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Memories
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Some Fond Memories
not quite sure of date, but i remember having to sleep on camp beds in summer and not being able to talk, and the swimming costumes that sagged when wet,no schooling as such long walks, going to the cinema most sat days, ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island in 1955 by
Skipp Hitch
myself and ray and dave blakes were standing by st andrews church when the st trian coach came by the girls were waving their hockey sticks through the window i beleive it was shown in the film
A memory of Stanstead Abbotts by
Skellow Park
i was born right next to the park at number 3 Laurel Terrace. My parents were called Sam & Edith Barnett. I lived there for nearly 30 years & spent many a happy day as a kid in that park, climbing trees & making up games ...Read more
A memory of Skellow in 1966 by
Skellow Schools In The 1950s
I was born at 9 Markham Ave in 1941 at my grandparents home We moved to 98 Poplar Rd when I was a baby our house was on the corner of Edward Rd there was only 15 houses then the road was blocked with corrugated ...Read more
A memory of Skellow in 1941 by
Shotley As A Boy
I remember walking down towards "The Gate" from Gayford terrace where I lived with my older brother he was 15 and I was 10 we passed a man who had a huge camera on a tripod set up to take a picture in the direction that we were ...Read more
A memory of Shotley Gate by
Short Attendance
In 1942 I should have attended Wembley Manor school but this was bombed and completely demolished, so we were split up and 2 classes went to Park Lane school. This school was bombed at night 3 ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1942 by
Shopping In Safeways
We lived in Knowles Hill Cres as young parents with a baby girl and we used to go shopping in Safeways on a Friday . We went to the toy shop on my daughters 4th birthday to buy her a doll but came home with a trainset. We had her photo taken with santa in Chiesmans but we left Lewisham in 1969.
A memory of Lewisham in 1967 by
Shopping In Bentham In The 1940s
I have been collecting information about the shops in Bentham during the 1940s and early 1950s, I can recall a lot of them but have been trying to remember the name of the pub which, if one came up Station Road ...Read more
A memory of High Bentham by
Shopkeepers 1912 To 1976
Born Dec. 1924 Dollis Hill Ave, son of E.H.Carter who lived at Crown Terrace. In 1912 he opened his half-shop as a newsagent and tobacconist, joined-up in 1915 and left the running to his sister Florence who ...Read more
A memory of Kilburn in 1949 by
Searching For Mums Schoolfriends
Hope someone can help - mum is trying to find an old schoolfriend called Barbra Coleman who lived in Fairwop. She married a polish man and had a little girl Natasha that I remember meeting when they called down ...Read more
A memory of Uckfield by
Captions
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Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.
Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.
With a massive replanting programme set to recreate its original horticultural splendour, last year's Green Flag award for excellence came as little surprise.
The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver Light Railway
Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.
Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.
The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland!
The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.
The Colts' fortune came from Sir Thomas, Privy Councillor to Edward IV.
These originally came from Chile.
Many Northumberland resorts are famed for the quality of their sands, but alas for Newbiggin - both pollution and wave action have taken their toll.
The railway (then the South Devon, which was taken over by the great Western in 1878) came to Paignton in 1859, and eventually ran through to Kingswear.
Before the M4 motorway existed, traffic from London came through Datchet en route to Windsor.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.
Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.
Until a by-pass came in 1990, it carried both the A36 and A361.
This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times.
Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.
In later centuries, the port of West Bay was opened downstream and goods came once more by sea and into this ancient town.
The famed Kendal bowmen at the Battle of Flodden Field (1513) were clad in home-spun Kendal Green cloth.
The Corbet Arms Hotel is named for an important Shropshire family that came to England with William the Conqueror.
It contains 17th-century panelling which originally came from Devon.
The village is probably most famous as the home of the Bluebell Railway, a popular attraction since it came into private ownership in the early 1960s.
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