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Memories
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Ightham Village
My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss ...Read more
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Barnsley Town Hall 1955 The Year I Started To Work There.
I was two weeks short of my 16th birthday, when I started work in the motor tax office which was situated in Barnsley Town Hall. Although we were employed by the Borough Treasurer's ...Read more
A memory of Barnsley in 1955 by
Memory Of Thomas Anthony Clarke
We are trying to track down our family and we have records that a Thomas Anthony Clarke lived at Lyndhurst, Buxton Road, Chinley and was a Agricultural Hardware Merchant. If anyone has any information that would ...Read more
A memory of Chinley by
Locating Family
My father John Ormston lived in Coronation Terrace, Broomhill until he married in 1947. His mother was Harriett Hannah, whose maiden name was Tuck, but she had married Thomas Gray before my Grandfather. All I know about my ...Read more
A memory of North Seaton by
High Street Monkeys
Can anyone tell me the name of the Public House that was situated in High Street Burton, opposite side of the road to The Burton Mail Offices (before the Bargates was built), around mid to late 1950's? There was an ...Read more
A memory of Burton upon Trent by
My Family
On the 1901 census my great-aunt's son Christopher Lodge and his wife Elizabeth (nee Williamson) are living at 87 Crow Trees, Lower Bentham with their daughter Marjery (b.1901) and he is listed as an engine driver. In 1911 they are ...Read more
A memory of Low Bentham in 1900 by
The Bramwell Family
I have just dicovered I have a family name of Bramwell, Dora Brawell was my grandmother who married Francis Joyce from Buxton in the 1920s. Are there any Bramwells still in Moneyash? It was a large family of 8 back in the 1920s. It would be great to hear from you. Christine Joyce
A memory of Monyash by
Searching For Members Of The Knowles Family
Calling Roger Knowles I am searching for family rather than having a memory. My mother was born Marjorie Knowles in 1903, sixth child of Christopher William and Hannah Law of Burton. Her ...Read more
A memory of High Bentham by
Nostalgia
I lived in Burton from 1948 until 1966. I have such fond memories of the village as it was then. There were a group of lads that I was part of viz. Brian Bradshaw, Stewart Salrein, Roger Taylor, Anthony Blundell and we were ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 1948 by
Fond Memories Of 1950s Goffs Oak
I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more
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Captions
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Post-war, caravans advanced on to the pea-gravel beach, and this photograph was used by the National Trust land agent John Cripwell when he presented the case for the purchase of Burton Cliff (top right
Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.
The camera has been set up on a triangle of land at the junction of the A444 Burton Road with the road to Sheepy Magna, which drifts out of shot to the left.
Beyond are vertical sandy strata, forming East Cliff and Burton Cliff.
This corner would be dominated by Burtons in the 1930s.
Beyond are vertical sandy strata, forming East Cliff and Burton Cliff.
The tall building centre left is the Art Deco-ish Burton's - its foundation stones were laid by members of the family in 1938 - and on the right is W H Smith in a heavily-corniced neo-
The impressive Gothic style memorial cross dates only from 1908 and, although as impressive as medieval Eleanor Cross, commemorates Edmund Charles Burton, a noted national hunt figure.
Marks & Spencer, who came in 1931, occupy the building to the left of the High Bridge Restaurant; Burton's (left) are still there, and have been joined by Dorothy Perkins.
Marks & Spencer, who came in 1931, occupy the building to the left of the High Bridge Restaurant; Burton's (left) are still there, and have been joined by Dorothy Perkins.
In the background we can see the tall Pharos lighthouse and the North Euston Hotel, designed in 1840 by the famous architect Sir Decimus Burton.
Fortunately the Wheatsheaf of 1900 on the right survives as an O'Neills pub, and so does the former Burton's on the opposite corner, but most of the right-hand buildings have gone for the Belfry
This corner would be dominated by Burtons in the 1930s.
Others stores date from the thirties, including Woolworth's (1931) and Burton's (1937).
The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.
This mid-summer picture was obviously taken on a warm day, judging by the pedestrians in light clothing and the number of open windows in the offices above Dorothy Perkins and Burton's tailor shop
A group of young men of fashion are keen to show off their new suits to the photographer outside Burton's store.
Beyond is North Hill, above Burton Bradstock, with the hills of Bothenhampton and Hyde forming the eastern horizon (left).
Interestingly, the building was an outpost of cotton mills at Burton and Fazeley in Staffordshire, owned by the family of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.
Interestingly, the building was an outpost of cotton mills at Burton and Fazeley in Staffordshire, owned by the family of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.
The masts had no standing rigging, being supported by the sail halyard and burton stay tackle.
The Old White Horse (right) would become Burton Menswear in 1962.
On the right is the Pharos lighthouse, designed by Sir Decimus Burton, and on the left, alongside the river frontage, is the new railway station, one of the finest in the country at that time.
The Old White Horse (right) would become Burton Menswear in 1962.
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