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Maps

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1906-1908, Blaich Ref. RNC643461
1947, Branch End Ref. NPO648665
1925, Branch End Ref. POP648665
1895, Branch End Ref. HOSM63910
1898, Branch End Ref. RNE648665
1895, Branch End Ref. HOSM70085
1901-1904, Branch End Ref. RNC648665

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Memories

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W H Smith In Hatch End!

This view shows a branch of Smiths on the corner of Uxbridge Road and Grimsdyke Road on the left of the picture. It was a haven for schoolchildren buying ink for fountain pens and stamp album leaves! I loved to buy bottles of ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1960 by John Howard Norfolk

Hornchurch, Wingletye Lane, Photograph C.1950

I lived in Glanville Drive, a residential road off Upminster Road about 100 yards to the west of Wingletye Lane, for the first part of my life from 1947 so I knew the area well. The building on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

It's Not How It Was Back Then... Some Nostalgia For The Fifties And Early Sixties.

My parents ran a shop on the Broadway from the late nineteen forties until the early fifties, I think. It was a general store and – as far as I know – a seed merchant’s. I ...Read more

A memory of Broadstone by Robert Milne

The Bank Of England

The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more

A memory of London in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

Growing Up In Mitcham

I was born Leslie Dennis Crutch in Grove Road 1948. My brother Ken was born 9 months after dad (Ronald Kenneth) had gone to Normandy as part of the landings - I was born 9 months after he was demobbed (funny that) to mum Winifred ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Les Saunders

Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Raf

As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by Neville Robinson

The 40/50s

It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Paul Croxson

The Forge Faygate

My grandfather, John Mitchell, owned the village blacksmiths, it had been in the Mitchell family for three generations. Granddad ran the forge with his sons Frank and John jnr, later John jnr left to do other things. Uncle Frank ...Read more

A memory of Faygate in 1950 by Wendy Soall

A Holiday Of Note

I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more

A memory of Dollar in 1951 by Thelma Hurly

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Captions

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Caption For Rhyl, The Queen's Palace 1903

In this photograph, the posters on the front of the building tell us that this week we will be entertained by Ernie Myers, Lily Lonsdale, Fred Carey, Los Gopanos, Blanche Gerard and Marie Reeves; admission

Caption For Darlington, High Row 1903

Over on the left is a branch of the Home & Colonial Stores, which, like Freeman, Hardy & Willis, was one of the early high street chains.

Caption For Gravesend, Hms Gleaner 1902

When the Chilean ironclad 'Blanco Encalada' was attacked and sunk by two small boats armed with primitive torpedoes, the world's navies began at last to take the torpedo seriously.

Caption For Newark, Market Place C1955

To the left of the Town Hall is the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, while to the right The Central Pharmacy is still a chemists, but under the name of Cherrington.

Caption For Harborne, High Street C1955

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Caption For Banstead, The Station C1965

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

Caption For Halifax, General View C1955

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

Caption For Halifax, General View C1955

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

Caption For Widnes, Widnes Road C1960

The supermarket is a branch of Tesco.

Caption For Tilford, The River C1955

Tilford is situated where the south branch of the River Wey meets the main River Wey, each branch crossed by a medieval bridge.

Caption For Chesterfield, Knifesmithgate C1955

Directly ahead is the town branch of Barclays Bank.

Caption For Oxford, The Castle 1912

The late Norman tower of Oxford Castle overlooks a branch of the river which cuts between various small factories and dilapidated buildings.

Caption For Sonning, Lock 1890

To the left, a huge ladder is in place, seemingly to pick the fruit hanging from the branches.

Caption For Ramsgate, Granville Hotel, Victoria Parade 1901

Some of Ramsgate's best hotels, such as The Casa Blanca and The Glanville, were on Victoria Parade, and they offered the guests the opportunity to walk out of the hotel and promenade along the Parade

Caption For Chepstow, Beaufort Square 1957

Across the street is a branch of F W Woolworth.

Caption For Willington, The Green C1955

This view shows a deserted village, with the branch of the Derby Co-operative Society (centre) waiting for its first customer of the day.

Caption For Halse, Village C1955

In medieval times there was a branch of the Knights Hospitallers at Halse.

Caption For Thirlmere, 1888

Note the young conifers, recently planted in the interest of water purity, which now cloak the artificial lake with their dense canopy of branches.

Caption For Oxford, The Castle 1912

The castle overlooks a branch of the river where it meanders between run-down buildings and small factories.

Caption For Tiverton, On The Canal 1903

There were to be three branches, one of which was Tiverton.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

Caption For St Ives, The Station C1945

The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

Caption For Birkenhead, Woodchurch Road, Prenton 1954

Along here were branches of both national and Cheshire retailers including Dewhurst, the butchers, and Waterworths.

Caption For Newport, On The Canal 1898

This branch line canal was built to link with Telford's last canal, the Shropshire Union canal.