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8,101 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.

Trolley Buses

I remember there used to be trolley buses through the high street, this would have been in the 1940s or 50s, and there was a lending library on the high street that you paid to take a book out. Also a grocers called Williams Brothers ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet by Linda Smith

Best Four Years Of My Life As A Kid

We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The ...Read more

A memory of Bishop Monkton by Joanna Bentley

Tobacco Shop In High Street

I was born in Barkingside and remember the Holy Trinity Church (Rev. Newman), where I was baptised, confirmed and married. I left in 1965. Memories abound! Especially riding my bike to Barton's bakery during Easter to ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside by Carol Watts

Croglin 1958

When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the  princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Kate Walker

Summer Holidays At Tyn Y Morfa

In the early 60s we used to travel to Talacre for a fortnight holiday in a caravan. One year my parents didn't pre-book but we travelled from Liverpool on the off chance we would find a place. I remember my father ...Read more

A memory of Tyn-y-Morfa by Nancy Bell

18 Two Meadows

As a Londoner, when my new husband was offered a job in Great Yarmouth in 1964, I was excited, although a bit apprehensive about moving to the small village of Hemsby. We bought a brand new house in a new subdivision at Two Meadows. It ...Read more

A memory of Hemsby by Carol Watts

Hornchurch, High Street Towards Upminster C.1950

The Kings Head on the left of the photograph was one of the pubs I would regularly drink in when I was in my twenties. I remember it being 'tarted up' at one time with fake beams made of chicken wire ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch

So Many Memories

My family arrived in Wargrave just after the war. We moved into a flat above the Post Office/ Telephone Exchange. Dad was a caretaker operator. Things I remember about the village were of course the nearby river, the houses so ...Read more

A memory of Wargrave by M Ichael Aldridge

Burtons Corner.

A foundation stone laid by Arnold James Burton in 1933 is to be found on the extreme right of this shop, just off the picture.  I'm sure this foundation stone used to be at the other end of the building.  The possible reason for its move ...Read more

A memory of Crewe

St Joseph’ Junior School Pontefract

Born in December 1957 my maiden name was Kemp I must have started in Mrs Padgets class St Joseph's circa 1962. i remember the alphabet in pictures around the wall A is for apple B is for ball, C is for cat & ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Margaret Lewis

Captions

3,478 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Croydon, North End 1896

The brand-new tower of the Town Hall can be seen above the far shops in North End, which today is a pedestrianised road.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1912

Two prams represent the only traffic in St Austell's attractive shopping street in this scene, which is dominated by the richly carved tower of Holy Trinity church.

Caption For Sevenoaks, High Street C1960

the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy and Willis's shoe

Caption For West Harptree, The Square C1955

The Crown Inn (left) survives, along with the village shop on the right and the adjacent little shop, now a beauty salon.

Caption For Salisbury, The Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1928

This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop - the only shop in this street which is still there today.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square C1955

Chain and department stores arrived early in Bournemouth, though a large number of family-owned shops survived until the end of the 20th century.

Caption For York, Low Petergate C1960

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

Caption For Odiham, High Street 2004

The former ironmonger's shop became a building society office and is now an estate agent's.

Caption For Banstead, High Street C1955

Collinson`s shop on the left is now Oscar`s hairdresser`s, with a Scope charity shop next door.

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle Street 1921

Castle Street is Clitheroe's main shopping street.

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, Market Place C1955

Up the hill towards one of Chalfont St Peter's commons, Gold Hill, Tudor-style shops and flats were built on the north side of the road in 1922, called Market Place and decked out with fake

Caption For Camberwell, The Town C1950

A break in the traffic gives a clear view of the shops on the south side of Denmark Hill.

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street 1919

Of interest here are the two (separate) shops on the right-hand side: Wenley Ltd, and Bolingbroke & Sons.

Caption For Loftus, Zetland Road C1960

This attractive view taken during one summer around 1960 shows that many of the shops followed the fashion of the day in using sun blinds over their shop fronts.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

Beyond Parkers, all has gone, replaced by a modern shopping centre, while to the right the tree has gone, and all the houses are now shops.

Caption For Harrow, Station Road C1960

Timber gables and full-height faceted bay windows create an imposing range of shops and flats of the early 20th century.

Caption For Hartley Wintney, High Street C1965

It retains a distinctly rural character, yet also has the attributes of a small town with shops on either sideof the road.

Caption For Witham, Newland Street C1955

Awnings protect the shop fronts on this sunny day.

Caption For Galleywood, The Parade C1965

This development is known as Galleywood Village Shops.

Caption For Frimley Green, 1906

The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.

Caption For Kettering, Bakehouse Hill C1955

The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate 1903

The tower with its clock belongs to the Preston Baptist Church; the Town Hall spire can be seen further up Fishergate.There is an interesting diversity of shops, from a plumber's to the Cocoa

Caption For Wilton, West Street C1950

By 1955 the horse and cart have made way for the car, the street lamps have appeared, but the shops and everything else have changed very little in West Street.

Caption For Bluntisham, Village Square C1965

This scene, with Lieutenant Colonel Tebbutt's 19th-century barograph under the shelter in front of the village shop has hardly changed.