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The Village Was Small And Beautiful.The Families United.
I was sent to Chobham to stay with my Aunt Dolly Mitchell, and her quiet and kindly daughters. 3 hot weeks. I watched Land Army girls ride on top of a hay rick through Chobham High Street. ...Read more
A memory of Chobham in 1947 by
1960s And Prior London Road Haunts
I was born in Bagshot but moved to Camberley in 1955 when I was 8. I attended York Town Primary School which was, and on checking the maps still appears to be, located on the other side of the London Road, a bit ...Read more
A memory of Camberley in 1960 by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
A memory of Market Harborough by
59yrs Ago
I am very much a novice with the computer and Googled Blackford, Scotland, and to my delight lots of things came up, plus this site which I am so delighted about. I lived in Blackford till I was about 15 a half. I so ...Read more
A memory of Blackford in 1949 by
65 Year Old Resident Looking For Reunited Friends Please Read
Hello, my name is John Smith. I used to be a previous resident in the Thrintoft area during my chilhood. I would like to re-associate or contact some of my old companions from the ...Read more
A memory of Thrintoft in 1940 by
A London Evacuees Memories Of Midlem
I was evacuated from London before the German bombs started falling. I think it was in 1939 or 1940 that I arrived at The Manse. I was evacuated to Midlem, Selkikshire TD7 4QE modern postcode, on the Scottish ...Read more
A memory of Midlem in 1940 by
A. T. Roberts, Mechanical Engineering
I was astonished to see today in Google (Streetview) the name 'A.T. Roberts' on the fascia of a company building close to Bushey Station. I was a 16-year-old apprentice there in 1941, with Mr A T Roberts as my ...Read more
A memory of Bushey in 1941
Barbers Shop
My dad Denby Smith was a barber in the village but he left there in about 1950 and his father had the barbers shop before him and his name was Albert Acquilla Smith. I have an old photo of the shop with his name above it and it has ...Read more
A memory of Chopwell in 1950 by
Blackmill
The name is Gareth Davis, and my grandfather (Harry Davis) lived at No 2 Ivor (Ifor) Terrace in Blackmill, although I later lived in Bryncethin I used to travel with the local butcher Clive Heale back to Blackmill to deliver meat to ...Read more
A memory of Blackmill in 1957 by
Blacksmith's Yard
My paternal grandmother Annie Cowell came from Stanford and I have always been led to believe that the space on the left of the house in the foreground, where the trees are, was the site of her father's blacksmith's ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1940 by
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The Old Smithy c1955.
The pantile-roofed building is a workshop or old smithy where a cart is being repaired.
The old post office, dated 1672, is now a residential cottage, but the Old Smithy, over to the right, is open as a needlework gallery.
To the right, just out of the picture, was the site of the old Smithy, now occupied by Goddard and Grants, a stockist of Francis Frith's prints.
The Hippodrome Cinema on Main Street replaced an old smithy, which was demolished in 1913.
At the junction of Old Road and the main road, the A271, was this entrepreneurial former village smithy.
Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England.
The old smithy has been here since 1795 - it is still open, and now also houses a small museum.
It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.
Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England.
Two white-collared Edwardian lads stand behind a trap outside the village smithy in the village which gave its name to the Hope Valley.
It was sold in 1875 for under £300, and the sale included the old smithy next door.
The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains.
The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.
The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.
This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.
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