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Memories
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Growing Up In Queensbury
I was born in Wellington Street on the 16th. of June 1955. My mother was Kate Holland, formerly Henderson. and my father was George E Holland. Sadly he passed away in 1939. So I dont remember very much about him. I had a ...Read more
A memory of Queensbury by
Happy Days
I went to Wescott Road school in 1950 then St Crispins 1956. I can recall quite a few shops. Herrings furniture where you could buy on HP with no checks, as Mr Herring assessed whether or not you looked trustworthy. NSS newsagents. Next door ...Read more
A memory of Wokingham by
Mitcham
I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Norbury
Wentworth County Primary School
As far as I can see, no-one has left a memory of my old primary school. So, let me start this off (if I may?): Living in nearby North Road, I attended this school from 1962-68. When I started at the Infants' School, my ...Read more
A memory of Dartford by
St Nicholas (Later Box Hill) School & Remembering The Misses Garrard
I attended St Nicholas school (later Box Hill School) between approx 1957 and 1962. The school was co-educational and catered to children aged from about age 4 to 18. My brother was 4 and I was 7 when we started at the ...Read more
A memory of Mickleham by
Happy Days.
I was a student nurse there from September 1962 until September 1964. I have such happy memories as well as sad ones of my days there. Sister Smith or Slosher Smith as my set called her was indeed a strict person to work under. She reduced me to ...Read more
A memory of Alton by
60 Years On And I Still Love It!
My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community centre ...Read more
A memory of Talacre by
Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
A memory of Weston Green by
1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
A memory of Market Harborough by
A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...
Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean at ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1947 by
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Designed by Thomas Hopper and Edward Haycock for C R Mansel-Talbot, Margam was the subject in some of Fox-Talbot's earliest photographs.
Facing the sea and with a large garden and tennis court, this private hotel promoted itself as being central for the Staghound, Foxhound and Harrier Meets, popular sports for the gentry
Its public house, The Fox and Hounds (left), dates from 1845.
During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe.
If a fisherman was baiting his line, he would think it unlucky if a fox, hare, rabbit or pig were mentioned, and he would abandon his fishing for that day.
An alert pack of foxhounds of the local Vale of the White Horse Hunt are being exercised by their three handlers in readiness for the approaching hunting season.
The Fox (left) was owned by the now-defunct Dunmow Brewery.
By 1626 it had been acquired by the Fox family, and was known as Foxholleys.
Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and
Designed by Thomas Hopper and Edward Haycock for C R Mansel-Talbot, Margam is featured in some of Fox-Talbot's earliest photographs.
Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and
By 1626 it had been acquired by the Fox family, and was known as Foxholleys.
Gordon Ince's gents' outfitter's next door remains, whilst the Fox (beyond) has closed - its yard has been turned into a precinct.
Continuing uphill past the end of The Paragon and at the junction with Guinea Lane, Roman Road heads for the junction with a steeply climbing Walcot Street and London Road.
Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.
By 1841 the Fox Railway Inn (on the right) had been opened by the railway company.
The riders take their leave of the supporters and prepare to set off for a day's hard riding across the surrounding countryside - not in pursuit of a deer, such as that depicted on the inn sign, but of
Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and
Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.
This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.
It was repaired by Bishop Richard Fox between 1494 and 1501.
These are Coppice House, Hollypiece House and Homemeadow House, named after fields on the Fox Hollies estate.
This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.
The hotel on the left here is The Fox and Goose, one of several large pubs on the main road at Penn, a reminder that this has for centuries been a major line of communication.
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