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Memories
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Written While I Can Still Remember
I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more
A memory of Harlow by
Written While I Can Still Remember .
My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more
A memory of Calmore by
Zoo And Other Seafront Memories
I definately remember the little zoo on the front of the esplanade probably in the 1960's. There were some birds and possibly a monkey but I remember particularly a huge tortoise ( it may have been a turtle), which was ...Read more
A memory of Largs by
A Day With My Granny Baird
back in the years 1947 /1950 ,my grand mother and I would spend a day at Hazelwood ,if I recall correctly by the steps they had a little carnival ,then we would make our way to the Floral hall ,which in those days had a ...Read more
A memory of Belfast in 1949 by
A Naughty Boy In Tottenham!
I was born in Wood Green but lived at 460b Lordship Lane over a boot repair shop from a couple of days after until I was about 11. I attended Risley Avenue Infant and Junior schools from 1946/7 until 1951 then we moved to ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham by
Denise Harper Major Cross Street Widnes
This was where I was born in 1953 I lived there in a two bed terrace with my mum and dad 5 sisters and 1 brother also my nan and grandad we stayed there till my dad won the pool's in 1960 50.000 pounds I went to ...Read more
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Fourth Avenue
not so much a memory but query? we had family living at glamis (lodge?) around 1900 is the house still there??
A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by
Living In Battersea
I remember living at 8 rowditch lane with my sister june and my three brothers bill Frederick and david and mum and dad the surname was Watson I went to lavender hill school for girls in amies street battersea from 1960 to ...Read more
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Open Air / Convalescent School For Infants
when I was just 5 years old in 1951, I was whisked away to a convalescent home for infants in Dedisham Sussex, dressed up like Paddington bear or , a recent example of an evacuee . I was there for about a ...Read more
A memory of Dedisham by
Park Road Cheam
I lived at The Gables 22 park road cheam in 1950 to 1955 went to Ambleside school oppisite the red lion pub, the Fair came once a year to our road great fun with the galloping horses and playing All I want is Music
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There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.
This is typical of the rural river scenes at Weybridge at the turn of the century, before the First World War.
Marks & Spencer's (left) has been a constant presence in Wrexham at a time when town centres generally have been under perpetual threat of change.
Almost everyone in this Edwardian photograph is looking at the camera.
Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.
This street has become estate agents' row - at Nos 4, 14, 18a and 24 Chalet Hill that is just what you will find.
The 14ft-high column was erected in 1842 to honour Admiral Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.
This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.
Some of the businesses seen here include Mason's (hosiers and hatters) at number 85, George Roberts & Sons (butchers) at number 89, and china dealer John Ingham at number 93.
This is an unusual but very attractive station at the end of the Northern Line, designed by Stanley Heaps in 1924; at the time he was architect to the London Underground Electric Railways.
At first glance, Church Houses seem to be typical farm labourers` cottages next door to the church, but a closer look at the left- hand group suggests that once this was a single substantial
At the bottom end of the High Street, in the old market place, pride of place goes to the water pump crowned by a gas street light.
The imposing yellow brick Gothic Revival building, with 210 rooms and a 1,000ft terrace, put Ilfracombe in the first rank of resorts when it was opened on 15 May 1867.
Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.
Below the fortifications of Mount Wise we can see a variety of shipping, from paddle steamers to ancient naval vessels, which were probably used as training depots.
A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.
Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.
Beer remains a fishing village, if not quite on the scale of yesteryear, and there are still a number of family-owned boats.
St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.
Before the 1920s bathers had been segregated, with the ladies and small children at the Friars Point end and men at the Nells Point end.
At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.
A quiet village on the outskirts of Woodbridge, maybe, but the sign on the pub is a reminder of the concentration of military bases in East Anglia at the height of the Cold War, with the radar station
Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb.
In Victorian times Hythe was a mere village on the banks of Southampton Water, but it increased in size during the 20th century largely owing to the availability of employment at the nearby oil refinery
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