aunts when the Blitz really got going. I went to the CofE ...Read more
A memory of Consett in 1940 by
I Remember The Post Office
This was a large dark place, all timber with a climb up the steps to get in and the floorboards creaking as you walked toward the counter. In them days I couldn't see over the counter but I remember the shopkeeper ...Read more
A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1969 by
Childhood Memorys Of Nailsea 1960 S
I was brought up in Nailsea. My parents owned a toy and gift shop on Station Road rented from Bob Vance, later we moved to Noah's Ark Cottage. Built in 1666, it had all the original features intact, the stone ...Read more
A memory of Nailsea in 1960 by
Princess Street Platt Fields
I lived with my mother and grandad in Princess Street, Rusholme and went to Holy Trinity Infant School. We used to play in Platt Fields which was only at the bottom of our street. My friends were Alma ...Read more
A memory of Hulme in 1950 by
Growing Up In Aberkenfig
Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more
A memory of Aberkenfig by
Staying With The Grindle Family
My father worked at Denaby Main Colliery as a steel erector, installing pit head plant. My memories of Denaby Main are of staying with my dad's landlady and her family. They were the Grindle family and their ...Read more
A memory of Denaby Main in 1961 by
My Colindale
I came to live in Colindale in 1967 aged 1.5 years, first in Lynton Avenue, then in 1968 the family moved to The Loning where I still am to this day. I have very special memories of the area, White Bridge, Rushgrove Park and 'the ...Read more
A memory of Colindale by
My Childhood Garden Part Iv
If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more
A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by
Land Of My Fathers
I loved growing up in the 'cape' as we called it. In the hot summer of 1977 I remember going up the mountain behind Villiers Road to go picking whinberries with my uncle Peter Morris, and I insisted on carrying them back down ...Read more
A memory of Abergwynfi in 1977 by
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Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: 'The Life Guard was sent down into the country to Winchcome to spoil the tobacco there which it seems the people there do plant contrary to the law'.
The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.
They had between them several houses, and in the garden of each they planted a mulberry tree - school children from the village dance around the one at Shrubbery House.
Trees planted c1900 are now mature, and more modern lighting has been installed. On the right is the Eagle Building, erected c1900 by William Wallis, an entrepreneur who liked large buildings.
The opening of the steelworks was followed by the building of a chemical plant at Baglan Bay by British Petroleum.
When the Liberal politician W E Gladstone visited the college three years previously, the occasion was celebrated with the planting of a tree.
Born at Penshurst Place in 1554, Philip Sidney is known to have planted oaks in the park. One oak is thought to have been here during his time, and is called the Philip Sidney oak.
The oak was planted in 1897 for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee; it still dominates the green with its seat around the base.
There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.
Sir Joseph came from the nearby village of Revesby, and the plants he brought back from his journey with Captain Cook formed Kew Gardens.
The lime trees (now gone) were planted in 1888, when the Square was no longer a livestock market.
Tree planting depleted the Clifton coffers, and the family went abroad, but the beautifying of Lowther Gardens continued, as can be seen by the many flower beds and mature trees—a Mr Tomlinson took the
The trees around the church were planted around 1950, the same time as the nearby forests were established by the Forestry Commission.
Although photographs show a busy town, poverty in the slums prevailed, especially in the yards where the decline of the straw plait industry meant that women and children no longer contributed
George VI in 1937, and in 1953, to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a fragrant raised garden was created for the blind with a descriptive Braille plaque beside each aroma- tic plant
This seems to have been planted with cherry-trees later.
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