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Memories

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We Called It 'charnwood Forest'.

My memories of the home are all very positive. I would have been 6 yrs old, and recovering from pneumonia. Coming from the Children's Hospital in Derby, the drive over was memorable. A big black car, very ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Patrick Knight

Horrible Place

We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by June Langley

Hendon, The Fountain C1960

In the 1900s the site of the 'Fountain' (Frith H397067) was then known as 'The Burroughs Pond' and was/is sited at the crossroads of The Burroughs, Station Road and Watford Way, back then it was open ended at ground level so ...Read more

A memory of Hendon by Mr. Gerald Rickwood

A Family Business.

I am the lady at the door with my husband Don Weston. The date is about 1959 because that is the year we had electricity in the village and started to sell ice cream. Hence the Walls sign. My parents Mr and Mrs Caesar Evans ...Read more

A memory of Bosherston by Claire Allen

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 ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Abbotsham School In The 1960's

Growing up at Fairy Cross, Alwington and as our village school had closed in the late 1950s we had to catch the school bus daily morning and afternoon to Abbotsham Primary School. (Shown in the centre back of the ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsham by Derek England

Telephoning

The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used ...Read more

A memory of Risca in 1955 by Cedric Mumford

My Banbury Grans Village

My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. ...Read more

A memory of Warmington in 1940 by Michael Bennett

Calling All Who Lived In Meadowside Between 1970 And 1980

Hiya all, This is Tracey Vincent (Harland). My family moved to Nuneaton around 1971 and we lived at 99 Meadowside for 9 years we had many friends. Denise and Fred Saxton along with their ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1972 by Tracey Vincent

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 Paul Croxson

Captions

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Caption For Salisbury, Harnham Gate 1906

At the southern end of the Close is Harnham Gate, one of the three gates that served the cathedral; it is contemporary with the original 14th-century cathedral wall.

Caption For Billingshurst, East Street 1923

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

Caption For Chatham, Buckmore Park Providore C1960

The fingerpost directs visitors to various on- site amenities, including the Warden's Office, the Providore (the shop) with its familiar Walls ice cream sign, and the First Aid and Hospital

Caption For Nottingham, Chapel Bar C1950

The building on the left is Hickling's Vaults, which was demolished in 1961, revealing several caves and part of the old town wall underneath.

Caption For Sherborne, The Village C1960

Sherborne Park separated the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by

Caption For Mells, The Memorial C1950

Circular memorial plaques on either side on the wall commemorate both World Wars.

Caption For Ludlow, Lower Broad Street 1892

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls. Originally there were seven town gates (four main and three postern). This is the southern gate, and the only one surviving today.

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Caption For Paul, C1955

Regent petrol is served at the village garage on the right, and a single milk churn stands on a wall opposite where it waits to be collected for the creamery.

Caption For Broad Chalke, The Congregational Church C1955

Built in 1862, it was originally a memorial church; the dedication stone in the east wall is now indecipherable.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1960

Even though there are no leaves on the trees, Lord Street is still busy; as at Blackpool, trippers visit all year round.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

For decades, just as in this picture, people have sun bathed along the sea wall.

Caption For Ottery St Mary, Church 1938

The plaque on the wall to the right remembers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, who was born in the town in 1779. The church of St Mary is the finest in Devon outside Exeter Cathedral.

Caption For Broadstairs, View From The Cliffs 1887

Broadstairs show superbly in this late Victorian view, looking across Louisa Bay and Viking Bay towards the harbour, in the days before any coastal protection work had been undertaken.The present sea wall

Caption For Castle Combe, Village 1904

The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

Caption For Hawkshead, Main Street And Post Office 1912

The popularity of Frith's postcards was already well established when this photograph was taken, as a sign on the wall above the door shows.

Caption For York, Fishergate Postern, The Castle C1885

Despite their looks, the walls and towers round York Castle and Clifford's Tower were not medieval.

Caption For Jarrow, The Viking Statue C1965

Max Wall would be proud of the legs. The sculpture forms the centrepiece for the shopping centre.

Caption For Hampstead, White Stone Pond 1898

Only a fragment of the original boundary wall remains in Judges Walk.

Caption For St Osyth, Point Clear Bay From The Martello Tower C1955

This photograph gives an excellent view of the chalets built close to the sea wall; they are raised, leaving space for boats, cars or general storage underneath.

Caption For Buckden, The Village C1950

The new A1 by-pass means that this village has become a quiet backwater, but signs of modern development can nowadays be seen - a housing estate has replaced the brick wall on the left.

Caption For Winchester, The Pentice C1955

Above the second shop on the left, the wood is brown and its walls are cream; the second bay window has been removed. The fifth shop along is Boots, which now occupies three of the shop fronts.

Caption For Redmire, The Ford C1955

A bystander sits on the drystone wall to the left and watches their progress.

Caption For Colchester, Vineyard Street 1904

One row of houses further on is the line of the old Roman wall, whilst just off-camera to the right are the ruins of the Norman St Botolph's Priory, the first in the country founded by the Augustinian

Caption For Ranworth, The Staithe C1945

The flint walled boatshed on the left is now obscured by a gift shop/information centre.