Places
15 places found.
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- Slough, Berkshire
- Slough, Powys
- Langley, Berkshire
- Cippenham, Berkshire
- Chalvey, Berkshire
- Upton Lea, Berkshire
- Manor Park, Berkshire
- Upton, Berkshire
- Lynch Hill, Berkshire
- Salt Hill, Berkshire
- Britwell, Berkshire
- Slough Green, Somerset
- Slough Hill, Suffolk
- Brands Hill, Berkshire
- Slough Green, Sussex
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Memories
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George Vi Sadness
I remember these shops so well from my childhood. The first on the left was a newsagent the next a baker at the other end of the Broadway was the post office. My brothers,my sister and I passed them every school day on our way to ...Read more
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Childhood In Withyham
We moved to 2 Bower Cotts Balls Green about 1950. My dad was employed by the owner of Duckings, the farm situated opposite the entrance to station road. Nos. 1 and2 Bower Cotts were up on the bank almost opposite the school which ...Read more
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It Was Different Then!
I lived in the house at the back of the picture in the 1950s. The small upstairs window at the front was my bedroom. In the winter my mum sent me across to Mr. Davey the greengrocer (next to the post office) for wooden orange boxes I ...Read more
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Caravan Park Early 1950's
I was 5/6 years old and lived with my two sisters, older brother, baby brother and mum & dad in a cramped caravan that was given to us after the war. We were called 'gypsies' but my dad worked at the Woolwich 'arms factory' ...Read more
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Slough A Time In A Life
Monday 7th July 1958, aged 8, moved to Britwell, Slough from Merstham in surrey with my brother Martin, Mum & Dad (Joan & Ron). Transport was a problem - we didn’t have any. There was only room for three of us in the ...Read more
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Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
Northolt Childrens Home
I wonder if anyone knows of a childrens home in Northolt. It was around 1958ish my brother's and I were put in the home, it was run by a lady I knew as Auntie Rea. My eldest brother, Edwin, was too old to reside in the same ...Read more
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Village Store
I moved to Westergate around 1951 (aged 7) from London. My parents bought the local village shop & Off licence in the main road, opposite the Alpha Garage. I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood living in Westergate. We ...Read more
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Northolt=Racecourse Estate/Community/1960s
My name is Nick, and I lived in Northolt at 43 Kempton Avenue, going to the old Northolt Primary at the Target, the new primary off Mandeville Road, then Islip Manor junior. This was from 1962- 1971. ...Read more
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Growing Up In Seaton Sluice In The 1960s
I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more
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Captions
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This was once a familiar sight in the farming lands of Surrey: great horses slowly pacing across the autumnal landscape with the ploughman gripping the handles to plough a straight furrow, turning the
The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?
Fortunately, those to the right, including The Old Plough, survive.
The Plough Inn and the surrounding houses are mostly built of local stone and tiled with Collyweston slate.
Another pleasure steamer ploughs its watery furrow in the shade of Windsor Castle.
Lloyds Bank occupies a house and shop combined (right), and next door is the Plough pub.
The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and
The manor was restored in the 20th century by Clough Williams-Ellis, the celebrated architect of Portmeirion.
Designed in 1924 by Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect of Portmeirion, they compete with Vanbrugh's 1721 Rotondo temple on the right.
The Plough Inn, now known as Toad Hall, has long provided a place of refreshment to both villagers and travellers alike.
Litton has long been an agricultural settlement, with surrounding hillsides terraced by lynchets from medieval ploughing.
Horses were important, particularly for ploughing the fens after they were drained.
The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.
The weatherboarded Plough Inn in the background, which occupies part of the north side of the green, is in part of 14th-or 15th-century construction, but mainly 18th-century.
In 1943 the green was ploughed in a 'dig for victory' experiment to grow potatoes, flax and peas; but the soil proved too poor, and the scheme was abandoned.
The Pandy and Monnowside Ploughing and Agricultural Society, formed in 1867, continues to hold annual competitions in agrarian crafts like this.
The Plough Inn was demolished to allow for the extension of the graveyard, leaving the New Inn a few yards further down towards the sea.
The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.
Opposite the church lies the 17th-century Plough Inn, known in the village for its very low beams.
A little further down, The Plough Hotel, an ancient coaching inn, was demolished to make way for the Regent Arcade shopping mall, which was officially opened by the Princess Royal in 1985
A team of plough horses wait quietly in the village street outside the Carrier's Arms.
During the 20th century, the farm became the Old Plough House Refreshment Rooms.
Stage-coaches used to change horses at The Plough (right).
Stage-coaches used to change horses at The Plough (right).
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