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Memories

1,253 memories found. Showing results 361 to 370.

Broadway

I used to live in 'The Nine Gables' pink painted house in Woolwich Road opposite the Graham Road Secondary Modern School for boys and was the only boy caned for hitting the headmaster with a snowball full in his face ! My house was not ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by Raymond Bossom

Queens Visit

After opening Seacroft town centre, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip visited my family in Kentmere Avenue. I have lots of pictures. Steve Lyons, Canada

A memory of Seacroft in 1965 by stevelyons

Trevor

I have many many fond memories of Trevor. I grew up there as a child but was moved away from there at the age of 11. I lived across the road from the community centre, No 45,  Julie Roberts used to live next door and my best mate Vincent ...Read more

A memory of Trevor by Gary Williams

Tooting And The Movies

I lived by Figges Marsh in Mitcham, just over the border with Tooting from 1948 until 1967. In fact I was born in the house I lived all those years in. I early on discovered the movies and I remember with great pleasure ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1960 by Paul Trevor Bale

Preparing For The Festival Of Britain.

This photograph shows a Wednesday afternoon, early closing day, hence the low volume of traffic and few shoppers. The year is definitely 1951. On the left is myself and my apprentice electrician seen manhandling ...Read more

A memory of Leeds by Claire Allen

Railway Info.

The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1870

Family Connections.

The mill in the photograph is Low Mill at Grassington. My ancestor William Irving lived here with his family before 1820 until his death in 1843 aged 84. He was a woolcomber. His son James Irving also lived here with his ...Read more

A memory of Grassington by Claire Allen

My Home Village

I cannot remember the exact year but I remember the shop (centre) and the houses to it's right. The shop was called 'Jolly's' and sold sweets and other things. The road was widened in the 1960's so the shop and houses ...Read more

A memory of Mottram in Longdendale in 1964 by Jenny Roberts

Happy Motoring

I believe the white building to the centre left in picture is the Thompson & Taylor garage. I worked there briefly (about 1 year), the manager then was a Huw Edwards? I think, but the name of T & T was very well known in motor ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1967 by Vee Williams

Duchy Hotel

This is a photo of The Duchy Hotel. This later became Dartmoor Prisons' "Prison Officers Mess". It has now become The Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre. My dad was an officer or "screw" at Dartmoor Prison for many years and we ...Read more

A memory of Princetown in 1976 by Ian Sutton

Captions

3,593 captions found. Showing results 865 to 888.

Caption For Winster, Market House C1955

The sandstone and brick structure originally had open archways on the ground floor, like that of the similar building in the centre of Bakewell.

Caption For Ormesby, Church Hall And Roundabout C1965

Ormesby still boasts some attractive buildings, and these include the church hall on the right and the Victorian villas in the centre.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1955

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

Caption For Kirkburton, North Road C1955

Many Pennine woollen towns had strong Liberal leanings, and prominent in this photograph of Kirkburton, near Huddersfield, is the tall four-storey building of the Liberal Club, a centre of local community

Caption For Sevenoaks, High Street C1955

Livestock was still being bought and sold in the Market Place, on the centre left of the picture, until only a few years before this picture was taken.

Caption For Leintwardine, The Village C1955

The church in the centre of the village sits on Roman earthworks and Roman tiles and bricks have been discovered beneath the chancel.

Caption For Cuddesdon, The Old Mill And River C1955

The 18th-century working water-mill lies on the River Thame, about a mile from the centre of the village of Cuddesdon.

Caption For Nottingham, Old Market Square C1950

In the centre background, the traditional building of Lloyds Bank can be seen, and on the extreme left is a branch of Fifty Shilling Tailors.

Caption For Egham, Procession C1901

The building on the right was a garden centre.

Caption For Witney, The Market Square C1955

The market was held around the 17th-century Buttercross in the centre of the town.

Caption For Cilcain, Village C1955

All the cottages in this terrace used to be the same design as the centre example with its distinctive chequered brickwork and curious extended porch.

Caption For Draughton, The Village C1955

On the far left is the old School House (1851), and to the left of Fern Cottage, centre, is St Augustine's Church, built in 1857. A delivery van is parked outside Yellow Cottage.

Caption For Richmond, Trinity Church And Castle 1913

Outside King & Son (centre right) can be seen their saddle-horse, and beyond is the barber's pole of W Myers, who succeeded hairdresser Charles Todd, visible in 32280 (page 18).

Caption For Richmond, Trinity Church And Castle 1913

Outside King & Son (centre right) can be seen their saddle-horse, and beyond is the barber's pole of W Myers, who succeeded hairdresser Charles Todd, visible in 32280 (page 18).

Caption For Daventry, London Road C1955

This main thoroughfare was by- passed in the 1930s, bringing a little calm to this approach to the town centre.

Caption For Bicester, Market Square C1965

The chimneys of the building just left of centre have gone, and it now has a more standard roof. The Red Lion inn, on the right, has changed its name; it is now called Ye Olde Pioneer.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The River C1955

Above the centre arches are the carved heads of Father Thames, looking downstream, and Isis, looking upstream.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square C1955

By the 1950s motor traffic was beginning to dominate the centre of Bournemouth, though it was still possible for drivers to easily pull in at the side of the road.

Caption For Andover, 1899

Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade.

Caption For Norwich, Cattle Market And Castle 1896

In 1993 this was replaced by the very successful design of the Castle Mall shopping centre, partly built underground below a raised park.

Caption For Bucks Mills, From Beach C1890

As at Clovelly, donkeys were much in use here, ferrying herrings and lime from the kiln (centre) up the hill.

Caption For Wickford, High Street C1950

It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

Caption For Exmouth, The Swimming Pool 1938

The white building in the centre of the photograph is the Royal Beacon Hotel, and the hotel on the left, level with the flower beds, is the Channel View.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Originally built in the 17th century as the apple-store for Ambleside Hall, it is now a National Trust Information Centre.