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Heytesbury The Mill
I was born at 119 Park Street, Heytesbury in 1942; this was/is the last cottage on the right-hand side of the old A36 as you leave the village travelling towards Knook. I believe No119 and the adjoining No118 have long since ...Read more
A memory of Heytesbury in 1955 by
The Dry Ponds
As a lad I can remember walking with `our gang` across from the High Street side of the ponds, under North Street bridge & walking out under the chain on the West Street end on the other side of the war memorial. We went there ...Read more
A memory of Carshalton in 1940 by
In The Footsteps Of Dead Poets.
Just out of Trumpington, on the road to Grantchester, was the entrance to an area known as Byron’s Pool, named after Lord Byron who apparently frequented the area whilst at Cambridge University. Probably hoping to ...Read more
A memory of Grantchester in 1956 by
Rugeley Boyhood
My family moved to Rugeley in 1954 from Northumberland. Dad worked at Brereton Colliery and Mum at Birmid Metals. I attended Aelgar school and about that time got my first job delivering newspapers for the 'Burnthill Press' (Market ...Read more
A memory of Rugeley in 1955 by
The Mill Pool
I lived at Netheravon from 1968 - 1972 (my father was in the RAF based at Old Sarum) and went to school at St Michaels Figheldean. I remember we used to go swimming in the mill pool by the weir. I remember nearly drowning there, ...Read more
A memory of Figheldean in 1970 by
Triggering Memories.
We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of ...Read more
A memory of Pymore by
Happy Childhood
Ffynnongroew was a place of happy childhoods, and the Garth Mill was a landmark. We could tell when the old watermill was working by the rate at which the Llinegr stream was running. We would play around the mill and in the woods ...Read more
A memory of Ffynnongroyw in 1950 by
Boating Lake
I remember the millpool being used as a boating lake and being able to hire rowing boats, canadian style canoes and sailing dinghys. Over the years the council reclaimed more and more of the millpool for use as a carpark and now there is ...Read more
A memory of Looe in 1970 by
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Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).
By damming the River Dibbins, this man-made mill pool was created to provide water for the corn mill that once stood nearby.
Children fish for pike in the Mill Pool, and a man tries his luck by the mill race.
Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).
A grey horse cools its feet in the stream, which is still as a mill pool.
East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker towards houses beside East Road (centre).
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