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Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958
I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more
A memory of Beckington by
A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.
I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more
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A Month Not In This World, An Inmate Of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield
It was early summer in 1967 when suffering from a 'mental breakdown' I was admitted into Macc in the middle of the night, horror upon horror me and my mates had often talked ...Read more
A memory of Macclesfield
A Recorder And A Rolls!
It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth ...Read more
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Blissful Days On The Amusements!
This picture takes me back! It was around 1962 and I was 11 years old. We travelled down to Clacton from South Harrow on a Valiant Cronshaw coach which we caught outside a pub in Northolt - The Plough, I think ...Read more
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Brampton Road Primary School
I began my school days during the 1950's at Brampton Road Primary School, Bexleyheath. My over-riding memory is a time of innocence, wonder and happiness, where we were given freedom to learn and be creative in a ...Read more
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Bridge Street
I was born in No 1 in 1935 and lived there with my Gran and Granch and Mam and Dad until I went to university in 1955. My favourite memories are of 'The Patch' which was open ground behind Bridge Street. It became Lords Cricket ...Read more
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Chums Club!
Saturday mornings in the 50's were often filled by many a child with a visit to the Danilo cinema in High Green. That building was indeed a 'People's Picture Palace' with its impressive art deco design facade and a luxurious interior ...Read more
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Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
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Growing Up In Foxton Cambridgeshire
How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” ...Read more
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Here we see the coastline between Porthpean and Gerrans Point.
The Edge is not the highest point in the county; at the eastern border with Derbyshire the land rises to nearly 1800ft, and to over 1900ft at Black Hill in Longdendale.
The black and white signpost in the foreground will bring back nostalgic memories for some of motoring as it was half a century ago.
This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.
The old black and white signpost points to nearby Watling Street, one of Britain's most famous Roman roads and now the A5.
Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).
The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.
This scene has changed little since picture No 61176 was taken from the same point over 20 years before.
The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.
Originally made of wood, later versions were metal, and visually the black lettering certainly stands out from the white-painted pointing board.
We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.
Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.
Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.
Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting
Since 1886 the races have finished opposite Phyllis Court to avoid the tight bend at Poplar Point, which always gave the crew rowing on the Berkshire side an unfair advantage, as the bend swings
Just in front of the Star is Haywards Heath's town sign, attractively painted and prominently positioned for all to see and enjoy.
The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking.
The black-painted smock windmill, set back from the road, and the prominent Cricketers pub facing the local cricket pavilion, are both local landmarks.
The old black-painted tithe barn stands on the right.
On the other side of the road is the lamp-post which was first in the Market Square, with its black-painted cast iron base.
The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole.
Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).
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