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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
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
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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
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Childhood In Elmsleigh Road
I lived at number 42 Elmsleigh Road from 1947 until about 1963.My pals and I played in the street in safety as there were few cars. We played "tin can tommy" and "cannon" otherwise we were on Wandsworth Common climbing ...Read more
A memory of Wandsworth by
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
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
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
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
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
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
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To the left, a huge ladder is in place, seemingly to pick the fruit hanging from the branches.
Across the street is a branch of F W Woolworth.
This view shows a deserted village, with the branch of the Derby Co-operative Society (centre) waiting for its first customer of the day.
In medieval times there was a branch of the Knights Hospitallers at Halse.
Note the young conifers, recently planted in the interest of water purity, which now cloak the artificial lake with their dense canopy of branches.
The castle overlooks a branch of the river where it meanders between run-down buildings and small factories.
There were to be three branches, one of which was Tiverton.
Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.
Back in the 1950s it would have been quite normal for a bank to have a branch in a small village.
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
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.
Along here were branches of both national and Cheshire retailers including Dewhurst, the butchers, and Waterworths.
This branch line canal was built to link with Telford's last canal, the Shropshire Union canal.
The branch railway arrived in Ashburton in 1872, but did little to revive the town's fortunes.
This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop
Here we see the railway junction for the Uppingham branch, although little remains today to show that the railway passed through.
On the canal near Bratch Locks.
Today a branch of Blockbuster Video occupies the site.
The delightful whitewashed parapets and the octagonal toll-house of the Bratch Locks.
Over the years Bordon expanded as a civilian community, and it also developed as a training ground used by military units and other branches of the Armed Forces.
It lies adjacent to the older village of Rossington, but took over in importance when mining became the local industry, gaining its own branch of the Doncaster Co-operative Society, seen on the right.
This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.
E A Hodges has become just another branch of Dillons, presumably as a result of a take-over.
An architect-designed villa on the left has probably recently been built in this settlement, which is just north of Callington and at the terminus of the railway branch line from Plymouth.
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