Search Results

Though cars were more affordable by the 1950s, engines, being thirstier by today's standards, needed more frequent refueling.

Old Hill's official name is St Thomas Hill, and it was once used as a toboggan run when there was snow on the ground — rather a hair-raising ride!

This is taken from the 'tongues' in the middle of the River Brett, adjacent to the two 18th-century hump-backed bridges. The Peacock is early 15th-century.

This photograph was taken on the same occasion as T122001. Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

Berwyn is a lonely spot west of Llangollen, where the half-timbered Chain Bridge Hotel and the station on the old Llangollen-Corwen railway stand beside the River Dee as it enters a small gorge.

The Taff-side home of the famous 'Blue & Blacks'. The club forming in 1876, the ground took its name from the nearby Cardiff Arms Hotel demolished in 1878.

The running of the postal service in Victorian times was considered vital to the public good.

The Co-operative is now the Silo Central, an internet café. There is another café just outside the village, at Derwen College.

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

The Plough and Dial (left) was originally called the Plough, but around 1908 the pub was extended to take in the building next door and became the Plough and Dial. It closed for business in 1966.

The old part of the Roebuck Hotel lies to the left of the buildings.

We can assume that it is winter by the look of the tree. A lady waits for her husband beside their car. Has he leaned an item of furniture against the telephone box?

This picture should more properly be captioned 'The Bourne from Besbury.' In the foreground lies Wimberley Mill, run in 1900 by the Critchley family as a pin factory.

Hay is being gathered at Chestwood buy horse power; traffic on the A39, which now roars across the valley below, is a mere nightmare for the future.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Much of the Abbey would have been designed with arches, openings and decorations similar to those that survive on the Norman Tower.

Perhaps the motorcyclist is riding to Corhampton, quarter of a mile away, but he must watch out for the stray cow in the distance.

East of Gainsborough the Market Rasen road climbs the Lincoln Cliff, the limestone ridge which runs due north from Lincoln at about two hundred feet above sea level.

It replaced a Norman church that had become run down and semi-derelict. Rather than repair it, the decision was taken to rebuild.

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath.The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower.

Oakham Lane is one of the streets leading from the village green. The building with the white window partially obscured behind the tree was the village school.