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There are 62 comments about "cres"

Rich: I used to play football in the park right next to The Botanic Garden's entrance right across the street from this station, we even went sliegh riding when we got a good snow, but, behind......

in response to: Brooklyn Bound on the Subway by Peter

Thelma Fuentes: I lived at 146 Grove Street and moved to Staten Island in early 70s (I didn't get to graduate with my class at St. Barbara's in 1972)...I remember Barbara Ann's, my first dance at the......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Robert O Byrd.: Imagine my amazement when i bought the movie jumper and seen thishotel in it as it was a good cheap place to stay while i handled some bad legal issues i do want to thank......

in response to: Dinner and a Bed by jack

jonathan avildsen: anyone want beef? bring it. Born Jul 1969 217 CATALINA ST LOS ANGELES, CA 90004 PEEKSKILL NY VALLEY VILLAGE CA JOHN G AVILDSEN Born 1935 2423 BRIARCREST RD BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210 9049 ALTO CEDRO DR BEVERLY HILLS,......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

snolan: For any of you interested. There is a Kensington reunion at Lighthouse Point in NJ. It is at ShawCrest Marina on the right hand side of of rte 47. Right before the bridge that goes......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello to all the musicians, I came across this in leaflet from the Eccles Library about a Music exhibition that is being held at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, on the Crescent at Salford:-......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

James cashan: Hello jon B. Malcom Kennedy is related to my dad through marriage of his mum to Ken connor (pics of Train), I lived and dad still lives across road from Pete n......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cathy Tarkowski Grant: Belleville Kansas is full of potential with many creative artisans and entrepreneurs. It also is ripe for development with the Republican River running nearby, beautiful old 81 highway running north of town with it's......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

terry hindley: "Hung around the Benny centre and pool quite a bit during the late 70's early 80's. As long as you didn't look for trouble you generally wouldn't find trouble. Anyone remeber the Benny Gang? or......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: These pictures show 3 of the 5 or 6 police cruisers to be burned. I started photographing around 1:10 this morning. Unfortunately, my lithium batteries chose this day to die, and I had forgotten to bring......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, and the second farm almost opposite on your left you got the best celery around, tall white stems, not green like now and insect nibbled or slug mess in between the stems, lovely clean......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

David Warrior: James, There is a great photo of Higher Irlam on Andrew Smiths site http:www.citynoise.org/article/4343/by/Andrew%Smith20Smith "these things no longer exist".It shows the Margarine Works and The Cresent back in 1928 when they were still building the......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, Darlings of 1 Mond Road [I was @ #10] I recall very well - used to go to school with one of their sons John, and for Suttons - well my cousin married their......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: James, I think you misunderstood David, think of a cartwheel and The Crescent would be the outer rim with Boundary Road being opposing spokes, Princes Ave being opposing spokes, Mond Rd being a spoke opposite......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: Hi David, You are correct, it was the roundabout on The Crescent where I was lost. I could only see a few feet in front of me in the smog and I didn't have a clue......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alison: Hi Cyril My mum definately remembers you barbara whitelegg (roberts) she lived on the crescent then moved to marlborough road she worked in a shop on fiddlers lane and we all went to fiddlers lane school......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alison: Gosh ive heard my mum talk about Twenty Row, and she used to call it the jerry works my mum was born and bred in irlam from the Crescent, Barbara Roberts she was till she......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Michael Waugh: Directions: Recalling since '75, west of the SAPI mill about 5-10 km I would say. There was a small post office/store. Dirt road went north over the railroad tracks, just beyond it turned to the......

in response to: Mans Contribution to Nature by Guy McLaren

Alan Taylor: Hi Marissa, When they built the Margarine Works Estate then built the roads and laid the services, then built the corner houses, afterwards they built the infills between the corner houses, so there was lots of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alison: Hi Joanne Did you say you lived at 67 The Crescent, my grandma lived at 65 she passed away last november but had lived there for 60 years if not more....

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: I have this childhood memory.i must of been really young..but my dad used to take me to what seemed to be a nursery or playgroup next to or near the doctors surgery on liverpool road......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: Anyway as far as memories from Irlam go I went to Irlam county primary and the endowed then to Irlam High I left in 1987,I lived on Ferry hill rd Harewood rd and The crescent.I......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Keith Smith: Hi Cadisheaders,I used to live on Atherton lane behind the George hotel,and spent years down the bamas fishing on the newt pond,had a great bonfire every year on the bamas,shooting slug guns on the railway......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, I was wrong. It's at 1381 Sainte-Catherine West, between Bishop and Crescent streets....

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I think it's in the 800 or 900's on Sainte-Catherine west, on the north side of the street. Somewhere between Crescent and Peel streets....

in response to: Ye Olde Arcade by EvilGentleman

MaGoo: PS: Just for context- so that you realize that my observations are quite balanced and unbiased: I was raised by a single parent on welfare- we were abjectly poor. Most of our neighbors who were Bushwick......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Russianblue: i have a 2 year old silver crested cockatoo and sumtimes hes a darling but then hell go crazy and bite us for no reason and jus misbehave we always give him love and get......

in response to: Parrot Biting by Jamie

VVW: I live on the Aquila Housing developement, which used to be MOD Aquila. Your articles are exellent and very interesting. I believe my house is situated on the site of the X-ray block. I have......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

aer : "Crater Lake is located in Southern Oregon on the crest of the Cascade Mountain range, 100 miles (160 km) east of the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, created when the......

in response to: Love the Toilet Seat by Tyfoid Kid

CartLegger: Do you mean the center strip of the cemetery as viewed from google maps? On the ground, in the bush, this thing has no center. It is all sprawl. It is **huge**, going on for unknown......

in response to: Bayside Cemetary: Rememberance Overgrown by CartLegger

Tehoke: This picture seems to be taken about 5 blocks west of The Sun Life building, from an upper floor of what is now the Quality Inn on Crescent Street or More likely the building that......

in response to: Montreal Circa 1979 by CE

EvilGentleman: Actually jack, I generally agree on the need for incresed security. The lessons of 9/11 are not lost on me. What frustrates me though, is when we have very restrictive security for the average person,......

in response to: Airport Security, My Ass! by EvilGentleman

CE: I love public clocks, I wish there were more in the city as I don't wear a watch. My favourite is the digital clock on {De Maisonneuve} between {Bishop} and {Crescent} that displays the......

in response to: Clocks of Drummond and Sainte-Catherine by EvilGentleman

mark rogers: hi Natalie. Fancy reading your comments here. Nat and I grew up in the same street and I too now live in Australia. Anyone out there from Irlam now living in Queensland. Drop me a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

little ukraine: this is a really really wonderful set. the pictures are so well-taken and the way you put them together gives me a great impression of the city, about which I had previously known pretty......

in response to: Birmingham Alabama by dfwtiger

John: Lived in Ridgewood in the '50s. Went to Paterson for everything and to the Armory to see the Crescents and to Hinchcliff Stadium for the midget cars and the Panthers. You can't go home......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

EvilGentleman: I think it was a sponsored piece. Too many cops in that area at night (just a block away from Crescent, the heart of the clubbing district) for it to be possible to "sneak" this......

in response to: Crounch Crouch by EvilGentleman

autumn: Michele,gg, keep it up. I am educated to the PhD level but also have "street smarts". Worked 20 yrs. as a CPS Social Worker. My home & 1 acre of property are the sum total......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

star: It is always perpendicular to the direction where the Sun is in the sky, which has to be somewhere else on the ecliptic. If you saw the crescent Moon shaped like a boat above the......

in response to: Moon by barry

EvilGentleman: I lost a muskrat fur hat in DJ's Pub on Crescent Street in Montreal in 1994. Anyone seen it?...

in response to: I Left My Transmission Fluid in Cuba by EvilGentleman

Astro Guy: Great. Just great. How the heck am I supposed to relax when I’m outside on clear nights at the telescope?! I’m in BC, right down in the extreme South-West, by the US border in a......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Mark: WE were there on Labor day and asked a few questions when he went into a rant . I admire his courage and willingness to stand out from the mundane. In fact , he has......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, I suspect that the cups **could** become recyclable if they were processed in a way that heated them up to melt off the wax coating first. There may be a new industry here, just......

in response to: Tim in the Streets by Marlo

EvilGentleman: The PMQ's in Dartmouth are abandoned? Are those ones associated with the naval facilities in Halifax and Dartmouth, or with CFB Shearwater to the south? Is CFB Shearwater still open? We still have PMQ-style buildings......

in response to: Bridge Trash by okcomputer

Peter: ...thats because your schools arent in the middle of {brooklyn}! trust me, sometimes i wish that i was surrounded by acres of open land here, without any fences....

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Happy Grammie: We must be behind times in Canada. Our deaf people go to schools that don't have barbed wire fences. The deaf school near me in Milton, Ontario, has acres and acres of land around the......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

yippie skippie: NYC is a cesspool, maybe you live in a less stinky area with better ventilation, and don't venture into the nastier parts like South Bronx, Harlem, Washington Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Brooklyn.... but the nastier......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

drea: My street has a sign like that too, but there was a third one. I'll find the time to take a picture and post it up. It think the streets meet each other to form......

in response to: Confused? by jeeff

xep: [[img:10147]] As seen on University Ave in Hillcrest, San Diego, CA. ...

in response to: robot building by elaine

elaine: berries watercress and kelp sounds like a good accompaniment, as well. "lettuce" and tasteless tomatoes doesn't really cut it as a salad, really....

in response to: Muktaaq and Arctic Char a La Box by EvilGentleman

mark: hehe thought so :-) i always walk past that crescent on the way to pick up the hire car to drive my stuff back to the land of the English (studying here is great!) and......

in response to: Freezing Fog by Cheesy Member

Drew from philly: Ned, Ned Turner is that you? this is Drew from Ridgemont High. I agree people forget that this is a free world but bikes aren't aloud on the sidewalk even if you could physically fit my......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Cheesy_Member: Yeah mark, walking from {Haymarket} to west end of {Princes Street} on the right hand side of the road, Atholl Crescent in shot. [[http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=324500.118630765&Y=673500.906382534&width=700&height=400&gride=324398.118630765&gridn=673429.906382534&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=GB&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=5000&out.x=9&out.y=3]] ...

in response to: Freezing Fog by Cheesy Member

Cheesy_Member: Instantly recognisable because of its unique design, the Forth Rail Bridge was one of the greatest achievements of 19th century engineers. The original designer was Thomas Bouch - but his rail bridge over the River......

in response to: Forth Rail Bridge by Cheesy_Member

ea: it's classified here in Oregon as a noxious weed and revolutionaries are staging guerrilla warefare to rid Forrest Park of it. they are known as the No Ivy League. the city park is......

in response to: City Cabbages by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Beards are great. You can keep badgers, babies and boron tubes in them. Unfortunately Silkwood was based on a true story. She was inexplicably contaminated whilst working at the Kerr-McGee's plutonium fuels production plant in......

in response to: I Double-Dare You to Pull It by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Paul G: It's really nice...like the crescendo of some drama. The figure atop the pediment is both lordly and also reassuring. It's like, if you get into the Station, then everything will be ok....

in response to: Slice of Grand Central by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

'Yunker: Nice photo. FYI, Manayunk isn't "near Philly" -- it's actually part of the city proper. Before 1990, Manayunk was a decaying industrial section of Philadelphia, not the upscale shopping enclave that it is today. As......

in response to: Ladies\' Entrance by JJ

sine: the presence of a torii signifies a shrine or temple nearby. indeed, there is a shinto shrine dedicated to Inari hidden in the woods behind the torii. here is some info from the site: Torii The......

in response to: brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005 by sine

CAPTAIN AMERICA: email: finaljustice05@yahoo.com You take great pictures. You're Crazy! Here's one for ya. Please trust me. I live in El Paso, Texas. I lived in "East New York, Brooklyn", until I joined the Military 6 years......

in response to: Brooklyn Broadcast & Audio by Peter

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