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Maps

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1884 - 1902, Adforton Ref. HOSM37923
1906 - 1948, Pill Ref. HOSM37921
1907 - 1908, Black Hill Ref. HOSM46765
1904, Blackridge Ref. RNC642871
1947, Slack Ref. NPO832306

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Memories

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Boyhood Memories Of Lymington

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father worked ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Railway

I used to catch the train every week to visit my grandmother in Countesthoe. From where I lived in Six Acres it was about a mile walk to the station. The station was often staffed by Paddy a cheerful Irish man. If not him a lady would ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley by james.b.howes

Camberley...Where Do I Start ?!

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We went ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

Growing Up In Greenford In The 1960s And 1970s

Here are some random memories: Lists Bakeries on Greenford Broadway.  Lovely aroma, tasty bread. The paper bags all used to have the slogan 'Good Flavour Always Finds Favour'. The covered market near ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Danny Robinson

Cheadle In The Second World War

I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1930 by Terry Brooks

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings in ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

Old Manor Cafe

My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In the ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by Graham Davis

Grandmother Born1876

My grandmother used to tell me stories of Gateshead days when I was a kid, for example Tommy-on-the Bridge, area Bottle Bank, apparently was a permanent fixture in those days, he stood on the Swing Bridge, might have been ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1890 by Derek Bell

Old Southall Remembered

I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more

A memory of Southall

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Captions

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Caption For Tenby, From The Burrows 1925

Here we see the Black Rock, Black Rock Quarry and Black Rock Cottage, and behind is the bridge over the railway.

Caption For Rochester, The Bridge C1955

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

Caption For Cromford, The Bridge 1886

This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.

Caption For Penny Bridge, 1921

Penny Bridge over the River Crake was a creek port under the control of Lancaster; there was a quay by the bridge.

Caption For Berriew, The Village C1950

A narrow bridge crosses the River Rhiw and leads the eye to a group of genuine black and white Tudor houses.

Caption For Horning, A Wherry On The Broads 1902

The distinctive large black gaff mainsail of a trading wherry dominates the skyline on the River Bure.

Caption For Slaidburn, Old Bridge 1921

Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages.

Caption For Bishop's Stortford, Bridge Street 1922

A ballad of 1843 refers to the building on the left as 'the Ugly Black Lion'.

Caption For Monkton Combe, C1955

Beyond can be seen the Limpley Stoke viaduct, built for the Black Dog Turnpike Trust in 1834.

Caption For Morpeth, Chantry Place, Bridge Street C1965

This is the main shopping street between the Market Place and New Bridge.

Caption For Walsall, The Bridge 1908

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus.

Caption For Walsall, The Bridge 1908

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus.

Caption For Brookhouse, The Village C1955

By Bull Beck Bridge is the Black Bull Inn, where a cat sits beside a boot-scraper, perhaps waiting for opening time?

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

On the east bank, beyond the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its 'cruck' construction, the large curved timbers in the gable wall, and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome commends it in 'Three Men

Caption For St Ives, Bridge Street C1955

After a serious fire in 1975, the 18th-century building with the black cross facing us at the end of Bridge Street, formerly the Crown Inn, was demolished; this caused a major outcry.

Caption For Caton, Brookhouse C1960

Re-set in the bridge opposite the Black Bull Inn, by which the photographer stood, is a hollow plague stone where villagers left money to pay for their goods.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Bridge 1899

In the first view (right) we are looking towards the bridge from south Riverside and the second (bottom right) was taken from the bridge itself.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

Caption For Brookhouse, C1960

Brookhouse has a plague stone at Bull Beck Bridge near the Black Bull Inn, and is proud of its proximity to Crook O' Lune, the famous beauty spot painted by Joseph Mallord Turner RA.

Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Caption For Shepley, The Bridge C1955

The imposing Bridge House, with a datestone of 1883 (left), was originally the Conservative Club; it was later used as a youth club, and was restored in 2003 and converted into business premises.

Caption For Bletchley, Tree Square C1955

On one of Stony Stratford's first bridges over the River Great Ouse, Grilkes Inn had been operating since 1317, possibly the oldest alehouse in Buckinghamshire; and the Cross Keys (1475) and the

Caption For Daventry, The Braunston Tunnel C1955

A mile and a half north-east of Daventry, the Grand Junction (formerly the Grand Union) Canal cuts through the limestone ridge via the Braunston Tunnel.