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Growing Up In Cold Ash
I spent the early years of my life in Cold Ash and Thatcham. We lived in a detached house on Cold Ash Hill called Midway. I believe it has since been renamed. The house was built by my grand father Alfred Gadd, the carpenter, ...Read more
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My mother ran Burraton Post Office from 1950 to about 1990 and sold Frith postcards. The cows are being driven by Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, whose farm was about 300 yards behind the photographer in Liskeard Road, Burraton. The farm was ...Read more
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Postman Standing On The Corner Of Galgate West With John Street
The Postman is believed to be John Blenkinsop. Five of the entrances to ‘Barney’ have the word ‘gate’ (meaning ‘way’) in their street names. Galgate is the northern way into ...Read more
A memory of Barnard Castle in 1890 by
Victory Parade And The Sudden Downpour
What memories this picture brings back to life again!! I had just been discharged from the Fever Hospital having spent six weeks there with Scarlet Fever. Nothing was going to stop me from taking part in the ...Read more
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My Childhood Days
My memories of Great Bedwyn are spending my holidays with my gran and grandad William and Beatrice Alderman in Castle Rd and my uncle Dennis. My uncle and grandad were both signalmen at Great Bedwyn and I used to go down to ...Read more
A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1955 by
Dersingham 1954 C
We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron. My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955 - a great sum of £505.6s - my sister and I had new bikes and Mum and Dad went for a holiday to ...Read more
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The Bakery, Tatsfield
Hi My family (The Watsons) owned the bakery which was a substantial building in the village centre. It housed the bakery itself (my Uncle Dick Watson was the baker in those days). It was also a hotel with six bedrooms, plus ...Read more
A memory of Tatsfield in 1955 by
Alcombe School
This is a very exciting discovery for me because it is one of the oldest photographs I have seen of a part of old Alcombe that I can recognise, even at my great distance from the UK. My Great-Grandfather, George Mildon had a school ...Read more
A memory of Alcombe in 1880 by
Going To The Shops...
As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
Great Childhood
I was born in 66 Peel Street my grandad was Jack Rubery and wife Emma, my mum is Marjorie. I remember the Davy family, building the bonfires, playing in the old houses, picking the tar out of the cobbles, playing in my grandads big ...Read more
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For those wishing to partake of something a little more wholesome, the Central Dining Rooms are just a few yards further on.
Lympstone suffered economic depression at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when its shipbuilding yards closed.
Originally there was a junction here with a line running to the original Tenby Station, now Tenby Lower Yard; from that line a short spur served the quarry and lime kilns.
The A38 is now carried by a modern concrete bridge 200 yards downstream, and the tea shack (centre) has gone, to be replaced by a Little Chef which occupies the area just out of the picture
The church- yard was levelled and laid out as a garden of remembrance in 1956.
The Village 1909 A handsome farm cart stands in the yard of a timber-framed two-storey building, in this small hamlet on the road between Tenterden and Hythe.
Two hundred yards upstream from photograph 26987 is Abingdon Lock.
Such was the concern in 1791, that two beacons were erected, illuminated by lanterns holding many candles; one became the lighthouse, and another stood about 400 yards north of Cart Gap.
Congested with cottages, whitewashed yards and washing lines, they were the home ground of the working population of the town.
Today the remains of Bishop Wilfrid's Saxon cathedral and the Bishop of Chichester's deer park lie submerged a few hundred yards offshore.
This yard is typical of the long rows of houses and narrow roads built on the declivity towards the harbour in the town; many of the houses typically feature dormer windows in their roofs.
Behind the tree is the arched entrance to the stable yard of the former Swan Inn, which still has a painted sign 'Ring for Ostler'.
To the left we can see St Margaret's Church, and on the right are the offices erected in 1854 over the entrance to Dean's Yard.
The new site was about 80 yards from the old castle.
The church- yard contains the graves of 330 Canadian soldiers; many of them died from an influenza epidemic which swept the area in 1917-18.
Directly under the cameraman's feet is the entrance to the 459-yard-long Chirk Tunnel.
Here is a clutter of ramshackle warehouses, timber-yards and wharves.
The covered way at the side of J Todd's Grocer and Tea Dealer was built for the vicars-choral, so that they could cross from where they lived in Bedern to the Minster Yard without being molested.The
Perhaps this cottage still survives but I am sure there will no longer be calves, pigs and chickens in the yard.
The Marconi works had sprung up in 1912 opposite the goods yard and cattle pens belonging to the railway.
The Village 1909 A handsome farm cart stands in the yard of a timber-framed two-storey building, in this small hamlet on the road between Tenterden and Hythe.
Three hundred yards further north is Rennie's 1805 Dundas Aqueduct carrying the canal across the River Avon.
Here we see imported timber in a yard on the left.
It once had its own oasthouse and maltings, and a cattle-market used to take place in the inn yard.
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