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Whitley Bay Colman Cafe Boarding House On The Esplanade

Does anyone remember a cafe / boarding house on the Esplanade, called Colman or Colman's? It was run by some relatives of mine and I am trying to trace the family tree; I do not know their ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1930 by S Hill

Colindale The Early Years

I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a V2 ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1958 by Jack Richardson

George Edward Ramsden Coopers And Crate Makers

I have been told that my grandfather and great-grandfather had a business at Longton as coopers and crate-makers for the potteries. This business ceased I believe in the 1950s but would have been running ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Brian Ramsden

Born In Fenny Stratford

I was born at number 8 Woodbine Terrace; in attendance was nurse Brinklow the local midwife and Dr Gleeve. My parents were Jim and Vera  Cusack.                      Just after the begining of the war my mother, ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford in 1948 by Kathleen Roberts

The Castle School Stanhope

I think I must have talked to about three ex-Castle School kids since I wrote my memories about the the school. It was opened by an Act of Government during the Second World War in 1942. I can remember one of the teachers ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by Michael Purves

Laleham Abbey

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

Longleat

My grandfather Cecil Welch, who was the local estate agent and auctioneer based at the Old Town Hall in the High Street, bought several old cottages next to the blacksmiths in Church End for his son John and wife Peggy, at the vast cost ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1948

Boyhood Memories From 1952

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the  streets ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Dibden Purlieu Newsagents Mr Mrs Storey

It was so lovely to see you refer to Mr Storey (Sid) in the earlier post - he was my wonderful Grandad! Nan and Grandad (Grace and Sid Storey) used to run the newsagents, and as a little girl, I was ...Read more

A memory of Dibden Purlieu by Vicki Norman

Childhood Memories Great Bardfield 1969

My late parents were the landlord and landlady of the Vine public house. I was just coming into teenage years. Friends came from the base who lived in the village. The pub itself was refurbished in that ...Read more

A memory of Great Bardfield in 1969 by Dawn Willshere

Captions

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Caption For Northleach, High Street C1965

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

Caption For Limpsfield, Village 1906

The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.

Caption For East Bergholt, The Village C1955

The 17th-century Red Lion (right) was a Cobbold pub, run by J E Smith. The single-storey extension hides the Old Manse, the post office and John Constable's first studio.

Caption For Northleach, High Street C1965

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

Caption For Burford, High Street C1960

The High Street runs down from the A40 to Burford Bridge and the River Windrush. The upper end is lined with pollarded lime trees.

Caption For Earith, Suspension Bridge C1955

Earith is where the two great drainage cuts of Fenland, the Old and New Bedford Rivers, take off from the Great Ouse. The drains run north-east, roughly parallel for approximately twenty miles.

Caption For Hythe, Cricket Ground 1899

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

Caption For Alnmouth, Northumberland Street C1950

Northumberland Street runs along the spine of the spur on which the town is built. After the harbour had become unusable, a number of warehouses and granaries were redeveloped.

Caption For Swanley, The Village C1950

This was the year that the Whitbread brewery began making special celebration pub signs.

Caption For Painswick, High Street C1960

In 1905 the world opened up to isolated villagers when a motor bus service from Stroud to Painswick was started by the Great Western Railway.

Caption For Hitchin, Walsworth Road 1922

Walsworth Road runs from the railway station to the centre of Hitchin. We might be forgiven for believing that this is a quiet backwater in a developing market town.

Caption For Mill Hill, Watford Way C1955

Watford Way, running down to the North Circular Road from the M1 motorway, looks definitely under-used in 1960.

Caption For Wollaston, The Centre 1959

The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver

Caption For Dawlish Warren, Mount Pleasant 1906

Mount Pleasant Inn still stands above the marshlands of Dawlish Warren, though it has changed somewhat since this photograph was taken.

Caption For Worsley, Bridgewater Canal, The Packet House 1889

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

Caption For Beyton, Jeavons Nurseries C1955

In the centre Vera, wife of Reg Jeavons the owner, is helping to pick larkspur.

Caption For Burton Joyce, The Poplar Walk C1965

Main Street crosses Church Street, the A612, to become Station Road as far as the railway line, which runs between the village and the river.

Caption For Grinton, Church And Bridge 1923

The church of St Andrew was built by the monks of Bridlington Priory over 900 years ago. The original font was rediscovered and replaced in the 19th century.

Caption For Loftus, High Town Lane C1960

This is a quaint corner of Loftus, which here looks totally unsuited for the traffic of the present day.

Caption For Wheaton Aston, The Lock 1952

The Shropshire Union canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

Caption For Penn, Spring Hill Corner C1965

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

Caption For Haddenham, The Green C1950

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth) we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.

Caption For Lymington, The Ferry C1955

A 1947 Humber Hawk makes its way off the ferry. The ferry still runs from Lymington to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, and takes 30 minutes.