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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
A Yokels Tale
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more
A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by
My Chatham
Born and bred in Grove Road off Luton Road, went to the schools of All Saints and Fort Luton. I found Chatham to be a friendly town with memories of seeing Arther English at the Empire, seaside at the Strand, being a 19th Medway west ...Read more
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Home
I was born in Mid Calder; my sister in Pumpherston; and my brother in Uphall Station. We lived at 17 Nettlehill Road until we emigrated to Canada in October 1957. We all went to the school in Uphall Station and my favourite teacher ...Read more
A memory of Uphall Station in 1957 by
Growing Up In Ramsgate
I was born in Ramsgate in 1947. An only child, I lived with my parents in Grove Road. I have many happy memories of the town. Each night, as a young child, I used to go out with my father for "a little walk around" and we covered a ...Read more
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Evacuated To Great West Farm
My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London ...Read more
A memory of Quethiock by
Dunstaffnage War Years
Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more
A memory of Oban by
Xmas In Hanwell In The Sixties.
Xmas started Xmas eve. Everybody went to the pub at lunchtime and it was serious drinking. I worked in Turriff House on the Geat West Road and the pub was the Kings Arms by Brentford railway station. Around closing ...Read more
A memory of Hanwell by
School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
A memory of Fenham by
Captions
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From the south-west side we glimpse Bromham Mill and its leet beyond, now a restored and working watermill.
His remains were brought back in an earthenware pot decorated with Russian script and buried in the family plot at West Meon.
Christ Church is by Sir G G Scott, of 1851, and replaces Holy Rood in the grounds of the mansion owned by the Goddard family - their history there traces back to 1560.
Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.
A large number of religious houses exist, and there was an Augustinian priory here as far back as 1061.
Reconstruction began in 1069, followed by the building we see today from 1180.
The wide sweep of cobbles and double avenue of trees defines this characteristic view on entering the town from the west.
workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west
He was pleased with the rest of Epsom, too, giving respectful attention to Durdans, which had been rebuilt after a fire in 1759, and to Woodcote Park, which had been also been replaced in modern
Here we see Lewis's large and very ornate store at the top of Market Street, just four years after the death of its founder David Lewis in 1885.
The photograph shows the Provincial Bank, which had in fact been in 'Hercules Place', now absorbed.
The church is unbuttressed, with a west tower and Perpendicular bell-stage and a very fine chancel all dating back to the 13th century.
An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork
middle of the 19th century, the third (curfew) bell was rung daily at five in the morning and eight in the evening, warning householders to extinguish their fires until morning; this custom dates back
THE CURRENT fortification on this site can be traced back to around 1160.
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