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As a very little boy we moved from Birkenhead in the North West, Merseyside to Luton. It was the 1950s and my Dad had a job in Vauxhall's. His brother Tom was already a General Foreman there and his younger brother John (that's what we all ...Read more
A memory of Luton 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
Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
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Purley Parade
We moved into the spacious four-bedroomed maisonette over Purley Radio in Purley Parade in 1955 and I attended Christ Church primary school, just over the other side of High Street (sadly demolished in 1967). A policeman used to see us ...Read more
A memory of Purley
Architectural Notes
As a former resident of Bath I recall that this building was not particularly liked. In 1959 the hotel was demolished and a block of 33 flats at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level with shops at the ground floor was built. The quality ...Read more
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Home
I have lived in the pretty village of Cartmel all my life and I love the quiet, calming atmosphere we have here. Once a friend and myself used to walk through the village with a nanny goat called Nancy and her 2 kids, we'd arrive in the square ...Read more
A memory of Cartmel in 1983 by
Laurel Farm
My then husband Derek Schwier and I bought Laurel Farm in 1963 from Jo Watts - a wonderful jolly character in her dung-coloured dungerees and mucky boots! All her cows were lovingly tended, and her retirement was a sad loss to ...Read more
A memory of Child Okeford in 1963 by
Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow
Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more
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Can You Remember?
How many Christmases can you recall, Can you go right back to when you were small, Can you remember a blanket of Snow, That covered the ground, or don't you know. Can you remember when Teens were once Tots, And ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad
I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more
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By the rules of the foundation, for eight centuries travellers have been given bread and ale on demand—the Wayfarers Dole.
Over the centuries a number of inns were established in Ringwood, many brewing a variety of local ales.
The cantilevered pub sign over the front door advertises Home Ales from the Home Brewery in Nottingham, now a cog in Scottish & Newcastle's big wheel, but still producing good real ale.
Inscribed on timbers around it are the words 'a jug of ale (and) a whispered word can be found within these old walls', and it advertises 'good ale and dry stables'.
Home brewed Wiltshire Ales can be obtained at the New Inn, and Ushers Ales are still brewed today in the town.
The cantilevered pub sign over the front door advertises Home Ales from the Home Brewery in Nottingham, now a cog in Scottish & Newcastle's big wheel, but still producing good real ale.
Still independent, it has a range of real ales and guest ales and serves food. Upper Clatford is a mile and a quarter south of Andover.
The Cooper's Arms, just after the turn of the 20th century; McMullens advertise their 'fine ales and invigorating stout'. The road surface shows signs of cobbling from an earlier age.
An old coaching inn on the Emsworth to Harting road, which sold Henty and Constable's ales at the time of the photograph. The Inn is still trading. The scene today is little changed.
The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.
Patrons are enjoying the riverside milieu of the Holt Fleet Hotel. This building still exists today, rambling as much as ever. There is a good restaurant here, and Bass real ales are served.
Scottish Courage's Bristol brewery is said to be the largest in the UK now dedicated to the brewing of real ale.
Signs for Seville Orange Marmalade and Strongs Romsey Ales can be seen to the right of Bargate.
In 1888 landlord J Grice was offering his patrons home-brewed ale.
Note the hanging board on the left advertising Vale of Neath Ales and the petrol pumps opposite.
It is selling Westerham-brewed ales, though its sign is, unfortunately, illegible.
taken over the running of the family business from his father James in 1918, but it was very much 'business as usual' for, amongst other things, the store is advertising furniture for sale
Offilers' Ales have long disappeared from the re-named Wheatsheaf. This view towards the market shows the wide variety of small independent traders that still flourish in the town.
An interesting view of the church of St Cross from the porter's lodge, where a visitor can be seen receiving the tra- ditional 'Wayfarer's Dole' of bread and ale.
Other than Burton, brewing in Staffordshire received a shot in the arm with the opening in 1992 of the Lichfield Brewery, which produces such delights as Resurrection Ale and Xpired.
The Crown Inn, seen here, offers the locally-brewed Badger Ales.
Westerham ales. On the left, behind the white picket fence, is a small shop advertising Sunlight soap. Auction posters are wrapped round the wooden village signpost.
Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales. R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.
In those days it was Fosters for clothes and the Corner Shop for wines, spirits, Butler’s Ales, and the dreaded Armadillo sherry.
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