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Selly Oak In The 50s. By Mick Carson.
I'd like to reply to Shirley who recalled all those wonderful times around George Road and Dale Road Selly Oak in the 50s. I lived at 72 North Road. The Carpenters family you mentioned were my relatives. I went ...Read more
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There Are Still No Yellow Lines In Brook Street!!
Hello, My name is Graham Matthews and I was 7 years old when this photo was taken. I was born in Bampton but my family moved to Reading, Berkshire in 1961. However, I always thought of this lovely small ...Read more
A memory of Bampton by
My Memories Of Selly Oak And Bournbrook
I was born Anne Shirley Crofts back of 622 Bristol Road (opposite where Aldi is now) in July 1944, brother Ronnie was born 1940, sister Vivienne was born 1942, and Alan was born 1947, between Riverton Road ...Read more
A memory of Selly Oak in 1954 by
High Spring Tide Lyme Regis Cobb 10th March 2008
I stood at the end of the Cobb on the day of the worst storm this winter and both saw and felt the sea spray as the waves hit the top of the sea wall. It was just as exciting as shown in this view ...Read more
A memory of Lyme Regis in 2008 by
Our Ladys High School
I was sent to Our Lady's High School in Tiverton, Devon at about the age of 4, than remained with the school when it was relocated to Dartford until I was about 15. What a horrible place - the nuns were so cruel. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1941
Growing Up In Bradninch
I was born and lived in Bradninch until I went to college when I was 19 in 1969. I was born in the house in Townlands and lived there all the time. After Dad died, Mum moved to Millway Gardens, It was a great place to live ...Read more
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My 'kemp' Ancestory
I hope I'm not in error here but would dearly love to liaise with someone who might have local knowledge of where my Kemp relations resided - I think it was in and around Leverton. Richard and Christien Kemp had their ...Read more
A memory of Chilton Foliat by
1953 To 1973 Harold Hill Was Home
I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my trike ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill by
Salford "Its My History"
Salford forms much of my family’s history, although I only spent a little time there, leaving when I was very young, some years ago I started to wonder how? why? what? brought both my families the HARRIS family on my Dad’s side and ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
1944?
I grew up in Glasgow and my dad Hughie Crawford often talked fondly about Newton Poppleford and Colaton Raleigh. He was in the Royal Marines during the war and was stationed at Lympstone and then Torquay. I know he visited Newton Pop along ...Read more
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The Station Hotel stands to the left, and the road up to Liverton Mines rises in the distance.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
Barges had continued to carry limestone from a quarry at Westleigh to lime kilns in Tiverton Basin.
Upstream of Tiverton, there are several weirs on the river Exe as it plunges down from Exmoor.
Tiverton's wealth grew from the cloth trade, and merchants like John Waldron, Peter Blundell (founder of Blundell's School) and John Greenway made fortunes.
The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.
Westbury House, behind, built for the Laverton family in the early 19th century, is now the library.
Starkey, Knight & Ford's brewery was in Tiverton, and their trademark black horses could at one time be seen all over Devon.
Upriver, on the left, the Tiverton railway line crosses the water on a bridge.
Tiverton is well blessed with open green spaces.
A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.
Like nearby Tiverton, Crediton did well out of the cloth trade, but when that declined the town stagnated.
Incorporation as a municipal borough - which Tiverton achieved in 1615 - gave the town a measure of self-government, and allowed, amongst other things, 'a town-hall, a mace, fine gowns and other gayeties
Designed by William Jervis Stent, a non- conformist Warminster architect (he also designed the Laverton Institute in Westbury and Calne Free Church), it became the Picture Palace in 1912
Designed by William Jervis Stent, a non- conformist Warminster architect (he also designed the Laverton Institute in Westbury and Calne Free Church), it became the Picture Palace in 1912
This photograph gives a splendid impression of the delightful location of Tiverton.
Although the Exe is a natural watercourse, it is also used as a conduit to bring water to both Tiverton and Exeter.
Close to Tiverton, this could be said to be archetypal Devon: rolling hills, cultivated fields and a small farm tucked away from the world.
A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.
Tiverton is well blessed with open green spaces.
There were to be three branches, one of which was Tiverton.
Climbing westwards, the Taunton to Barnstaple road crosses the well-treed and young River Tone Valley at Waterrow.
The Cloth Mills 1907 A mile west of Wellington, Westford was a mill village with large cloth mills along the River Tone.
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