Places
10 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
Photos
2,532 photos found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Maps
71 maps found.
Books
Sorry, no books were found that related to your search.
Memories
8,100 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Family Connections
The gentleman and lady standing on the corner outside the shop with the blind out are my uncle and aunt HAROLD and LILY PLYMPTON. Harold along with my aunt NORAH and my mother IRENE PLYMPTON, lived in Wootton Grove with their ...Read more
A memory of Sherborne by
Matthews Opticians
To the left of this photo, the first shop you can see was Reg Matthews opticians. You can just make out the entrance and the window above which is a V shape. As a trainee dispensing optician working there around 1971, I used to ...Read more
A memory of Worksop in 1971 by
The Fish Shop
The fish shop shown on the right belonged to Mr Phillip Tregurtha.
A memory of Penzance by
Summer 1980
My memories of the heath are from 1980 when my mother - Kathleen (Topsy) Whybrow and father bought me and my brother to the heath in the summer of 1980 for five months. My parents had emigrated to NZ and gave myself and my ...Read more
A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1980 by
Greys Drapers
Grandfather William Grey owned a number of shops in Wingate, Co. Durham one was at 47 North Road West, Wingate, it was a drapers shop. Grandfather died in 1962, his last remaining shop was closed by my mother Winnie England and made ...Read more
A memory of Wingate in 1957 by
Torpoint Memories
I was born in Tor House Torpoint in 1933. Tor House was purchased by my Grandfather R S G Norgate, Royal Navy, in the early 1900s. My Uncle Dr Robert Norgate inherited the property in 1934. My Brother Joseph and I lived with my ...Read more
A memory of Torpoint in 1943 by
My Early Years In Salford
I was born in Salford, at 15 School Street in 1951. My first school was Stowells Memorial, I think the headmistress was a Miss Dent. There was a butchers shop one the corner with the same name as our family, but I don't ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1951 by
A Little Bit Of Chudleigh History
When a boy, my father, Donald William Stevens, used to show visitors through the Pixie caves for 1/2d per person, with the light from a candle for illumination. After WWII he followed in his father's (William ...Read more
A memory of Chudleigh by
The Sompting General Supply Stores.
I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his ...Read more
A memory of Sompting in 1910 by
Memories Of Benson
My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the ...Read more
A memory of Benson in 1947 by
Captions
3,478 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.
Frank Butcher`s newsagent and tobacconist shop at the north end of High Road has a well stocked window but alas has now been demolished, and the other shops have closed.
There were to be three types of shopping: the open-air market, a variety of shops on three sides, and a first-floor row of shops that did not need a window display, such as hairdressers, opticians, photographers
Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop.
This view down Market Street shows how Whittlesey has prospered in the past fifty years.
On the left is the Electricity Centre; Selright, a ladies' fashion shop: Topping's shoe shop; and Anscombes the photographer's.
On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.
The house and shop were possibly built in the 1930s.
Still a mixture of residential and commercial properties, Fleet Road is nonetheless well on the way to becoming Fleet's principle shopping street.
As neo-Georgian buildings replaced the older local shops, the shopping centre of Kettering also developed wth nation-wide multiple stores.
He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores.
Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop.
The same view as photograph number S48117, taken some time later, shows changes.
The wide shop on the left belongs to Henry Abbot, the long-established draper's, which became a Co-op in the late 1990s.
This is the lower end of the High Street, with the Long Shop complex off to the right and Victoria Road to the left.
G W Frank's butcher's shop possesses perhaps the finest remaining shop frontage in the town, with its original Art Deco design butcher's fittings dating from the 1930s.
The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.
The shop on the right is occupied by Finlay's shoe shop, as is attested by the display outside — today it is the HSBC Bank.
Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced
The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.
In the 1970s a corner shop would still be trading on the 1904 site of L Green's Confectionary Shop opposite Nutley's Alehouse, which, it was said, was only ever lit by candles.
With the spread of suburbs around the larger settlements, functional but small shopping centres were established to cater for a growing population, with handy parking for the increasing number of car owners
On the right is Boots the Chemist's first shop in Pelham Street, opened in 1892.
Three of the four terrace houses on the right were once shops.
Places (10)
Photos (2532)
Memories (8100)
Books (0)
Maps (71)
