Books

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Memories

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Lost Places Of Bristol

Can anyone help me with some 'lost places' in Bristol? I'm trying to locate where Navarino Place was...and also St-Augustine-the-Less church. My Gtx3 grandfather died at no.6 Navarino Place in 1857 and many members of my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1860 by Kate Spurrier

The Watford To Rickmansworth Railway In The Second World War

Croxley Green station is now - in the 21st century - merely a shadow of its former busy life. My Auntie Dorrie (Doris Lacey) worked at this station throughout the Second World War ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by John Howard Norfolk

Rainy Days & Sundays

We used to go to Art Gallery & Museum on Sundays, especially if it was raining. We took the tramcar from Possilpark right to the door. My sister and our four brothers spent many happy hours there looking in wonder at all ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1940 by Mary Dudgeon

Post Office

This photograph has changed little I think apart from the demolishing of the public toilets on the right. The wooden notice board on the railings advertised the weekly films featured in the "Mem" and always drew my attention as I ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer by David Jones

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

1945 To 1966

My grandparents, Jabez Smith and Kate his wife owned the post office in Coombe Valley Road, formerly Union Road, before and during the war. Their daughter Rose Moss (my Mother) ran it from the age of sixteen. They also owned and lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dover by Ken Moss

Visiting This Shop

I started Gainford School in 1954 & remember Miss Browns little shop crammed full with habberdashery, stockings (nylons) hankies, knitting-wool, etc., everything you could possibly want - an oasis in this small village. ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1955 by Faith Spence

Growing Up At Coombe Place

My family and I moved to a bungalow at Coombe Place in 1960. My father, Walter Motley, took up the post of farm manager on this 100 acre dairy farm with a herd of Jersey cattle. Coombe Place is set on the side of the South ...Read more

A memory of Offham in 1960 by Susan Walton

Combe Florey Primary School

The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum ...Read more

A memory of Combe Florey in 1958 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Doctors House And Surgery. (?)

This was where the Doctor moved to (I think) from High Street, Glanamman. Opposite this house was 'Show Sam', a picture house (cinema these days..). I spent time in there watching films from all over the world - and the ...Read more

A memory of Glanaman in 1947 by xpara

Captions

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Caption For Sarisbury Green, The Parade C1965

The post office on the left shut in 2004. Parked is a Hillman Imp with L-plates that in 1967 cost £665 at Alec Bennett in Portswood.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, High Street C1965

The jeweller`s shop, H Samuel (centre distance), which was beneath the clock, was once the former Post Office. Samuel`s Corner had a certain reputation in Merthyr Tydfil.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

In the picture the Post Office has signs advertising tobacco and cigarettes fixed to the shop front, with an Esso paraffin sign further along. The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

Caption For Willingdon, The Post Office C1950

Opposite the church is the Hoo, a large rambling house built in 1902.The Post Office proprietor was R F Brierley; alongside is the entrance to the builders' and decorators' yard, F J French & Sons

Caption For Bolton Le Sands, The Village C1960

The building on the left with the pillars on each side of the door is the Blue Anchor Hotel, and Hall's Sweet Shop and Post Office stands between.

Caption For Outwood, The Windmills 1906

The post mill on the left was built in the 17th century, and has since been restored. It is now the oldest working windmill in Britain.

Caption For Boroughbridge, High Street 1907

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1910

Maplesden is still running his printing works at No 1 - although it is no longer a post office - and at No 5 Gatland Bros.

Caption For Kettering, The Roman Catholic Church C1965

St Edward's was completed in 1940, although the redbrick geometrical design looks post-war.

Caption For Great Haywood, Trent Lane C1955

The Post Office, established in 1908 in the house with Doric columns, still functions here.

Caption For Compton, Post Office C1955

The Post Office, here with advertising signs for Senior Service cigarettes fixed to the shopfront, is now a house.

Caption For Churt, The Village C1965

The shop with the Hovis sign is the Crossways Churt shop, which includes the village post office, while Phippards on the right is still a newsagent and confectioner (now Churt News).

Caption For Walberswick, 1900

In the distance is a corn-grinding post mill (centre left), possibly owned at this time by a Mr Mallett, whose worry was that the building of houses nearby would keep the wind from the mill's sails

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1930

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

Caption For Wickham Market, The Mill 1929

The bridge over the tailrace, partly built in hachestone, has rails and posts inscribed 'A Barnes Woodbridge 1901'.

Caption For West Clandon, Post Office 1928

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

Caption For Weyhill, Star Inn And Post Office Stores C1950

Weyhill is a roadside settlement of little more than a pub, a post office and the church of St Michael.

Caption For Plymouth, Charles Church 1889

Once one of the finest post-Reformation Gothic churches in the country, Charles Church was gutted in the blitz and the ruins retained as a memorial to Plymouth's war dead.

Caption For Culham, The Stores C1965

At its west end the village had a post office and stores. Now a house, it retainst the Victorian wall letterbox near the door, cleared four times a day in around 1900.

Caption For Long Wittenham, The Village C1960

This view along a minor lane was taken by Frith's photographer as one of the company's normal village store or post office views; in the middle distance is the gable of a thatched cruck house, the self-explanatory

Caption For Goodworth Clatford, The Village C1965

Now the Bee Hive Store and Post Office have been built at the end of the terrace and provide service six and a half days a week.

Caption For Harlech, High Street 1930

The Post Office is down the street to the left.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1912

A small boy plays on the posts.