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Wallace Street Dumabrton

I was born in Wallace Street, Dumbarton, August 13th 1959 in my grandparent's (Andrew and Mabel Aitken) house named "Bourtree". My other grandparents (Jim and Margaret Brash) lived directly across the road in their house ...Read more

A memory of Dumbarton in 1959 by Gordon Aitken

Walks With My Dad

This picture is the memorable part of our route, a walk from Belle Vue where I lived until the late fifties. My father would take me for walks on Sundays when the weather was good, which it seemed to be most of the time, we would ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley in 1940 by Geoffrey Lowe

Walking To West End School From Persondy

Walking along Sycamore Street, Persondy, even now in my mind, I passed, the Roberts' house next door, the Walkers, the Ryalls, can't remember the next house but she was German and very fiery, then the Williams, ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn

Walking Past The Bowling Alley

I remember walking past the bowling alley and the sound of Pet Clarks "Downtown" coming from somewhere, I am almost certain it was from the Alley. We were on our way to Calines Supermarket if I rember right, underneath ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1965 by Steven Boocock

Wakefield Clarence Park

I 'lived' in Clarence Park for years when I was a kid. It became my magic Kingdom! I knew every bush and tree and secret trail through the bushes. I would lurk in the bushes and spy on people walking past. I had a favourite ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1950 by Brian Calvert

Visiting My Inlaws

In 1953 I used to visit my in-laws who lived at 19 Rumbold Road, Fulham. I remember when we walked along Kings Road towards the football ground there was an antique shop that had an unusual armchair in the window. It was carved in ...Read more

A memory of Chelsea by Vera Otto

Village School

I remember moving to the village school in about 1962/3. I had been at Highcroft private school further up towards the church for a couple of years but my parents decided to move me to the village school. The school was very ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1963 by Graham Simmons

Village Policeman

In the late 1950's I was the village policeman at Great Waltham.   The police house was the last two-storied house at the Barrack Land end of Cherry Garden Road with my 'office'being in the kitchen and the tsble there was my ...Read more

A memory of Great Waltham in 1959 by johnbutcher

Village Cricket, Rugby And The Mount

The Common, which is a delightful huge stretch of open ground from Cardiff Road to the Westra, was the sporting centre for the villagers. Here the cricket club played and the rugby club also held their matches ...Read more

A memory of Dinas Powis in 1966 by Gerald Davies

Victoria Park Latchford

I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and steps ...Read more

A memory of Warrington in 1945

Captions

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Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Bowling Green C1955

Sited imperiously overlooking the bowling green is the fine Victorian residence Merevale; its foundation stone is dated 7 September 1893.

Caption For Port Sunlight, Bolton Road Bowling Green C1965

Bowls is a quintessentially English sporting activity, and it appealed to the founder of the project.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1960

Parish boundaries cross and re-cross with those of Myerscough and Barton - one boundary cuts through the bowling green of the Roebuck Inn, as it was known in earlier days.

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1960

Tennis courts and bowling greens and other sports facilities, which were funded by Chigwell Urban District, were made available for local people.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Caption For Morecambe, The Tower From Central Promenade C1950

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park 1895

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds.

Caption For Bingley, From Altar Row 1894

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

Caption For Oving, Post Office C1955

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens.

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.

Caption For Littleborough, Lake Hotel Cafe C1950

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling

Caption For Newark, The Ossington Coffee Palace C1965

As well as the coffee tavern, the building provided clubrooms, a library and a bowling alley to distract the citizens from the Demon Drink.