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Mitcham

I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more

A memory of Norbury

Talke A Forgotten Village

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

Burrow Hill Today

Burrow Hill School is now derelict. It closed in 1998 and I have just walked past the boarded-up site this afternoon. Although I have lived in Frimley Green since 1993 and seen one of its main buildings from within a housing ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by John Parker

School Days And Beyond

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Mitcham

Great site, brings back a number of memories. I went to Bond Road School in 1962ish with my twin brother Robert. We left at about 1970 and went Alphea in Merton before going on to Pollards Hill High School. Mitcham has changed so much, who ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Desmond Stevens

Saturday Afternoon Shopping

I remember Dewsbury on Saturday afternoons when everyone was shopping for bargains in the market and shops. You couldn't move for people and trying to go round Woolworths was a nightmare! Everywhere was heaving with ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury by Betty Sanders

The Old Village

I remember George's second hand shop in the village, my nan would take me and my brother there for a treat that was the highlight of the week for us. Also the pie and eel shop, with the brightly coloured tiles outside on the wall. ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1951 by Norma Dignum

Re The Buffs

The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by Linda Holland

Borough Cottages 1, 2, 3 And 4 And Borough Farm On Bolford Street

I am currently trying to research into the history of our home. It is now called 'The Borough' and is located at the bottom of the hill on Bolford Street towards Cutler's Green, opposite ...Read more

A memory of Thaxted by Gemma Turner

Tanktops And Bellbottoms

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

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Caption For Daventry, Borough Hill And Bbc Daventry C1960

This view of Borough Hill was taken from neighbouring Newnham Hill.

Caption For Daventry, View From The Braunston Road C1960

We are looking across the Headlands estate towards Borough Hill and the BBC masts.

Caption For Montacute, The House 1900

A borough since around 1100, its name derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus' or steep hill.

Caption For Kingsbridge, Fore Street 1896

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

Caption For Kingsbridge, Fore Street 1896

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

Caption For Kingsbridge, Fore Street 1896

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Town Hall And Swan Hotel 1931

Flemish weavers began to arrive in the town in the 13th century, at about the time that Kidderminster became a borough.

Caption For Calne, Market Hill C1950

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

Caption For Crayford, Saint Paulinus Church C1955

This Norman church atop Crayford Hill is probably the oldest in the borough of Bexley.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Wood Green, Alexandra Palace C1965

The Palace was built to rival the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill in South London.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Marlowes 2005

The town now forms part of the Borough of Dacorum, a name of Danish origin.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Indeed, there is nothing of the civic ceremony which is an important part of Richmond life, despite the loss of borough status in 1974.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

Indeed, there is nothing of the civic ceremony which is an important part of Richmond life, despite the loss of borough status in 1974.

Caption For Godalming, Municipal Buildings 1908

A view of Borough Hall, Bride Street.

Caption For Bainbridge, The Village From Roman Fort C1960

We are looking from the slopes of Brough Hill, the site of a Roman fort which has been extensively excavated.

Caption For Bainbridge, 1896

In Roman times a fort stood on nearby Brough Hill, and a garrison was maintained here from about AD 80 to around the end of the 4th century.

Caption For Bainbridge, 1896

In Roman times a fort stood on nearby Brough Hill, and a garrison was maintained here from about AD 80 to around the end of the 4th century.

Caption For Godalming, Bridge Street C1955

Beyond is the Borough Hall of 1906, uninspiringly neo-Georgian.