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Memories Of My Dad
Hi if anyone has any memories of Roy Grinsted, 5 The Avenue, Arden Park, bredbury. I would love to here them. He was born 1945. His dad was Thomas Grinsted and I only remember my step grandma Mary as my gran died in the 60's i ...Read more
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Air Raids
These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more
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Aiden's Bike.
I remember this picture well, back in 1955, i was a nipper, and my good friend Aiden, he was a bit of a petrol head, he loved bikes more then anything in the world, that bike in the picture was his one, he was my best ...Read more
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Village Shop
I lived in the bungalow at the end of the spinny on West Avenue in the late 1960s and went to Highcroft School from age 4 to 5, which was an old Victorian building which always smelt of tomato soup and stood on the corner of ...Read more
A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1960 by
Arden Park Primary School
I went from Arden Park Primary School to Bredbury Secondary Boys School just before it became a Comprehensive. Left 1972. I remember Andrew Smith, Steven Smith, Paul Finch, Alan Gresty, Craig Fairbrother, Barry Greenhalgh ...Read more
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I Lived In Bredbury 1958 1977
I used to walk through "The Woods" to get from Sandiway to Arden Park. I grew up with George, Peter and Geoffrey Roarke. I loved walking to the Black and White farm or Vernon Park on weekends. At Arden Park I played ...Read more
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Mystery Lady At The Phoenix Tavern
Please have a look at this blog and see if you can help identify the mystery lady. There may be a free pint in it for you. Also if you go back a few entries you will see a concise and funny look at the famous Arden murder case. atomicsquibblog.com
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Part 11
And had an inter-house sports day annually that was highly contested. The school was divided into four houses, St Columbus, St Aiden, and St Patrick and St Cuthbert’s. Church attendances were very high, poor Fr. Tuohey had to give ...Read more
A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by
A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane
My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first ...Read more
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Palmer Family Of Preston Bagot
My great-great-great grandfather was Joseph Palmer, blacksmith, and his daughter Jane Plamer married James Ferris Cooke in 1838. They lived most of thier lives in Tanworth in Arden. Does anyone out there have any information about the Plamer family please? My email is anniebrown5@hotmail.co.uk
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Little remains today of Shakespeare`s Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture.
With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden`s house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just
Little remains today of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture.
With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden's house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just that.
It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.
vernacular architecture characteristically uses a mixture of building materials; with stone in the Cotswolds, for instance, and an abundance of timber in the formerly well- wooded areas of Arden
Warwickshire's vernacular architecture characteristically uses a mixture of building materials; with stone in the Cotswolds, for instance, and an abundance of timber in the formerly well-wooded areas of Arden
The photograph is taken from Arden Road, which is the other side of Grange Road - all the street names have obviously been chosen to evoke a rural past which is now just a memory.
The photograph is taken from Arden Road, which is the other side of Grange Road - all the street names have obviously been chosen to evoke a rural past which is now just a memory.
Hurley began life as a small settlement in a clearing in the Forest of Arden, and it probably did not grow substantially until Dexter Colliery opened in 1927.
The arrogant son of a Gascon knight, he had the effrontery to call Guy, Earl of Warwick 'The black hound of Arden'. He
The Church of St Peter and St Paul overlooks the River Tame and was founded c1150 by Osbert de Arden.
Robert Peel, William Gladstone and W H Auden were among the college's more distinguished students, and when John Fell was dean here, one of his scholars based a famous Latin epigram on him following a
Mr Leonard Alden, who ran a tailor and outfitter's business, had one of these houses.
Motor transport came along with smoother roads, and enabled more journeys to the towns.
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