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Those Were The Days 6
Continuing up the street on the right was a long parade of various shops and we come to Salisbury Ave on the corner was a large modernistic furniture shop later the shop nest door became a KFC and across the street next to ...Read more
A memory of Barking in 1950 by
Happy Times In Collyhurst
I was born in Windsors Street, Collyhurst in 1950. I went to St Oswald's School and also walked with St James Sunday School. I remember Pop Henson, he married my mam & dad. I remember the docs Davey, Duguid and ...Read more
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Mobo Horses
We moved to Prestatyn in 1948. I loved the Mobo horses that the little ones could ride at the Bastion Road beach. My little school was Pendre, up the hill Fforddlas I think. Also going to St Chad's School annual fair and sale. Always ...Read more
A memory of Prestatyn in 1950 by
Sileby My Early Life
I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of ...Read more
A memory of Sileby in 1940 by
Uxbridge, Windsor Street
I had forgotten Suiters 'quirky' cash system but I do remember another store called Manettas which was to the right of Uxbridge station. In 1966 it caused an uproar in town as it displayed a topless dress, which was the ...Read more
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Croydon18+/Croydon Cemetery
I have just found this site, and although I now live in Manchester I have many memories of growing up in South Norwood and Croydon in the 1950s and 60s. I had forgotten about the donkey in Kennards Arcade, but when I ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1960 by
Swan & Sugar Loaf & Red Deer Pubs
I lived in Croydon (Howley Road) for 40 years. I remember now & then going to The Gun Tavern in Church Street or The Rose & Crown, also in Church Street. I worked at the Royal Automobile Club HQ in Lansdowne ...Read more
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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
Gants Hill Newbury Park Ilford
Hi there, I'm not sure whether my first memory registered on this page. I'll always have fond memories of Ilford, Gants Hill and Valentines Park. I'll always remember those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets, the ...Read more
A memory of Ilford by
Newcomer Road
That must have been just before we moved in to number 57 newcome I was actually born in the prefabs at the bottom of newcomer road . We did move next door to you & I do remember Mr & Mrs cote and I do remember you .My mother was ...Read more
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On the right is Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd with their 'boot warehouse' at 33 High Street. Between them and the Swan is Drury's - 'the shop for men'.
The sloping Church Street leads up to the tower of the parish church, past The White Swan public house on the right.
This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.
This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century
The next three views give us a novel opportunity to stroll along the High Street over a period of sixty-eight years, and witness some of the numerous changes which took place before its eventual
The best group of older buildings is still at the east end of the High Street.
The High Street approach to the Market Place is seen here flanked by the Easiephit shoe shop and Woolworth's on one side, and the Rose & Crown Hotel on the other.
Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along
Castle Street is in the foreground; it changes to Church Street at the Library (the triangular building with the clock), which was built in 1905.
In the late 1980s the Black Swan public house (left) was demolished; the land became a used car lot, attached to a garage (just out of the picture on the left).
Both the Post Office, now Swan Cottage and Tudor Cottage date from the 17th century. The larger house with the dramatic jetty (centre) is Highbank, a medieval hall house.
This view looks along the High Street, with Hardwick Road to the left.
Alton's long High Street includes various 18th-century buildings as well as some from an earlier period.
In the gabled building was either Harry Benstead or William Terry, saddlers, followed by the Swan, run by Mrs Mary Newberry.
The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.
A solitary soldier from the First World War stands sentinel on Dronfield's simple war memorial in the main street, opposite the White Swan public house (the licensee in 1965 was Alfred Edward Greeves).
The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.
This photograph was taken looking north up the High Street. To the left is Market Street, now pedestrianised, to the right is Blenheim Road, and behind the photographer is the park.
The Swan, the Town Hall next door and F C Munt, the chemist's (on the corner, left of centre) are unchanged, but the shop between is now Somerfield's.
One of two Hertfordshire inns with cross-street signs (the other is the Four Swans at Waltham Cross), the Fox and Hounds moved to its present site in 1955 after a disastrous fire at the old building in
A typical street scene on this busy promenade. The building on the extreme left is the Bedford Swan Hotel, wherein may be found the staircase extracted from Houghton House in the 18th century.
Sad to relate, this restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development
This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.
The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.
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