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James Ferris Cooke And Family
Does anyone out there have any information about James Ferris Cooke. He was a horse clipper and I believe worked on a local estate. His wife was Jane Palmer from Preston Bagot and they had a grand daughter ...Read more
A memory of Tanworth-in-Arden in 1860 by
My Fathers Past
My father was born in 1922 at Coleford Farm Cottage, Mytchett, Frimlet, to his unmarried mother Hilda May Hockley. She married my father's dad a month after my dad's birth. My father's name was Henru Reuben Fisher. My dad's father ...Read more
A memory of Mytchett in 1920 by
2up And 2down!
My father was born in Ford Street Hockley Brook Birmingham in 1936. He was the youngest of 6, 2 sisters and 3 brothers. Ford Street consisted of a row of houses on one side and factories on the other side. The houses were 2 up ...Read more
A memory of Birmingham in 1940 by
Clements Hall Childrens Home
My memory of Hockley is staying in a children's home called Clements Hall in 1960/5. It was near a few orchards where we would go scrumping for our midnight feasts. It really was a great place to stay as a kiddy. We ...Read more
A memory of Hockley in 1960 by
A Childhood Reminiscence
I lived in Edgware from 1941 and, although a young child, I remember the war years vividly, especially collecting shrapnel and the sounds of bombs, anti-aircraft guns and V2 rockets. In 1944 I began school at Edgware ...Read more
A memory of Edgware in 1940 by
The School Years 1959 To 1971
It's great to see this picture. This parade was on the walking route to and from school, from where we lived on the new estate at Southbourne Grove to the Evangelical church hall (pre school), Hockley Primary School, then ...Read more
A memory of Hockley by
Marsala Road Ladywell The Prefabs
I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied ...Read more
A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by
Living On Cornfield Road
I had lots of friends to play with up on the green and also the woods where we used to ride our push bikes or swing on the big rope swing over the sandy bank. I even fell off and broke my arm. I also broke my jaw falling ...Read more
A memory of Reigate in 1975
My Memories Of The Top End Of Rayleigh High Street
I lived on the Lower Road between Hockley and Hullbridge between 1950 and 1967. Rayleigh was our local town. Before Woolworths was built, there was a garage on the site. I think it was called ...Read more
A memory of Rayleigh in 1950 by
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In the Sixties 100,000 visitors a year were holidaying at Rockley Sands Caravan Park; it covered some 600 acres of harbourside heathland and pine wood.
Rockley Point has now developed into a sailing school and boatyard. Also new today are the substantial caravans now dotted under the trees on the viewpoint.
Rockley Sands developed as one of Poole's great leisure centres in the last half of the 20th century, and boasted one of England's first supermarkets to cater for the increase in visitors.
This is the most well- known part of Rockley Sands, as it is seen from the Weymouth to Waterloo trains running along the embankment built across the harbour.
The beach furniture and donkeys have long disappeared from the summer scene at Rockley.
Rockley Jetty Point, with its rail link, is across the water, with Holton Heath and Wareham Forest in the distance.
Rockley Sands was one of the earliest holiday camps. It catered for family groups who wanted outdoor holidays with plenty of activities.
This is the view south along the beach from Rockley Point. The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut.
Water-skiing was just one of the many new sports offered to guests at Rockley Sands. Behind is Bay Hollow: there are now some trees on the cliff, and the path to the right has become steps.
Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.
Brockley Hall, a large Victorian residence, has been used for many years as a Christian Retreat Centre.
A spa was opened in Hockley in the early years of the 19th century and for some years was very successful, with many visitors coming to take the health-giving waters.
Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used. Shop names can be clearly seen on their shiny facia boards.
A spa was established at Hockley after 1838, when a Mrs Clay claimed that she had been cured of asthma by a well in her garden.
Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used.
