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The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
The Black Bull
I was allowed into the pub with my grandfather, Clarence Batchelor, as long as I sat in the corner and kept quiet! I was eventually taught to play darts.
A memory of Cliffe in 1952 by
The 1950s At St. Annes
I loved St Anne's. Great theatre, music and games, an all-round education. I'll always think that I got a great education there and I'm sad it's been pulled down. I wish I could find some of my class mates; Wendy Dew is ...Read more
A memory of Sanderstead in 1953 by
Teased By Day ,Tortured By Night.....
The first time i read anyone's memoir of their days at Mobberley Boys,they claimed them as fond almost happy days! I panicked for a minute thinking there were two schools of the same name! Of course,for me there ...Read more
A memory of Mobberley in 1976 by
Shopping In Epping
I love this photo - those old cars ! I don't remember the old building with the wooden balconies. It must have disappeared between 1955 and the first half of the 1960s. Monday has always been market day in Epping. Years ago ...Read more
A memory of Epping
Purley County Grammar School
My father taught at what was then Purley County Grammar School for Boys, from about 1935 to 1948 (with a break for war service), when we emigrated to South Africa. Like another memorist, I remember the sweet shop ...Read more
A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1940 by
Priestfield Road
I was born in Priestfield Road and lived there until my family moved across the river to to Hoo when I was 14 years-old. I have fond memories of peers with whom I would play either in the road or we'd go to The Rookery, Strand or ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham by
Perry's
The Perry family owned 2/3 businesses on Mill Street, but the corner building on the left, at the corner with the over- hang was run (owned?) by my step grandfather Samuel Perry in the 1930's/ 40's, maybe even either side of these dates. My ...Read more
A memory of Stafford by
Padgate January 1944 Ac2. Wilf Wallace.
At the age of 17 (now aged 90 ) I entered Padgate as a young lad for my basic training. The barrack room was long and cold with only two coal fire stoves in the room. We were a mixed bunch of young lads from ...Read more
A memory of Padgate by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
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When good-looking bachelors occupy the room in which she died she occasionally pinches their bottoms!
Hanging inside are paper Virgins' Crowns, each marking a past village spinster or bachelor - the most recent was put up in 1973.
The tobacco advertising is quite amazing to our 21st-century eyes: Players, Bachelor, Woodbine, Park Drive and Bristol cigarettes are mentioned.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
This splendid establishment was three years old in 1897, and had been created by a fortune left by the bachelor R J Campbell.
The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.
Each size slate has its own name, and terms in use in former times included duchesses, countesses, short wivetts, movedays and bachelors.
Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
John Hornbie, a bachelor, lived in that part of Newton known as Scales until his death in 1707.
After making sure that his relatives (he was a bachelor) were well provided for, he left the amazing sum of £100,000 in his will to form a college, where all faiths and denominations would be admitted.
