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A Cottage Holiday In Aberaeron

My wife Elizabeth and I had decided we needed to get to know the west Wales coast as our son David's fiancee Amanda was studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After a number of visits to Aberystwyth ...Read more

A memory of Aberaeron in 2001 by John Howard Norfolk

The Abney Family Tree

My Abney ancestors originated in England and lived in Belvoir Castle.  I live in Texas and on a trip to England, we were to tour Belvoir Castle.  My mother had always been interested in genealogy but I had not had the ...Read more

A memory of Belvoir Castle in 2001 by First Name Last Name

Ye Olde High Lane

I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more

A memory of High Lane in 2000

Sherfield Post Office

My wife and I owned Sherfield-on-Loddon post office (pictured far left) from July 1991 until July 1999. In 1992 the shop front pictured was extended out into the garden about 15 feet and a complete refit ...Read more

A memory of Sherfield on Loddon in 1999 by Jon Gregory

Childhood

My grandparents Ada and Albert Buckley lived at 34 Barlow Road. My dad Roy Buckley died in 2005 and is buried in Davenham, St. Wilfred's I think. I used to always get excited when sitting next to my dad, driving ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1999 by Rob Buckley

One Of The Nicest Places In The World

In 1998 I travelled to a beautiful town in England called Frinton- on-Sea, a very unique and special place - where everyone is very friendly, clean and helpful. I would say Frinton is like no other town ...Read more

A memory of Frinton-On-Sea in 1998 by Karen Bellamy

Grandfathers Grave

As a child my father frequently told me that his father was buried next to John Peel in Caldbeck graveyard. I now live in Australia, but in 1997 I visited Caldbeck hoping to see my grandfather's grave. Unfortunately it was not ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1997 by Mary Lillington

Easebourne St. Easebourne, W Sussex

We lived in Wisteria Cottage - my married name was Bowers then - which adjoined The White Horse Inn, which you can just see on the left towards the end of the picture. There seems to be another building in ...Read more

A memory of Easebourne in 1997 by Lynn Ede

Roxtons Doorway

We lived for 9 years a few doors behind where the photographer is standing. The shop with the awning on the right was Roxtons, a very trendy 'hunting shooting and fishing' shop where you had to be landed gentry to get in the ...Read more

A memory of Hungerford in 1996 by Donald Macdonald

Kelsale Eight Bells:

I was born and grew up in Kelsale and have known all the under named people at some stage. I am retired now and like Ann I am back living in Kelsale and have so many good (and not so good) memories I could relate about the ...Read more

A memory of Kelsale in 1995 by Bernard Whiting

Captions

3,478 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Winchester, High Street C1955

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

Caption For Teddington, Broad Street C1955

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Caption For Sproughton, The Stores C1965

Lower House (right) and the former shop date from 1520-50.

Caption For Heswall, School Hill C1955

Notice the shop in the building on the right – this was known to local children as Dolly's Shop, and it served as an unofficial tuck shop for the local children from the school that was between it

Caption For Ellesmere Port, Whitby Road C1955

The row of shops is still there, but Mellor's baker's shop (centre) is now a locksmiths; the shops with awnings outside are now a florist's and the offices of the TGWU.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

This premises is now a fashion shop.

Caption For Cheltenham, High Street 1906

A tram takes Edwardians to Charlton Kings along a High Street decorated with some lovely examples of shop advertising signs.

Caption For York, The Shambles 1909

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

Caption For Kidsgrove, The Shopping Centre C1970

This was in the days when supermarkets complemented high street shopping.

Caption For Weybridge, Baker Street C1965

The buildings remain much as they were earlier; only the shop fronts have changed.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1960

Stylo Shoe Shop, John Collier ('the window to watch'), Richard Shops and Stead & Simpson are among the many varied shops facing the Market.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1965

This view shows the same buildings as C490092 from the other end, showing clearly the Westminster Bank before its amalgamation with the National Provincial to become NatWest.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Circus And Commercial Road 1961

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

Caption For Galleywood, The White Bear C1965

Fifteen years earlier, this scene would have looked very different: the houses and shops on the right were still open farmland.

Caption For Chertsey, Guildford Street 1954

The 18th-century King's Head Hotel survives, and so do the shops to the right, a 1930s parade, and a few shops beyond the hotel, but there has been much injudicious rebuilding from the 1960s onwards

Caption For Churt, The Village C1965

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.

Caption For Cheam, The Broadway C1955

The corner site (right), with Price's confectionery and newsagent's shop beneath the flats above, has now been developed.

Caption For Liverpool, Ranelagh Street C1950

Named after the 17th-century London pleasure gardens, Ranelagh Street provides an important link between Lime Street and the now pedestrianised shopping centre to the north of Hanover Street.

Caption For Guisborough, Bow Street C1965

Mr Pallister's butcher's shop flanks the entry to Bow Street.

Caption For Morden, Abbotsbury Road C1955

The variety of shops in Morden was to alter after the underground railway station opened in 1926 and large-scale retail development began.

Caption For Bulphan, The School C1955

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

Caption For York, Hemmens's Shop 1909

Arthur Hemmens's tiny shop clearly has a minimal space available for display.

Caption For Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street 1897

Most of the buildings shown here have gone, and there is a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities where the clock tower appears.

Caption For Talgarth, The Square And Tower Shop 1938

Here we have a close view of Mr Evans' builder's and ironmonger's shop built on to the old tower, which was constructed in the 14th century.