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Memories of Hollingbury

Growing up in 1950s Hollingbury - Part I
I moved to Hollingbury in 1956 at the age of nine. We moved into a block of flats in Birch ...
Growing up in Hollingbury - Part II
I can remember my first Christmas in 88 Birch Grove Crescent. When I woke up on Christmas morning, I looked ...
Growing up in the 1950/60s
Click on the thumbnails to open a large version A happy time I was born in 1951, and my family are my ...
Hollingbury in the snow
I remember when Hollingbury was cut off by a snow storm and in the morning the snow outside our flat ...
Living in Birch Grove Crescent
In our block of flats there was a miserable man who was always moaning about everything that I did. He ...
Which CVA factory was this?
Happy Retirement I really like this retirement photo from Gil Percy’s collection, everyone smiling and so happy. I imagine the date ...

1957 winning football team
A trip down memory lane
A Walk Back in Time c1985
Assembly 1966
Camp beds and long corridors
Class 6 photographed in 1953
Class photo: c1954/55
Class photograph 1951
CVA and the Hollingbury Industrial Estate
CVA Buying Office
CVA Drawing Office c.1952
CVA Kearney & Trecker and the automotive industry
CVA workers, planning to get the bus home
CVA: later Kearney & Trecker
Demolition of STC/ITT Creed
Hollingbury and keyboard machines
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 1)
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 2)
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 3)
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 4)
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 5)
Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 6)
Kearney & Trecker 100 Ton press
Kearney & Trecker Marwin Apprentices 1974/5
Letter from America 1955
Memories of Hollingbury Court School
Official Opening
Photographed, c1960
Photographs from the 1960s
Sharp division of post-war housing
Special Purpose Machines - Part I 1950s
Special Purpose Machines - Part II, 1960's
Special Purpose Machines - Part III, 1970s
Special Purpose Machines - Part IV 1980s
Special Purpose Machines - Part V, Historic Records
Special Purpose Machines - Part VI, Men at Work
The Changeover to Decimal Currency
The Demolition of Leytool January 1985
Views over Hollingbury Industrial Estate 1952-1987
Fiveways
Hollingbury Hillfort
Hollingbury Park Golf Club
Introduction to Hollingbury
Memories of Hollingbury

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