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Barking And Dagenham

I used to live in the Barking/Dagenham area from 1945-1973.I was born at Barking hospital,sometimes known as Upney in 1945.I lived on the corner of Rugby Road and Bromhall Road,my mum and dad moved there from Bromley by Bow ...Read more

A memory of Barking by ronnieibi

Barking... So Very Different Now

We moved to Hertford Road in 1971, I was 3 years old. I remember playing in our overgrown garden which backed on to the Burges road playing fields soon after we moved in. There used to be a horrendous smell from the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by abridgeboy

Barrage Balloon

Does anyone in the Sheriff Hill area remember, or know of, a barrage balloon breaking loose and doing some damage at St John's Church? My grand-parents are buried there, and as a choir boy I remember their gravestone, which would ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1942 by Robert Hall

Barrow Boy

Both my husband and I have lived in Fareham all our lives and we are researching our family histories. His grandfather, we believe, used to sell fruit from a barrow in West Street, Fareham, near the top of Portland Street in the 1940s and ...Read more

A memory of Fareham by Penny Barnard

Barrow Hill

My father bought the land on Barrow Hill, and built a house called Carrick Lodge (1961). I am not sure that everyone at the bottom of the hill were totally impressed with the house although it did not effect the view. We did have our ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1946 by Marian Hogan

Beachbank Caravan Site, Ulrome, East Yorkshire.

My Grandparents Sydney and Ellen Simpson built Beachbank between the world wars. Sydney had served in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and left seriously injured but that never prevented them from buying this plot ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome by Nick Simpson

Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Beauclerc School

I was a boarder at Beauclerc School in the 1950s and remember Miss Garlic and Miss Walters. Miss Garlic did everything - stoked the boiler (called Robin), looked after us, taught, issued the bills and weeded the garden. She kept ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1950 by Josephine Felton

Bell Ringing

The is the church I was baptised in. As I child I used to go bell ringing here (St James the Less).  We used to climb up the very narrow stairwell being very careful not to slip. Every week we used to practise. There were six bells and I ...Read more

A memory of Dorney in 1960 by Monica Peck

Bent Toe

I attended Brown Rigg from 1964 to 1966. As I recall, Bent Toe got stuck in a mud hole and was that exhausted with trying to get out it was kinder to have him put to sleep as the stress and strain on his heart, he was a big horse. I ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1964 by Derick Stewart

Captions

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Caption For Hemingford Grey, High Street C1955

The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white.

Caption For St Austell, 1890

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

Caption For Whitby, The New Pier Extensions 1913

There was great rejoicing when the new stone and iron extensions were finally erected in 1912, having first been suggested by William Scoresby the elder (1760- 1829) a hundred years before

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1955

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

Caption For Billingham, The Town Centre C1970

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct.

Caption For Somerleyton, The Broads C1960

This tranquil scene, with pleasure craft moored along the towpath, contrasts with the activity here in the Victorian period.

Caption For Batley, Market Place And Branch Road C1955

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Caption For Bluntisham, The Chapel C1945

The Baptists have been recorded in Bluntisham since the mid 17th century; a Meeting House was built on this site in 1787, and rebuilt in 1874.

Caption For Barton Mills, The Bull Inn C1965

This was a coaching inn on the London to Norwich turnpike, now the A11, since at least the mid 18th-century.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, Cliffs 1922

Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.

Caption For Clayton West, Long Lane C1955

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Caption For Abercairny, House 1899

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

Caption For Mousehole, 1927

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty.

Caption For Studland, Ferry C1960

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Victoria Pier And Duchess Of Devonshire 1912

The paddle-steamer is not approaching the Cobb wall on a busy day.

Caption For Edgware, St Margarets Parish Church 1954

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

Caption For Upwell, Town Street 1923

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech.

Caption For Upwell, Town Street 1923

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech.

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Caption For Batley, Market Place And Branch Road C1955

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Caption For Over, The Mill C1965

A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation.

Caption For Bangor, Main Street 1897

Here we see another view of the main street.

Caption For South Wigston, Countesthorpe Road C1960

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

Caption For Amersham, High Street C1955

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

Caption For Great Meols, Railway Inn C1965

This pub should technically be called The New Railway Inn, because it stands on the site of a former inn of the same name.