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Princes Road
I was born in 1953 at 71 Princes Road, in 1955 we moved to 10 Church Road where I lived until 1969 when I left home. I went to Princes Road Boys school where Mr Carr was the Head and some of the teachers were Miss Gardiner, Mrs ...Read more
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Growing Up In Queensbury
I was born in Wellington Street on the 16th. of June 1955. My mother was Kate Holland, formerly Henderson. and my father was George E Holland. Sadly he passed away in 1939. So I dont remember very much about him. I had a ...Read more
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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which ...Read more
A memory of Harborne in 1940 by
Eastry Childrens Home
I had a wonderful upbringing ‘up the hill’ from Buttshole pond… 1958 - 1966 I was raised in one of the seven cottages- mine was Lime Cottage. My matron was Mrs. Aunty Betty Harris- who had a daughter, ...Read more
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A Traditional English Pub!
The Queen's Head is little changed - maybe a horse trough on the pavement but the front of the building is pure English village pub! It was the starting point for many a village pub crawl and some fun times pushing ...Read more
A memory of Pinner in 1966 by
Daily Chats
I remember when I was a van salesman with Sunblest in Aberdeen - my round was Royal Deeside. My morning started at 02.30hrs in Northfield in Aberdeen. Loaded, I would head for Deeside. I enjoyed my round but more so when I ...Read more
A memory of Bridge of Gairn in 1983 by
We Emigrated To Australia In 1963 From Sandiacre
I was about 5 when my mum and dad moved us to Sandiacre from Nth Wingfield around 1955, we Loved our new council house in Coronation Avenue, my grandma and grandad lived in the first house on the ...Read more
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Mallinder Family
My father Frank Mallinder was born in the family home on the 1/02/1915 at 45 Queen street Eckington. His father was Willliam born 1876 Wath upon Dearne his mother was Harriet born 1881 Mossborough. There where 9 children and 2 ...Read more
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The Hersham Flood – September 1968
During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more
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I Remember This Coronation, 2nd June 1953.
The biggest reason I remember the 1953 Coronation was because it was the first time I had ever seen a television. I was only very young in 1953 but I was privileged to be able to watch Queen Elizabeth's ...Read more
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The right-hand side of Market Street has been redeveloped, with the Queens Head replaced by the Market Street Cafe and a hairdresser's shop.
The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.
In this view we are looking north-west up London Road towards the Queens Head in the distance, beyond the junction with East Street.
The Horse and Groom together with the next two buildings made way for a road; the Queens Head inn now occupies a corner of the new road - Queen Street.
The village war memorial stands at the road junction (centre left), and on the right is the entrance to The Queens Head Hotel.
In 1821 there were at least three inns, the Yellow Lion, the King's Head and the Queen's Head.
Facing us is the Kings Arms hotel, with the Queens Head the first white building on the right.
In 1956 an RAF plane crash demolished the Queens Head Hotel in the High Street, along with several other buildings.
On the right is the sign for the Queen's Head pub, the queen being Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, who lived in Ampthill during her divorce in the early 1530s.
On the left is the Queen's Head Hotel; beyond that is the Chesterfield & District Co-operative Society.
A lorry (centre) is delivering Corona soft drinks to The Queen`s Head beyond the Market and Town Hall, while on this side of it is the hanging sign of The Sun Inn.
The clock tower stands just inside the main entrance to Queen's Park.
At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.
Looking towards Bull Head Street, a mixture of building periods come together to provide a pleasant moment in Wigston.
It is just possible to make out three carved heads under the large window in the centre - in fact there are four heads here altogether, one of which depicts Queen Victoria.
Hoskins was also responsible for designing the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth (1875), John Pease's villa Elm Ridge (1867), the New Hippodrome and Palace of Varieties (1907), and the King's Head.
The ornately decorated Weaver to Wearer shop premises on the right is now a cafe bar; the Queen's Head pub next to it has been replaced by a modern shoe shop.
Only a few years earlier, every head would have been be-hatted.
Only a few years earlier, every head would have been hatted.
The clock faces on the tower date from 1885.The granite façade of the Town and Market Hall looms behind, with The Queen's Head hotel on the left.
In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.
On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.
The Queen's Head once belonged to the Wordsworth family whose roots lay in neighbouring Sockbridge and Penrith.
The about-turn view of the last picture, this shows the unmistakable path beaten across The Green to the Queen's Head.
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