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School Journey
As a sickly child, I missed much of my early schooling and eventually attended schools for the physically handicapped. My senior school was the Venetian School for boys in Camberwell, south London. We went on School Journeys during ...Read more
A memory of Rustington by
Day At Treherbert
My dad came from Treherbert. My grandad, who I never met, worked in the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley. My grandparents also owned a fish and chip shop there. If you are old enough you may even remember it. My grandad ...Read more
A memory of Treherbert in 1974 by
Strange But True
Our first home was a ground floor bedsit at 40 Castle Corner opposite the castle. The old part of the road formed a hammer head and had three parking bays. One dark rainy winters night my husband parked outside and ran in to ...Read more
A memory of Beckington in 1976 by
Gorse Park Primary School Stretford In The 1950's
Now, this is a long shot, but does anybody remember going from Gorse Park Primary School in 1956 or 1957 to do a P.E. demonstration in London? We went by train with MR. FLOOK and stayed one or two ...Read more
A memory of Stretford by
The Visitation Convent Bridport Dorset.
For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1948 by
My Banbury Grans Village
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. ...Read more
A memory of Warmington in 1940 by
Jacksons Boat
Reading the post about catching sticklebacks in the Bridgewater brought memories flooding back. I lived in Clifton Street, off Stretford Road. At the weekend we used to get some butties off our Mum, a bottle of pop (if she could ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1955 by
Collyhurst
Does anybody remember Denis the bread man we would help him deliver bread and butter and he just gave us 20p and we would buy toffee logs from bobs on Thornton St or get some scraps from Frank's chippy
A memory of Collyhurst by
Good Times, Good Money, Good Friends.
I was sent frtom Leeds to Lower Bynamman in 1970 to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast coal site. I lodged at the Bryannam Hotel with Dez and ...Read more
A memory of Brynamman by
A Holiday Of Note
I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg ...Read more
A memory of Dollar in 1951 by
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Built in the late 1700s by 'Capability' Brown, who is usually better known for his gardens, this extravagant mansion was demolished in 1954.
The steep descent to the quay at Polruan has never been kind to traffic, and is better suited to pedestrians.
For decades the place has been a favourite with those who like nothing better than to 'bimble around' by the waters edge.
Close to what would become Catterick Camp, Hipswell Hall had seen better days than when this picture was taken.
It is a somewhat different story in the depths of winter, when this coast is regularly battered by storms.
Children cluster round licking at the cheap ice cream from the hokey pokey stall.They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled suits and battered boots, and were probably bought their treats
Children cluster round licking at the cheap ice cream from the hokey pokey stall.They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled suits and battered boots, and were probably bought their treats
Luxury hotels were built to cater for the better-heeled visitor to Bournemouth, which prospered well into the 20th century.
Judging from the discarded betting slips, the punters had not backed Harry Wragg to get the better of Gordon Richards in the first race.
To the left is a better view of the old school in the churchyard.
Luxury hotels were built to cater for the better-heeled visitor to Bournemouth, prospering until well into the 20th century.
Close to what would become Catterick Camp, Hipswell Hall had seen better days than when this picture was taken.
Rather battered breakwaters give some protection from erosion to the sand and shingle
Birdwatchers would do well to bring their binoculars the better to see the great variety of seabirds that visit this coastline.
Woodland Road is better known today as the A68.
One of Thomas Hardy's few forays into politics was to champion the cause of better treatment for rural workers.
But there are better corners than can be seen from this view.
The Cups Hotel on the right has now gone, as have several of the buildings on the left and those in front of Jumbo, mostly not for the better.
When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls.
For centuries a fishing port, St Ives is today better known for its artistic community.
The monument here is obscured by a cabman's shelter (better than the public convenience that replac- es it now).
Rather battered breakwaters give some protection from erosion to the sand and shingle beach.
Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.
It was to be the Lady Chapel, but it is better known as the burial place of the first Tudor king and his wife, Elizabeth.
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