Places
26 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Blackpool, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Devon (near Dartmouth)
- Bispham, Lancashire
- Newton, Lancashire (near Blackpool)
- Little Bispham, Lancashire
- Queenstown, Lancashire
- Marton Moss Side, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Devon (near Newton Abbot)
- Blackpool, Dyfed
- Blackpool, Devon (near Ivybridge)
- Blackpool Corner, Devon
- Layton, Lancashire
- Little Layton, Lancashire
- Little Marton, Lancashire
- Warbreck, Lancashire
- Norbreck, Lancashire
- Hoohill, Lancashire
- Mereside, Lancashire
- Little Carleton, Lancashire
- South Shore, Lancashire
- Squires Gate, Lancashire
- Whiteholme, Lancashire (near Thornton)
- Hawes Side, Lancashire
- Great Marton, Lancashire
- North Shore, Lancashire
- Combe, Devon (near Blackpool)
Photos
286 photos found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 49 to 2.
Memories
232 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Walking To The Shop
In the early 50's, I remember walking to the shop when I was quite young from my home in Market Street. Then it seemed quite a long way, with hedges and ditches beside the footpath. There was a large house that took up most ...Read more
A memory of Hambleton in 1951 by
Waiting For Common Entrance Results At The Upper Farm Swimming Pool
I was watching the Ride London-Surrey Classic Road Cycle Road Race today and the pelaton rode up Box Hill bringing back a particular memory, so I decided to look up The Upper Farm ...Read more
A memory of Box Hill
Visiting Blackpool Illuminations As A Child
Around the year 1950 a coach would take all the children in our road on a trip to see Blackpool Lights. Those days they called the coach a charabanc. Does anybody remember that name? How happy all the ...Read more
A memory of Blackpool in 1950 by
Victoria Hospital Blackpool
I was a student nurse at BVH. from 1966-1970, and have very fond memories of other students, especially Christine Townsend, who I last saw in the early 70s. We spent many an evening at the Gaiety bar on north pier and ...Read more
A memory of Blackpool by
To Sea
The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1950 by
Those Were The Days
I was still a teenager, 17 years old and my baby brother at school at Bede Campus. I escaped the campus by virtue of it not having been completed when I passed the 11+. The town centre in Billingham was still being built, ...Read more
A memory of Billingham in 1965 by
Those Were The Days 5
Come out of there and you were at the Magistrates Court in the square I remember a big tree in the back behind black iron fencing and thinking that's where they did the hangings right in front of Barking indoor swimming pool ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Those Were The Days 3
There was a flower shop a fruit and veg shop furniture and household shops. It all smelled so rainy in there all the time. Next to Wallis's was the long alley entrance to Barking Football Club (Vicarage Field) and Barking ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Those Were The Days 2
It didn't change until the sixties when the station was rebuilt and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1961. I watched the whole building project from start to finish from the comfort of my bedroom window. When it ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Thos Were The Days
I have read all the letters and they have bought back so many memories. My sister and I were born in Hillingdon and from 1961 we used to go to Burtons dance hall on Tues, Friday and Saturday nights. We would also go to The Blue ...Read more
A memory of Uxbridge in 1961 by
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Memories (232)
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