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Stanley Road, South Harrow

I lived with my foster family in Stanley Road South Harrow, during the war. Our house backed on to the gas works and I always wanted to climb the gasometer which I did eventually with a friend from across the road. At ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1940 by Paul Howard

Shotley Bridge Hospital

My father was deputy head porter at the hospital, he worked there for 40 years. When I came out of the Royal Air Force in 1959 I did not work for a few months until early 1960 when my father gave me a job as a porter ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1960 by Alan Sanderson

The Convent

My father died the year after I was born and his employer Burton's, provided for myself and my three brothers to attend private schools, which is how I came from London to the Convent at the age of 4. I followed my brother Colin who ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1947 by Alan Noon

Madeley As It Was

I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1949 by First Name Last Name

Lockwood Beck And Lingdale

Hi Everyone what a lovely photo of the reservoir. My family lived at the reservoir for many years. My father and his father were born there with his sisters. He was Henry Marshall born 1923. He was the 3rd Henry ...Read more

A memory of Boosbeck by David Marshall

39londonroad

I was born in Hackbridge in 1944. I lived there until 1953 when my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins put me on a plane on May 2 to join my father who had emigrated to Canada the year before. My mother, who had lived in ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1944 by Paul Strong

The Queens Head

As the ex-landlord of the Queens Head in Eynsham have many fond memories of the village and my customers, and cricket club of which I was president-1975-78. Known as the village with the most pubs, of which i have visited all, ...Read more

A memory of Eynsham in 1974 by lawrand

End Of An Era

In 1944 I was a 13 year old pupil at Morley Grammar School. One beautifully sunny Sunday evening I walked from my house at 16 Albion Street (now Morrison's carpark) and about 40 yards East of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1944 by Vernon Wood

On Our Way To Longleat.....

After walking the footpath from Rodden Farm we would end up on the main Frome /Warminster road, not far from the start of Friggle Street. This was our route to Longleat we often took on foot during our school holidays. ...Read more

A memory of Elliots Green in 1980 by Jt Davies

Evacuee During World War 2

I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the ...Read more

A memory of Croxton Kerrial in 1940 by Keneth Harris

Captions

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Caption For Felbridge, The Garage 1928

The photographer almost had his feet in Sussex while taking this picture, so close was he to the county border.

Caption For Lanchester, The Green And King's Head C1955

The village green, the King's Head and the parish church lie at the heart of present-day Lanchester.

Caption For Great Haywood, The Canal C1955

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the River Trent.

Caption For Liverpool, George's Dock C1881

The dock was closed in 1900, and was filled in to give us George's Parade (the Pier Head and the three large and famous waterfront buildings that we have today).

Caption For Osmington Mills, Red Cliffs C1960

We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

The turn of the century Bull's Head pub is now in use as the Syston District Social Club; as is so common in the village, over half the buildings in the middle distance have gone to make way for unattractive

Caption For Sutton On Trent, The River Trent C1955

From Southwell the tour heads north-east back to the River Trent north of Newark and on to Sutton-on-Trent.

Caption For East Hoathly, High Street C1955

Beyond the Kings Head pub on the left, the white-painted shop has become a gift shop and café, and the large bay window to its far end is now demolished.

Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

This view looks out of the market place into Bow Street, which leads down to the river.

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church C1955

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

Caption For Cheddar, Sally Spencer And Glen Middle Mill 1908

The door hood has also been removed - presumably it was hit too often by motor coaches heading for the main caves and the Gorge. The buildings on the right have long gone.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

A Morris Minor heads along Boar Lane towards the City Square. Introduced in 1948 the Minor has since become a classic car enjoying a cult following.

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

As we head north-west, we should find Chobham village to be a relief after the rather drear urban townscape of Woking; but the traffic levels in Chobham prevent a true village atmosphere prevailing

Caption For Bridport, Happy Island 1897

The track on the right descends from the Dorchester Road, near the junction with Lee Lane, and that to the left heads for St Andrew's Well.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

The long, low 17th-century house, right, has fine stone-mullioned and drip- headed windows.

Caption For Winchelsea, The Town 1906

The route now heads eastwards to Winchelsea, which is a mile inland and might be considered an impostor in this chapter, rather like Rye.

Caption For Leeds, Infirmary 1894

Her body was then taken to the earlier General Infirmary at Leeds where it was exhibited at a charge of 3d a head. Over 2,500 people paid to see her body.

Caption For Halifax, Technical School 1896

Indeed, Halifax had been granted its own laws for dealing with people convicted of stealing cloth.

Caption For Abingdon, Bridge And River Steamer C1955

The Fraternity of the Holy Cross built the two bridges, the causeway across Nag's Head Island, and then the long causeway that runs south for over a thousand yards across the flood plain to Culham

Caption For East Hoathly, High Street C1965

From Crowborough the route heads back nearer to Hailsham's environs and to the village of East Hoathly, a village now much more peaceful than a few years ago.

Caption For Preston, River Ribble From Miller Park C1935

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

Caption For East Dean, The Village 1921

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. The Tiger Inn is a fine building that was a barracks during the Napoleonic wars.

Caption For Leeds, Infirmary 1894

Her body was then taken to the earlier General Infirmary at Leeds where it was exhibited at a charge of 3d a head. Over 2,500 people paid to see her body.

Caption For Lymm, The Canal C1960

An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. It is unusual that the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.