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Working On Church Street Six Times

When in 2018 I started work as a supervisor in a shop on Church Street, it occurred to me that I had had four jobs & two volunteer posts on the road. The first was a temporary job in the late '70's under the ...Read more

A memory of Great Malvern by bru.enzer

Bilsdean Creek 1960

Down Bilsdean Creek where fresh and salt water meet, the bladderwrack rehydrating incoming tide chases tiny trout upstream to the overhanging hazel branch sanctuary of dappled dancing sunlight where they flit back and ...Read more

A memory of Bilsdean Creek by John Soltys

Smith The Grocer Of Chapel Road, Kessingland

My grandfather on my father's side, Jabez Herbert Henry Smith (known as Herbert) was born on 19th January 1885. At the tender age of 13 he was sent by his parents to take up a seven year apprenticeship at ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland by Patricia Soanes

By The Cut

born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was where ...Read more

A memory of Tipton by John Groucutt

More About The Court School Of Dancing

I went to the Court with friends between 1966 and 1970. We would meet up in the Two Brothers opposite. I met my wife there at a Halloween Party night, October 1969. The manager was Derek White, with his wife ...Read more

A memory of Chatham by Simon Gest

Fish & Chips In Brightlingsea

During the late 40's and 50's we all travelled to Jaywick Sands for our summer and bank holidays and on the weekends made regular excursions to the nearby seaside resorts of Frinton and Walton-on-the Nase but my ...Read more

A memory of Brightlingsea by ducatee

1960's Tunnel Memories

I clearly remember these Land Rover "Tunnel Patrol" vehicles although I was only 7 in 1965.  I thought that they were real Police vehicles (were they labelled "Tunnel Police" I wonder?) and I remember being puzzled by the ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1965 by Brian Jones

Lewis's Department Store

Worked as a Saturday girl in 1970s and then in summer holidays as a Student. So sad to see that famous building with the naked man Statue so part of our heritage now derelict and deserted. Lived near Victoria Park Waterloo ...Read more

A memory of Crosby

English At Heart

I am an American who went to school in Chester in 1966/67. Rather, should I say, I was registered for school at Chester College. However, I can't say I was actually in the building very often. There just always seemed to be somewhere ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1966 by Linda Snyder

Days Gone By

My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1940 by Charles Hegarty

Captions

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Caption For Edinburgh, Princes Street, West End 1897

Restaurants included a branch of Ferguson & Forrester, the Royal British, and Littlejohn's.

Caption For Cheam, Upper Mulgrave Road C1950

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's

Caption For Hallow, The Village C1955

He was professor of anatomy and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, and pioneered research on the motor and sensory nerves in the brain. He

Caption For Chesterfield, Queen's Park 1902

On this side of town the Midland operated a short goods branch to Brampton.

Caption For Runcorn, High Street C1965

In the 1960s it was home to a branch of the Runcorn and Widnes Industrial Co-Operative Society.

Caption For Ledbury, High Street C1965

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

Caption For North Cheam, London Road C1955

On the extreme right is the local branch of the shoe chain Freeman Hardy & Willis, with F W Woolworths next door.

Caption For Strathpeffer, Highland Girls Wringing The Washing C1890

It was served by a branch line of the Highland Railway from Fodderty Junction.

Caption For Helston, The Parish Church 1895

The huge 24-branch brass chandelier was donated by the earl of Godolphin during rebuilding.

Caption For St Mawes, The Village 1890

St Mawes lies on a sheltered branch off Falmouth harbour.

Caption For East Clandon, Alexandra Hospital 1913

The country branch of the Queen Alexandra Nursing Home for Children with Hip Disease was at East Clandon.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1960

Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1960

Wainwright the chemist's (right) is an old Eastleigh firm that until recently survived in the centre of the town, but this branch has become a showroom for heating appliances.

Caption For Aberaman, Lewis Street C1955

There was a Co-op branch in this street, and Mainwaring`s (extreme left) was an important store here.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1920

George Oliver`s shoe shop (left) was one of several Cornish branches in the early 20th century; it still exists in a modernised form as Messrs Timpson.

Caption For Codicote, The Village C1955

On the right, a road branches off to Wheathampstead.

Caption For Burgess Hill, Station Road C1950

A branch of Barclays Bank lies further down the street on the corner.

Caption For Cheshunt, Turners Hill C1965

On the far side is the modern brick branch of the Midland Bank, while on the immediate right are the Post Office, chemists and opticians.

Caption For Haverfordwest, High Street C1955

Note the tobacconist on the left advertising Players No 3 and the canisters outside Stephen & Fred Green on the right (now a menswear shop and a branch of OXFAM).

Caption For Barnstaple, Queen Anne's Statue And Station 1890

On the left is Quay Station, built in 1874 for the Ilfracombe branch; it was demolished in 1922 when Town Station was built on the other side of the Taw.

Caption For Welford, The Canal C1965

The 'Welford Arm' runs east for one and a half miles from the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal and opened in 1814.

Caption For Weare Giffard, From Bideford Road 1923

The railway ran to Great Torrington when this view was taken; it later extended to Halwill Junction and the North Cornwall branch lines.

Caption For Newbury, Northbrook Street C1960

Nearby, beyond the Anchor pub, is a branch of Macfisheries, the famous fishmonger.

Caption For Shirwell, Church C1955

A branch of the famed family lived nearby for over 400 years from 1490; round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was one member.