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Maps

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Memories

9,941 memories found. Showing results 471 to 480.

Benson Lane

We lived in the last house at the bottom of benson Lane, next to the fields, great memory's, attended normanton infants school and normanton Common, my brother Frank went to normanton grammar school. Remember living in the back to back ...Read more

A memory of Normanton by Linda Woodhead

My First Ever Holiday

I stayed in one of these coaches when I was four years old back in 1958

A memory of Ravenscar by Barry Chapman

Going To The Shops...

As a fully paid up member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, born in 1947, I've been reading all the stories posted on this lovely website (which - like many others, I suspect - I came across purely by chance). I was born in Perivale ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Peter Taylor

Whetstone Hey Shops

I remember the triangle of shops at the top of Whetstone Hey in(1962), when I was about 7 years old. If you came up Whetstone Hey, from Valley Drive, on your left was Wartons Newsagents (what we called The Paper Shop). It was ...Read more

A memory of Great Sutton by John Harrison

Shopping With Mum

I went to Coombe Hill House prep school from 1957 to1961 and remember being taken down Surrey Street with my mum and also Kennards arcade.I also remember Grants.Does anyone remember the name of the chain of fruit shops on East Croydon ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by David Durrant

Oakbank 1954 55

Strange to read all the memories of Oakbank in the 50s which are so similar to mine! I remember being taken there by my mum and gran in August 1954, excited at the 40-mile bus journey but then downcast at realising I would not be on the ...Read more

A memory of Seal by Philip Johnson

Sun Trap School

I was at sun trap at the age of about 7 or 8 years old .I was. born in 1943 and was sent there after having a very serious. Illness.some happy memories but mostly remembering how hard it was for a small little girl .How hard it ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Julie Anker

Back In The Day

1 was a pupil at common road infants approx. 1954 to 1956. We had recently moved from South Elmsall, the area was strange and I knew no-one, my parents bought the corner ship on Currieville at the end of Carlton Street, it was ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby by Trish Holloway

Happy Days

I lived in Sudbury, Wembley and went to Sudbury primary then Wembley girls grammar We lived in Medway Gardens and had family in Beaumont Avenue. Remember the swimming pool and going to ballet classes with Suzanne Cash? Also going to De ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Annette Strange

Bilsdean Creek 1960

Down Bilsdean Creek where fresh and salt water meet, the bladderwrack rehydrating incoming tide chases tiny trout upstream to the overhanging hazel branch sanctuary of dappled dancing sunlight where they flit back and ...Read more

A memory of Bilsdean Creek by John Soltys

Captions

2,019 captions found. Showing results 1,129 to 1,152.

Caption For Worle, The Village 1896

This is the oldest part of the village, with some properties dating back to medieval times.

Caption For Gloucester, The Docks 1923

The high banks along many stretches of this great river confirm its habit of flooding.

Caption For Burnley, St Peter's Church, South West 1895

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1908

In the background is Holy Trinity Church, a most unusual building, which in the 1900s included a tobacconist, a bank, and two butchers' shops as component parts.

Caption For Dinas Powys, St Andrew's Major Church C1955

Typical of so many Glamorgan churches, St Andrew's traces its roots back to the Norman occupation – its nave and chancel are believed to date from the 13th century.

Caption For Bedford, The School Sports Field 1921

To the right are the back garden walls of the villas in De Parys Avenue.

Caption For Newby Bridge, The Swan Hotel 1914

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

Caption For West Bridgford, Central Avenue C1965

Further back in Tudor Square, Frith's photographer was looking into Central Avenue with Albert Road to the right and Rectory Road to the left.

Caption For Long Melford, Little St Mary's C1955

We have now nearly reached the southern end of the street, and have turned round to head back to the church.

Caption For Runcorn, War Memorial 1923

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

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 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 Bingley, Main Street 1926

Back in the 1920s, people had a good choice of public transport.

Caption For Crowcombe, Cross And Carew Arms 1929

The Village 1940 Beyond Williton, our route follows the western edge of the Quantock Hills back towards Taunton.

Caption For Charlbury, Sheep Street C1950

But for the young girl with the satchel on her back, the start of another school day beckons.

Caption For London, The Tower Of London C1955

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf.

Caption For Barnard Castle, The Castle And The River Tees 1898

The Bishop of Durham claimed Barnard and occupied it from 1296 to 1301; then Edward I took it back, and eventually gave it to Robert Clifford.

Caption For Holyport, Main Road 1909

This is the frantically busy A330 and the wall on the right, to Holyport Lodge, has been moved back for road widening.

Caption For Southport, The Pier 1908

Drainage was provided, but it proved inadequate after a very high tide, with the result that the water found its own way back to the sea by scouring out a deep channel under some of the pier supports

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

At its back it is fringed by hills.

Caption For Helston, Wendron Street 1913

Here, country people are awaiting the carriers' carts that will transport them back to their farms and villages.

Caption For Wickham, Chesapeake Mill C1965

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

Caption For Newcastle, High Street 1963

The Royalists had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While

Caption For Rochford, North Street C1955

Straight-backed cars, complete with running boards, can be seen.