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My Fenny Stratford Childhood
Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born in ...Read more
A memory of Fenny Stratford by
Memories Of Baby Burial At Dilston Maternity Hospital
by Mr Alex Hillary (April 6th 2007) - as reported to Susan Hedworth, Community Care Assistant No, we don’t get the snow like we used to! Like it was in 1941, I mean. I was a taxi driver at ...Read more
A memory of Corbridge by
Holly Hall Sandhoe
Hi, does anyone remember the families who used to work on the farm at Holly hall sandhoe Hexham Corbridge in the late 1920s/30s ?
A memory of Acomb by
Working Life Memories.
As a boy of 11 or 12, I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up ...Read more
A memory of Washford by
Camberley...Where Do I Start ?!
Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more
A memory of Camberley by
Whitehill In The 60s And 70s
My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains pass ...Read more
A memory of Whitehill by
Farming Pub And Family
Because of the rural nature of Llanfihangel GM memories stretch across the village hub - the Crown pub on the bend by the bridge through to the small cemetary near Ty Ucha farm - through to Cerrigydruddion and ...Read more
A memory of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr by
Sunny 1950''s Sunday Mornings
I have many memories about the old St Mary's Church. Until I started thinking of them I realised that I have not got one involving a rainy day apart from when my Grandad was buried in the churchyard. He was laid ...Read more
A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1954 by
Poetry
This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995
James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990
Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more
A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by
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Seemingly indifferent to its position beside the busy thoroughfare connecting Cardiff and Cowbridge, Church Hall House (pictured) stands testament to a romanticised Victorian vision of a pre-industrial
The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.
The floating bridge crossed the Medina from West to East Cowes.
Cowbridge can trace its origins as far back as Roman times, when a small fort was built here.
In the background are the 'stepped' houses on Port Hill, which leads from Cowbridge up to Bengeo.
This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.
This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.
In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn.The Brown Cow public house is on the right.The village is 400ft above sea level.
In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn.
At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.
St John's Bridge is on the left.
In the 14th century there are accounts of crops of oats, wheat, and barley being grown locally, and local livestock included cows and sheep.
Corbridge is a small town with a traumatic history.
But it is the mills and factory chimneys at Bowbridge, mostly now demolished, which make the photograph interesting.
In the foreground is Bowbridge, the southern suburb of Stroud, with the chimneys of several small textile mills clearly visible; the main town is prominent on the hillside beyond.
The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse.
The Red and White bus disappearing in the distance was specially built for the area: it was one of the first double-decker buses for low bridges.
Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead.
East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today.
The bridge crosses the canalised Witham, and in the distance is Stone Bow arch.
Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.
There have since been a few comparatively minor changes to the structure, most notably the conversion of the garage doors into a double bow window.
Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.
Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.
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