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Beanz Dreamz...
Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more
A memory of Abbey Hulton by
Born And Bred
Born in Ablington just after the war we moved to Avon Banks, where I lived until married in 1970. My mother's father, mother and brothers (Fenners) all lived in Figheldean. Having read other peoples memories it brought back probably the most enjoyable part of my youth.
A memory of Figheldean in 1951 by
The River
The River Avon dominated most of the kids' lives in the village! I remember swimming 'down the mill' and at Gunville where my Great Grandmother (Sarah Marks) lived. We used to scrounge used inner tyre tubes from Mr Stansfield (who ...Read more
A memory of Figheldean in 1957 by
The Broadway, Selsdon 1955
In 1955 I was doing my penultimate year at school. I started at Selsdon primary circa 1944. The air raid siren was out side the school so when it went off we could not miss it! The doodle bug phase of WWII started in June 44 so ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon by
New Addington
Hello does anyone who worked at Centronics do you remember me Babs Clark if so like to hear from you email me at freddy1212@virginmedia.com
A memory of New Addington in 1972 by
Memories Of Overbury ( And Wolsey ) Schools New Addington
I also went to Overbury from Wolsey probably in '55. Hanlon was there ( horrible little man - I remember a mass caning in front of the entire school because a toilet was vandalised and he was ...Read more
A memory of New Addington by
Selsdon Parade Residential Flat
My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my ...Read more
A memory of Selsdon in 1982 by
Valerie Adlington
I lived at 24 Manaton Road. I went to St Mary Madeline's School then on to Peckham Girls School in 1967 till 1973. I loved Rye Lane .My mum worked in the skirt n slacks centre at the top of Rye Lane. I had a Saturday job there, then ...Read more
A memory of Peckham by
Plane Crash New Addington
Only Just found this site it brings back many memories.I used to live at 49 Castle hill Crescent on the prefab estate,at New Addington with my mum, dad Laura and Patrick Bint also my younger brother John . ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
Surrey St.
I have only just discovered this website and felt compelled to respond. I was born in Heathfield Gardens, South Croydon in 1948 and my maiden name was Murphy. We moved to Wyche Grove near the Purley Arms, South Croydon when I was about 5 ...Read more
A memory of Croydon by
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A bread delivery van and some local traffic make Adlington look busy.
Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs
Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the
This view is looking north-westwards from the junction with North Allington, at the bottom end of South Street.
Bridport borough expanded north-westwards into Allington parish in 1835.
A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).
A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).
Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.
The square was a large parade ground, and nearby Addington Street was a military camp.
The Lion is receiving a delivery of Jordan Addington mineral waters.
Addington Palace, close by, was originally a hunting lodge for Henry VIII; it was rebuilt in 1770 and sold to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1808, who occupied it as a summer residence until 1896.
The foundation stone was laid by the Hon Miss Mary Ann Ursula Addington, daughter of Viscount Sidmouth, on 20 April 1843 after a service conducted by the Vicar of Sonning, the Rev Hugh Nicholas Pearson
The brewery buildings were taken over by the firm of Jordan and Addington, but they were no longer used for brewing.
The main street of Alllington village (bottom left) leads into this panorama of Bridport town, looking south-east from Allington Hill, with the outer parish's St Swithun's Church being the prominent building
