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Southchurch Hall Farm And Park, A Branch Library In A Garden
The Hall was the closest Library to my family-home in Marlborough Rd. I used to spend hours there every week, researching school homework; and collecting Library Books for myself, - and ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea by
Woolworths
As a 14 year old I was a 'Saturday girl' at Woolworth's in 1961. I was on the glass counter, selling everything from vinegar bottles with plastic tops, ashtrays, jugs etc. The number of items displayed on the sloping counter was enormous and I ...Read more
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Third Issue Of My " Barking Ramblings".
Living in the prefabs in Ilford Lane I could walk into town up Fanshawe Avenue, or go via Tanner Street and then Glenny Road or, and my memory may be playing tricks on me but I think it was Harpur Road and then up by ...Read more
A memory of Barking by
I Was Nearly Killed Here!
Greetings from Canada! O how this picture brings back memories. I was raised on nearby Argyll Street in the late 50's and 60's, and the area shown in this picture encompasses virtually all of my childhood... But also within this ...Read more
A memory of Corby by
Broomfield Bakeries,
Yes, I remember a small branch of Broomfields in the block next to Reeves Corner and opposite the Eagle Pub. There was also a Sanders Grocers next to it where Mum would buy split peas that we had that evening with Faggots bought from ...Read more
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Hemsworth Library 1955 1975
I am looking for any images or information about Hemsworth Library between 1955 and 1975. I am doing research on W.A. Ismay who was branch librarian during that time and would really appreciate any help.
A memory of Hemsworth
Haven Green Trainspotting In The Fifties
I remember seeing CITY OF TRURO come through one evening. It had been taken out of Swindon museum and restored. I also remember seeing the BROWN BOVERI GAS TURBINE on several occassions. It had been ordered by THE ...Read more
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Summers At The Warren
My mum and dad and I spent many summers at the Talacre Warren. My father was a Co-op branch manager in Woodley, Cheshire and knew a couple, Mr & Mrs Taylor who had a wooden chalet on the Warren. In addition to the Chalet there ...Read more
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Astwood Bank Co Op......Remember It?
It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more
A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by
Childhood In War Time Silsden
I grew up in Silsden and also worked in Silsden, as a weaver at Stocks Mill. I lived at 52 New Rd or shed side, as it was known. We lived almost opposite Fletchers mill gates, in a back-to-back two bedroomed terraced ...Read more
A memory of Silsden in 1943 by
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A branch of Barclays Bank is on the left and WH Smith is on the right of the picture.
During one year there would be other changes; a zebra crossing was later removed, and the older lamp posts with wrought iron branches would be discarded in favour of tall concrete poles.
Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton
Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds.We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop.
There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right
Banstead station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs station, opened in 1865.
Cornwall's most westerly branch line, just 4 miles long, was opened from St Erth to St Ives in 1877.
As retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales
The village sign shown on the right of the photograph depicts a cuckoo, a rebus for Cuckfield, whilst the village stores (left) were a branch of Spar and also housed the local post office
Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.
Also on Queen's Road was the Bristol branch of the Antivivisection Society.
The railway reached Portrush with the construction of a short branch line from Coleraine on the Belfast to Londonderry line.
The building to the left of it is now a branch of Nat West.
The station buildings and goods sheds are at the junction between the main line and the Newquay branch.
A line of trees (left) has had to be pollarded; they were planted long before motorised traffic was thought of, and their branches were a threat to safety.
On the right the branch of Teekoff Ltd, with its coffee-roasting machine prominent in the near window, would entice customers from the bus stop on the opposite pavement with its fragrant aromas.
Tiverton was actually a branch from the main line.
The Aylesbury Arm was branch from the Grand Junction Canal, later the Grand Union Canal, which ran from near Marsworth across the Vale to Aylesbury; it opened in 1815, twenty years after it was first authorised
There are also many retail outlets in evidence, as well as a branch of Midland Bank (now HSBC, of course) on the right.
It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has
It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch.
Ashburton was the terminus of the nine-mile branch of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon line, which was completed in 1872.
Today it is home to a branch of the National Westminster Bank.
Over the years Bordon expanded as a civilian community and developed as a training ground used by military units and other branches of the Armed Forces.
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