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Aust Farm

I was born in Aust Farm in 1952 as it was my mother's home. It was on the road to Black Rock and my grandfather farmed the fields up to the river. I think the farm's name has changed now. My mum was Winifred Watkins and married my dad ...Read more

A memory of Portskewett by Kathleen Holton

Hainton

I hope, I think I am the first to write - I lived in Hainton 1951/54. Our dad worked on the farm just up the road (Stockman). I went to the little school in Hainton. Headmistress - Mrs Slingsby. Do not remember her deputy, but Miss Officer ...Read more

A memory of Hainton by John Brown

Bluebells

My godmother and her parents lived 'forever' at Gravel Road, just up from the small shop on the Park Avenue end. With a marvellous garden of flowers, fruit and poultry; a walkway tunnel of Quince, a black & white tiled pathway to ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1950 by Olivia R S

The King And Queen Visit Queen's Road

Some time soon after the Second World War, with our next door neighbours, we walked down to Queen's Road to watch the King and Queen drive by. We stood near Evan Cook's Depository. I assume that their Majesties ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1946 by Ken Cook

College Road

Whilst staying with my Grandparents (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous thing ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1950 by Julia Banks

Special Memories Pier And Baths

When I was 9 we lived in a new block of flats (at that time) opposite the Pier and just across the road from the baths. I used to walk to Stanwell Rd School through the Park which was always beautiful. I actually never ...Read more

A memory of Penarth by Cheryl Lewis

John Mansfield School In 70's

Hi my name is Maria I went to John Mansfield School Lived Dogsthorpe road. Love to hear from you if you were there? :)

A memory of Peterborough by Maria Milizia

The Barbary's Denby Rd

Hi I have just been given a batch of school reports belonging to my mother Patricia Barbary. Two reports are from Hearnville Road school 1949 & 1952. The rest is when she attended The Rosa Bassett School, Streatham. ...Read more

A memory of Balham by W G

Barnett Family

Hi, just trying to find out more information on my family - mother was Edna Barnett, who was the youngest child of Fred and Catherine (Cass) Barnett who lived on Trealaw Road. Mum was the youngest of 9 surviving children with her eldest ...Read more

A memory of Trealaw by Helen Jee

Error And My Memory/Memories Of Sonning Common...

Not sure if it is an error, but 'Brinnds Corner' is spelt 'B-R-I-N-D-S C-O-R-N-E-R' after the butchers shop, (now an off-licence), on the corner of Peppard Road/Wood Lane and Brinds Close which was ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common by Philip Reeve

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Captions

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Caption For Wallasey, The Village 1952

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.

Caption For Bridgend, Caroline Street 1901

She paid for a water pipeline to be laid from a spring near Sarn to a water tap on the corner of Derwen Road and Court Road.

Caption For Waterrow, The Village C1955

Climbing westwards, the Taunton to Barnstaple road crosses the well-treed and young River Tone Valley at Waterrow.

Caption For Sutton, The Green 1894

The road to London passes through The Green, which was preserved by the 1810 Act of Parliament that enclosed the rest of the former common land of the parish for agriculture.

Caption For Marlow, Mills 1890

Originally, the road crossed a bridge to its left, but since 1832 the present superb suspension bridge has taken the road to the right, allowing the hotel to steadily expand towards the western

Caption For Cambridge, St Andrew's Street 1908

On the right-hand side of the road is First Court, the entrance to Christ's College, founded in 1505 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.

Caption For Cambridge, St Andrew's Street 1931

On the right hand side of the road is First Court, the entrance to Christ's College, founded in 1505 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at the junction of the High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old

Caption For Paignton, Torbay Road 1896

The large shelter and the Jubilee fountain replaced the grand wrought iron gates of Torbay House as the focal point of Torbay Road.

Caption For Laindon, St Nicholas's Church C1955

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

Caption For Denton, The Village C1960

The road to the left leads to the pub, the school, the village hall and the church, and the road to the right to Sedgebrook and the A52 to Nottingham.

Caption For Stamford, St Mary's Hill From George Hotel C1955

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Caption For Drayton, The Cross And Wheatsheaf C1955

Further west, the High Street meets Abingdon Road (right) and Steventon Road (left) in a small green.

Caption For Uplyme, Church Street C1960

We look eastwards down Church Street from the Main Road on the south side of the Talbot Arms and Doon Beg (far left).

Caption For Desborough, High Street C1955

All the buildings have been demolished on that side, and the road curving round (Buckwell Street) is now a cul-de-sac.

Caption For Byfleet, High Road C1960

Further north, at the A245 Parvis Road junction, the photographer looks back down High Road with Lloyds TSB on the left and the Dutch-gabled fire station of 1885 on the right, complete with its siren

Caption For Long Ditton, Portsmouth Road C1955

This view, along the Portsmouth Road, formerly the A3, shows the late Victorian expansion of Kingston past Surbiton.

Caption For Tadworth, Cross Road C1955

This view was taken at the crossroads of Woodfield Road, Barnett Wood Lane and Craddocks Parade, the 1930s three- storey flats over shops.

Caption For Mardy, The Village C1965

Extra road traffic has also made the road outside the busy village stores and post office (just to the left of the car) a frequent bottleneck.

Caption For Ashford, Elwick Road 1901

This photograph was taken a century ago, and a world away from the same road today, which seems at times like a public motor-racing circuit - it is now part of the Ashford ring road.

Caption For Erith, New Flats C1960

Boundary Street was still a rough road when these flats were new. Today the flats` distinctive roofline has been renewed; the approach road is metalled now, and there are houses to the left.

Caption For Barnstaple, Bear Street C1940

From further up Bear Street we see what was demolished to allow the new road through. Beyond the bow windows is now mechanised mayhem.

Caption For Wellington, Church Street 1903

It sits beside the old Roman road of Watling Street, and later benefited from toll-roads and railways.

Caption For Hornsea, Cliff Road C1950

Winifred Holtby lived in this road while she was writing her novel 'South Riding'.