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"Bre's Tree" Linslade Bedfordshire
I lost my wife on new years eve 2021 following three years of her illness with vascular dementia. No one really told me how things would progress with this dreadful illness and so I just tried my hardest to cram ...Read more
A memory of Linslade by
My Happy Childhood In Berkhamsted.
I was born at the Grange Nursing Home in Berkhamsted on November 19th, 1950. My parents were John and Marjorie Stanborough, my father was a school teacher at Park View School which later reverted to Westfield. We ...Read more
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New Years Eve At Didgemere
My parents farmed in Hertford Heath, only a short drive from my Uncles home in Roydon, as did my Grandfather from Nazeing. An uncle and aunt lived in Ashridge Park in Hemel Hempstead so rather further away from Roydon ...Read more
A memory of Didgemere Hall by
Dunstable Downs Bedfordshire
At the end of petrol rationing during the late 40's and in the 50's we would regularly visit Dunstable Downs to watch the gliders, all piled into my uncles Morris 8. The gliders would be towed into position at the far end of the ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Grays 1951 1969
I was born at the Orsett Hospital in March 1951. First home was in Palmerston Road South Stifford. My first School was Stifford Primary at the top of Mill Lane, the walk up the hill seems to be awfully long now for a 5 year old. I do ...Read more
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Parish School Sports Day
when I was 9yrs old my 1st memories of top locks were very frightening. We had our sports days on the fields in picow farm road which are still there today, but with the parish school being in Church street we had to walk ...Read more
A memory of Runcorn in 1965 by
Martin Way Morden
I wonder if anyone can still remember me, I was born 1941 in the back bedroom of the flats at 47b Martin Way above Millers butcher shop. I still say today best years of my life, the shops along that parade where, Unwin's off ...Read more
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Grandmother's Birthplace
When, after my marriage, I went to live in Berkhamsted in late 1970 I had no idea that I was to find out that my Grandmother, Dorothy Flowers had been born here at Ashridge House. Her father was coachman to Lord ...Read more
A memory of Berkhamsted in 1890 by
Rosella Cottage
I am the current owner of Rosella Cottage which is shown at the very far left edge of this photograph. Interestingly, the address is no longer known as Bridge Street. The cottage has been completely renovated in 2013 for ...Read more
A memory of Rosedale Abbey in 2013 by
Waterside Road
I was born in Beverley in August 1963 and my parents Gladys and Arthur Marchant lived at 16 Waterside Road, which I assume from other contributors used to be Beck Road South. I remember Barkers and Lee Smith animal feed mill across ...Read more
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The two figures on the eyot in the millpond are Jonah and his wife, reputedly brought to Turvey in 1844 from Ashridge House in Hertfordshire.
In 1554, the sick and feeble Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I) was dragged from her bed at Ashridge to be brought to the Tower of London.
In October 1925 a letter signed by Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay McDonald, Lord Grey of Falloden and Lord Asquith supporting proposals to acquire Ashridge Park for the National Trust appeared in The
Asbridge the Optician is one that remains to this day, although its unusual hanging sign (on the extreme left of the picture) has long since disappeared.
Asbridge the Optician is one that remains to this day, although its unusual hanging sign (on the extreme left of the picture) has long since disappeared.
A summer picture showing an image that characterises Bedford in the middle of the 20th century as bridge, river and church link under a summer sky.
This corner shop has had a long history of printing and publishing, and local names such as Ridge, Clarke and Marshall Ltd and Leayton & Eden, plus the two already mentioned, were at times situated
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