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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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The Colour Of Honey

It was the late 1950's and everyone in my family were keen gardeners. One hotly anticipated event in the garden calender was always the Summer Horticultural Show in Danson Park. Inside the huge white marquee was a marvel of ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Memories Of Sutton Lodge, In Sutton Lane—Just South Of The Great West Road, Heston/Hounslow

Recorded by Nicholas Reid, Canberra, Australia. I was christened in the Anglican church at Heston in 1959, though for obvious reason I don’t have any memories ...Read more

A memory of Heston by Nicholas Reid

Purveyor Of Sweetshops

I knew all the best sweet shops on Lavendar Hill Rd. Easily the best was Browns Sweet shop where Stormont Rd met Lavendar Hill. It had every sweet you could think of and seemed to be open 7 days a week until 9pm. I think the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by tedpettit

1940 To 1956 Clarence Road

I was born at 25 Clarence road 1940 and lived there to 1956 as a boy worked on milk round with Albert on 3 whealed cart delivering to percey rd clarence rd manor road buildings also in Bobs dairy shop and Jack Feacey ...Read more

A memory of Canning Town by Alan Reid

The Danson Park Whip

Whenever the annual traveling funfair came to Danson Park in the 1960's for their Easter and Bank Holiday visits, it was party time for the local teens, a golden oportunity to hang out and socialise, meet up with friends old ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

The Peach Bar

I WAS ONE OF A GROUP OF LADS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS "THE LOCAL TEDDY BOY TYPES" WHO USED TO MEET UP AT THE PEACH BAR IN STONELEIGH BROADWAY IN THE SIXTIES. THIS WAS A COFFEE BAR RUN BY A LOVELY LADY CALLED IDA. THOSE WERE GREAT DAYS ...Read more

A memory of Stoneleigh by Michael Mckeown

Happy Days

I came to live in Northwood Hills in 1946, aged 16 months. I attended Pinner Road Primary School and then on to Potter Street where I was a prefect in my final year. I had my tonsils out, aged 6 in the lovely old Cottage Hospital, ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills by Barbara Rayment

Hard Times And Making Ends Meet

When I was a child, my parents got divorced before I reached the age of four, and I didn't meet my Father until several years later. Together with my Mother and my younger brother, we lived with my maternal ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Dennis Ford

Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.

As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford by Anthony Knight

The Salford Girl 2

In 1950, St Ann’s R.C. mixed infant school was just off Silk Street. Salford 3, I think. I remember, aged 3, lying down on the fold-up bed with all the other kids on their beds in the large nursery room in the afternoons for our ...Read more

A memory of Salford

Captions

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Caption For Uttoxeter, The Girls' High School C1955

The building on the right is Thomas Alleyne's Grammar School, originally a school for boys.

Caption For Prestatyn, High Street 1895

Shopkeepers stand at their doors at the little parade of shops; prams are parked outside, and a boy gazes longingly at the display of hoops.

Caption For Newark, Stodman Street 1906

On the left the butcher takes time out for a chat, while the young boys are either intrigued by the antics of our cameraman, or waiting for something to run him over.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1900

Here, a horse-cart loaded with barrels and bales makes a delivery to an ironmonger's shop, whilst a boy leans against a hand-cart.

Caption For Raglan, High Street 1914

Opposite it, Davies & Jones's store seems to be a meeting- point for the local boys and their bicycles. As the High Street disappears in the dis- tance it becomes the Monmouth Road.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Highwalls Avenue C1955

Next door, to its left, stands the Boy Scout hut that would be destroyed by fire in 1958.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Road C1965

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

Caption For Bosham, The Harbour 1903

Two boys lean casually, their interest captured by events outside our vision, whilst other lads, seated easily on a small boat below a building on the left-hand middle ground, seem equally

Caption For Oakley, St Leonard's Church C1955

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

Caption For Uppingham, School, Old Studies And Memorial Hall C1950

The boys are walking across the quad from the Big Schoolroom.

Caption For Thaxted, Post Office 1906

This is an excellent study of an Edwardian post office, with the postman on his cart, the telegraph boys at the door, and the postcards on display.

Caption For Three Bridges, Post Office 1906

A boy waits near the shop doorway for the photographer.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Three Bridges, Post Office 1906

A boy waits near the shop doorway, watching the Frith photographer.

Caption For Bonsall, Via Gellia, Pig Of Lead Inn 1892

The people in the photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their father

Caption For Ironbridge, From Opposite Hill 1896

It was here, too, that a boy named Matthew Webb learnt to swim. He was later to become the first man to swim across the English Channel in 1875. He later died trying to swim across the Niagara Falls.

Caption For Wellington, Market Square 1903

Notice all the evidence of day-to-day trade, especially the delivery boys with parcels or newspapers.

Caption For Launceston, Market Clock 1906

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.

Caption For Repton, The Old Mitre C1950

One of the boys' blocks of dormitories/study rooms is also shown.

Caption For Clydach, The Wells 1893

This looks like a day out for the men, boys and one woman in the picture. They have chosen a lovely spot at the bottom of Clydach Vale.

Caption For Ampleforth College, Original House C1960

Ampleforth is probably best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, founded by Benedictine monks in 1808 and based on their abbey.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

Here several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal. In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.

Caption For Cadgwith, From Bathing Rock 1899

The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

Several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal.