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Bilsdean Creek 1960
Down Bilsdean Creek where fresh and salt water meet, the bladderwrack rehydrating incoming tide chases tiny trout upstream to the overhanging hazel branch sanctuary of dappled dancing sunlight where they flit back and ...Read more
A memory of Bilsdean Creek by
Kidderminster And Bromsgrove
Hi, I was at Shenstone (Maths and Science, 1962-5, the same group as Gerry) and will forever be grateful for the excellent training we received. My name was Gerry Martin (now a more formal Geraldine Hammonds) and my ...Read more
A memory of Bromsgrove by
Davidson Road School
Does anyone remember Davidson Road Secondary Modern School? This was late 1950's pre co-education days so although housed in the same building, girls were upstairs and boys downstairs. Seperate playgrounds and 'never the twain ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1958 by
Holidays In Coldingham
Until we emigrated to the U.S. in 1948, my family spent our summer holidays in Coldingham with Cha Crowe & family, also, Johnny Walker, known as Walker the Butcher whose son Ian still has his butcher shop in Eyemouth. ...Read more
A memory of Coldingham in 1940 by
Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
A memory of Abbey Hulton by
War Years
The Tucker family were evacuated to Green Hammerton from 1940 - 1942. My brother John lived with Mr & Mrs Blackburn and my sister lived with Mrs Wray at the post office. They are both alive and still keep in contact with one of the village residents whom I shall be visiting this September.
A memory of Green Hammerton in 1940 by
A Glance Backwards
I came to live in Stadhampton in 1954 from Henley on Thames. My father was the village Policeman. I found that even for 1954 life in Stadhampton was comparatively primitive compared with what I was used to! But it was a ...Read more
A memory of Stadhampton in 1954 by
Miss Wills Teacher At Earls Barton Primary School Poss 1965
Attending Primary School in Earls Barton I remember a teacher called Miss Wills very well. She drew shy pupils out of their shells and plonked them on the stage. The performance ...Read more
A memory of Earls Barton in 1965
Mossford Garage
I started work at the age of 15 years as 'the boy', apprentice mechanic at Mossford garage. I remember going down the High Street to Pither's bakeries to get ham and cheese rolls, as well as pies for the mechanic's tea breaks. ...Read more
A memory of Barkingside in 1965 by
A Lost Childhood
My beloved late mum grew up and lived in the stunning village of Rode, way back in the late thirties I think. Sadly she's gone now, and I wish I had written down more of her memories of Rode. Her family name was Humphries, and she ...Read more
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Captions
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Rising above the bridge is Shell-Mex Houe in the Strand, which was built in the early 1930s.
After St Andrew's had been reduced to a shell by the Luftwaffe in 1941, somebody put a wooden board above the door with the word Resurgam on it, from the Latin for 'I will rise again'.
Seen here from the south-west, the sheer enormity of the late Victorian work is clear: the left-hand section is the much-restored medieval shell keep built for Henry II in the 12th century.
A Shell petrol station can be seen on the left.
The ruins include a large shell keep within a rectangular ward, a twin-towered gatehouse, a large D-shaped tower, and traces of a hall.
The Shell garage on the right has been rebuilt, now for UK Petroleum.
Gwithian Towans, the three-mile stretch of sandhills in which the village stands, was from 1889-1920 the home of the National Explosives works, which produced much of the cordite used in artillery shells
On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977
It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.
This photograph shows the ivy-smothered shell keep and gatehouse of Restormel Castle at a time when the ruin was still a titular possession of the Prince of Wales.
Today the Town Hall, beyond, could be described as a shell fronting the new Crown Centre shopping arcade, which was built in the 1980s.
The Shell garage is now a car wash.
Gutted by fire in 1966, and since reduced to a single- storey shell, the Rectory in Tyneham village was built in 1853 for Rev Nathaniel Bond of Creech Grange.
This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still stand.
Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still
The photograph shows a probably 18th-century brick shell in a setting of hawthorns and reedy water.
The Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth soon after the conquest on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913, but this was replaced by the shell-keep and tower that still stand
The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.
The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.
The Shell garage on the right has given way to a close of 1980s houses.
Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.
The Shell garage beyond has gone since the 1950s.
The west front largely collapsed in 1914 after a raid by German battle cruisers, which shelled Whitby and scored a hit on the abbey.
Seen here from the south-west, the sheer enormity of the late Victorian work is clear: the left-hand section is the much-restored medieval shell keep built for Henry II in the 12th century.
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