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Trenchers Restaraunt
On Saturday evening, I set off for Whitby on the bus and arrived there for 6;30 pm. On arriving, I thought of asking the bus driver what was the last bus back to Middlsbro, but then thought there was not much point as I was ...Read more
A memory of Whitby in 2012 by
Burghfield Common
I was 1 of 9 children, we were placed at 83 Hunters Hill. I went to Garlands Schhool. My friends were Sharon Mallem, Jackie Baily, Jackie Bruce, Connie Sharky. I remember others ie the Farmers, Beals, Kemps, Longs,and ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1972 by
Burghfield Common
I was born and bought up in Normoor Road, Three Firs Way, Burghfield. I went to Blands, Garlands and then Willink. My mum, her sister and brother all went to Mrs Blands school on Reading Road in the early 50's. My ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common in 1970 by
Army Training On Salisbury Plain
The military owns more than 150 square miles of Salisbury Plain and great chunks of it are closed to the public. I have seen part of this area and "enjoyed" the isolation of camping in bivouacs with my ...Read more
A memory of Larkhill in 1970 by
Upper Tooting
I grew up in Park Hill Court, Beeches Road in the sixties and seventies; my father was the caretaker. He used to be in charge of the bonfire on firework night, up on one of the drying grounds. The girls stood one side and the boys ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1969 by
Visiting Fona
Most Saturdays my sister Anita and I used to travel on the bus from Bordon to the bus stop in this picture, (at 8 years old I thought I was very grown up) where we would get off the bus to visit our Godmother, Fona, in a ...Read more
A memory of Headley Down in 1968 by
Brambletye Preparatory School
Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1967
Third World Conditions In The English Countryside
It is all too easy to look back to the past and remember an idyllic picture of country life and forget how it was in reality, I often think back to when I was growing up in Claverley in the 1950s ...Read more
A memory of Claverley in 1961 by
Hest Bank /Bolton Le Sands
I lived with my grandparents in Bolton le Sands. I used to cycle to Morecambe most mornings, to J. W. Blands, painters and decorators, where I was apprenticed, hail rain and snow. I knew every inch of the coast road, the ...Read more
A memory of Hest Bank in 1960 by
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Carnegie's magnificent public library has already gone, replaced by a bland modern structure that has now also been removed.
Bought by the Bland family in 1595, it was greatly extended: its frontage measured 600ft, only slightly less than Wentworth Woodhouse near Elsecar, thereby losing a wager made with the Marquis of Rockingham
Farnborough is home to much modern architecture; some might say it was bland and characterless.
This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
The fashion for pedestrianisation can seem bland, but styles have improved since these early days.
The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.
This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.
Shifnal is thought to have been the model for P G Wodehouse's 'Market Blandings'.
The neo-Georgian North Thames Gas Board showroom is a bland intrusion.
On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.
Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township
drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning into the High Street just beyond the bland
The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family.
In 1709 the foundation stone of St Ann's was laid; the church was a gift to the town from Lady Ann Bland.
There are some unattributed monuments, and modest glass, but all is just a fraction too bland.
Out of sight on the left, behind the old telephone kiosk, was the Cheam Road Cinema of 1911, a stylish and grand building whose frontage block was removed in the 1970s and replaced by a bland blank
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.
Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.
The superb building, enhanced by attention to detail both outside and inside, stands proud behind a somewhat bland grassed forecourt.
Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.
Instead, little has happened since 1965, except that the spindly trees on the right have matured and The Huntsman pub (previously The New Inn) has been rebuilt in a bland red brick.
The changes did not, fortunately, lead to a bland uniformity in the way in which the town appeared.
Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish.
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