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My Early School Years In Mill Hill 1943 1950
I have few memories of my primary school which was in a private house in Croft Close a turning off of Marsh Lane, but I do remember being very happy there. This was during the latter war years. However I ...Read more
A memory of Mill Hill by
The Beatty And Us
Like alot of young Kiwis, my wife and I started our OE (Overseas experience) in 1986, and in January 1987 found ourselves in Motspur Park as a result of applying and getting bar jobs at the Earl Beatty pub. Graeme and Marie were ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park in 1987 by
Coronation
Can anyone remember Coronation Day in Stokes Road? It's so clear in my mind but I have only one photo. We had a long table in the street . My sister was dressed as a Dutch girl and the boy next door called Lenny Moss was a jockey but his ...Read more
A memory of East Ham in 1952 by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
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
The Orchid Ballroom Purley
Ah yes, I remember it well. It was magical to go there and dance the evening away. So many great bands in the 50's. The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1950 by
Triggered A Few More Memories
Waterloo in the 1940s to 1950s My early memories are of Waterloo where I used to live at Winchester Avenue until 1958. My father died there in 1989. On College Road there were air raid shelters which me and ...Read more
A memory of Waterloo by
Goldthorpe In The Fifties
I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more
A memory of Goldthorpe by
Miners Strike
My father (Robert Summers born Dec 1916) was 6 months old when his father was killed in Ypers. A few years later my gran remarried a miner, James MacLachlan, an ex Cameronian. My father told me a story of how, during the strike and at ...Read more
A memory of Twechar in 1920 by
My Favourite Haunt
My memories scan over 50 years, I lived in Anhalt Road and then Ethelburga Street and spent countless hours in the Park. The funfare, with fireworks every Friday night for the end of war celebrations, the tree walk along the ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1950 by
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From outside the Squirrel's Head public house, Hare Hall Lane (now Upper Brentwood Road) stretches off towards Hare Street.
The photographer is standing close to Hare Lane, out of shot on the left.
By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.
Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.
The word `street` is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them.
The word 'street' is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them.
Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.
There would also have been hare and rabbit, shot or snared by the local gamekeepers and their labourers — rabbit was generally consumed by the working classes.
This evocative view, wholly unchanged today, is barely 200 yards from the busy High Street.
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street.
Little has changed here. Street
Little has changed here. Street
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street.
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street.
We are now looking east along Hart Street towards the parish church of St Mary.
The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating
Here we are looking west along Hart Street with its interesting shops, inns and tearooms.
Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.
The quiet street scene gives no hint of an industrial past.
Even though barely a dozen people were eligible to vote, the inns set their barrels out on the street, and it is said that 'the Bletchingley cobbles ran with beer'.
At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.
He also built the station - a great achievement for a man who could barely write his own name.
Pollarded lime trees line part of the High Street of this village, which can justifiably claim to be one of Kent's prettiest; it duly attracts hordes of visitors during the summer season.
An island of commercial premises faces right, into King Street, and left, into Rowcliffe Lane.
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