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Memories Of Hulme
My name is Lynda (Howarth) and I lived in Hulme from 1943 until 1953. My Mum was Edith Woods, and she married Stanley Howarth. My mum used to live in Mary Street and then we moved to Junction Street, after the war. I ...Read more
A memory of Hulme in 1943 by
The Ranch
We loved the flics on a Saturday morning, mum got rid of us all for a few hours we got our sweets in the Mayfare sweet shop opporsite before going in. It was always 'cowboys and indians', that's why it was called 'the ranch'.Sometimes the ...Read more
A memory of Huyton by
Gods Little Corner
I first went to Streatley in 1965 where I started to court my wife whose name was Susan Adams then. We used to go for walks over Sharpenhoe Clappers and come back to the Chequers Pub and see Hilda and ...Read more
A memory of Streatley in 1966 by
Happiest Early Days
I grew up in Elmstead Market moving there when I was 18 months old and left in 1965 when I was 8. I went to Elmstead School where Vera Norfolk was my first teacher and the headteacher was Mr Clegg. Vera's sister Muriel ran the ...Read more
A memory of Elmstead by
School Wishmore Cross
I remember while at school with a 20 min walk to the church and or to the cinema to see the first showing of Disney's fantasia then walk back to school those were the days I was staying in the school from about 1964 to 1969 I ...Read more
A memory of Camberley by
My Days In Rosedale Abbey
My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more
A memory of Rosedale Abbey by
What A Place!
Went to William Blake School. I remember the headteacher Mr Rudd, he used to walk around school with his gown on and carrying his cane. Was a Grenadier at Wandsworth Road Granada and used to go to Harringtons for pie and mash after ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1962
My Father Bob Barnard Lived In Overton As A Boy. His Words Are Below:
I was born on 29th November 1928, and lived in Southsea in 1939, and during August my parents, little sister, and I went for a short holiday by coach to stay with an Aunt and ...Read more
A memory of Overton in 1940
Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting
Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class ...Read more
A memory of Lemington in 1944 by
The Grange
My Grand Parents Mr and Mrs Burbidge lived in Ambleside cottage and worked in the Grange. Its owners then were Mr and Mrs collier and Miss Hewitt. As young school boy 60 years ago I used to go and help Mr Franklin the gardener which ...Read more
A memory of Hellidon by
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There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.
Out of sight to the left is a good Victorian timber-framed range.
The shops on the right testify to the wide range of services available at the time: Stephens and Johnson, ironmongers; Bateman, forage contractor; Flights Military Outfitters; the Magpie, sweets
The assortment of gentlemen's wear ranges from smart business to working class layabout.
The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.
Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, whose chimney we can see behind the tiller.
The low level of the banks on either side and the high tidal range meant that conventional bridge designs were not practical, and so Haynes and Arnodin engineered a bridge that could be operated without
The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th
The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th
The postman (centre) has probably purchased some parts from Fisher's, who sell all the top brands of bicycles - not that the GPO buy top-of-the-range transport for their rural postmen!
Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and
Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.
Brixham became a major fishing port ranking alongside Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Lowestoft and Fraserburgh.
It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.
This photograph was taken from Pirbright Bridge, where Queens Road leaves the A324 and leads to Pirbright Barracks and the Bisley rifle ranges.
Apart from the gatehouse, the Checker and the Long Gallery (we see their north side here), and an attached range, probably a granary or bakehouse, nothing survives above ground.
The north side has a timber-framed upper floor which was in fact a gallery in front of a range of lodgings, possibly for abbey guests, possibly for minor monastic officials.
Their more knowledgable caddies have not been so foolhardy, and are well out of range.
Best seen on foot, the village is attractive without being pretty, offering a wide range of vernacular buildings and a topographical conundrum in sequencing its development.
However, it is not the architecture that attracts visitors here, it is the magnificent series of monuments to the Roos family of the 15th century and above all to eight Earls of Rutland, ranging from
Here we have a range of hotels for those who could afford the comfort.
However, it is not the architecture that attracts visitors here, it is the magnificent series of monuments to the Roos family of the 15th century and above all to eight Earls of Rutland, ranging from
Early photographs show a village of timber-framed buildings, of which a few survive, all on the west side of the road; they include a very fine 16th-century hall house and a range of timber-framed houses
The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town.
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