Books

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Memories Of West Hendon

I was born in 1946. I lived in Stuart Avenue opposite the large floral clock of Edmunds Walker co. The clock was adorned with flowers all through the year. There was a field at the end of our road adjacent to the Edgeware ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by Derek Holder

United Dairies High Rd

My Nan and Grandad lived for many years in the flat above United Dairies in High Rd Chadwell Heath. I have many happy memories of staying with them in the 60s and early 70s. We used to enter via a lane just inside ...Read more

A memory of Chadwell Heath by Beverley Burton

Monkey Puzzle Tree

As a kid in the 1970s, I remember being in my parents' car from London to Eastbourne, heading down the A217, passing through Tadworth. Visible from the road was a giant monkey puzzle tree in the grounds of Tadworth Court. I was ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth by Adam Cohen

Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire

In the post war years, as families rebuilt their lives again, Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able, bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet ...Read more

A memory of Tralee by ducatee

Studley Grange Road Old Friends

I often wonder about friends I knew in Studley Grange Road. Terence White at no 72. Peter Dawson whose mum and dad owned the shop and ran a mobile shop that used to serve Northolt. Christopher Barnes whose dad ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by Nick Beard

School Days

I remember perrin road infants and juniorschool. I started school After easter 1953. My first real memory is being taken around the streets of Wembley. Miss Law was the headmistress of the infants and our classrooms were cabins the ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Janice Brown

Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.

As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford by Anthony Knight

Dancing In Ilford

Between 1957 and 1963 I learnt to dance at the dance studio above the Pioneer market, the entrance was in Scrafton Road, this was were I met my wife. I believe the the teachers names were Fred, Dorothy and Jean. Very happy days. Does any body else remember this dance studio? Barry Brooker

A memory of Ilford by Barry Brooker

Growing Up In Temple Fortune

I grew up in Temple Fortune between 1959 and 1974. There was a school outfitters called Pullens in Temple Fortune, in Finchley Road near the junction with Temple Fortune Lane. We always bought our school uniforms ...Read more

A memory of Temple Fortune by Michael Zucker

Walking From Cottage Homes

1965. I grew up in Merthyr Mawr road Cottage Homes for children. The walk to Merthyr Mawr village was always an adventure. We would tickle trout from the estate river and run like mad to avoid the water baillif. The old ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr by Stephen Lloyd Cook

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Captions

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Caption For Hailsham, St Mary's Church C1955

The tower contains a bell cast in the local bell foundries in 1665; the location of these foundries is commemorated in the name Bell Banks Road, a road to the south that runs from Market Street to

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Splash, Bury Road C1955

In the 1960s, icy conditions made the road dangerous to motors, and in August 1963 the road was covered over and a culvert was built.

Caption For Brant Broughton, High Street C1955

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

Caption For Gayle, The Village 1906

But then the turnpike road was built, and Gayle lost its eminence.

Caption For Bingley, Main Street 1926

Here we look in envy at this quiet road - these days it is hard to see the tarmac. Back in the 1920s, people had a good choice of public transport.

Caption For Leigh, The Cross C1955

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

Caption For Pitsea, Pitsea Road C1955

Whenever a problem existed they would often pool their resources, with whole families working together to provide such things as footpaths or stepping-stones on the unmade roads.

Caption For Kingsbury, Station Parade, Kingsbury Road C1950

Hardly a stone's throw away from Kingsbury Road is Slough Lane and its environs, where Ernest G Trobridge's timber and thatch houses are grouped most picturesquely.

Caption For Badbury Rings, Hill Fort 1899

It stands at the junction of two Roman roads, the Ackling Dyke running from Dorchester to Old Sarum, and the Bath to Poole road, although there is still doubt that the latter was ever completed.

Caption For Wrotham, St Mary's Road 1903

Note the safe walkways above the road. Today the village remains unspoiled, despite substantial road development nearby.

Caption For Romford, Manor Road 1908

Manor Road with its well-appointed suburban villas offered the Victorian and Edwardian idyll, an elegant and fashionable domicile for the early London commuter.

Caption For Charing, High Street 1901

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Caption For Fyfield, Dunmow Road C1950

This quiet road has now been widened, and there is little sign of the water-filled ditch. However, the property on the left and the barn projecting towards the road remain unchanged.

Caption For Greenodd, Main Street 1921

Beyond him, the sign jutting into the road is for Taylor Inman, plumber and painter.

Caption For Wimborne, Coach And Horses 1908

Across Poole Road, the low railing offered easy access to the fields of the Dean's Court Estate. The pub dates back at least to the 18th century, and parts of the building are even older.

Caption For Stourpaine, Manor Road C1955

Behind the lychgate at the end of Manor Road rises the flint and stone tower of Holy Trinity parish church.

Caption For Sutton, Woodside House School 1898

By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school. Note the round-arched windows and the ornamental bargeboards that are characteristic of the 1860s and early 1870s.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1950

The fact that it was possible to park on the side of the road without problem makes this photograph one to be treasured.

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 Maidenhead, View From Bridge 1904

We are looking along Bridge Road towards Maidenhead. There is now a very busy roundabout at the junction with Ray Mead Road, which leads to Cookham.

Caption For Whitchurch, High Street C1955

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

Caption For Twycross, The Village C1955

The cafe is not overburdened with custom, and the road to the zoo, about two miles further on, awaits a surge of traffic, as does the Curzon Arms, at the road junction.

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street 1892

The central feature here - the stone rotunda standing at Springfield Road corner - had previously marked the conduit-head in Tindal Square.

Caption For Kingsley Green, From The Tolle House 1910

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).