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Memories

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Memories Of My Life In Kibblesworthnee Graham

I was born in Kibblesworth in 1945 but my parents and I moved back to our flat in the Redheugh Area of Gateshead when I was about two or three. But mam put me on the bus every Sunday morning to ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1953 by Margaret Gale

My Birth Place 1944

I was born in the spring of 1944 in my mother's parent's home, Thomas and Eveline Bowes who then lived in Thornlaw South. I visited them often, and loved to go for walks and going to the pitures at the bottom of Thornley with my ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Margaret Sewell

Morris Family The Gristmill Whitebrook

My father Eddie Morris was last of of 7 children who lived in the Gristmill. Even aged 70, he was still hugged & referred to as Baby Brother. (Ron, Tom, Jack, Jim, Trudy, Grace, Eddie). Story is that his ...Read more

A memory of Whitebrook by Ruth Wolveridge

Palmers Green

My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to have ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Christopher Liddle

The Glorious Days Of Our Lives

Memories for Wrottesley Park...The glorious days of our lives I was born in 1953, my parents came over after the Second World War. There was a little community of foreigners. Our family's name was ...Read more

A memory of Wrottesley Park by Bohdan (Bob) Cozubovski

Royal Merchant Navy School Bearwood

The Royal Merchant Navy School As far back as 1827 the Royal Merchant Navy School was established under the name of the Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum to provide a home for the destitute offspring of British ...Read more

A memory of Winnersh by Sylvia Lambert

Cherished Memories

I was born 1937 in the big house at the bottom of Leggs Hill. My earliest memories relate to living in Kings Street and starting school at Leggs Hill, I did not like school, it was a far cry from my loving home life. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Broseley in 1940 by John Wilkes

Growing Up In Wallington

I lived in Bute Gardens West, from Oct 1943 to when I married in 1965. My friends were Donald Scott, Rex Poge, Yashew, an immigrant boy who we nearly killed with a bow and arrow, and brother Dave. We had a club, The Silent ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1953 by Andrew Patey

Bromley By Bow Hospital?

My mother, at the tender age of 17, was taken to Bromley-by-Bow Hospital in the midst of the London blitz to have her first child. She never saw her baby girl, was told she had died and everyone was to be evacuated to Scotland ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Linda Wilkins

My Mother's Memories Of Ospringe

After a time Mother married Charles Gamble, we called him Pop.  He left the Merchant Navy and went to work on the Estate for my Grandfather. We got a house at Ospringe it was next door to a water mill. The water used ...Read more

A memory of Ospringe in 1910 by George Allen

Captions

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Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Green 1921

We see the Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand

Caption For Rochester, College Gate C1955

This is the College Yard side of the gate, looking through to the High Street and Northgate (formerly Pump Lane).

Caption For Newbury, The Broadway C1960

The Clock Tower pub on the extreme left is now called Broadways, while next door to it A W Luff is now a post office and convenience store.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

The first tourists to the Lake District arrived by coach-and-four, but by the time the photographs in this book were taken, the railway had arrived.

Caption For Guisborough, Priory, The Rose Garden 1906

Part of a series of gardens laid out by Margaret, later the first Lady Gisborough, the rose garden afforded picturesque views of the neighbouring priory ruins.

Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Caption For Pentewan, Harbour 1927

Pentewan was developed as a port in the 1820s for shipping ores and china clay, which were brought down from St Austell on a railway built in 1829.

Caption For Ilkley, Bridge 1900

Behind the tree on the left of the photograph can be seen the old Middleton Hotel, completed in 1876.

Caption For Edwinstowe, The Dukeries Hotel C1955

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

Caption For Horsham, Brighton Road 1899

Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

The entrance to this circular natural basin is barely discernible from the sea, guarded as it is by two projecting spurs of resistant Portland and Purbeck strata.

Caption For Guisborough, Fox Inn, Bow Street C1960

Here we get a splendid view of the frontage of the 1926 Fox Inn building, largely unchanged today.

Caption For Fleetwood, Mona's Queen 1904

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co's 'Mona's Queen' eases out of Fleetwood on a summer sailing.

Caption For Bolton By Bowland, The Green 1921

We see the Green from the far side.

Caption For Fowey, From Pont River 1901

The steam tug in the foreground was very handy to manoeuvre, and is an example of working boats which have done sterling service throughout the world.

Caption For Windermere, The Windermere Hotel C1955

No longer owned by the Rigg family, the hotel has been re-named in this post-World War II photograph.

Caption For Puddletown, The Square C1955

The attractive thatched house with the bow window supported by pillars dominates the centre of the village.

Caption For Padstow, The Quay 1910

The attention of the children and the men is attracted momentarily from the movements of ships and the sea by the novelty of a camera.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Town Hall 1891

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.

Caption For Keighley, North Street C1910

New buildings along North Street included the Court House (1831) and the Mechanics' Institute (1834).

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

We are looking north-westwards up Bell Street from the Assembly Rooms.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Adriatic 1890

He put money, new ships and new life into the company, and brought in the right partners and associates to found the successful business.

Caption For Devonport, H.M.S. Royal Adelaide 1890

This is a fine view of the 'Royal Adelaide' (104 guns).