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Living In A Bus At Talacre In The 1960s
I have very distinct memories of living, as a young child, in one of two single decker buses near the beach at Talacre. I recall tall beds and paraffin lamps with tall glass chimneys. My father was ...Read more
A memory of Talacre in 1961 by
The Kidd's Alright
THE KIDD IS ALRIGHT The daylight had faded away and dusk was now dim enough to coax the streetlights to pop on, their vague orange light slowly getting brighter as their bulbs warmed. Meanwhile inside the Hamblett ...Read more
A memory of Moston in 1972 by
Childhood Holidays
I spent summer holidays at Jacobs several years in the 50s with my parents, Don and Clarice Harrison and sister Margery. We stayed with miss Holmes and her daughter Celia who was a gifted dancer who later gained a place ...Read more
A memory of Brightlingsea in 1950 by
Living At Brean West Monkton
I spent most of my childhood living at Brean West Monkton and recently was reminiscing with my brother Jeremy Bicknell (who now lives in New Zealand) about our visits to the village Post Office and the services of ...Read more
A memory of West Monkton in 1950 by
Waiting For The Bus
To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more
A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by
55 Rusper Road (It Was 33 In The !920s)
I lived there until 1939 and was then with the 4th Royal Sussex . In the photo left centre you can see the old post office /store run in those days by my aunt and uncle (Sumerfields) our house was next door. ...Read more
A memory of Horsham by
Kings Nympton
My g.grandmother, Fanny Jones, aged 7, lived at the Post House, Kings Nympton in 1851, later moving to Exeter. I hope to look up her school records if I can trace them.
A memory of Chulmleigh in 1860 by
The Co Op
I can remember the Co-op store being the first in Slough to venture into the world of the supermarket. A friend worked there and was frustrated at the time because of the uncoordinated teething start to things. Around the corner in The ...Read more
A memory of Slough by
Old Boy
joined the vindi earlypart of 1947,with a friend from north shields named bob Watson. we were catering boys . after doing early part of training both of us posted to the offices dining saloon, a cushy job. the first few weeks we slept in ...Read more
A memory of Sharpness by
My Army Day,S
I was a National Service Concript , January 1947 . ( Coldest Winter for years ) . I was posted to Lydd camp with the 30th Light Ack Ack , Regiment Royal Artillery . 18yrs of age . When I saw Romney Marsh on the Postings Board . I was ...Read more
A memory of Lydd in 1947 by
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Despite the scale of the engineering, the cost of building the line, including land acquisition, was a reasonable £67,000.
He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess
The stand we see here was built in 1884 of red brick at a cost of £9,033 (£2,000 more than the estimate).
The large squat tower of St Mary's was built between 1638-40 at a cost of £750.
Fundraising started in earnest, and by 7 August 1850 the Church of St Anne was completed at a cost of £4,000.
A Town Hall with a clock was built at a cost of £1,215 8s 10d on land at the northern end of South Street and opened without ceremony in 1835.
It has a Norman south doorway and a celebrated panelled font of 1468 which cost £12 13s 9d.
It took 23 years to build, using mainly convict labour from the Verne Prison on the island, cost £1m, and was formally opened in 1872. It remains one of the largest naval harbours in the world.
Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.
Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300. Little here has changed today, except that the Town Hall chimneys have been shortened.
the product had dropped and parts of the farm had fallen into disrepair; in 1975, the 185ft Ovaltine chimney, which had been built using a quarter of million bricks for £7000, was demolished at a cost
It opened in February 1887 at a cost of £43,067. The Town Hall, which incorporates the magistrates' court and the council offices, is built of Scottish granite and Storeton stone.
It was replaced with an ornamental garden at a cost of £200.
A unit of the Majestic class of nine battleships completed between 1895 and 1898 at a cost of approximately £1 million each.
HMS 'Gleaner' cost £63,798, and was completed at Sheerness in 1890. Displacing 735 tons, she was armed with 1 x 4.7-inch QF and 4 x 3-pdr QFs.
In Great Oaks, a new fire station was officially opened in 1962 by Alderman G F Chaplin, CBE, JP, Chairman of Essex County Council; it took two years to build and cost about £62,000.
The cost of the land was £251,177 for 375 acres, but some of that was set aside for housing.
The 60 foot by 200 foot plot would originally have cost around £50. Basildon Council fears that the building may be demolished, as there is no preservation order on the site.
If it was a National Trust property, and the cost was £5 to go in, there would be only a quarter of the visitors.
The total cost of the building was £7,465.
The conversion of the 18th-century house into a Gothic mansion was costly, to say the least. No money was spared on the interior and fittings.
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