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Yes, a view of the pier as it is renovated would be ideal. When the new college was under construction, I became quite addicted to the webcam view of the work. Many buildings in that area would be good candidates.

Public Relations Department Whiterby Borough Council February 2013 Dear Count Dracula, Thank you for your intriguing letter regarding your intention to migrate to the United Kingdom next year when employment restrictions will be lifted, and may I be the first to congratulate you on your decision to ...

I seem to remember travelling on the Circular Route on the old trolley buses and later the diesels that replaced them. Can anyone confirm that the trolleys did run that route, or am I imagining things. Also, does anyone know when the Circular Route was discontinued?

I don't think that anyone has a right to silence that simply isn't possible in the modern world unless you happen to live on an uninhabited island with no wildlife, but even then there would be noise. That said, we all have the right to enjoy our own homes in relative peace and quiet. The problem wi...

Some people don't have a choice as to where they live and sometimes pubs that were relatively quiet for years suddenly become noisy. It's all a matter of being reasonable. I really do not want to be forced to listen to million decibel rock music from the pub along the road, but I recognise that peop...

According to my wife, Mrs Booth's house in Church Street was about ten to twelve houses down from the Victoria Avenue end of the Street, so there must have been numbers even higher than 136! Maybe the numbering didn't begin with 1? I can think of at least one road in St. Leonards where that is the c...

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The two attached documents may be of interest to those who have posted on this topic. They both relate to my wife's grandfather's funeral, which took place towards the end of August 1951. He lived in Greville Road and was well known to many people in the area. The first is a list of those people in ...

My wife is descended from a James Gallop, born in Ore in 1820. Unfortunately, our family records have no information earlier than that. His eldest son was a William Gallop - perhaps named after his grandfather?