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Re Story Of Tales From My Father
I still hear all the tales of those days from my father,who spent his holidays at Number 37 with the Offer family and was sent there during the Second World War as a child, he also knew your father Reginald ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bassett by
Streatham Common The Grove Area
I used to be taken by my mother to the White House for a picnic tea with my sister. Although we had a huge garden ourselves, we loved going there. Sadly a young woman was murdered there in the 1950s ( I think) by ...Read more
A memory of Streatham in 1950 by
Evacuee
I was evacuated to Bearsted about a week before the outbreak of the last war. I lived at the White Horse Inn on the green, it was run by Mr & Mrs Brook they had a daughter called Tinkle (nickname). I was very happy there and ...Read more
A memory of Bearsted in 1940
History Of Netherthong
I am currently researching and writing a history of Netherthong and I have well over 200 photos and other ephemera. I have started numerous chapters relating to such subjects as schools, parish council, churches, sport, ...Read more
A memory of Netherthong in 2010 by
Wilton Memories
Like Gloria Friend, I spent a happy childhood in Hornchurch, attending Suttons Primary School where my mother (Mrs Wilton) was deputy head and Mr Occomore our headmaster. We were carefully drilled in our tables, phonics and ...Read more
A memory of Hornchurch in 1948 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
My Memories Of Selly Oak And Bournbrook
I was born Anne Shirley Crofts back of 622 Bristol Road (opposite where Aldi is now) in July 1944, brother Ronnie was born 1940, sister Vivienne was born 1942, and Alan was born 1947, between Riverton Road ...Read more
A memory of Selly Oak in 1954 by
Terrible Place
I lived and went to school in Shotton Colliery, and hated the place. Luckily I realised that living there was not for me, so at the age of 16 I joined the RAF and was posted to Wiltshire, clean air, beautiful rolling downs, ...Read more
A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1950 by
Poetry
This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995
Lofthouse's Newsagents
So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano ...Read more
A memory of Worksop by
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Most of the houses on the left-hand side cater for holidaymakers, and new businesses have opened up to capture their trade. The pub on the left is the White Horse Inn dating from 1851.
Kilburn is, of course, most famous for its White Horse, which was carved on the hillside above the village by the local headmaster John Hodgson in 1857, and for the intricate woodwork of 'mouse man' Robert
The bridges span the East Dart River, which rises near Whitehorse Hill on the high moors in the distance.
Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.
Here we have a close up view of the White Horse and a good view of the old Village Hall, where WI meetings had to be fairly restrained in case the floor gave way!
The Audit Hall is nearby, opposite the White Horse, but not in the photograph.
It is situated in Britain's most haunted village, and the 'lady in white' has been seen at midnight throwing herself from the bell tower. Nearby is the 15th-century Black Horse Inn.
For many years the White Horse was a straightforward, unpretentious village pub. It has changed hands several times in recent years and today its future looks a little uncertain.
The domed building, the Old White Horse and the overhead street lighting have also disappeared.
The White Horse pub can just be seen on the right, and on the left by the school sign are familiar adverts for Lyons Ice Cream and Lyons Tea.
On the left, local fishermen with their boats and horse-drawn cart are landing their catch.
Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.
Built in the mid 19th century, it occupied the site of a former hop garden attached to the rear of another pub, the White Horse, which had been in business since the late 17th century.
The 16th-century house with Victorian windows and a rustic timber porch (left) was where the agent to the Duke of Hamilton lived.
Situated on the edge of the Cherhill Downs, just below the earthworks known as Oldbury Castle, this is the second oldest of the Wiltshire white horses.
On the right, facing the village green, stands this old-world inn; the wide arch is the entry to a mews area for horse-drawn carts and carriages.
There are almost as many visitors in this High Street as there are in its neighbour Cromer, with every other premises a cafe or public house.
Pleshey's church dates only from 1868, though an earlier one had stood in the field behind the White Horse, on the left of the picture.
The White Horse Inn (facing us, left) is now the last of seven public houses that are said to have once traded in the village; it is remarkable that the local population of so many small
The two men with the horse are not far from the brook which runs through Downham - it is the haunt of white ducks and mallard.
A hill figure of a white horse was re-cut in the escarpment in 1924; it is visible from Cuckmere Haven. Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.
The Eastern Electricity Board office occupies the Old White Horse pub (left).
A good piece of townscape, the street both winds and undulates; there are many good buildings, such as the White Horse Hotel on the right.
Apart from the White Horse, little on the right side of Shortmead Street survives.
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