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Happy Evacuee

This photo is of Bank Square, I was evacuated here in 1939 with brother Bob and was placed with the butcher at No16, that is it on right with white facia, Butcher was Harold Stephens, and his wife and daughter Kathleen. I still recall ...Read more

A memory of St Just in 1940 by Alec Smith

School Days

I went to school here in the early 1950's. I have fond memories of the suroundings, the buildings, the gardens, the landscape and of Market Drayton where some of my relatives lived and some still do. Since this learning academy was a ...Read more

A memory of Pell Wall in 1951 by Graham Edwards

Waltham Abbey The Place I Call Home

I was born in Waltham Abbey and lived there until I was twenty eight. It is the place I call home, where my roots are. Many times I remember going into the Abbey Church; there is such a feeling of serenity ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1962 by Christine Brooker

My Great Granny Barker

At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the 1950s ...Read more

A memory of Heighington in 1944 by First Name Last Name

School Doctor

School doubled as the church on a Sunday and I sat next to the altar rail often gazing at the pedals and knobs and levers of the organ instead of listening. I remember sitting at bench-type tables for lunch, stirring the Christmas ...Read more

A memory of Kettleshulme in 1958 by Sally Pethybridge

Dulwich Hamlet

My brother and I, Kathryn & Philip Brunker went to Dulwich Hamlet school until 1958. We then moved to Basildon, Essex. I went to the 'huts' at first, aged 4, and after visiting there in 1996, found them still to be there! Amazing. ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1954 by Kathryn Firth

Hackbridge

I lived in Orchard Avenue, number 4, when the whole road was mock Tudor exteriors. I had quite a shock to revisit a few years ago to see them all plastered over and looking very tired.  In the l950s and early 1960s when I lived here we ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1956 by Janis Read

2 Years In The Village

Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing the ...Read more

A memory of Iford in 1956 by Kay Mullin

Childhood

Me and my sister used to go and stay in the school holidays with our great nanna, Mrs Hilda Pocklington, in her cottage at Walsbey Road, we used to love our time there. The tennis courts were out the back, and we often used to sit and ...Read more

A memory of Market Rasen by Yvonne Haagensen

Balloon Woods Wollatton

Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington Walk ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1971 by Jean Smith

Captions

1,668 captions found. Showing results 601 to 624.

Caption For Stamford, Old St Peter's Gate Bastion C1955

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Few who saw the film version of the latter will forget the scene where the enigmatic heroine, played by Meryl Streep, stood braving a storm at the end of the Cobb—Lyme's harbour wall.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, 1901

imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley, just below the sea wall

Caption For Landkey, Village C1955

Note the old 'school' traffic sign on the the recessed wall to the left.

Caption For Mullion, Quayside C1955

In March 1867 the Dutch ship 'Jonkheer Meester van der Wall van Putteshoek', carrying spices, sugar and coffee, was wrecked on Men-y-Grib during a storm.

Caption For Colchester, Scheregate

ings in St John Street and Vineyard Street have been lost, this wonderful group of jet- tied buildings survives, clustering up to Schere Gate, possibly a medi- eval gate through the town wall

Caption For Witchampton, Village 1904

The lychgate is still in place, and so are the school wall and railings (right), the porch of Linden Lea (left), and the stones protecting it from passing traffic.

Caption For Old Hunstanton, The Church 1893

Generations of the Le Strange family have been buried here, and their memorials festoon the walls and floor.

Caption For Wroxeter, The Ruined Bath House C1864

The wall on the left separated the exercise area, the palaestra, from the baths proper.

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

The stony ground hereabouts led to the construction of stone walls as well as the usual Dorset hedges.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, The Shambles C1955

Notice the sign reading 'A Davis & Sons, Fish, Fruit & Potato' painted on the wall further along on the right.

Caption For Colchester, Vineyard Street 1904

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

Caption For Cardiff, Castle South Side 1893

Although the castle entrance is enlarged, the Animal Wall re-sited and the trailing vines long since removed, this remains a familiar scene.

Caption For Cardiff, Castle South Side 2004

Although the castle entrance is enlarged, the Animal Wall re-sited and the trailing vines long since removed, this remains a familiar scene.

Caption For Lytham, The Windmill And Lifeboat House 1907

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

Caption For Jaywick, A 'b' Type Bungalow C1955

Since then the sea walls have been raised, making it impossible to get sea views from the low-lying chalets.

Caption For Wickford, Runwell C1955

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

Caption For Monkton, Post Office C1955

With its wall-mounted Victorian letterbox, modern telephone box, and window display of assorted goods, this little post office was of central importance to the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small

Caption For Bath, The Abbey, West Front 1887

Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade.

Caption For Bath, Milsom Street 1895

Looking north from New Bond Street, this late 19th-century view captures well the quality of Milsom Street, one of the earlier streets laid out beyond the boundaries of the original walled town.

Caption For Bath, Newbridge Road 1909

These all survive, albeit now with concrete roof tiles.

Caption For Easby, Abbey 1893

The ruined walls are now free of the lush vegetation shown here, and well consolidated, but Easby Abbey is still privately owned (although in English Heritage's guardianship).

Caption For Lustleigh, Wrayland, Old House 1906

Its walls are hidden beneath some rather tatty rendering, but are almost certainly made of granite, which can be seen in the arch below the gable, and in the horse trough in which the little boy is standing

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

The adjoining walls and buildings were subsequently destroyed so that traffic bypassed Bargate.