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I was brought up in the Lodge, a lovely little village where everyone helped each other and as children we were safe to play out on the street, and although most people weren't too well off, there was a warmth and friendship between neighbors of a special kind. We lived at number 11 Broughton Road, next door to Aunty Doreen and Uncle David Keith. They had a boy and a girl named Sheila, and Ian. Our dad`s name was ...see more
Anyone remember the name of the café in the market place? used to go there upstairs, juke box days! also would frequent the pub opposite St.James church, name evades me now, many moons ago.[white heart?]
found out today that the house my mam grew up in is still there and is now a lovely bungalow.we had been looking at the wrong house.the house she grew up in was monfa house.we also met a lady that knew my mam and her family.we visited the church and placed flowers on my great grandmothers grave.she was mary williams.
Between 1960-62 my dad, Harry Henshall of Westbury Road, Cooperville drove a Jaguar Mark 2, 2.4 litre in two tone grey over Westminster blue and with the registration number XUG384. At this time he worked at Home Silks aka Mandale Mills as Foreman Overlooker. I can't be sure from the picture that it is definitely two-tone or even if it is a Jag but I'd like to think it was him.
I lived in south pelaw from 1964 until I was married in 1984. We lived in Glencoe Avenue across the road from South Pelaw school which I attended. My first teacher was Mrs Hall and my headmistress was Mrs Young and when she left my headmaster was Mr Laws. I remember my first day in 1969,my mam watched from our garden to see if I was OK. She saw me running out at playtime but I kept running straight out of the ...see more
Blandford Camp was the last base Dad was posted to before we came to Australia. Dad or rather SGT Alexander (Alec) Aitken worked in the Q Store at the School of Sigs. Their married quarter was on Racedown Road, about halfway down the hill. Its now a vacant patch. My brother and I used to roam around the whole camp trying to get into trouble in one way or another, as most of us did then. I remember the ...see more
i had a message from peter hayes ex lancaster school via this web site but was unable to reply anyone know him let him know
Hi All. Just wondered if anyone remembers the mission hall between WX &WA. We used to have a games night there on a Tuesday or a Thursday, (cannot remember which), you could only go if you attended the church on the previous Sunday. Also the dances that were held at the Cheshunt Fire Station every so often. Was the leading fireman that taught me how to pass the driving test, I had been driving for a couple ...see more
Quaker Oats had a spur going into their factory just past top lock on the Grand Union Canal. I used to watch the barges being unloaded with a huge vacumn pipe used by a man standing on the barge. Due to the fact a lot of wheat was spilled into the canal the fishing was superb. The spur is now a mooring for houseboats.
This was 1927 and such a blow to the community as a lot of the houses where people lived belonged to the firm and these were to be sold off. Over 240 freehold houses and shops in Newburn were offered for sale at the County Hotel in Newcastle on 6th September 1927, there was a large attendance and the sum of £33,785 was realised as the result of the sale. Some details taken at random from the ...see more
i was one of the first pupils to enter woodlands .i had moved to basildon in 1955 from ilford .went to swan mead, then manor,then at woodlands till leaving at 15yrs old
What wonderful memories of Brentford. My name was Dorothy Pearce I lived in Netley Road with sisters Beryl and Hazel and brothers Richard and Philip. My Nan lived in Potteery Road next door to Edie Joyce. The Shepherds lived opposite and my Nan used to get her shopping from Drapers Stores (where Syd Shepherd worked) in Clayponds Lane. Fond memories of Rowes the fish shop where we could buy 1d. of crackling, and ...see more
I met my wife who lived in huberton a little village about a mile up the lane from sowerby, back in 1970 . We married and lived at Dean lane paying 10/6d a week for a back to back one up and one down where my son came into the world . I worked in the carpet mill of humphrys down on the river in sowerby bridge and have such warm memories of such lovely countryside and warm people . Although I have traveled the world and ...see more
I remember Scotts Cycles shop. He actually made bikes there. The shop was near the traffic lights on the Brentford side. Used to go there from Hanwell for all things connected to my bikes.
I remember going to Whitehall junior school and then spend half a year at Greenway school before we moved to Surrey all my friends lived around Uxbridge I would like to know if anyone remember me my friends were Keith Benn , Alan White, Derik Rudd, Chris Raymond and there were others best years of my life I now live in Australia could anyone who know me contact me on barrybudd1@gmail .com
I lived at Bridge cottage from 1955 to 1964. Just across the road from the Blacksmiths Arms with the Plough Inn at our rear, and the Nags Head in the middle of the village there was no shortage of pubs for the adults. Two Dales in those days was almost self sufficient with Hayes the bakers, I was at school with Julie Hayes. Coates the butcher - still going strong I believe. We had the Co-op which was next ...see more
My Great Granparents bought a house in Grange Road, Highgate, and unfortunately as it was demolished in the1950/60s I once took a photo of the house next door, which was very similar and was still standing 10 years ago but have since lost it. My GGP's house was The Garth and was half way down on the right from Highgate School end., where ...see more
Started school at Dreghorn school and left school 1958.Stayed in Dreghorn until 1968.
this is the hospital i was born in .My parents moved to london in the 50s from south wales. They have both past away ,we moved back to wales in the 1970s
I spent nine months at Highwood Hospital between May and December 1951. I celebrated my 12th birthday in Poplars 3, a girls' ward almost at the end of the drive. I remember so many things about my time there I could almost write a book on it! Sister was Sister Thomas whom I worshipped, then there was Nurse Mac (Mahon) who was young and pretty, Staff Nurse Weller, quiet and efficient in an all-white uniform, and ...see more
We lived in French Mill Lane so needed to walk up Gold Hill to go shopping. I was a toddler at this time and we had a jack Russell called Pepe. Mum used to tie him to the front of my tricycle and he would pull me up the hill.
My memories of heswall , I was not a patient, but my baby brother was, were of a hugeold building that was really imposing. My brother was taken there at 1day old. He had a cleft lip and palate,he stayed there for 8 months, until the first op' on his lip. To me it was amagical place, a boat , huge groundx, summer fayres. I remember a sister Bromley , and the surgeon there was a wonderful selfless man, Dr ...see more
I attended Fareham Secondary School at Southampton and Harrison Roads from 1950 to 1954. Then I started work as an apprentice at Croker and Farrell, who was the Ford dealer, which was situated right next to Trinity Church. The dealer closed in late 1955 and my apprenticeship got transferred to E.J. Hinxman & Son who were the Austin dealer in town. They were situated near the entrance to Quay Street, ...see more
My father ran the sweet shop on Bexley Road and Ramsden Road i think its name was for Mr Walker and as we lived above the Bexley Road shop i was born there - i remember looking out at the old club house watching the dray horses deliver the barrels of beer. My father became vice president of the new club when it opened for a while - he then went down to the Catholic Club on the commitee when it opened and he was the caretaker at St. Fidelis School where he died.
Moved to Nailsea in 1961 as a newly wed.My wife Anne and Mother in Law Marjorie converted Mr Freeths(I think ) vegetable shop at west end into a ladies hairdresser 'Anne Marie'.Well remember PC Genge standing on the corner in the middle of Nailsea on a saturday morning and from whom you could get all the local gossip.Lived in Rock Avenue which had just been built and my dog chased Genge down the road on his bike.Walt ...see more
I don't know the name of the bus driver but I clearly remember the bus service mentioned which had its origins in the 1950s. I don't think it had a number in the early days, it was known simply as "The Blue Bus" and has its own distinctive blue bus stops, different to the standard LT signs. Originally it did not go to Bedfont Green but instead turned into Richmond Avenue then went clockwise around Northumberland Crescent ...see more
My family came from this area in the 1800's. Elizabeth Kenworthy. She met a man named John Beckit. They also lived in Worsborough. In 1856 my great grandfather Arthur John Kenworthy Beckett(Beardshall) Was born at Tingle Bridge Hemingfield. I have been searching my family for 6 years now, and I finally have ben able to visit These cute illages that lived in. I am so grateful. Wish I knew about these people other ...see more
Hello ! Does any one in cheshunt remember the comrade club in Bridge Street Waltham cross. The secretary of the club was Bill Jamieson I know the club is still there and Bjill Jamiesons portrate and banjo still hang over the bar , Bill and his wife Mabs use to live opposite the club. If anyone remembers the club or Bill And Mabs or any of the Jamieson family and. Also Ellen and Rob Wolf I would be ...see more
I started work at Heathrow in Comet House by Hatton Cross. An RT bus went from Hounslow West to Hatton Cross. There was no railway station then. There was the Barclays bank and a large bus station in front. Champion spark plugs were opposite where the railway station now is. There was also Speedbird House and the wing hangar, where the 707's and VC10's were maintained. The dominant building ...see more
Agree there were some great bands playing around the Coalville area in the late 60's. I particularly remember Geno Washington (several times) at the George and the bands at the Railway, which I think is now a childrens nursery - how apt!!!
I was born at Hope Hospital and Christened at St.Luke's. A lot of my family (including me until I was 4 yrs of age) lived on Bridson St. My nan Dorothy (Dolly) and grandad William (Bill) Kendrick lived on the street until they were forced to move due to the houses being demolished. I used to stay every holiday until I was about 11 yrs of age and they were the happiest days of my childhood. I always worry that I will ...see more
I remember the Pub in High Street just before Bargates on the River side. There was a Barrel Organ in the Alley which had a monkey chained to the organ but I can't remember the name of the Pub. Perhaps someone can remember better than me as I was only 8 years old at the time.
I am now a senior citizen of 66 years young but in 1954 I was a girl of 7 years. I have one picture taken at the front of the house where I lived with my mum and dad in Friskney but which doesn't show the surrounding area. My dad was the local blacksmith and we lived next to the smithy. My dad was Dick Ireland and Billy Rose owned the smithy. I don't think he had any children. I recall across the road was a ...see more
Living in Allendale Cottages, I went to High Westwood school between 1960 and 1966. Looking back, I now realise what an excellent school it was. I wonder how many other schools would introduce 9 and 10 year olds to JS Bach and other wonderful stuff. The headteachers were Mr Smith and, later, Mr Watcham. Mr Downey was deputy. I met Miss Hodgson in 1988, but have not kept in touch with any friends from those days.
I lived in Fern House from late '59 to 61 I hear its been torn down now I wonder if anyone has any pictures of Fern House it was right next to the train station and mr and mrs secker lived in the little house next to Fern House and there was a huge chicken hatchery that they took care of
Not a memory for me really, but my mum and dad were married in this church. Mum was Gladys Cairns and lived at 17 Grafton road with her mum Alice Dad Albert two brothers Bob and Richard and two sisters Mary and Ellen. ive never been to the church but remember the house in Grafton road like i was there yesterday, im now 50 and the house has long gone, sadly to my Grand parents. My dad lived at 21 Yew Tree close Worcester park With his Dad Sidney and mum Rhoda and sister Christine.
In 1960 and 1961 I spent holidays in Creek Road. I stopped in a wooden bungalow called MEON. In the photo of Creek Road I remember the white building was an amuesment hall. I clearly remember Eastoke and the club. In the morning I went down the steps by the club and rode on my bike on the beach. I well remember the ferry to Southsea, and the sand dunes by the ferry and of course the ferry inn. ...see more
Born in 1947 my family lived in Gin Pit at No 2 Lord Street. In those days there were huge slag heaps just over a stream at the bottom of the village and a pond at the bottom of Lord Street. We used to skate on it in the winter as it was always frozen. A railway line ran along and besides School Street up past the Welfare and to Tyldesley carrying the coal from the pits. We moved in 1952 to the new houses at ...see more
I grew up here in the 70's and left the village in 1982. My Mother ran the first shop on the high street for a number of years having taken it over from my Grandfather Alfred Horsman, who was also on the Hambleton District Council if my memory serves me right. My Father, also called Alf ran the Blacksmiths arms pub for a short time during the 80's with his second wife Anne after his discharge from the RAF. His ashes ...see more
I was born in Romiley in 1949,went to barrack hill when we moved to bredbury in1957. I went on to highfield .we lived on Brookfield avenue,used to call at sercome's on berecroft lane on the way to school.The shop is still there and is still run by the same family. Where Barrack hill stood is now a home for the elderly.I also remember walking home past the animal slaughter house on bents lane it ...see more
I, too, remember Birkheads with great affection though in rather earlier times. I was born in what is now called "Ashby House" which is being converted from an office building into a restaurant and flats but which then was the Walton branch of Barclays Bank and named "The Old Bank House". My Dad was the manager. In the Frith War Memorial photo, our living room was the three-paned window on the right first ...see more
Name: T. Pearce Born: 1955 School: Stanney high sport: E/Port School boys Family/Friends: Holdings, Pearce,s. Clarks. Stokes. Now: Thailand Any old friends out there
Strand on the Green was, and always will be an iconic location. Remember the Beatles film Help was filmed there. Summer evenings in the sixties watching dusk descend over the river with a nice drink (or several). A location often used on calendars etc. Two American cars often parked there with Batman pictures sprayed all over them in little pictures like a comic, must have cost a fortune. However it was for ...see more
not quite sure of date, but i remember having to sleep on camp beds in summer and not being able to talk, and the swimming costumes that sagged when wet,no schooling as such long walks, going to the cinema most sat days, i went their for 6 months, but stayed 6 years we came from bristol so it was quite a way for my family to come down im 1 of 8 children mum put new clothes on me to go, and had to bring ...see more
THIS IS A LONG SHOT BUT IS THERE ANYONE STILL LIVING THAT REMEMBERS MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A RAG AND BONE MAN IN SALTBURN IN THE 1930'S. OR DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY RECORDS OR PICTURES OF GEORGES CAFE, IT IS NOW THE POST OFFICE ON MAIN STREET. aLSO TRYING TO FIND SOME OLD POSTERS FROM THE 1930'S OF A LOCAL BOCING MATCH FOR THE CARAVAN KID AND CHUCKY BURNS. LONG SHOT I KNOW.
Does anyone remember class 3R. There was only about 12 of us.
The year i started school at st Gabriels. I remember being carried up the hill by my mother and being met at the school entrance by Miss Cleary! She was a rather fat lady dressed all in brown and wearing a brown cardigan. Very welcoming i recall. but i was terrified and did'nt want to be there! I waited for playtime and took the opportunity to run away! I think i got within shouting distance of home before ...see more
I had just a few weeks here, June/July 1955, in Mychett Hutments prior to Embarkation to Egypt and subsquently, Cyprus. This was the transit camp for the Royal Army Pay Corps. Memories of the area are now quite vague. However, I do remember having a drink in a nearby Village Pub (can't remember the name). My pals and I were having a quiet chat at the bar. Suddenly a local sitting on a nearby Bar Stool leaped from ...see more
Jerry's was the all purpose, pre £ shop store below the market where he also had a stall. Household products, hardware, notably buckets and a few low cost gifts... Jerry had a larger than life personality with a girth to match. I also remember Ropers for furniture, Smiths pets and Hoggs pots. My personal favourite was the pop-ex stall where you could buy ex juke box records with the middles missing for a few 'bob' ...see more
My Grandad was Ken Derham, the village baker. I lived at the bakery for a short time when I was aged about 9. I remember him making the bread and being allowed to help him fill the donuts with jam. I can still smell how wonderful the bakery was and to this day the smell of bread baking brings it all back.
I have lived all my life in Kidsgrove from being born in Chapel Street to my current age of 78. Younger people than I have played on Red Rocks but for others about my age these were named CINDER.
Does any one remember a train at the woodside center why was it there .also a outdoor swimming pool.
I remember Bedfont very well I was born in Peacock Ave no 45 just three door from the school the old pit behind us a big play ground the old stoney wall the old toy shop I think his name was Mr Jenning the china shop next door was Pickering both shops where owened by brothers old Bunce the greengrocer walking his old poddle him and his brother you run the mobile shop they would sell anything comingb around Bedfont oh those where the days
My Great Uncle, Charles Frederick Capelin, was killed in WW1 on the Somme. The CWG inscription describes him as the son of Henry and Marjorie Capelin of Swanborough, Lewes, E. Sussex. The exact connection with Swanborough is unclear but I would be interested to find out more.
I have mentioned before that I used to live in the Town Hall Mitcham in the 1950's My Dad used to be the caretaker there and I was then known as Pat Parkings.I used to know Margaret Gray, Doreen Humphries. Brian Wilkes and Teddy Beardwell to name jjust a few. I married David Rogers after an accident when a wall fell on me.I would really like to hear from anyone who remembers me or knows the people I've mentioned. ...see more
My Grandad and Nan(Fred and Minnie Mellott) owned the Grocers Shop ON Hilltop next to the butchers,my Dad and Uncle were born there (Roy Mellott and Brian Mellott). I have lots of memories as a child stopping with my nan and grandad, especially when they used to fetch the sheep and pigs in at the butchers next door and unload them in the yard, of course at that age i had no idea what was happening.I can remember walking to ...see more
This was my first school. We came from kirkholt to Castleton every day to school. I remember Mrs O'Brien Miss Cleary and Miss O'Leary. Miss O Learys' class room had a large open fireplace in it. We used to go on nature walks on what is possibly the motorway now.
I lived in Yew Tree Cottages, Portsmouth Road, Esher next to the Marquis of Granby pub. I went to Esher Primary School and my mother also went to that school. My father was a welsh guard at Sandown Park. My grandfather was a taxi driver with horse and trap to start with. He used to wait outside Esher station. I remember the air raid shelters on the common where we used to have to go.
My introduction to the Monckton mining community began on a bitter cold March Monday morning in 1944. The wartime Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin had decreed that I should become one of his boys. So here I was at 5.30am on a Monday morning at the pithead baths arrayed in my work clothes and new boots with their shiney steel toecaps climbing the wooden steps to No One pit top. The activity there was ...see more
What about the Trebor factory?- that smelt awful, such a sweet musty smell- I can still smell it now!
Today was my first time of going for a walk up Reigate Hill and it was thoroughly amazing. I'm 43 and never seen the beautiful views that can be seen over Reigate. Now I have a wonderful man who takes me to wonderful places, I look forward to seeing more stunning places like Reigate Hill, which he grew up playing on.
does anyone have any history of kyrewoodmill and house as we went there recently on a holiday in burford it looked very interesting, the mill wheel is still there, but the house looks empty. the curtains and drapes covered everything, so I wondered what they were doing with it. its a shame to let it go to waste. kyrewood house is a black and white beamed building
I was born in Kilburn Park Road. My father was a fireman on the old London North Eastern Railway. My grandparents lived nmext door. My mother was of Irish descent.My first school was Essendine Road whic was just up the road. Our house backed onto Paddington Recreation Ground.My father was om the Supplementary Reserve of the Royal Engineers Railway Operating Company.In 1940 when I was 10 years old the ...see more
I lived in Station Road no 24 i had the Surname Sheppard back then i moved to the area back in 1964 or thereabouts,went to Leeson's Hill primary school my neighbours to the right were the Sturge family i cannot remember who lived to the left of us remember playing down by the river at the end of our alley a whole croud of us kids would paddle in the river there and in those days it was freezing,no ...see more
I lived on wellis ave till 1972 used to go in the church inn and park inn with renshaws and Morans happy days
I grew up in Darlington apart from two years when we lived in Shildon. I can remember being put in one of the rubbish bins on the High Row by a boy called Peter Leaf probably for being cheeky. I can also remember when I was little going to carol service round the Christmas Tree on the High Row. Sweet memories.
I used to walk along Simpsons Road to go to school.I remember all the men going to the station wore suits,bowler hats and carried rolled umbrellas and briefcases.There was a dairy shop and a Post Office run by Fred and Doris (I'm pretty sure those were their names) Doris's twin sister was 'Stella' the hairdressers in the High Street.The shoe mender was there too,at the top on the other side of the road.
Late 50's. As a kid I used to run wild with my dog Spot on Baildon Bank, Baildon Green and through the Knoll Wood, mainly during the long light summer evenings (but really just when ever I could) I used to trail up through Milner fields across Shipley Glen, over Baildon Moor and back home through the village. Oh what I wouldn't give to be wafted back in time to that era and be a ten year old kid once more!!!!! Now I ...see more
Burnt Oak was a place of indiscriminate and random violence. If you were unlucky enough to be a minority I'm sure it was much worse. There were several years when skinheads (and other plain thugs) ruled the streets.
I'd like to know what happened to a friend of mine (with an unpronounceable - and equally unspellable) name. He was a coloured fellow with one ear that was missing ...see more
can anyone remember the railings around the school had spikes on the top, that was until whilst retrieving a ball i accidently slipped on to them gashing my waist. soon after the head mistress mrs barlow had them removed. that is my claim to fame. not climbing anymore,just relaxing now down in sunny weymouth. hope this was of some interest to someone. cheers geoff bosworth.
Does any one have any memories of this hotel around d this time, I understand my grandparents ran the pub, although I never met my grandad I know his surname was Oliver and my Grandmothers married name was Alice Oliver. I think her parents may have ran it before and their name was Baker
I have a photo of my dad with a group of men waiting to go on a beano
my aunt and uncle lived at moss cottage - I had a wonderful time there - drinkinkig from the well
I was born in 1947 in a house across the road from the church (17 Llandudno Rd). I was christened in the church. When I was 3 or 4 I remember my parents being friendly with the verger, Mr Shingler, and taking me to visit his father who lived in Church Rd. It was a vivid memory because his father had had a leg taken off many years before and he showed me the stump which was quite a shock!!!! As kids we used to ...see more
the moss cottage - joseph McGuire, frank McGuire, susan McGuire
My father were born in Brindley Ford in 1911. His father was born 1881 and his mother in 1880. My grandparents moved to West Yorkshire around 1912. Consequently we visited family in Brindley Ford I don't remember a great deal about Brindley Ford except for the rows of houses, the school and the Pit stacks(?). I do remember the later years visiting family in Fegg Hayes As I am working on my family Tree I ...see more
I spent many happy times with my step fathers relatives by the name of Guttridge when I was a small girl in the war years and for a long time after. They had a house on the banks of the river Whitham. The conditions were rather primitive by today's standards. Despite the hard conditions I was very happy during my times spent there. I wonder if anyone remembers Walter and Eliza Guttridge and their children, ...see more
i moved with my mother two sisters and brother to esh winning in 1956 I think. We had a terraced house in Evenwood Road where my step grandmother Ethel Galley also lived. My mother managed to get a three bedroom council house at the Oaks on the outskirts of the village towards Waterhouses. I thought the council estate was very smart which I think it was at the time being fairly newly built. All open plan and ...see more
I was born in 7 Hill Street, Garden City in 1930. I attended Hendreforgan school from 1934-1944, as did my three sisters and three brothers. Mr.Lewis was the Headmaster. On leaving school at 14 I worked for 3 years in the Britannic Colliery, Gilfach Goch, dangerous times, lovely mates, would not of missed it. From there I went to work for Great Western Railway in Westbury, Wiltshire for 50 years. (I use to watch ...see more
oriel road fantastic place to grow up in fantastic neighbours the clarkes lathams the woodseys the flynns there were hard people but with a heart of gold they were the days when you could rely on your neighbours leave your front door open everyone was welcome no one had nothing back then but what you did have you shared i often go back down to oriel road now my house has been pulled down now but the road ...see more