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Family Day Out Clerkenwell To Caterham 1925
The above photo depicts Dorothy Connor (nee Step) aged 10, with her late Mother Elizabeth Step (aged 46) and her Sister, Florence Step (aged 21) having alighted from the 159a Bus which brought them from their ...Read more
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Grandfather Hatcher
My grandfather, Frederick John Scott Hatcher, married a Guernsey girl, Alice Bougourd. There are Bougourds buried in the Churchyard at Haselbury. I believe the family lived in Haselbury Plucknett, and I know that ...Read more
A memory of Haselbury Plucknett in 1860 by
Ashtead Resident Finds Herself In 1925 Caterham Bus Photo
The above photo is the pond which is close to Dorothy Connor's current home in Glebe Road, Ashtead. This area has not changed so very much since the time the Frith photo was taken in ...Read more
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The Market Square
I went through the Market Square going and coming home from the Grammar School. I also went on to work in a Bank which faced onto the Market Square. One memory I have is when The Queen and Prince Philip came to open the new Shopping ...Read more
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Daresbury Firs And Other Memories
Brought up in the Square I have happy memories of playing in Daresbury Firs. The blue bells were always marvellous in the spring! I used to help my stepdad (Roy Forster) collect leaf mould for his vegetable ...Read more
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Dukeshouse Wood Camp School (Part Two)
My recollection of a dance that was arranged in the sports hall made me and another lad George Bishop decide to abstain from the proceedings as I think at the time, in fact I am sure about myself that I was very ...Read more
A memory of Hexham in 1940 by
Wrens Nest Bramhall Lane
I remember when I was about six, we lived in Peterborough and had travelled to Bramhall to visit my Grandparents Joe and Harriette Morris who lived at Wrens Nest #1 Bramhall Lane, There was a grassy area in front of the house ...Read more
A memory of Bramhall in 1949 by
Look Out For The Policeman!
This photograph of Southport shows a member of the local constabulary on point duty in Lord Street in the mid 1950s. The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War, and gave policemen ...Read more
A memory of Southport in 1955 by
Great Times Playing In The Fields.
I was born in Greenford on 1st Oct 1943 (25 Greenway Gardens) We were bombed out & were evacuated to various places. It must have been after the war we moved to 7 Laughton Rd in Northolt. We didn't live there ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1946 by
Birkenhead
Who remembers Hursts Bakery on the corner of Parkfield Avenue and Claughton Road? It was still there when we went back around 2006. And the Sayers cake shops, the curry and chips that every chippie sold and all the good old English ...Read more
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The independent parish of Dinnington almost cuts the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in two.
The independent parish of Dinnington almost cuts the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in two.
Stoneyhurst College had a reputation which spread all over the world, and its former pupils included the actor Charles Laughton and Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.
His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.
His estates included North Anston, Greasbrough, Wickersley, Ecclesfield, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough.
Amongst its pupils have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Laughton, and the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins taught there.
Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.
Stoneyhurst College had a reputation which spread all over the world, and its former pupils included the actor Charles Laughton and Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family, who were earl, duke, bishop, lords, knights and baronets.
Another descendant, Thomas Weld, leased the building to a Jesuit teaching order; it became a famous Roman Catholic public school, attended by such notables as Charles Laughton, the actor.
Although Laughton Common is a 19th-century mining village, its neighbour has a medieval feel.
It is at a junction on the old Caton to Claughton road, which we can see going off to the left.
Some re-development work went ahead, though the new name never caught on.
This had to be fished out using a hooked heavy iron 'strudgel', which was lowered on a strong cable and scraped around the bottom until it caught on the handle of the bucket so that it could be brought
This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film.
