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Growing Up In Tideswell
Memories abound about my childhood, jumping and leaping like a rabbit at Eastertime. I remember staying at my grandmother's (Norah Gregory, a marvellous woman from the no-moaner generation), or at my Great Aunty ...Read more
A memory of Tideswell in 1976 by
Childhood Memories Of Penrhyn Bay
My grandmother and grandfather lived at "Oaklands", in Maesgwyn Road, opposite a corrugated iron church. The road was unmade and beyond the church to the sea was a large meadow where cattle and sheep grazed. On ...Read more
A memory of Penrhyn in 1930
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
Woolen Mill
My grandparents George and Sarah Ruddick lived in Heads Nook. He worked as a guard on the railways, she worked in a small room repairing woollen blankets in the Mill. They lived in Glenn Terrace, Heads Nook. I have many happy ...Read more
A memory of Heads Nook in 1940 by
Grandmother Born1876
My grandmother used to tell me stories of Gateshead days when I was a kid, for example Tommy-on-the Bridge, area Bottle Bank, apparently was a permanent fixture in those days, he stood on the Swing Bridge, might have been ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1890 by
Surbiton Lagoon In The Fifties
I remember walking to this pool, Surbiton Lagoon, from New Malden. In those days our costume would be rolled in your towel, tucked under our arm and off we would go. No grown ups to escort us. No backpacks or ...Read more
A memory of Surbiton in 1953
Forgotten Children
My mother (Doris Daye) was married to a Canadian, Robert Lennox, at this church in January 1941. I was born in July. We lived at 8 The Terrace, Sunning Hill. Aparently he was AWOL and was sent back to Canada some 4 years ...Read more
A memory of Sunninghill in 1941 by
Pellon Lane Area In The 1950s
I used to live just off Commercial Road on Gibson Street in the 1950s. The houses were very basic with a living room, a bedroom, attic and cellar. We shared a toilet with another family which was at the end of the ...Read more
A memory of Halifax by
Jtbells
This is the year I started on the building sites in 1963, I got a job on J. T. Bell's site in Whickam, the site hadn't been running long then as it was in the first stage. All the lads were mainly from Newburn, Lemington, and Throckley. If ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1963 by
The Back House
I was born in Sedgefield and lived in North Bitchburn until I was 7 years old, me and my twin sister Elizabeth and my mam amd dad who worked at the pipe yard. We lived in no 1a Constantine Terrace, it was the back half of ...Read more
A memory of North Bitchburn by
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As Clifton's reputation as a resort grew, the late Georgian terraces were built in a style that deliberately imitated Bath.
Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.
The long terrace of cottages is known locally as The Row; it once housed local workers, but it is now holiday homes.
Apart from that, notice the old cottage between the two terraces.
This is Promenade Terrace and Parade Gardens (the area reclaimed from the sea).
With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.
This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.
The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town.
Across the small valley is a pleasant mixture of modern semi-detached and older terraced houses.
In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.
Most of the terraced houses in this view are 18th-century, including the one behind the tree with the pedimented doorway (far right).
Following a collapse of the rock face in 1996, access to the terrace overlooking the Meadows has been restricted until repairs have been completed.
Yewbarrow Terrace, with its colonnades and cover for shoppers, had only recently been built at this time, but it still looks the same over 100 years later - even the rings to which to tie horses remain
A view towards the sea along a quiet backstreet of Edwardian terraces. Many of these houses rented out rooms to summer lodgers who were unable to afford bed and board in more prestigious hotels.
Rushton Road, at the east end of Station Road, is a mix of Victorian terrace housing and factories.
Cheltenham quickly became a retirement home for officers and colonial administrators, who occupied its Regency terraces and purpose-built villas.
Winchcombe's long central street becomes in turn Hailes Street, High Street, Abbey Terrace, Gloucester Street and Cheltenham Road, showing off a great variety of magnificent architecture along the way.
Two rather grim terraces face each other like advancing armies, so that even the children playing happily and the horses pulling the cart with its wicker baskets cannot quite dispel the bleak atmosphere
Neither Yewbarrow Terrace to the left nor the war memorial on the promontory on the right had been constructed at this date.
The right-hand terraces with their shop blinds were bombed in 1943, and were replaced by the less interesting Arndale Shopping Centre of 1981.
The seating terraces of the previous picture have been replaced by this concrete and glass shelter, built into the hillside. In the distance on the right is the shelter beside the Cove Pavilion.
It was for the building of the Promenade and the surrounding crescents and terraces that many of the quarries were opened in the neighbouring hills.
There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's
Arnos Vale was laid out in terraces, and Charles Underwood designed its Doric lodges and classical chapels.
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