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The Allotments Cricketfield Road 1950's

My father would put me on his bycycle crossbar and took us from Elthorne Rd to the allotments via Whitehall Road and Vine Street. Cricketfield Rd was (is?)a dead end. A footpath to the left passed by a nursery ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Harrogate's Station Square 1960/70's

I see Macfisheries and Lindy's Cafe.There was also a cafe called Chequeres that as a child I was advised by my parents not to use.Standings was on the corner of Station Square and James Street providing that old ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate

Boac Hatton Cross Part 1

I remember Comet House, Speedbird House, and Technical Block A. Later they were linked together by a walkway above ground level. The board room was originally in TBA but when Speedbird House was built it was ...Read more

A memory of Heathrow Airport London

High Cross House And Dorothy Elmhirsts Steinway Grand Piano

On the beautiful Dartington Hall Estate there is a unique “International Modernist House”, now used as a gallery, just to the north-east of Dartington Hall School. High Cross House ...Read more

A memory of Dartington Hall in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

A Very Unusual Bank Building In Style

The bank's origins relate to Blackburn, Lancashire, then moved to Manchester where a later generation of the Cunliffe Brooks became a very wealthy local landowner. Opened an Altrincham branch on 7th April ...Read more

A memory of Manchester in 1870 by Trevor Jones

Do You Remember?

Does anyone remember or know about a florist's shop called 'Jedith' which was situated in the parade of shops at the front of the cinema in London Road, on the South Circular opposite Forest Hill Railway Station? It was run by ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill by Nick Gilman

Croydon Advertiser

I worked on the Croydon Advertiser from about 1959 to 1963 and met my wife Frances Dowsett, who was also a reporter there at the office in High Street. We used to lunch most days at Batty's Bar, upstairs in a pub on the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by barber.david01

Happy Days....Jeux Sans Frontieres

One of many events to take place in this amazing pool was the 1975 International heat of Jeux Sans Frontieres. Stuart Hall and Eddie Wareing compered on a late summers evening when competitors from all over Europe ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1975 by David A

My Grandads Forge

My Granddad William Anderson bought the forge when he moved to Leiston from Surrey after the war with my Nan and three children, my mother Yvonne, aunty Ivy and uncle Billy, where he shod horses in and around Leiston, then he turned ...Read more

A memory of Leiston in 1950 by Nigel Horne

Memories Of Point Clear Bay Near St Osyth In The Mid 1950s& 60s

My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I remember ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by Robert Munn

Captions

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Caption For Porlock, The Church 1907

Porlock's church, dedicated to the 6th-century Welsh Celtic saint Dubricius, has a 13th-century tower with a later shingled spire which is curiously truncated.

Caption For Avebury, Excavations C1908

A later excavation of the great ditch was carried out by H St George Gray in 1922, when he established that Avebury was built in the Neolithic age.

Caption For Kingsland, The Angel Inn C1955

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

Caption For Gloucester, Cathedral North East 1891

Gloucester Cathedral has a Norman nave, later Gothic vaulting, an early Perpendicular choir and a later Perpendicular Lady Chapel; yet these disparate architectural styles form a coherent whole.

Caption For Coalville, Jackson Street C1965

Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

It was designed by Halfpenny, with a later 1839 tower and square spire by Chantrell.

Caption For London, Cheapside And Mansion House 1915

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

Caption For Panfield, The Church Of St Mary And St Christopher 1906

It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.

Caption For Clare, Callis Street C1960

The Cock, run by H Painter, has a later door case, and Peterhouse has a Victorian shop window.

Caption For Thorne, Market Place C1960

At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

Caption For Thaxted, The Parish Church C1960

The medieval church was as high as it was long - but a later miscalculation on the part of some 18th-century restorers left the steeple 2ft shorter than the nave and chancel.

Caption For Salisbury, St Ann's Gate 1911

A later view of St Ann's Gate, with motor cars in evidence in the street scene - now, the gate can be used by pedestrians only.

Caption For Lanivet, St Benet's Abbey 1931

At a later date, stone from the cloisters and the top of the tower (seen behind) was taken to build a farmhouse.

Caption For Wareham, C1960

But its small museum remembers a later warrior, Lawrence of Arabia, who lived not far away until his death in 1935.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1925

We may be thankful that although a later entrance building was wrecked by fire, both the older theatre and music pavilion can still be seen today, and the pier remains successful.

Caption For Cartmel, The Square C1955

Although first founded in the 7th century by St Cuthbert, the present priory church and ruins relate to a later Augustinian community established in about 1190.

Caption For Thaxted, The Old Guildhall C1951

This photo depicts a later restoration (which included the demolition of a chimney).

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

It is noted for its parish church, which combines Anglo- Saxon detail and features with Norman work, a late 11th-century phase cumbersomely termed Saxo-Norman Overlap.

Caption For Morecambe, West End Promenade 1903

A later view, shows the Winter Gardens now completing the arc of guest houses and other buildings that overlook the wide promenade.

Caption For Stamford, View From The Water Meadows 1922

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one and relatively little changed, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller when there were fourteen parish church towers

Caption For Lee On The Solent, Marine Parade C1955

Lee on the Solent grew as a late Victorian development.

Caption For Barford St John, The Village C1965

The church of St John, centre left, is Norman in origin, but has a later octagonal tower and pyramidal roof.

Caption For Lee On The Solent, Lee Tower From The West C1955

Lee-on-the-Solent grew as a late-Victorian development.

Caption For Upton, St Mary's Church C1955

The clock on the church tower was a later addition of around 1912.