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Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport
Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more
A memory of Newport in 1940 by
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by
Pilmuir
My father was gardener at Pilmuir in about 1939- 40 and we lived in the lodge house.A wire-haired fox terrier dog seemed to go with the house. I remember seeing a German airplane being shot down almost over our house and I collected ...Read more
A memory of Haddington in 1940 by
Schooldays At Arley Castle
I went to Arley Castle as a boarder in 1943/44. It made a lasting impression on me. The Arboretum was my favourite place and we had names for many of the trees which we would climb from time to time. Miss Kell and ...Read more
A memory of Upper Arley in 1943 by
Innocent Happiness
I was born just after the Second World War and like many people came from a fairly poor working class background. I was, however, blessed in many areas of my life and one of them was having an aunt who lived at 8 Hamilon ...Read more
A memory of New Brighton by
Sittingbourne To Australia
My name is Margaret. I was born in Park Road, Sittingbourne on 18.4.45. My parents were Flossie and Cyril Neaves. My dad worked as a machine man in the Sittingbourne paper mills and my mum worked fruit picking in ...Read more
A memory of Sittingbourne in 1971 by
Howe's Garage, Longfield
Rather than Longfield Hill, this looks more like Longfield itself with Howe's Garage in the centre foreground. My Dad worked here from the late 1930s to when he retired in 1973; it was run by his uncle Frank Howe and ...Read more
A memory of Longfield Hill in 1960 by
1956
Summer 1956.... I am Armell, a "Frenchy, a "Frog", who will remember for ever my beautiful days with Mr and Mrs Cantrell, John and Jill, from Lower Kingswood. I was in "such a need" just after my father had passed over and ... so ...Read more
A memory of Lower Kingswood in 1956
Family Holidays
My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's" family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more
A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by
Wooden Bridge
My uncle Bill Wright lived & worked in Chester from the war period to 1963. He was a widower and had a damp old ground floor of a rather grand house beside the wooden bridge across the Dee. My Aunts , his sisters would go up from ...Read more
A memory of Chester in 1958 by
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The Shell Mex buildings (BP House) then replaced the bridge at the entrance to the town, but was closed in 1983 due to structural problems and later demolished.
The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.
For a time it was the village hall, then a garage with Shell & BP services as shown.
The wall, with a flint and shell archway with Doric columns, allows the waters to emerge from the grounds of Bourne Hall into the pond, before they flow on to the Hogsmill River.
Local resident the Hon Mrs Nelly Levy (later Ionides), the daughter of Shell Oil magnate Lord Bearsted, set out to save the rest of the estate.
These were also the days when building sand castles, watching Punch and Judy shows, searching for strange shells and swimming in the sea added up to the perfect holiday.
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.
These shops were designed for the holidaymaker and included such establishments as cafés, souvenir emporiums, shell fish shops and so on.
Two German cruisers took up station off Scarborough, and fired over 500 shells into the defenceless town.
Cubitt built every modern facility into the house, including the insulation of the ceilings with snail and other shells, and he also improved access to the estate — he had his own railway siding, as
After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.
had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While the world shall
In Norman times this was 'Schelling's Town', for the parish belonged to the Eschelling family.
After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.
Bishop Storey built this superb Cross in 1501, on market land bought from the mayor and burgesses for £10, specifically so that 'the poore peple shall here after stand or sell eny Chafer (goods) Within
If it is not a Sunday, the lady and gentleman nearest to us are surely in their Sunday best, he with his boater and plus-fours and she all in pure white with matching parasol.
Fenton's proud boast carved in the stone that 'This Tower shall live in song and Wyresdale is its name' is now used as a doorstep in Abbeystead.
Isabella Dorling wrote to her fiancé, Sam: 'I was invited to Mr White's to-morrow evening, so shall have to go through that terrible ordeal, a dinner party'.
In the 17th century the wooden bridge became so dangerous that Lancaster Quarter Sessions ordered that 'the inhabitants of Thorneton of the east side of Thorneton bridge and the inhabitants of Stayno shall
On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.
In all probability we shall never ever know the answer, and the mystery will remain for all time.
It reverted briefly to Dottell Street in 1838 and acquired its present comparatively mundane title of Chell Road in 1841.
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