Places
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Photos
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Maps
776 maps found.
Books
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Memories
2,732 memories found. Showing results 21 to 30.
Mitcham
I lived in Manor Road in the late fifties and then Lymington Close until the end of the sixties, it was a great place to live then. We played on Mitcham common going to the seven island ponds on our bicycles and the old gun site. Mr ...Read more
A memory of Norbury
Lost Opportunity?
I was born in Drayton in 1943 and was at Solent Road School and the Northern Grammar School for Boys. I then went to London University and subsequently worked abroad while returning to Portsmouth regularly where I have my UK Home ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth by
Ledsham Court, St Leonards, Sussex ...Great Memories! By John Franks, (Ex Rascal Boarder).
Well, I would like to bring a little history of our wonderful school in St Leonards back to life with the real colour and warmth of the time when I was there in the early ...Read more
A memory of Great Parndon by
The Village Was Home
I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by
Growing Up In Earl Shilton
I have fond memories of Earl Shilton around the 1950s. My first school was in Wood Street where I lived in a little old cottage, now knocked down. I remember celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at the school, ...Read more
A memory of Earl Shilton in 1950 by
60 Years On And I Still Love It!
My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community ...Read more
A memory of Talacre by
Happy Childhood Holidays
I say 1950 for the year my memory relates to but in fact my memories cover from around 1946 to 196 I've only just found this web site for "Memories" although have looked at the site before and what nostalgia it has ...Read more
A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by
My Childhood At Longmoor Camp
I lived in longmoor 1954 to 1965. My name was Carol Hoare, my brother Stephen and my sister Angela. We lived at 11 Baden Powell for the first 5 years, Angela was born there. Then 4, Union Rise. I went to Longmoor ...Read more
A memory of Longmoor Camp by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
Talke A Forgotten Village
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more
A memory of Talke in 1959
Captions
1,653 captions found. Showing results 49 to 72.
Hale is a typical example of a suburban post office in the Edwardian era.
The Gaumont Cinema is a bingo hall now, and the Post Office is a J D Wetherspoon's pub, The Postal Order.
The offices of the Swansea Evening Post are to the right.
Leysdown is the most easterly village of the Isle of Sheppey.
In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.
The shop next to the post office used to belong to E C Whitney, a manufacturer of clerical clothing such as cassocks, surplices and stoles.
The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.
Henry Gibbs ran the post office, filling station and village store for many years.
Another view of Chideock Post Office (right), looking eastwards to Mervyn House, Staddlestones, and Rose Cottage (centre).
The post office at Cadnam certainly has plenty of stock and a variety of advertisements.
Following the closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now
The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph.
On the other side of the road is a lamp post advertising the post office.
Coventry Motor Company (later Caffyns) was the most centrally situated in the Broadway, whilst Dinnages were and still are in Sussex Road.
The Post Office C1960 Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.
This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.
Originally built as an estate office for Thomas Wakeling, this building eventually became the permanent home of Mundesley Post Office in 1910.
Because Samlesbury Hall was so near, the area was popular with walkers and day trippers in the post-war years.
The café is in the building at the top of the lane, with a post office and grocer's under the signs.
The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.
Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.
Girls, perhaps the shop assistants, crowd in the doorway of the post office, while at least one fisherman is walking up Fore Street.
Here we see an old post windmill in its last stages of decay.
The post office on the corner has advertisements for the Doric Cinema, Newmarket.
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