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Childhood Memories We Never Forget

To anyone reading this; I was born Valerie Harding and lived in Wedges Mills and I remember so many things about my childhood in Cannock. The Maypole dancing at John Woods school, attending Church each Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1953 by Valerie Van Ramesdonk

No.1 Jetty And The Tsmv New Prince Of Wales 1, S.M.N.Co.

This twin screw motor vessel at the Jetty belonged to our family company, the Southend Motor Navigation Co. Ltd. She was built for the company in the 1920's by the local Hayward's Boatyard, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1950 by Julian Wilson

To The Lady Wanting To Find People Remembering Josephines

I do remember this lovely lady, her brother, and her quaint little shop. She sold flowers, fruit, veg, sweets, tobacco etc, and wonderful lemon dip sugar. My dad used her shop nearly every ...Read more

A memory of Botley in 1955

The Name Of The Hoy And Helmet Pub

On the left of this photograph is The Hoy & Helmet pub at South Benfleet, which was originally built in the 15th century, with later extensions. The ‘hoy’ of the pub’s intriguing name was a broad, ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet by Julia Skinner

Working In Clyffe Pypard

I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a job ...Read more

A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by Alison Cloy

Recollections Of St Gorran School

I attended in the late 1950's. I understood it to be mainly for children whose parents were abroad. There were 2 teachers - one I cannot remember the name of and the other was Miss KR who always wore corduroy ...Read more

A memory of Manaccan in 1958 by Penny Poole

Remembering My Time Here

I was born in Louis Margaret’s Hospital in 1963. My dad was in 3 para, James Bruton nickname BUTCH. I had a serious burn on my hand whilst living in Macadam Square, not sure of number. I think at the time of my accident, my dad ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Lee Bruton

Building The New Shopping Centre

I was born near COventry in 1948 and we move to Olton in 1952. After I left school in late 1965 I got a job as a labourer with C Bryant & Sons on the new Solihull shopping centre, and a few weeks later head office ...Read more

A memory of Solihull by john

A Miners Son Growing Up

IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE OVER 55 YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE I WAS LAST IN PEN-Y-BANK. MY FATHER WAS A COAL GETTER IN MORGANS LEVELS, A HARD MAN THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF LEN THOMAS, OR BETTER KNOWN AS LT. I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OF AGE ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-bank by rthomas

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Captions

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Caption For Nutfield, Kings Mill 1906

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire.

Caption For Broad Haven, View From The Rocks C1960

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula.

Caption For Truro, Boscawen Street 1923

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Caption For Wimborne, West Borough 1936

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Caption For Ainsdale, Station Road C1965

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

Caption For Reading, St Mary's Butts 1912

From south west of the station go first to St Mary's Butts, whose wide street was used until about 1600 for archery practice at the 'butts'.

Caption For Oxford, Broad Street 1897

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

Caption For Dawlish, The Seafront From The Royal Hotel 1890

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Caption For Congresbury, The Village C1965

This 15th-century market cross stands in the centre of the village.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Machynlleth, Penrallt Street 1899

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Caption For Woburn, High Street 1952

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Caption For Portsmouth, Artist's Corner, The Sally Port C1965

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Caption For Portsmouth, Artist's Corner, The Sally Port C1965

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1955

Lyme's most famous resident is the novelist John Fowles, author of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.

Caption For Church Crookham, The Village 1910

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture.

Caption For Hickling, Broad C1965

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1895

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

Caption For Ludlow, Broad Street 1923

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

Caption For Staindrop, Raby Castle C1955

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

Caption For Ludham, The Village C1930

Not far away are moorings on the River Ant at Ludham Bridge.

Caption For Peterborough, Long Causeway 1919

This view shows a broad expanse of cobbles.

Caption For Launceston, Newport 1911

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.