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My Home Town Of Rugby
I was brought up in Rugby 1949 - 1970. My parents owned Tudor Bakeries at 3 Regent Street. At first we lived above the shop with the bake-house in Oxford Street. Then we moved to Bloxam Gardens off Bilton Road and converted the ...Read more
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Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s
I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn
Treboul, 1861 To 1925
William Paige and his 12 chidren were the first occupiers of the new Treboul House and farm in 1861, his son Richard Edwin Paige JP took over the house and farm, with adjoining farms Criffle and Berry, in about 1875 and was there ...Read more
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Preston Park In Wartime And After
I remember that the eastern part of the park was turned into allotments during the war. And a water-filled ditch was created for testing tanks' abilities to cross muddy/hilly terrain. And after the war there were ...Read more
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Paradise!
My grandparent's on mother's side lived in top flat of Otterburn, Stroncarraig Brae, Rhubaan and my first visit was in August 1938 on a three weeks holiday from my home in Penarth, South Wales. My grandfather had a small open motor ...Read more
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Barnes 1960s
I was so lucky to grow up in Barnes and haven't moved far away at all. We live in Sheen now so we still spend a lot of time in Barnes. Our family christenings, weddings and funerals were in St Mary's and I was a Brownie and attended ...Read more
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Oxton Childhood
I grew up in Kylemore Road, Oxton. One of 5 children. The Arno features heavily in my memories. We would walk up there following instructions from mum to 'get out from under my feet'. We'd take plastic flasks of ribena, dress up in our ...Read more
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More Memories Of Living In Bedlinog
How could I forget another treat - a day out in Barry! This was before the fairground entertainments were there; there was just miles and miles of sand (at least that's how it seemed to me). I think we used to ...Read more
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Holidays In Ogmore
I never lived in Ogmore Vale but my parents and grandparents did. We went there for holidays and stayed in my grandparents house in 9 Highland Place. They were the Jones family. Grandfather was the organist and choir master at ...Read more
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Dad,S Farm
These sheep are on one of the fields that made up the 200 or so acres of my fathers farm, Llandough Farm. The family were tenants from the mid 30s until the late 60s (my father died in 72) For about 25 years they supplied the milk to the ...Read more
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To the left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling
In the 14th century there are accounts of crops of oats, wheat, and barley being grown locally, and local livestock included cows and sheep.
But long ago the Hoe was mostly devoid of buildings, and cattle and sheep grazed on the grass slopes, into which two enormous white figures were cut.
It included 450 head of cattle, 150 sheep, 67,000 bushels of maize, 39,929 bushels of wheat, and 37,117 bushels and 1500 bags of oats.
After the livestock market on Monday (the sheep market), Tuesday and Friday, animals would head out all over Lancashire. The origin of the name Clitheroe is surrounded by doubts and mystery.
Cattle, pigs, horses and sheep could all be corralled there without causing too much of a health hazard. The gentle gradient meant all effluent would hopefully drain down towards the river.
Sheep and pigs were given a particularly critical assessment by the very knowledgeable crowds, and some no doubt also enjoyed the ale from the nearby Dolphin pub!
The only traffic was an occasional farm wagon or flock of sheep…The fields where Richmond and Alexander Roads are now always used to have lots of poppies and looked very pretty`.
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