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381 memories found. Showing results 101 to 110.

Harts Hospital Fear

I was born in 1939 at 28 St.Anthonys Avenue, off St.Barnabus Road. I remembered the Anderson shelter in our back garden only vaguely as I was evacuated to North Wales with Janet Jenkins, and Brenda Hart. After the war, I ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green by sissontessa

Find Family 1938

Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx

A memory of Tottenham by r_schaffer

My First Job.Early 60`s

My very first job while still at school was working at Harts Printers as a delivery boy. I delivered cards and packs of headed paper to a lot of the company's in S.W. My delivery method was by means of a large bike with a ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden by kkamzin

Telegram Boy

First to Ingram Infants then to Beulah Boys then to Ingram Boys. Remember the Davis Theatre the Flee Pit on the corner of Surrey Street and Scarbrook Road. The Red waistcoat man who sold curtains and the Sarsparilla Van . I was a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by johnsperthnews

Sonning Mill

My father worked at Sonning Mill before transferring to Sindlesham Mill, his name was Fred Hopkins, he was a rollerman, we lived in a row of small cottages with a yard behind the cottages and a very long narrow garden . my mother cooked ...Read more

A memory of Sonning

West Wickham In 1940's

There was a lot more green fields in the1940's. White gate farm was where the swimming baths are now. there was Smith farm opposite the White Hart which had a pond outside and the cows were driven from a field which is now ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham by nigelterrell

A Chauffeur Working In Limpsfield

My Great-uncle, Bertie (or Robert) Jarrett, was born in Oxfordshire in 1887 and lived in Limpsfield from the 1920s until his death in 1975. After serving in the Cavalry in the First World War, he became ...Read more

A memory of Limpsfield in 1920

Overnight Stay...

I stayed at Twin Oaks one night in October 2008. I arrived very late after escaping from some motorway works madness, but my hostess was very welcoming and supportive. She explained that the twin oak at the front of the building is ...Read more

A memory of Cadnam in 2008 by Lynne Mc Carrick

Central Sussex Cycling Club

I was a club member for a few years in my teens and early 20s from 1960 to 1965, after which courting took more of my Sundays and playing football for Clayton in the Mid Sussex league became my sporting focus. But I ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield by William Lovell

Did Ted Hart Ever Buy You A Drink?

The watering hole for any Monotype apprentices after working overtime on a Saturday morning. Seemed like I spent a good deal of my time in this establishment in those days. I'm 57 now and living in Devon. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers this great pub.

A memory of Nutfield in 1966 by Terry Hindley

Captions

276 captions found. Showing results 241 to 264.

Caption For Watermouth, Harbour With Vessels C1871

Trading schooners are beached, waiting for their cargo to be taken ashore by horse and cart.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

Then, as now, trams were a mainstay of the city's transport, but pulled by horses like the omnibuses and carts that also line the street, whilst hatted business men with canes and shoppers walk the pavements

Caption For Weybridge, Baker Street 1903

With the High Street to the left, and two little girls (right) posing with all the assurance of modern models outside the villa adjoining Dale's ornamental shop entrance, a cart stands at the beginning

Caption For Tillington, In The Village 1912

In the shadow of the 13th-century church of St Mary, to the south of Petworth House, the two young girls and the driver of the horse and cart pose for the camera in one of the innumerable nooks and crannies

Caption For Sea Palling, The Village C1955

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.

Caption For Langwathby, The Bridge C1960

Before this sandstone bridge was built in 1686, horses and carts crossed the Eden at the 'wath' or ford, which was the longest over the river, hence the name Langwathby.

Caption For Wye, Bridge Street 1918

Note the heavily laden horse and cart outside the garage (centre).

Caption For Clydebank, Kilbowie Road 1900

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Caption For Burwash, A Group Of Friends 1889

Here are a group of young citizens of Burwash with rural baby carts (hardly prams) photographed over a century ago.

Caption For Grassington, The Market Square 1926

Here we see the cobbled Market Square at a time when early charabancs, like that on the left of the photograph, still vied with horses and carts – one is clattering by in the centre background under the

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 1893

The theatres Royal and Philharmonic (left) flank the Victoria Tea Company, here perhaps taking delivery from the horse-drawn cart outside.

Caption For Camberley, London Road 1936

Here we see an ice cream vendor with 'stop me' written on the side of his cart.

Caption For Great Sampford, View From The Bridge C1955

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, Bay Hotel C1960

At the time when this picture was taken, horses and carts like that in the centre of the photograph were still a common sight outside the Bay Hotel, overlooking the sea front.

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The wheeled cart in the centre of the picture bears the crest of the Royal Mail.

Caption For Hawkhurst, The Village And Moor Hill 1902

This scattered village is situated in the heart of the Weald.

Caption For London, King William Street 1880

On the left is the City Luncheon Bar, and passing in the foreground carriers' carts, two owned by Henry Draper and another by the railway.

Caption For Eynesbury, St Mary Street 1897

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

Caption For Boroughbridge, Fishergate 1907

The unfortunate earl was taken prisoner and carted off to his own castle at Pontefract, where he was beheaded.

Caption For London, St Paul's From Cannon Street 1905

In the street the modest cart of the 'People's Caterers' is offering 'machine-made bread'.

Caption For Lytham, The Windmill And Lifeboat Station C1955

Horse-drawn carts stopped to collect sacks of flour to transport to Cookson's bakery and other places.

Caption For Gisburn, The Bridge 1921

Note the two farm carts with shafts designed for sturdy horses to the right of the yeoman farmer's dwelling.

Caption For Wrexham, Town Hall In High Street 1895

Brewing was also an important industry in the town: a brewer's cart is standing outside a public house on the left.

Caption For Aberffraw, Llangwyfan Church C1940

In the foreground, a local farmer has brought his horse and cart down the sandy lane to load a cargo or perhaps to collect seaweed to strew over his fields as fertiliser.