Places

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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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The Thirties

My grandmother, widowed, lived during the 20s and 30s at 1, High Street (next to The Dolphin), and was glad of family visits to assist in her invalid-style of life.  That usually meant our family, and my mother took a number ...Read more

A memory of Middleton Stoney in 1930 by Roger Dye

Escavating Eastham Dock

Lived in Eastham in late 40s and early 50s at Carlett Park (in the old army camp) during the digging of the dock and went to the village school. Had a lot of fun riding on the machinery when they were doing it. That was ...Read more

A memory of Eastham in 1949 by William Mc Cully

Growing Up In Purley

When I lived in Purley, there weren't many stores.  I can remember when Sainsbury's opened across from Purley Fountain.  There was a toy shop in the High Street called Morgan's.  I stole a whistle from there when I was not very ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1950 by Liz Williams

An American Boy In Stockton Heath England

I was a 13 year old boy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. My father was a Sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned to Burtonwood RAF Station. We rented a flat at 35 London Rd, Stockton Heath. It ...Read more

A memory of Stockton Heath in 1956 by Jay Wilcox

Barbridge

I can remember visiting my grandparents at Barbridge as a small child.  In the early 60's my grandparents name was Poole and they lived in the end house nearest to the pub.  Grandad worked for British Waterways and the garden went ...Read more

A memory of Barbridge in 1960 by Carole Marsh

Commercial Street

I lived at number 36 from 1936 for 11 yrs. and saw the changes that World War 11 brought to our village. I remember the milkman and his horse-drawn cart and mam asking for a gill as she searched her purse for the coin to pay ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd in 1940 by Lance Ford

Princes End Bred

I was bought up in Princes End from the age of 6, my brother and parents are still there. It's a bit dilapidated now but was brilliant when I was young. The community was full of families where generations lived just streets ...Read more

A memory of Princes End by Christine Metcalf

Weston Point I.C.I Recreation Club And Runcorn Town

Memory, Saturday Night Old Time dance upstairs in theI.C.I Club. My father played there on the drums. I was there with a girlfriend and her mother and father and grandmother, the old lady taught me ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1957 by Robert Welding

Training

I must have been one of the first on the training ship because I thought it was 1954 I was there, but if it is recorded as c1955 who am I to argue! I was there training for the merchant navy for about 12 weeks. I was the camp bugler ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1955 by Colin Friend

Sandcastles

Here is the sand we called Ferry Hut. I don't know of any hut ever being there so how it got its name is a mystery to me, maybe someone will tell me some day, but sand castles and paddling and big ocean going ships I do remember, they ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1953 by Clive Bisby

Captions

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Caption For Lydney, The Harbour C1960

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

Caption For Stroud, Stratford Park Swimming Pool 1938

Many school children learned to swim here, just as previous generations had in the local canals, often by being thrown in and encouraged to stay afloat!

Caption For Aylesbury, The Canal 1897

Here, children are trying their luck at fishing in the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

Caption For Knowle, The Top Lock C1965

This was part of a modernising programme undertaken in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to enable the Grand Union Canal to compete with the Great Western Railway.

Caption For Greywell, The Church Of St Mary The Virgin 1904

Nearby runs the picturesque Basingstoke Canal.

Caption For Yardley Gobion, High Street C1965

Close to the county's southern boundary, the village of Yardley Gobion is flanked by the Grand Union Canal and the River Tove.

Caption For Cropredy, The Lock C1960

The Oxford Canal is a pretty, meandering line, very popular with holidaymakers. And locks such as this one help to create the rustic atmosphere. The scene today is instantly recognisable.

Caption For Runcorn, The Locks C1955

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Caption For Welford, Welford Reservoir C1965

Welford Reservoir was constructed in 1837 to store and supply water to the Welford Arm which then fed the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Caption For South Ulverston, Iron Works 1929

The railway runs along the embankment in the centre of the picture, and the Ulverston Canal passes in front of the ironworks on its way to the Leven Estuary beyond.

Caption For Lower Heyford, The River Cherwell C1960

Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.

Caption For Odiham, Chalk Pit 1903

According to some sources, they also helped to construct the nearby Basingstoke Canal. Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.

Caption For Exminster, Turf Lock 1906

The old Turf Lock Inn stands near the lock gates where the Exeter Canal - probably the oldest in England - meets the Exe estuary.

Caption For Coventry, Ford's Hospital 1892

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

Caption For Southampton, Flood Gate Bar And God's House Tower 1892

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

Caption For Taunton, Priory Lock 1888

A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.

Caption For Runcorn, The Locks C1955

The left hand one - the 'Stafford' - sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Caption For Braunston, The Canal C1965

A little east of the junction with the Oxford Canal is the bustling Braunston Marina.

Caption For Belfast, View On Lagan 1936

This view of the Lagan Canal has all the appearance of a Sunday afternoon, with no risk of getting in the way of the horses and their tow ropes.

Caption For Dutton, The Village C1960

Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal. Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

Caption For Bingley, From Ferncliff 1894

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

Caption For Flixton, Flixton Road C1965

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.