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Our Old Shop

Across the road from the newsagent we had a small shop next to the butchers “creek road stores” that was around 1963-64. Denney,s stores. I now reside in the Netherlands

A memory of Hayling Island by tomdenney1

The Broadway, Selsdon 1955

In 1955 I was doing my penultimate year at school. I started at Selsdon primary circa 1944. The air raid siren was out side the school so when it went off we could not miss it! The doodle bug phase of WWII started in June 44 ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by des.donohoe

Morris Bros

Does anyone remember Morris Bros, Gents' Outfitters - I THINK must have been in Ealing High Street. I worked there for three summers in the early 70s, walking over from my sister's house in Mayfield Avenue. Mr Morris himself (I suppose a ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by tenterer64

Pupil Around Late 1950s

We moved to Littleheath Road circa 1957, I was a pupil until we moved in 1960. I remember: Colin Smith, Mervyn Allinson (spelling?), Janice Russell, and her friend Judith Hardman, Peter Martin, and that is it as far as full ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon

Church St, Woodlesford

I was born in Church St, Woodlesford in 1930. The cottage where I was born belonged to my great grandma's family called Denkin. I attended Woodlesford school which is still being used for local families. There is a ...Read more

A memory of Woodlesford in 1930 by Betty Benson

Growing Up With The Troubles

I was lucky in that I lived in an area that was not often touched by the violence that was going on in Northern Ireland at the time, but a telephone conversation with my mum in recent days brought back memories of life ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1970 by Isobel Buck

Our Early Life

We lived my Dad (Roly Inman) Mum (Topsy Inman) with me Michael, and Roger in Shotover up the rough lane off the road by the grass triangle and near the school. I remember Miss Swithenbank who used to teach and lived in ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by Michael Inman

Fore Street And Brettenham Road School

I lived in Sandgate Road Edmonton and well remember "Uffy's" the oil shop, also Gallows the greengrocers I was born in 1951 and went to Brettenham Road Infants and Juniors then on to Higher Grade School in ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1955 by Mo Birch

South Stifford And Grays

After my grandparents passed away the house was left to my father bill mercer.we lived at 64 Charlton street south stifford.I remember the cement works very well as I along with my friends peter Baldwin and Dave whitehead we ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1964 by Richard Mercer

Royal Navy

It was the long hot summer and I'd been posted to HMS Inskip. We moved into married quarters at 6c Nelson Gardens, don't know if it's still there? We loved it there one of our better postings, we'd love to visit again, we always talk ...Read more

A memory of Inskip in 1976 by Arthur Fraser

Captions

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Caption For Wokingham, Rose Street C1955

This picture shows it as a fish and chip shop. In recent years it has doubled as a tailor's workroom with private accommodation above.

Caption For Mundesley, High Street 1921

The other properties towards A R Steward's shop have been at various times a post office, a hardware store, and a chemist's.

Caption For Cheam, High Street 1927

Behind the police officer is the Plough Inn, which belonged to Cheam Brewery, and was demolished in 1935 along with an adjoining draper's shop run by W D Harris.

Caption For Cheam, High Street 1934

A branch of the Co-operative Stores faces its competitor from across the road, next to the shop with its awning lowered.

Caption For St Helens, Church Street 1952

It is an evangelical church, and the present clergy are noted for taking their message out into the nearby shopping centre.

Caption For Birkenhead, Queensway Tunnel C1965

The town hall tower shows above the entrance. The houses and shops on the right were pulled down shortly after our photograph was taken.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1960

After the Second World War it moved its works to this site, closing the petrol service station and developing a large showroom and repair shop.

Caption For Corby, High Street C1955

The High Street of the old village, now traffic calmed, has shops somewhat marred by security shutters, but in the 1950s all that was in the future.

Caption For Abingdon, High Street C1965

This view shows the replacements for the old Lion Hotel, which we see in view 31692.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

Caption For Thorne, Market Place C1955

The White Hart, left, was an old coaching inn, restored in 1737, and the bank on the right used to be Lester's barber's shop.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, The Parade 1949

You will notice that the shops there, on the Chester Road end of Birmingham Road, are set back quite significantly compared with those at the Penns Lane and Emmanuel Church end of the shopping

Caption For Wymondham, The Market Place And Cross C1965

The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hotel 1929

The tall 18th-century building is Norman's chemist's shop, later to become Leesons; its shopfront with an Ionic colonnade was added in 1834.

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury 1921

By this time, one of the houses has become a shop. The Red Lion on the left is now the Hobgoblin.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1950

Since the time of this view, the building has been stripped of all adornment and rendered, but the Victorian building on the right behind Boots survives in all its Italianate splendour above shop level

Caption For Accrington, Market Hall 1897

It contained 80 permanent stalls and shops, plus 23 lock-ups in the basement, served by lifts, for the use of the stall-holders. Market days were Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

Caption For Manchester, Victoria Buildings 1889

This building, that dominated the cathedral end of Deansgate, included twenty-eight shops, eighty-eight offices and forty-eight cellars, as well as a two hundred and thirty-one roomed hotel.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

It was a store building used in conjunction with the former Ambleside Hall; it was occupied for a time as a family home, and is now owned and used by the National Trust as a shop/visitor attraction.

Caption For Bramfield, The Street C1955

The adjacent village shop closed in 2001. The garage remains, on the site of the earlier smithy, but without its pumps since 1995.

Caption For Chelmondiston, The Red Lion C1955

The Red Lion changed its name to The Venture (a ship) in 1997. The 1880s red brick house beyond with veranda under the gable was part of the Berners' estate at Woolverton Hall.

Caption For Gedling, Main Road C1960

The post office on the left is now a house; the post office has moved across the road into Read the tobacconist's next to the Gedling Wine Stores on the corner of Waverley Avenue – this shop is now

Caption For Rockingham, The Village C1960

The large gabled house on the left of the street, with the telephone box outside, is the village shop and post office, both of which have since closed.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages, houses and shops