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Hardboard Holiday Home.
You'll all go "Oh yes", when I jog your memory that Seaview was formerly named 'Kite Farm Camp'. It changed its name to Seaview around '61/62 when Arthur Fitt the garage owner on the other side of the station bought it ...Read more
A memory of Swalecliffe in 1960
Almost Drowned
It was a hot summers day and dad let me borrow his bicycle. It was a bit on the large side for me (I was 10 years old) he had taken the saddle from off the saddle-bar and had tied it to the crossbar. I rode the bike along the canal ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1960 by
Is It Me?
I was 10 years old when the picture of Selsey High Street was taken, and I lived in the house on the right hand side with the low wall outside - it was called Glen Roy! I have this picture on my office wall and I am convinced that I am the ...Read more
A memory of Selsey in 1960 by
In The Hills Of North Devon
Shovelled off to Boarding School, aged 7 (just), small boy, shorts, huge trunk, sandwiches and standing on the platform in London shivering and not just from the cold. School train huffing and puffing heading for ...Read more
A memory of Tawstock in 1960 by
Barking Station 1960 1966
As a school-boy I had a job working for W.H.Smith at Barking Station. I started when I was twelve on a paper round, but after a short while the shop manager, Albert Hedges, decided I could work one of the platform ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1960 by
Merton And Morden Childrens Association Annual Camp.
I first attended this camp in 1954 as a baby of 10 months of age and my first experience of the sea was with my father at that tender age. I attended for at least the next 10 years and learned to ...Read more
A memory of Pagham in 1960 by
Salford Born And Bred
From the 1960's We lived on Octavia House, I am Mike kilburn, there was my sister Susan, and brother Paul. My mother was Pat, sadly deceased. We moved to Dequincey house after living for some years on Octavia. I went to ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1960 by
Lazy Days At Allhallows
I have pics of me and my family camping in a bell tent at Allhallows. We then bought a caravan which I thought was fabulous, there wa my mum and dad, us kids, Dot, Carol, Charlie and me, Jenny, and a baby sister cam along ...Read more
A memory of Allhallows in 1960 by
Slate Quarry
I have fond memories of working in a slate mine as a 20year old. Only for a short period servicing and checking a Tilghmans compressors which supplied compressed air inside the mountain. I vividly remember being in the mine and ...Read more
A memory of Upper Chapel in 1960 by
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All contributed to make London the busiest port in the world: this era is long past, for now Docklands is all smart housing, flats and offices, symbolically dominated by the 850-foot-high Canary Wharf
We see behind the dock a busy little port, though it was mostly used by coasters and Irish cargo boats.
The creek on the River Wyre is now a modern marina, but once, like Skippool, it was an ancient port where ships from Russia called and oranges were unloaded from the West Indies.
In the 18th century it was a port shipping out Hampshire grain in exchange for French wine.
In medieval times the town boasted a castle, a port and a church, which were overwhelmed by the sands in the early 16th century.
Gainsborough, an ancient market town, was also a busy river port; here we look up Silver Street, which led from the river wharves and warehouses to the market place.
The earls had even entered into negotiations with the Spanish Ambassador in an attempt to secure assistance from Philip II; the rebels garrisoned the port of Hartlepool.
The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.
Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.
It helped make Brixham the greatest fishing port in the land in the 19th century.
A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.
The River Adur ports had a chequered history.
During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel.
Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.
Most visitors to the town today are on their way to a place close by that has a great deal of character – the purpose-built town of Port Sunlight with its 'sylvan suburbs' around the nearby soap
The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship
A fishing boat is returning to port from Lyme Bay at high tide, manoeuvering along the ship channel between its double piers into the basin (top right).
Famous for its boatyards, which still produce yachts and ships, Brightlingsea is a 'limb' of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, and the Deputy swears allegiance to the mayor of Sandwich.
At the turn of the century the lucrative tents were a closed shop run by number of families: the Dentons (Harry Denton was the bathing machine proprietor and port sanitary inspector), the
This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.
A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.
Brimscombe Port is in the distance.
The façade of Ye Olde Red Lion pub in Park Road had undergone some minor changes shortly before this photograph was taken, with the removal of two decorative signboards above the main doorway and the replacement
Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth.
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