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Colindale The Early Years
I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more
A memory of Colindale in 1958 by
Milton And Plant A Tree For 73
A memory of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire. Interesting reference to Plant -a-tree-for-73 as I was the person who set this up. I also attended Milton School from about 1946 to 1950 when I passed a scholarship to ...Read more
A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1973 by
Small Village Big World
I was also born in Cwm in 1950. We lived there untill the early sixties with my sisters Rhian and Ann. I have just found this web site, and my first impression is how far the children of Cwm have spread over the world. ...Read more
A memory of Cwm by
The For Front Pathway
This is the pathway to the cottage, my grandparents - the Wilsons, and aunt and uncle lived in. It used to be a farmhouse, but was split into two attached dwellings. On the left, there was a snack bar, and I spent many an ...Read more
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The Lord Rodney Public House
This picture shoes in the fore ground the Lord Rodney Pub My Farther lived in a small building just out of the picture left side
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Castle Square Bus Terminus
Castle Square of the 1950s and 60s had a vibrancy that is absent nowadays. This was because all of the local bus services terminated there and a constant stream of people dismounted to go about their business ...Read more
A memory of Caernarfon in 1959 by
Grays Thurrock Essex England Uk 1935 1953
My memories of Grays go back to the 1940's and 1950's the war years and before the London over-spill estates Of Belhurst Park and Basildon arrived. I was born and lived at 106 Bridge Road with my parents ...Read more
A memory of Grays in 1940 by
Esgairgeiliog 1956 1961
I was eleven when we moved into the new council estate, Aelybryn, in Esgairgeiliog. My mother had been born in Esgairgeiliog, and her mother was the local, unofficial, midwife of the village at the beginning of the ...Read more
A memory of Esgairgeiliog in 1956 by
Childhood Memories
Hi Mandy, my name is John Appleton, I was brought up in Binbrook from approx late 1950's, I went to school at Binbrook primary C of E. My first teachers were Mrs Lamming and Mrs Wilky. My first headmaster was Mr Gordon then Mr ...Read more
A memory of Binbrook by
My Birth Place, Bangor.
I was born in the old hospital no longer there now I think it has shops on the site it used to stand on.ie Matalan and a sports shop. it was 28 January 1946 I was born.my parents lived in a village called Llanaelhearn near ...Read more
A memory of Bangor by
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Portreath was a busy mining port in the 19th century, when sailing vessels loaded copper ore for the Welsh smelters and returned with coal for the mine engines.
Tourist souvenirs are for sale down by the harbour.
Motorcars are for the more affluent, though they are becoming more common.
Ice creams and postcards are for sale at the village shop.
Ice cream and tea are for sale further along the beach.
A little girl stands proudly in front, whilst next door baskets are for sale.
No more saffron cakes are for sale on the right: the premises have now been taken over by a gift shop with a firm of accountants occupying the upper storey.
The attention of the lady in the fore ground is riveted by the crew in the fishing boats as they adjust their sails in preparation for leaving harbour.
The two cinema posters on the left are for the Gaumont, which was previously the Plaza, and the Odeon, which was the Havana, neither survives.
The two cinema posters on the left are for the Gaumont, which was previously the Plaza, and the Odeon, which was the Havana, neither survives.
The Capital and Counties Bank is still very much to the fore, while the premises of Mellor's jewellers shop are somewhat overshadowed next door.
They have been discharging coal or are loading bagged clay, whereas the berths across the dock are for loading bulk clay, which was tipped into the chutes from lorries.
A tablet on the Pier commemorates nine seamen of Margate lost in 1857 when the 'Victory', a lugger, went to the assistance of the American vessel 'Northern Belle', which came ashore on the Foreness
The horse-drawn carts in the fore ground have yet to be superseded by motor transport, even in this comparatively late stage of mechanised development.
The decorations and tiered seats are for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession (see image number L1305701 for a modern comparison photograph).
Posters on the right are for the municipal elections of 10 May 1951.
The two hanging signs on the left are for the Black Boy, where King George VI lunched during the Second World War.
The Savoy Café is on the right, and further down hill across the road Mazda lamps are for sale close to the inn sign.
The houses in this view are for the most part late Victorian, apart from the one on the right; the prettiest part of the village is nearer the church and the Crown pub at the bottom of the
The boat lying on the beach in the fore ground, in Hugh Town harbour, is vaguely reminiscent of an ex-ships' lifeboat, and shows the rugged clinker-built construction of this type of craft.
Picture postcards, hugely popular at the time, are for sale on the left - perhaps they included Frith postcards.
With different makes of cars lined up as though they are for sale, there is just enough space left for the approaching small Austin Seven.
With different makes of cars lined up as though they are for sale, there is just enough space left for the approaching small Austin Seven.
The chains in the minster library are attached to the fore end of the books, which therefore sit spine inwards on the shelves.
