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Ben Rhydding
I moved to Ben Rhydding at a year old and grew up there with my brother and sister. We loved living there, exploring the river and the moors. I distinctly remember the large detached house Thornycroft when it was still owned by a wealthy ...Read more
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Bennett&Sayers Nuns Street Derby
I served my apprenticeship at Bennett&Sayers from 1964 to 1972, the scrap yard opposite was always called Frank Radfords, further up Nuns street [over the bridge] this was the original Samways for the highways,[now ...Read more
A memory of Derby by
Bennetts Shop Brook Street
Hi Does anyone remember the old fashioned style local shop half way down Brook Street in between the Coylers Lane and Belmonth Road junctions? The shop is still there but in a very diffferent form. The ...Read more
A memory of Northumberland Heath by
Bernard Knowles Brook
My grandmother was Lydia Brooks, her father was Bernard Knowles Brook. She lived with my mum and me at Burton Agnes Hall gatehouse until her death in 1949. My mother was Eedna Brook Wilson, born in 1904. Lydia Brook married ...Read more
A memory of Keadby in 1900 by
Berry Brow, A Thriving Community
Back in the 1950s I lived in Primrose Hill, my father was a plumber / electrician working for Joe Ellam in Lockwood, my mother a millworker at Brooks Mill, Armitage Bridge, before I was of school age I can remember ...Read more
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Berwick Road School
Our family have a long association with the school. Our grandfather William Short born 1884 was educated there, also our mother Hilda Short born 1920. Then the school taught both primary and secondary education. My mother ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by
Bexley Tec' School For Girls, 1965 66 And Beyond.
I started in the 6th form in September, 1965, Mrs. Taylor was our form mistress, Miss Fuller the Headmistress, Mrs. Richards for French, Miss Simms for English. In those days my name was Ruby Little; ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
Blacksmith's
In 1860 Frederick Middleton, an ancester of mine, paid to become an apprentice blacksmith to a George Dunt in Brooke. I have his Indenture in my possesion with the details of the agreement. Is there any information available in Brooke ...Read more
A memory of Brooke in 1860 by
Born In Brinsley
I was born in Brinsley in 1926. My parents lived in the first council house just by the post office at the time. My grandparents lived next door but one to the post office. Their names were Mr and Mrs Ted Hallam. We moved to ...Read more
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Born And Lived In The Area
I used to have a hair cut at the bowling alley, when I could afford it. If not it was Smiths on bath Road.# Went to Westgate school. Mr. Rackstaw? Mr. Good?? Terry Davies? Was a milk lad for Ron Botley. Neville & ...Read more
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Captions
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This view along the main street towards the Market Square displays an air of rural pragmatism, with several of the shops displaying their wares for inspection outside.
Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.
The nineteenth hole is to be found in Nether Court, a free-standing neo-Jacobean mansion by Percy Stone.
Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke.
Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.
The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.
Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.
The factory buildings in this picture have gone, and today this sprawling village is popular with those who work in Andover and commute daily to London.
Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'
Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby.
Ignoring the small building (left) and the iron railings this could almost be a rural scene.
The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning
Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.
The row of shops opposite was known as The Polygon, though R H Toothill's chemist shop is on Church View.
The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills.
In the foreground horse-drawn reaping machines are offered for sale in the market.
This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.
Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.
Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.
At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower.
For most of the century the city's parks retained their popularity and were maintained meticulously, only in the last quarter of the century suffering from a lack of management and care.
Wildersmouth Beach - named after Wilder Brook - was the main beach before the cutting of the tunnels.
This was an old-fashioned ironmonger`s that kept its nails and screws in small drawers behind the counter.
It was here in the mid 1800s that Dr William Penny Brookes practised.
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