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East Kent Coastal Holidays In The 1950s/60s

As a child the East Kent coast was a regular destination for our 2 week family summer holiday. We usually stayed in Westgate. In the late 1950s the excitement started with the journey from ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by Peter Leach

Norwood Middx As Well

icecream bike box...tonys.....came..corona lorry came ..orange pop tizer...cherry ade.........prefab 1951/2....garden out back......shed coal......little fire living room....gas fridge..fitted tin doors ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green by Yvonne Butler

Happy Days

This photo shows what was known as the black shed just above the first bridge on the river Gele, to the left of the photo was the school field at the bottom of Berth Glyd where I was born. If you go up Gypsy Lane you will come to an ...Read more

A memory of Abergele in 1950 by Peter Davies

Evacuated To Great West Farm

My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London ...Read more

A memory of Quethiock by Mark Lambert

Dunstaffnage War Years

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

My Memories Of Melworking At Leybourne Grange Hospital

Hi yes I remember my time at the hospital well,I worked in the play therapy from 1971 to 1976. I loved working at the hospital and have many happy memories. I worked as a night nurse for two ...Read more

A memory of West Malling by wendycatt22

School Days And Beyond

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Breaking In A Yearling

A further photo of my father Charlie King breaking in a yearling.

A memory of Newmarket by buttercup696

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 ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome by Nick Simpson

Captions

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Caption For Bedgebury, Park, The Farm 1902

The fine old farmhouse sits on a brick base and is hung with tiles and swathed in creeper.

Caption For Dunstable, Broad Walk C1965

At least they faced these buildings with bricks instead of the grey and grim concrete so popular thirty- odd years ago.

Caption For Beyton, The White Horse Inn C1955

The White Horse is a timber-framed building of 1694, later encased in Victorian brick when the far bay was added.

Caption For Sunbury On Thames, The Magpie Hotel 1890

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.

Caption For Wrexham, High Street C1955

Originally timber-framed, it was rebuilt again in brick, as seen here.

Caption For Abergavenny, Frogmore Street C1955

The Frogmore Café (left) offered busy shoppers a break until 1969, when it was taken over by Sketchleys the cleaners.

Caption For London, The Strand 1915

The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.

Caption For Willesborough, The Windmill 1909

Here we see a fine example of a white weatherboarded Kentish smock mill with a two-storey square brick base and wooden staging for access to the sails.

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

Built of brick in 1790, the cone housed a central furnace around which glassmakers worked in what must have been hellish conditions.

Caption For Bitteswell, C1960

The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.

Caption For Hose, The Black Horse, Bolton Lane C1955

In a not unattractive red brick, end-of-village group, it is impossible not to notice the Black Horse pub, with its well- mannered frontage and attractive pantiled roofs.

Caption For Wendover, Aylesbury Road C1965

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

Caption For Wragby, The Church C1965

Built in yellow brick in 1839 in what is known as 'Commissioners Gothic', the present All Saints' was relocated by Sir Edmund Turnor to this site, a quarter of a mile away from the site of the medieval

Caption For Sudbury, The Croft Bridge 1900

The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

Caption For Sudbury, The Mill 1904

Since 1895 the two buildings to the right of the mill have been replaced by a four- storey brick-built roller mill.

Caption For West Kirby, Banks Road C1965

Fahy's, on the opposite corner, is now Hector's Sandwich Shop, and the paving slabs have been replaced with a rather attractive combination of red bricks in white flags.

Caption For Mayfield, The Village Sign C1955

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

Caption For Debenham, Market Square C1955

The Victorian brick building (centre) was Carter's cycles and Wells's electrical shop.

Caption For Pontypridd, Ynysangharad Park C1960

The ubiquitous St Catherine breaks through what would have been the skyline.

Caption For Bitteswell, C1960

The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.

Caption For Reading, Berkshire County Council Buildings 1912

It is an exuberant William and Mary cum Queen Anne style building in brick and stone, and is now offices.

Caption For Bothenhampton, From The South C1945

The red-brick of Montrose, at the top of Crock Lane, is the prominent building on the skyline (left).

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village C1960

Montrose is the distinctive red-brick house with dormer windows at the top end of Crock Lane (centre).

Caption For St Margarets Bay, The Undercliff 1918

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea.