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Personal Recollections
From age 11 to 16 I lived in Station Town from 1950 to 1955, at 2 Rodridge Street,( now thankfully the street has been demolished). When I saw the old photograph of the Main Street it was mostly as I remembered it. Booth's the ...Read more
A memory of Wingate by
My Childhood In Houghton Regis.
My name is Daniel (Danny) Cronin, the youngest of 5 and the only boy of Harry 'H' and Ann Cronin. My life began on the 27th of November 1970. My first place of residence was Recreation Road where I have broken ...Read more
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Very Early Memories!
I was born in Chelsfield in March 1945 at The Bunglaow, Crown Rd/Warren Rd. I was born on the day that the last doodle bug bomb was sent over by the Germans and it dropped not far from where I was born. I have been told that ...Read more
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Memories Of My Family
I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go ...Read more
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Church Corner Treasures
One of the 'treasures' of Church Corner, Misterton was the Post Office which was run by Dorothy and Gordon. I often visited there as Dorothy was the sister of my boyfriend at that time. Nearby was Walter Scott who was the ...Read more
A memory of Misterton in 1946 by
It Has To Be The Canal .........
My cousin who lived beside the canal in Gringley Road was Roy Butroid, my favourite cousin, who was the local carpenter and later undertaker. Sadly he died eight years ago but his widow, a lovely lady named Pauline, still ...Read more
A memory of Misterton in 1946 by
Howe's Garage, Longfield
Rather than Longfield Hill, this looks more like Longfield itself with Howe's Garage in the centre foreground. My Dad worked here from the late 1930s to when he retired in 1973; it was run by his uncle Frank Howe and ...Read more
A memory of Longfield Hill in 1960 by
Landlord Of White Horse Inn
I believe the White Horse was run by the Pratley family in the 1940s - 1950s. Jack Pratley married my father's cousin, Kathleen (nee Keen). I am slightly confused as the name of this pub is sometimes recorded as the "White ...Read more
A memory of Bladon in 1950 by
Larkhall Tavern
My brother used to live in Chelsham Rd. in Clapham, London, which runs from Gauden Rd. to Union Rd. In 1960 & 1961, I stayed with him for a week's holiday. He was on British Rail at Nine Elms. He has since passed away He ...Read more
A memory of Clapham in 1960 by
Summer Holidays At The Avon Water
I would have been about ten years old and I remember on a lot of hot sunny days packing some jam "pieces" and filling an empty bottle with some diluting orange juice or even just water if there was no juice, ...Read more
A memory of Maddiston in 1975
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One of the first buildings that the visitor will meet is the picturesque 15th-century thatched Axe and Compasses public house (centre).
This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley.
This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.
Epsom is famous for two things: Epsom Salts, and the two great classic flat races run on the Downs south of the town, the Derby and the Oaks, both inaugurated in the late 18th century.
South of Ollerton is Rufford Country Park, run by the County Council.
The Fraternity of the Holy Cross built the two bridges, the causeway across Nag's Head Island, and then the long causeway that runs south for over a thousand yards across the flood plain to Culham
Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.
Kits Coty House, a prehistoric burial monument, is sited on a crest of the North Downs a mile or two to the north of Aylesford village.
Born in Cambridge in 1882, Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs was undoubtedly the world's greatest cricket batsman of his time.
Barnoldswick is pronounced 'Barlick' by the locals.This is another village that has moved with boundary changes.
Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.
Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added
From Newstead Abbey the route heads four miles south to Hucknall, which also has Byronic associations: in this church Byron was buried in the family vault after his body had been brought home from Greece
The next views are of the residential roads laid out to the east of Brighton Road.
The name of this lane, which runs north from the junction of High Street and Lewes Road, refers to Sackville College.
Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.
This canal was constructed in 1796; it runs for nearly forty miles through northern Hampshire.
Of interest here is the single-hold steam coaster, one of hundreds of such vessels in the 90ft to 140ft range, which were capable of carrying up to about 300 tons of cargo into the smallest of harbours
The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.
At first it was suggested that the railway station should be built adjacent to St Martin's Church in 'The Lordship' (see picture 53332A on pages 48-49), now known as Meadow Bank Recreation Ground
Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.
This town is often over-run by pilgrims and tourists, but the local inhabitants still require basic essentials, even coal (left) and petrol for their vehicles (right).
This one, with the beck running through it, was built up in the 19th century to house workers at the nearby mill, where for a hundred years John Wilford & Sons produced linen, flax and wool.
It all looks neater now, and the trees have been thinned.
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