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Worthing Front Or Silverstone
In about 1935, when I was 5 years old, my Grandfather used to take us all on gentle rides into the South Downs from his home at 11 Gaisford Road in his circa 1930 Hillman Minx. The beloved Minx was not turbo-charged ...Read more
A memory of Worthing in 1930 by
St Mary School
At the top of the town towards the flats is St Mary's church. I used to attend St Mary's school which was situated behind the church. One day when everyone turned up for school it had been burned to the ground, I think I was ...Read more
A memory of Brierley Hill in 1965 by
Paddock Wood Huts
Not sure how long I went with my grandparents, then when they passed away my parents, but I was born in 1941 and I know we were still going there until we migrated to Australia in 1961. We 'lived' in the first hut on the ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood
Burns Pit Disaster
From his seat, by the fire, my grandad could see the great mound of the spoil heap of Stanley Burns Pit. It was the site of a horrific explosion, on 16th February 1909, in which 168 men and boys lost their lives. He would ...Read more
A memory of Stanley in 1900 by
A Lovely Girl And A Bonny Place
It's a bit unfair to say my memory is from 2000, as it actually goes back to when I was born (1980) and only ends last year (2008). My earliest memories are of being at my Aunty Stella's. She wasn't really an ...Read more
A memory of Denton Burn in 2000 by
Number 1 Kersemill Cottages
I started being accident prone at an early age it seems. My parents lived at the above cottages with me and my big sister. My dad was a meal miller and worked at the meal mill just up the the road to the right I think, ...Read more
A memory of Kersemill in 1956 by
1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which ...Read more
A memory of Harborne in 1940 by
Audenshaw Public Houses
I am trying to research a Thomas Wilkinson b 1803 in Audenshaw, married a Maria of Buxton, he was an Innkeeper in the 1820s and 1830s when several of his children were born. The 1841 census states that he is a Soda Water ...Read more
A memory of Audenshaw
Our Street
Our Street was named Aston Street at the back of the Kings Arms pub in Rochdale Road. It was an amazing little street with a tripe shop and pies at the top of the street, a garage next door which housed Johnny Raffo's Ice Cream Vans, ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by
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This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.
A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.
Only the tower survives of the original church. The building was rebuilt and restored on a number of occasions, first in 1630 and later in 1870 to a plan by Blomfield.
This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.
North of the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall heads north towards Trafalgar Square.
The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.
The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.
Construction of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr was commenced in the 14th century but the building was not completed until the late 15th or early 16th centuries.
Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.
This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.
The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.
Next to the gardener's house is the present-day rose garden, with delightful walkways and tropical houses. The last occupant of Thornes House was the Morley MP, Charles Milnes Gaskell.
Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.
Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.
This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.
The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.
Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.
In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.
In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different
Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping
Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.
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