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East Kent Coastal Holidays In The 1950s/60s
As a child the East Kent coast was a regular destination for our 2 week family summer holiday. We usually stayed in Westgate. In the late 1950s the excitement started with the journey from ...Read more
A memory of Westgate on Sea by
Harry
If it is the same Harry hargreavs I remember I use to knock about with him and he worked at the slaughter house that was on the Corner just where the mancunan way starts now, thats how ne came to be in the butcher game. .I lived in pine ...Read more
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Tales Of A Wandering Vocal/Sharpshooter
I so remember the 7777 club & the owner Clem Williams ....Clem would book my show several times through the year & I considered him a friend I used to love the rides in his old Rolls Royce ...I often ...Read more
A memory of Maesteg by
I Was There Ron Jackson
In 1949 the Royal Links which had hosted Royals and the glitterati of the day was the first to fall to the contagious bout of fires which mysteriously began to sweep the area. Imagine that wonderful central staircase (with no ...Read more
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Bread, Cakes, Cafe And Masons
Of course everybody know this building as Taylor's. However not everybody knows that there is another floor above the restaurant level. It can be clearly seen in the photo. This was the location of Cannock's Freemasons Temple for many years and may still be so for all I know.
A memory of Cannock
The Name Of The Hoy And Helmet Pub
On the left of this photograph is The Hoy & Helmet pub at South Benfleet, which was originally built in the 15th century, with later extensions. The ‘hoy’ of the pub’s intriguing name was a broad, ...Read more
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Building The New Shopping Centre
I was born near COventry in 1948 and we move to Olton in 1952. After I left school in late 1965 I got a job as a labourer with C Bryant & Sons on the new Solihull shopping centre, and a few weeks later head office ...Read more
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A Miners Son Growing Up
IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE OVER 55 YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE I WAS LAST IN PEN-Y-BANK. MY FATHER WAS A COAL GETTER IN MORGANS LEVELS, A HARD MAN THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF LEN THOMAS, OR BETTER KNOWN AS LT. I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OF ...Read more
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The Awakening
On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more
A memory of Locksbottom
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This mainly 13th century church, with its broad tower and slim spire, has fine stalls and misericords, as well as some modern mosaic work.
We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street.
Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left.
The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.
Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.
Broad pavements and a dirt road characterise this turn-of-the-century view.
Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.
On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.
Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre.
Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.
Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland.
A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.
Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.
Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
The young coxswain in the skiff has misjudged her three-point turn, and is wedged between the quayside and the cruiser.
This breezy walk is one of the finest in the western counties, and promenaders enjoy broad vistas of the sea and boats plying between the fishing villages of Mounts Bay.
During the early 1920s, Broad Street was a busy part of Reading, bustling with cars, trams and shoppers.
Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.
Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.
Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.
This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.
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