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Wartime In Ickburgh Fields
I was evacuated with my mother to a back to back semi-detached flint cottage situated in a clearing in the pine forests. There was no sanitation or running water or electricity. There was a tiny kitchen with a black ...Read more
A memory of Ickburgh Fields by
1960s Shopping In Uxbridge Road, Hatch End
On the left of this view is the pub sign for the "Railway Hotel" - a popular drinking venue for older members of St Anselm's Youth Club and the Hatch End Young Conservatives! Next door is a garage ...Read more
A memory of Hatch End in 1965 by
Merrow Village Hall
Where local people were invited to watch the film of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953. There wasn't a screen, just curtains which moved about a bit. The Hall was used for the Tenant's Association's children's Christmas parties ...Read more
A memory of Merrow by
Childhood Memories
I was brought up and went to school in Saltburn, and was married at Saltburn Parish Church. I have wonderful memories of walks on the beach and in Rifts Wood and Beach Wood with my grandad and our greyhounds. Also going ...Read more
A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea by
Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore by
Penhill Estate
Born in 1951, I lived in Lechlade, Ledbury, Highworth, Oldtown, Cunningham Road and I lived on Penhill Drive in the late 1950s.
A memory of Swindon in 1950 by
Sport In Sutton
My Father Frank Adey (now 93) ran the Baseball at Rosehill Rec Sutton...I remember many days walking from our home in Benhill Avenue, to the games with the Sutton Beavers. I have fond memories of the Old Granada Cinema, having worked ...Read more
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Growing Up
I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more
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My Memoirs 1964 1966 Part One
Wayne Carter My father is Frederick Carter born in London, and mother was Loraine Carter nee Chadwick was born Cyfarthfa Street Roath; mum sadly passed away in 1998. I have a younger sister Jane Carter nee ...Read more
A memory of St Mellons in 1964 by
Summers In Kirkmuirhill
Titled."Summers in Kirkmuirhill".....My Granny Brown lived there and as a wee boy I was sent from my home in Glasgow to stay with my Granny for the summer. I loved the time there and enjoyed the fequent walks with my ...Read more
A memory of Kirkmuirhill in 1949 by
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The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.
During this period of expansion, the church of St Michael and All Angels, consecrated in 1924, was built opposite the junction of Penhill Road and South Street.
West Witton lies in the shadow of Pen Hill on the southern side of the dale.
In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.
Pencil making was one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.
One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.
The pencil works of A Banks on the right is an example of one of Keswick's major industries, founded on supplies of plumbago, or black lead, from the Seathwaite valley in Borrowdale.
One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.
One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.
The church tower can be seen in the centre of the view, which looks west along what is now called All Saints Road (in 1903 it was Benhill Road).
Note the pencil outlining on the church - a device used by the Frith re-touchers in the creation of artworks for postcards.
Woodside Road was also laid through the former Benhill Woods.
A pencil drawing of the Hermitage by J Carter dated 1801 is in the British Museum.
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