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Woodham Mortomer Post Office 1950s. Mr Taylor's
Neat gardens of squares of box hedging kept very small and neat, both sides of the path from the road to shop, these squares full of striking displays of red and yellow flowers changing with the seasons, ...Read more
A memory of Tantobie
Wonderful Wellingborough In My Early Informative Years!
I lived in Wellingborough from 1952 to 1971. My Father was J N Clark, and with my Mum owned and ran the General Store on Weavers Road until 1960. Mum and Dad took me to see my first ...Read more
A memory of Wellingborough in 1956 by
Witham Times
I believe that my Grandfather, Arthur Arnold, was the editor of the Witham Times before and during the second world war and lived in Silver End with his wife Molly, sons Frank and Peter and daughter Elizabeth (Betty). I would ...Read more
A memory of Witham in 1930 by
William Edwin Pimm Resident Of Alfriston Sussex
This is a story about William Edwin Pimm 1864-1952 who lived in the village in the 1930’s and went to Miami in 1940. He won Gold & Silver medals in the 1908 & 1912 Olympic Games William ...Read more
A memory of Alfriston in 1930
Whose Bus Is This ???
This early motor wagonette was probably operated by J. Fred Francis from Colwyn Bay to Old Colwyn for a three-penny fare until the coming of the Trams in March 1915. It succeeded a two horse omnibus which ran between the two ...Read more
A memory of Old Colwyn in 1900 by
White House
My grandfather, Thomas Haskard, was proprietor of the White House inn for 25 years until his death in 1951. I spent many happy holidays there with my brother, Roger, and my three cousins lived in a house just across the road. I still ...Read more
A memory of Ambergate by
Where I Was Born
My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more
A memory of Sole Street in 1946
When I Was A Lad
The lad leaning on the wall was John Cook, whose father was a policeman in NP, the guy to the left in the dark suite is me and the lad sitting on the pillar (to the right) was David Ashworth son of Major Ashworth who lived in Silver Street.
A memory of Newport Pagnell in 1956 by
What A Wonderful Place To Grow Up
I lived in the High Street (122) from 1946 until 1981. I went to the Infants and Junior schools and graduated to 'Bushey Bit' which basically means I failed the 11 plus. I have so many fond memories of the village ...Read more
A memory of Aveley by
Wartime, North Somercotes
My father was Rev R G Cowie, who was before Rev Reece Jones. We came to North Somercotes in 1939 from Newcastle and I had an idyllic childhood in the vicarage. I remember a bomb fell in South Somercotes, I also remember ...Read more
A memory of Saltfleet by
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From the junction with Silver Street and Gold Street you can spot the distinctive tall tower of a former boys school, now an educational centre.
Silver Street, between it and the Bedford Palace, is now a pedestrianised shopping precinct.
Two identical versions of the fountain still survive in a Glasgow park and Pretoria city zoo in South Africa!
Henry Blogg, coxwain of the 'Louisa Heartwell', pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboat man in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross, and the British Empire medal
When the area enclosed by the Inner Circle was returned to the park, it was laid out afresh as Queen Mary's Gardens in honour of the Queen and King George V's Silver Jubilee.
The centre of the village dates from the restoration and repairs begun in 1752 by Lord Crewe's trustees.
The Sterrage Valley (sometimes spelled Sterridge) was a popular spot for day trips, initially by horse and coach such as those run by Copp`s, and from 1910 onwards by charabanc.
This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.
From the area of Miller Ground, sunsets have always been a much-admired Windermere feature, with shafts of silver/ copper light escaping from heavy clouds and crossing the water from Claiffe Heights
From the area of Miller Ground, sunsets have always been a much-admired Windermere feature, with shafts of silver or copper light escaping from heavy clouds and crossing the water from Claiffe Heights
Two miles north of Mary Tavy is Wheal Betsy, one of Dartmoor's most famous mines; in the middle of the 19th century it was producing over 1,000 tons of lead and 2,000 ounces of silver annually.
At this point, the river is placid, and silver fish can be seen darting just below the surface; to the south, in the still water by the Causeway, all kinds of ducks and wading birds are fed
The Shambles connects Market Street with Silver Street. It was the site of the medieval market, and 'shambles' was the common name associated with meat trading.
Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.
These two motor cruisers were available for hire, and the photographs were probably produced for hire firms to use in their brochures.
Combe Martin`s early prosperity came from its lead and silver mines, which were worked from prehistoric times.
Prettily situated among trees and fields, the church of St Mary the Virgin is small but contains many treasures, including a silver chalice dating back to Elizabethan times, a 500-year-old font and
East of the High Street and parallel to it, Silver Street leads us out of the market place. On the left next to 'Phipps' is 'The Rising Sun', a Jacobean styled extravaganza of 1892.
Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at
In 1914 the Palladium was offering a picture show every afternoon and George Graves & Co twice nightly.
Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.
This earlier picture appears to have an open space where the Silver Dollar was later built. The neat chalets on the sea front have long gone.
This triangular Bath stone fountain stands at the junction of Silver Street, Vicarage Street and Church Street; it was erected in 1783.
This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.
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