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Happy Days

I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1950 by Elizabeth Lewis

Heswall Childrens Hospital Circa 1979 1980

I was in this hospital for a couple of years when I was around 4 years old! (Hence the vagueness.) I recall the wards (dorms) and I recall bouncing from one bed to another along the entire length of the ward ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1979 by Nikki Wade

Small Boystoys And Other Pastimes 1930s

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The only ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

My First Visit To England

We travelled down with a large group of Scottish NABC members from Edinburgh and the Lothian areas. My particulal journey commenced by coach to Liverpool where we continued by train to Hereford. On our arrival we were warmly ...Read more

A memory of Nash in 1953 by Ian Harding

Abernethie & Son Ltd

I was very interested in your web site. William Abernethie, owner of Abernethie & Son Ltd 140-144 Uxbridge Road, was my Great great grandfather. He also had a branch at 25 Broadway, Ealing. It was a very successful drapery ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Kay Pack

Bakery

We lived above Saunders Bakery in Stanstead Road, opposite St Dunstan's School. Anyone remember this shop? Mr Saunders had another branch at Brockley, and he drove a green Humber, licence plate LLB 27. What things one remembers!

A memory of Catford in 1949 by Nick Hobart

Twelve Happy Months

I was born in Nant Gwynant in 1925 and lived there for the first 20 years of my life. In 1944 I was drafted into the army and served in German and Italy. Upon release in 1947, I decided to try and make a career in agriculture ...Read more

A memory of Nantgwynant by Gwilym Evans

Great Horton

Our family lived in Lidget Green, near the Great Horton railway station. I was born in 1949 near Bradford (Wakefield), and lived in Lidget Green from toddlerhood until we emigrated in 1960. The neighborhood provided many memories which ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1959 by Richard L

The Old Bakery

The building in the distance is the old bakery. When I was a child/teenager (in the 1960s) my grandparents (Bert and Annie Hurd) lived in a cottage just behind where this picture was taken, and whenever we visited them we would go ...Read more

A memory of Byworth by Ian Richardson

Captions

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Caption For St Ives, Carbis Bay Hotel 1898

The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.

Caption For Newark, Town Lock C1965

Town Lock is one of two mechanised locks; the other is Newark Nether Lock at the northern end of the branch.

Caption For Kidlington, High Street And Sterling Cinema C1950

A branch of Tesco Metro now occupies the building.

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Caption For Loders, 1903

Tucked into the foreground, behind a hedge, ran the Bridport branch railway.

Caption For Andover, Town Station 1908

Lord Beeching closed this branch line in 1964.

Caption For Lerryn, Looking Across The River 1893

Set on one of the picturesque creeks branching off the Fowey estuary, Lerryn is seen at its best when the tide is high.

Caption For Doncaster, Baxtergate 1903

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy & Willis had their branch, and where those who had signed the pledge could find a room at the Albany Temperance Hotel.

Caption For Lickey, Four Ways 1948

Only 30 years later, it has become just another branch of suburbia.

Caption For Alnwick, Bondgate Hill C1955

Just coming into the picture at left is the local branch of Lloyds, built around 1910 to the designs of local architect George Reavell.

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

Caption For Penn, Spring Hill Corner C1965

Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn.

Caption For Didcot, Broadway 1950

Looking west along the Broadway we see amongst the shops branches of Curry's, the Co-op and W H Smith.

Caption For High Legh, Swineyard Hall 1897

Formerly home to a branch of the Legh family, Swineyard Hall was sold off by Lt Colonel Cornwall Legh in 1919.

Caption For Appledore, The Street 1955

Appledore stands on a branch of the River?

Caption For Bishopstoke, C1965

In the distance can be seen a small shopping centre with a post office at the point where Spring Lane branches off from Riverside.

Caption For Badbury Rings, The Avenue Of Trees 1936

In the autumn, the overhanging branches form a seemingly never-ending tunnel of gold as the traveller journeys onward.

Caption For Poole, Parkstone, Bank Corner 1904

This impressive building was the Parkstone branch of the Wiltshire and Dorset Bank.

Caption For Badbury Rings, The Avenue Of Trees 1936

In the autumn, the overhanging branches form a seemingly never- ending tunnel of gold as the traveller journeys onward.

Caption For Rothwell, Market Place C1950

The handsome building on the right with the flagpole is the Rothwell branch of the Conservative Club.

Caption For Rhymney, High Street 1967

Note the branch of Lloyds Bank on the left, and the Scala cinema on the right next to N Joseph, General Stores.

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

the ornamental gates and the spring and summer gardens opened in April 1959 by Ernest Jones, president of the National Union of Mine Workers, to commemorate a centenary of the Yorkshire Branch

Caption For Nottingham, Old Market Square C1950

In the centre background, the traditional building of Lloyds Bank can be seen, and on the extreme left is a branch of Fifty Shilling Tailors.

Caption For Lanteglos, The Church 1901

St Willow's church of Lanteglos-by-Fowey stands surrounded by fields overlooking the head of Pont Pill, a branch of Fowey harbour and about a mile from Polruan.

Caption For Bodmin, Station 1906

Approaching from the town centre, we are in front of the terminus of the Great Western Railway branch from Bodmin Road Station, opened in 1887.