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Maps
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Memories
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Bachpann
I remember as a child flattening out card boards boxes, as we lived on Great Arthur Street, Smethwick, the gardens led onto the canal banks and my brother and my cousins used to slide down to the bottom - what a thrill - and trying to get ...Read more
A memory of Smethwick in 1968
Tottenham Lane Post Office
I worked as a telegram messenger at the post office in Tottenham Lane. We delivered telegrams on 250cc BSA motorcycles which covered Highgate Village. We used to go to the British Restuarant opposite Rokerly School & ...Read more
A memory of Hornsey in 1945 by
Royal Hotel Ww2 And Afterwards
From 1939 to 1959 I lived in West View, just a couple of hundred yards from the Royal. We were friendly with the proprietress of the time, a Miss Florence Shute. Miss Shute had a brother who lived in our flats and ...Read more
A memory of Ilkley in 1940 by
Memories Of Sandy
I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy County ...Read more
A memory of Sandy by
Crown Hill And Other Memories
In about 1952 appeared in the scouts gang show at Civic Hall organised by Ralph Reader. In 54 attended my final year prize giving before I left Croydon Sec Tech. Still have picture of this event which appeared in the ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1953 by
Royston Army Camp.
Was posted to camp in 1954 and demobbed in 1957.Was called up for National service but the CO persuaded you to sign on as a regular and you got 28 days leave.Probably nowadays they would be Court Marshalled for suggesting ...Read more
A memory of Royston by
Summer Days Beside The Cam
From 1947 to 1956 we lived at Hardwick and drove into Cambridge once a month I enjoyed it on hot summer Saturdays, when we would have a picnic on the backs overlooking Kings College. I remember seeing the sad sight of ...Read more
A memory of Cambridge by
Even More "Ramblings" From A Barking Boy.
My fourth set of memories carries on with shops in Barking. Previously I had recalled those along from Fanshawe Avenue to the station. Over the other side past Cambridge Road was Lloyds bank on the corner, my wife ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
Wood Green In The Sixties
I was born in Newnham Road N 22 in 1940. I want to wood green junior school at the bottom of our road and then on to Tottenham Sec Mod (near the great Cambridge road). When I left school I was a locomotive fireman at Kentish ...Read more
A memory of Wood Green by
Last Place Of Abode In The Uk
My name is Judith Buchanan, formerly High, and we used to live at 20 Cambridge Rd, Thornaby. This house remains firmly entrenched in my earliest childhood memory. I was seven years old when our family left the ...Read more
A memory of Stockton-on-Tees in 1962 by
Captions
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The Backs of Cambridge are probably as well known as the colleges themselves.
Ermine Street, but close to the market Ermine Street becomes the Old North Road (which was the A14 and is now the A1198) taking travellers to Godmanchester and Huntingdon, whilst the A10 branches to Cambridge
Not part of the University, Westminster College is one of several theological colleges in Cambridge; this one is the college of the Presbyterian Church of England.
It was originally called 'Cambridge Town', but soon changed its name to 'Camberley' to avoid confusion with the university town.
On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.
In 1795, the Wisbech Canal was cut along the course of the Well Stream; thus providing communication with Ely, Cambridge and the other local towns, via the network of inland waterways that existed at that
Named after the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's uncle, this most distinguished of buildings opened as a military hospital in 1879 and remained in use for 117 years.
On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.
It was extended in the 1930s when the suburbs of Cambridge extended into Trumpington.
In the background the buildings are Montpelier Parade (left), Cambridge Crescent (centre), and the Prospect Hotel which opened in 1859, but was enlarged in 1870.
Undergraduates, including Byron, walked out from Cambridge to this pool for a dip in the summer.
It has been altered many times, and possibly enlarged after it was sold to a Cambridge brewer, Henry Mason, in 1823.
Today's hospital is a vast complex on the southern outskirts of Cambridge, renowned for its special skills in dealing with head injuries.
In the foreground stands the arch of the Conservative Club, with the solid brick-built Cambridge Hotel next door.The honey-pot style telegraph poles carry lines to the surrounding buildings.
The market cross dates from 1500, and was intended to be a copy of the one at Cambridge.
The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s.
Cambridge has a long history of rowing.
Cambridge has a long history of rowing.
Just beyond is St Botolph's, one of Cambridge's medieval churches.
Cambridge has a long history of rowing.
Cambridge has a long history of rowing.
Those keen on classic cars might be interested to note that, left to right we can see a Morris Minor, a Morris Oxford, an Austin Cambridge, a Ford Consul and a Jaguar Mark VIII.
Thatched cottages abound in this view; at this time, Trumpington was a village separate from Cambridge.
At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge.
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