Photos

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Maps

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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 471 to 480.

Castle Square Bus Terminus

Castle Square of the 1950s and 60s had a vibrancy that is absent nowadays. This was because all of the local bus services terminated there and a constant stream of people dismounted to go about their business ...Read more

A memory of Caernarfon in 1959 by John Owen

Holidays In Gorton

I am Kenneth Overend Edwards from LLandudno, north Wales, and my story about Gorton is surprising because from an early age I was sent by my mother Ellen Edwards (nee Overend) to stay with my grandad, Eric Theodore Overend, who ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1952 by Ken Edwards

Those Were The Days

I was still a teenager, 17 years old and my baby brother at school at Bede Campus. I escaped the campus by virtue of it not having been completed when I passed the 11+. The town centre in Billingham was still being built, ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1965 by Paula Hollingworth

My Beautiful Kentish Birthplace

I was born in East House, Tenterden Road, Rolvenden on 2nd November 1938.  My dad was about to join the RAF and I was born in my grandparents' home. There were large cellars below the house - very scarey.  East ...Read more

A memory of Rolvenden in 1940 by Jill Howell

Happy Days In Edmonton

We lived with my grandmother who was not in good health.  My dad worked at Lebus Furniture Factory in Tottenham and would cycle every day to work.  Then he came into some money and bought a car.  In the harsh winters of ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1950 by Rosemary Farr

Rounders In The Road

I was brought up in Brewood, in the cottage which is called South View and later next door in what is now 38 Shop Lane. There were four children in our family, I had  two older brothers and a younger sister. Our friends came ...Read more

A memory of Brewood in 1945 by Graham Bill

Evacuee

I was an evacuee in Middlestown in WWII, from East London. The first time was with my Mother and we were billeted in a small cottage which backed on to a barn belonging to a farm run by Mr and Mrs Cowan. We were there for approximately ...Read more

A memory of Middlestown in 1943 by Derek Ettridge

Church Road Corner, East Wittering

I moved to East Wittering in 1966 and worked in the area for the next 20 years. The two cottages on the left were originally the village post office but have long since been demolished although a local ...Read more

A memory of East Wittering in 1966 by P Phillips

The Play Swings

I remember the swings being located in the park as shown in this picture when I was about four. I know they kept the big slide when they relocated them down to the bottom left hand side of the park as you look at this photograph ...Read more

A memory of West Hagley in 1967 by Paul Hingley

When I Was A Boy

My name is Peter Labdon and I lived with my father Wilf, my mother Ruby and my brother David in Halberton from 1933 to 1943, between the ages of two and twelve. We lived first in Norway House, at the top of the road to Lower ...Read more

A memory of Halberton in 1930 by Peter Labdon

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 1,129 to 1,152.

Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955

At its centre is the square Market Place with a medieval market cross whose shaft can be seen to the left.

Caption For Langley Park, Front Street C1955

The wide streets, stone buildings and the war memorial in the centre of Langley Park look much the same today.

Caption For Melton Mowbray, Nottingham Street C1960

Next door to the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe is the Corn Exchange, later to have a new identity as the Bell shopping centre.

Caption For Norton, The Green C1955

On the right is the old National School, built in 1838, but later used as a church hall and then as a community centre.

Caption For Porlock, The Ship Inn 1923

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

Caption For Ludham, Womack Water C1930

In the centre of the picture two men are working on an another unusual boat, a motorised wherry - notice the shortened mast.

Caption For Ealing, C1950

Many locals still work in and around Ealing, and the town has retained its excellent shopping centre.

Caption For Merrivale, The Bridge 1910

The quarry cottages are long gone, but the Dartmoor Inn (centre) is a popular watering-hole still.

Caption For Ramsgate, The Beach 1907

Note the large number of beach vendors, and the dark-rooms of two rival photographers in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Ramsgate, The Promenade C1920

Children with hoops pose for the photographer in the centre of the picture.The octagonal building on the left is a newspaper

Caption For Fordingbridge, High Street C1950

Fordingbridge is now a busy market town, though in former days it was an important industrial centre, renowned for the manufacture of sailcloth and canvas.

Caption For Goldthorpe, The Miners Welfare Hall C1960

The 'Miners' Welfare' was the community and cultural centre for many South Yorkshire and other coal mining villages.

Caption For Alderholt, The Mill C1960

During the latter half of the 20th century the mill was restored and opened to visitors as a craft centre and art gallery.

Caption For Geddington, The Village C1955

Here we are looking down Queen Street from the junction with Kettering Road, towards the centre of the village where the spire of the church can be seen in the distance.

Caption For Ullenhall, The Village C1955

The Winged Spur (in the background, on the right) in the village centre is still a traditional country pub with a warm welcome for local residents and visitors.

Caption For Fleet, Minley Road 1903

A building can just be seen through the trees in the centre of the photograph.

Caption For Camberley, London Road 1925

The large trees have gone, and the Arena Leisure Centre now stands in their place.

Caption For Clapham, Brokken Bridge C1955

Two little girls walk arm-in-arm across the tree-shaded ancient packhorse bridge which crosses Clapham Beck in the centre of the village.

Caption For Lytham, 'the Minstrels' 1914

The building in the centre background is the entrance to Lytham Pier.

Caption For Melton Mowbray, Nottingham Street C1955

The sign of the popular White Lion Hotel is just visible in the centre of this photograph and Barclays Bank (now Ladbrokes) is on the far left.

Caption For Lutterworth, Church Street C1955

The commercial centre of the town for over a hundred years, this area had long-established tradesmen's shops.

Caption For Stanford Le Hope, The Green C1960

These shops face the small bus shelter in the centre of S258082.

Caption For Lincoln, Silver Street C1950

Lincoln suffered a lot of demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, including No 12 on the far left, now drab 1970s offices, and the buildings beyond which made way for the Stonebow Centre shopping mall of

Caption For Basildon, South Gunnels C1965

Before the construction of the town centre, there were few shops in the new Basildon.