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Hornbeam Road

Having accidentally found this forum today, and added a few memories of Queens Road toy shop. I have now had some time to read most of the contributions. There are so many memory joggers here from the likes of David Killen and ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Peter Avery

Dalbys Hotel

Hi Thomas Ramshaw Dalby was my great great grandfather. I have an image of Dalby's Hotel, which was later the Royalty, and is now a corner shop supermarket on the High Street. There are memorials in Boston Spa churchyard to Thomas and his decendants.

A memory of Boston Spa

Blackwell!

I once found the long lost "Blackwell" in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster......It was very large, and very deep..... it was around 1967-68 time! We had to locate it as it was somewhere beneath the location of the proposed Swan ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968

Next Best Thing To The Toy Shop!

The next best thing to the toy shop was Guyatts Pet shop, almost at the top of Queens Road on the right hand side of the street. On the right hand side of the shop was a pathway that lead to a back yard that may ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Peter Avery

My Ancestors Lived And Worked Here!

In the 1881 Census, Elizabeth Mitchell is listed as the head of the household and a widow aged 54 as her husband John Mitchell had died in February of that year and so running the Six Bells Beer House along ...Read more

A memory of Billingshurst in 1920 by Sue Peggram

Born In 1955 In Kiveton Park

I was born in 1955 at KIlton Hospital in Worksop but lived in Kiveton for 23years before moving away...I lived with my parents peter and joan spacie and my brother jonathan on Highfield Avenue...on the estate just ...Read more

A memory of Kiveton Park by Mary Heeley

My Mum And Dad's Shop

Sea View Stores from 1961 to 1967 at Reighton Gap was owned by my Mum and Dad Gladys and Terry Robinson. the original shop was burnt down due to a problem in the fish and chip shop which was located at the side, (we had a big ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1961 by Barry Robinson

Welling

I lived in Keats Road, went to East Wickham Juniors then Westwood until 1965. I worked in Bexleyheath until February 1966 then emigrated to Australia. I do remember Maines and the cake shop under the railway bridge in Welling where my dad ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1960 by Jill Trevaskis

Milkman

I remember Mr Souter and the Calverts who ran the garage, and Mr Pears in the corner shop. Started work as a hairdresser apprentice in Headley then moved to Bordon. Had hairdressing shop in Chalet Hill in Mr Simpkins next to Kings baby ...Read more

A memory of Lindford in 1960 by Robert Ellis

Captions

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Caption For Gawcott, Main Street C1960

Further east, the thatched shop on the left is nowadays a private house, The Old House. Beyond is another thatched cottage, The White House.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, Swan Hotel 1956

This was an ironmonger's for many years, but it is now a restaurant that perpetuates the shop- keeping family's name.

Caption For Styal, The Village 1897

The village had its own shop, farm and pub, where the Gregs kept a paternalistic eye on their workers` drinking habits.

Caption For Ewell, High Street C1955

This view, though, is of the south end, which has fared less well: typical suburban mock-Tudor shopping parades proliferate both on the left and out of view to the right and behind the camera

Caption For Godmanchester, The Causeway 1929

The jettied, gabled building (centre right) was renovated in the early 1950s and is home to the Riverside Fish and Chip Shop.

Caption For Barkway, High Street C1965

The white building (right) was the village butcher's shop - joints of meat were hung from the trees; beyond it is the three-gabled Town House.

Caption For Carmarthen, Guildhall Square 1925

Additionally, two of the three shops on the left have now gained self-supporting roller blinds, whilst the furthest away still rests on its stilts.

Caption For Copthorne, Franciscan Convent School C1960

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Victoria Hall 1901

that the building be called Jubilee Hall in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee brought applause in 1897, when the council had the opportunity to purchase the land and remove the shop

Caption For Aldborough, The Village C1955

The shop is advertising brands which are no longer in existence apart from Raleigh.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1897

Down the slope is the sign of the Royal Oak Hotel (above the hand-cart) and the shop window of butchers W and R Fletcher Ltd (two ladies passing), with a painter on a ladder further down the hill.

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, High Street C1950

The White Hart on the left survives, as, of course, does St Peter's church beyond the neo-Georgian shopping parade.

Caption For Luton, C1950

From market place to bus terminus, centre for further education and declining shopping area; by 1955 Park Square was ripe for the redevelopment that did not actually happen for another 25 years.

Caption For Brecon, Ship Street 1910

As was the fashion, everyone has a head covering with the exception of the youngsters outside the shop selling Allsopp's ale in the right foreground.

Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1955

The large black and white half-timbered building, with the bus stops outside, is the Black Horse Inn, which still stands.

Caption For Kingsbury, Kingsbury Road C1960

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Cobb C1955

We are looking eastwards from the Gin Shop at high tide to the Cobb entrance between the North Wall (centre left) and Cobb Warehouses (right). These date from before 1723.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Boadway C1960

Caffyns garage was demolished and replaced in the 1980s by a small parade of shops with offices above, whilst a business equipment supplier is currently based in the former electricity showrooms.

Caption For Balcombe, The Village C1955

In the picture are three shops, including G G Newing Stores, later C G Smith, and Balcombe Stores, the grocer. The young girl pedestrian has little traffic to fear.

Caption For Paignton, Church Street 1912

Old Fore Street, later known as Culverhay, by 1912 was a mixture of architectural styles and had a good selection of shops.

Caption For Altofts, Horse And Jockey 1959

Gone even is W H Hattersley's general store in the circular shop (centre) - the whole area has been transformed by new housing development.

Caption For Petersfield, High Street C1965

One shop that must be mentioned is Lee Bros, Hairdressers, a discerning eye will see it behind the Players projecting sign in the middle of the photograph.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, London Road 1903

The building between the lamp post and the telegraph pole on the left was until recently a builders' hire shop, but is now Unwins off-licence.

Caption For Cobham, The Old Oak Tree Restaurant C1915

These refreshment and dining rooms, on the corner of the Portsmouth Road and Copse Road, provided a popular stopping place for cyclists, particularly since the rear of the premises housed a cycle repair