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Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Greengate And Irwell Rubber

Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home to ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

Beautiful Quiet Abercych.

I was born in Abercych in 1930 but went to Swansea in 1934. When I qualified as a pharmacist in 1952 I went abroad to work, in Central Africa (N. Rhodesia and then Nyasaland) then the Gilbert & Ellice Islads in the ...Read more

A memory of Parrog in 1930 by Thomas Davies

Uncle Will

The young lad on the front row of this picture, holding his hand to his face [centre of road] was my husband's Uncle Will. William Ambrose lived at Woodfield Road, Braintree but died in Gaza during WW1 age 21. ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1910 by Sheila Ambrose

The Good Old Days Continued

I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

Surrey St.

I have only just discovered this website and felt compelled to respond. I was born in Heathfield Gardens, South Croydon in 1948 and my maiden name was Murphy. We moved to Wyche Grove near the Purley Arms, South Croydon when I was about 5 ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Kate Sims

Hatch End High School

In December 1995 the Harrow Arts Cuncil organised a festival of dancing at Hatch End High School and invited a dozen or more dance groups and schools to come along and provide a showcase of talent. It was fascinating to see ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1995 by John Howard Norfolk

Raf Bletchley 1950 51

Hello Former RAF Bletchley 'inmates,' I spent a couple of happy years at RAF Bletchley which I would describe as just a dormitory station where we ate, slept and relaxed during off-duty hours from our work at RAF Stanbridge, ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1950 by Walter Bourne

Summer Holidays

My grandparents lived in this village and I have many memories of my visits to the village as a child. One highlight was the walk down the lane to catch the bus to Penzance. Walking across the lane to the diary ...Read more

A memory of Trewoon

Oxborough Norfolk

Before moving to Australia in 1964, my parents took a nostalgic trip back to Oxborough, where Mum was born. Mum's maiden name was English and we managed to find heaps of old gravestones in the cemetry. Around 1998, my sister and ...Read more

A memory of Oxborough by Tony Hewett

Memories Of A 'war Kid'

See my memory under "What did you do in the war, Granddad?' This pic shows the point on the Wey navigation featured in my 'Giving up smoking' story. The barn where the heavy horses were housed is still there, opposite the 'oil mills'. It is now a visitor centre.

A memory of Weybridge in 1940 by Stephen Squires

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 913 to 936.

Caption For Bodiam, The Castle 1890

Bodiam, built in the 14th century, stands in the centre of a lake-like moat covered in water lilies.

Caption For Landewednack, Church Cove C1900

At low tide the visitors clambered out onto the Battleship Rock in the centre of the view.

Caption For Leicester, Belvoir Street C1949

In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as 'of no architectural value', perhaps an over-critical view.

Caption For Melton Mowbray, Sheep Market C1955

The clothes of the traders may have changed, but Melton has been at the centre of the sheep farming industry for a number of centuries.

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

The property is occupied by an undertaker's today, and the post office is now a dental centre.

Caption For Blakeney, The Blakeney Hotel 1925

The Blakeney, built two years before this photograph was taken, remains today a traditional, friendly hotel and conference centre, maintaining high standards and offering impressive views across

Caption For St Mawes, 1930

Looking directly westwards from St Mawes, it is possible to have an uninterrupted view of marine traffic approaching Falmouth, which has been a centre of commerce for centuries.

Caption For Norwich, Ber Street 1891

This quiet, shaded street offered a little respite from the bustle of the market centre.

Caption For Chalford, The Golden Valley 1910

The Frome Valley, dotted with mills and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry.

Caption For Monsal Dale, The Viaduct C1955

Central station is now Manchester's G-Mex Centre.

Caption For Frome, The Market Place 1952

Before the river was re-aligned, flooding was a problem; water used to come up as far as the Crown Inn (centre left).

Caption For Billingshurst, Ye Olde Six Bells 1923

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Caption For Ashford, The Churchyard C1965

Next to this now stands the Tourist Information Centre.

Caption For Bozeat, Red Lion C1950

Later, the village became a centre for shoe production.

Caption For Wellingborough, Market Street C1955

The tall domed building on the left survives as a Burton's clothes store, but the building beyond, with the conical roofed turret, was demolished as part of the 1990s Swansgate shopping centre redevelopment

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

A Saxon settlement beside the River Cuckmere,Alfriston was a centre for smuggling.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Gun Cliff And Cobb Gate From Back Beach 1890

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Caption For Cardiff, Church Street 2004

The thoroughfare now pedestrian, the laying of its Chinese granite cobbles marked the initiation of the city centre repaving programme.

Caption For Astwood Bank, Evesham Road C1965

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

Caption For Barnt Green, Hewell Road C1965

Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.

Caption For Ilfracombe, The Harbour C1875

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.

Caption For St Alban's Head, Bottom Valley 1899

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

Caption For Lulworth, The Beach And A Steam Boat C1955

Incredible numbers of peo- ple crammed aboard paddle steamers such as the 'Empress' (centre) which has just arrived in Lulworth Cove.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, High Level Bridge 1895

The centre of the bridge still opens to allow for passage through to Devonshire Dock.