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A One Off

Just opposite the Buddle School, There stands paper shop, Throughout my youth I as a rule, Would almost daily stop. From Nineteen seventy seven, Until the Eighties took their bow. This shop was ran by Tommy, Sadly no longer with us ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by James Bridgewood

Come For A Stroll Back In Time Through South Hackney

Hi Guys , I recently wrote on this site about the childhood memories I have of South Hackney, apparently it triggered quite a lot of interest on Facebook by people who connected with my memories, ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

Insurance Offices Christmas Party (North Motherwell) 1950s

Anyone who lived in North Motherwell during the 1950s may remember the single-storey, concrete-built insurance offices (long demolished) that were situated at the top of Fort Street adjacent ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by John Cunningham

Ormside Isolation Hospital

My grandmother, Isabella Brown developed TB in the mid 1950's and went to stay at the Ormside Isolation Hospital. I believe she had quite a lengthy stay. My parents, Harold and Marian Brown used to drive from ...Read more

A memory of Great Ormside in 1957 by Marcia Kell

Memories Of Dan Y Parc

Many of the things that happened at D Y P were taken as normal. During the winter we ran around in the snow without shoes on, and why? because we did not have a second pair of shoes. The only pair we had were school shoes ...Read more

A memory of Dan y Parc in 1953 by David Palfrey

Waterfoot Is Still My Home After 54 Years.

I was born in 298 Burnley Road East on August 18th 1945. The Nurse who delivered me was Nurse Bowe, who was a good friend of my Gran's (Teresa Whittaker, nee O'Brien). All my Aunties and Uncles were born in ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot by Judith Mc Creath

Garfield Road Rec

Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

East End

I was born in Sunderland in 1948 and Christened in Holy Trinity Church, Church Walk, where all of my mother's side of the family had been hatched, matched, and dispatched. I was raised in Wear Garth till the age of twelve years old when my ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by Sheila James

Happy Days

Brought up in Thomas Street from 1947. I remember the cinema at the end of the street, and the Police Station next to the Llanbradach Hotel .As someone mentioned earlier, summer was spent at the outdoor baths, always freezing cold, ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach by Haydn Beach

“Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Game!”

My memory bank has been activated by the contributed items about Hugh Bell Central School, though my recollections of Hugh Bell are older than those published on this website. My years at Hugh Bell were 1938 to ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Harry Killick

Captions

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Caption For Sutton, The Ford C1955

East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Boat Station C1880

This is the corner of the Bowness boating area used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid19th century.

Caption For Daventry, Market Square C1955

Comparing this with D83003, we see that the Plume of Feathers now has bow windows and has been repainted.

Caption For Botesdale, The Village C1960

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1892

The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated.

Caption For Lincoln, Stonebow 1901

Lincoln's celebrated Stone Bow is the later 15th-century medieval gate into the walled town, above which is the basically Tudor city Guildhall.

Caption For Brancepeth, The Village 1914

It was from Brancepeth in November 1569 that the rebel earls of Westmorland and Northumberland launched their attack on Barnard Castle, which was being held for Queen Elizabeth by Sir George Bowes.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Tennis Courts 1925

Here we have a summer scene showing part of the Glebe area behind the Promenade.

Caption For Liverpool, Hms Hercules 1890

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

Caption For Devizes, The Castle C1955

This is a view from the south-east, and shows the Ladies' Gate on the right and the bowed fernery on the left.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Old England Hotel 1925

The well-filled departing steamer is one of the fleet constructed in the second half of the 19th century, still puffing happily on the timetabled service, but now supplemented by a considerable

Caption For Rottingdean, Village Pond C1955

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

Caption For West Marden, Village C1955

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.

Caption For Windermere, The Baddeley Clock C1955

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

Caption For Abbots Bromley, The Annual Horn Dance C1955

Every year, on the first Monday after the Sunday following 4 September, the Horn Dance is performed in Abbots Bromley.

Caption For Bewdley, The River C1938

Once a thriving port, Bewdley paid the price for turning away the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal Co, who wanted to connect with the Severn here.

Caption For Brighton, The Fountain 1889

The Steine, originally marshy ground, became the focus of early Brighton development as houses were built for the fashionable visitors.

Caption For Portland, Rufus Castle 1890

This view was taken from the churchyard of ruined St Andrew's Church below the sycamore trees of Pennsylvania Castle grounds.

Caption For Hornby, The Village C1955

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

Caption For Burnley, Bank Hall 1895

There had been a house (probably half-timbered) at Bank Hall in the Middle Ages, but in about 1780 it was decided to improve the building, and the structure seen in the picture was the result.

Caption For Budby, Village C1955

To the west of Thoresby, on the Ollerton to Worksop road, the first Earl Manvers of Thoresby built a small estate village around 1810.

Caption For Portland, Bow And Arrow Castle 1898

This is Portland's rugged eastern seaboard, south-westwards from Gilbert Castle and Castle Hayes (foreground) to medieval Rufus Castle and Gallops Weare (centre); God Nor is the headland above Freshwater