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Cotgrave Memories
Our grandad George Boultby was a miner at Cotgrave. Because we didn't have a car, we had to go on the old type Barton buses. We would walk from the bus stop to our grandparents' house. They used to live in two different ...Read more
A memory of Cotgrave in 1970 by
Return Of A Native
Camberley, where it all began. Where I lived half of my life so far. In your head you never leave the place you were born and raised. On a wet un-comforting day I found myself revisiting the town of my past. I was cast into ...Read more
A memory of Camberley in 1988 by
The Convent
My father died the year after I was born and his employer Burton's, provided for myself and my three brothers to attend private schools, which is how I came from London to the Convent at the age of 4. I followed my brother Colin who ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1947 by
End Of An Era
In 1944 I was a 13 year old pupil at Morley Grammar School. One beautifully sunny Sunday evening I walked from my house at 16 Albion Street (now Morrison's carpark) and about 40 yards East of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene ...Read more
A memory of Morley in 1944 by
Childhood Memories
I moved to Spencer Avenue, Hayes, when I was 5 and the war had just finished. My earliest recollections were of starting school at Yeading Lane and walking there through thick snow. Luckily we had school dinners so ...Read more
A memory of Hayes in 1947 by
My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's
I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by
Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories
As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more
A memory of Hatch End by
Memories Of Peel Green
I have lived in Peel Green all my life, it was a lovely area. I went to Godfrey Ermans and Winton Senior. I was the eldest of seven children and we lived in Rowsley Road, we used to play on Goddies Park and go over the ...Read more
A memory of Peel Green in 1950
St Catherines School
I remember the small school well. I went there 1953 -1957 close to the Manchester Ship Canal. Lunch was brought around in big steel cans and we had much fun and laughter. Christmas plays were fun too. I also ...Read more
A memory of Barton Upon Irwell by
Kitkburton Primary School
I attended Kirkburton First School (School Hill), prior to this I was sent to a Catholic school in Huddersfield, although living in Burton at the time, there was no comparison, Kirkburton School was like heaven ...Read more
A memory of Kirkburton in 1958 by
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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
In the late 17th century the main road from Nottingham to Newark went via Charlton (Carlton), Burton, Gunthorp (Gunthorpe), Horingham Ferry (Hoveringham), Bleasby Ferry and Stoak (Stoke) where it joined
The post-war years saw the spread of high-street chains, and Chesterfield was no exception.
This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.
Immediately east of Wicksteed Park, on the higher ground above the River Ise, Barton Seagrave has a small core of stone-built houses and cottages and a good Norman church around a triangular green.
The shops on the left were demolished in the 1930s to make way for Burton Tailors and F W Bradford Ltd, a family-run department store incorporated into James Beattie in 1960.
Well known chain stores were strongly represented in Marlowes and Bridge Street - Truform Shoes, Dorothy Perkins, Milletts and Burton the tailors were here - as well as local shops and retail outlets such
Most evocative of past shopping is The Fifty Shilling Tailors, a chain that grew up before World War II and originally offered suits for that price.
This view shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal.
The pub had become the Woolpack in 1780 and Everard's in 1845.
East of the High Street and parallel to it, Silver Street leads us out of the market place.
Pricerite is now Peacocks, Lennards is the Abbey National Building Society and Dennis Cox acquired Dewhursts in the early 1990s.
Burtons and Woolworths altered the streetscape with their respective Art-Deco and stuccoed cost-cutting neo-Georgian designs.
Beyond is the Provisions Market of 1834, later the School of Art, fire station and library, now also shops.
Burton Abbey had around 6,000 and Dieulacres Abbey about 5,000.
Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.
The 'new look' in fashions is demonstrated by the young woman crossing the street with her more dowdy companion; longer skirts, wider shoulders and a nipped-in waist were signs of relaxation from wartime
Beyond the Clocktower, the Georgian brick front belongs to the George Inn, which was replaced by Burtons in 1936.
Savage's and Burton's Menswear shop are on the right, and there is a cafe further up the street.
Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.
Although they are outside the City of Nottingham's boundaries, Carlton and Gedling are really its eastern suburbs.
Savage's and Burton's Menswear shop are on the right, and there is a cafe further up the street.
The streetscape is dominated by the former Burton's building, an urban interloper of 1939 with its giant Ionic pilasters supporting a heavy cornice.
The red PMT (Potteries Motor Traction) buses on the left ran to Derby, and the buses on the right ran to Hanley. 1946 saw the first double-decker buses in Uttoxeter.
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