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Memories

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Rivacre Baths.

For those who never saw (or may have forgotten), the photo shows the view you had after coming in through the main entrance. The large fountain can be seen in the foreground, and was enjoyed by many children as they ran around ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1947 by David Copnall

Memories Of Kerry

It always felt great to be in the town of Kerry. It was the halfway stop to our holiday in a Towyn caravan with no toilet. Dad always used to make a joke of visiting the Toilidoos. He could not pronounce the Welsh version. The old ...Read more

A memory of Kerry in 1977 by Kerry Kendrick

Now St Georges Square

At the junction of Williamson St, opposite the Town Hall. Local corporation bus company had a terminus halfway down Williamson St. Also Fyffes bananas had large depot opposite parked buses.

A memory of Luton in 1950 by John King

Re Tony Bros Ice Cream

I remember Tony Bros ice cream parlour off Acton High Street. On some Sundays my father would take me for a treat for a cornet or wafer scooped out of the big drum on the counter, it was always after giving our dog ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield by Frank Morrison

Military Music On Promenade And In Park

My National Service was spent in The Alamein Band of The Royal Tank Regiment which for 3 seasons, 1949 to 1952 played at Bognor Regis for two months on the promenade bandstand in the afternoons and in ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis in 1950 by Alan Binns

2 Years In The Village

Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing ...Read more

A memory of Iford in 1956 by Kay Mullin

Denes Avenue

I used to live in Denes Aveue which was lined with alternate apple and cherry trees. I lived at no 4 with the Pike family. I went to the infant's school which was split into two or three sections. There was one at the bottom of a lane, a ...Read more

A memory of Mere

Training To Be A Bricklayer

During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1951 by Frank Mowforth

August 25th, 1892

I have photos of Walreddon Manor from my ancestors who lived there in the 1890s. One is similar to the photo here, but was taken in August of 1892, and the back inscription, written about the same time, said the children were ...Read more

A memory of Tavistock in 1890 by Cristy Watson

Events On The Hill

I have left the year of these incidents because they were on going throughout my childhood. The first concerns Dr Clinch's dog. Dr Clinch lived at the top of Penygarn Hill. He was a large man with a gruff exterior, I believe he ...Read more

A memory of Penygarn by Robert Miles

Captions

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Caption For Headley Down, Post Office C1955

This is a relatively modern development, while a mile and half away is the older village of Headley. There are still plenty of trees here.

Caption For Haywards Heath, South Road C1950

This is one of the very few shops that still observe half-day closing - each Wednesday it closes at 1pm.

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 Scone, Palace South East 1899

A new village of Scone was laid a mile and a half away, allowing the palace to be set in extensive parkland. All that remains of the old village are the cross and the graveyard.

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle Street 1921

Wednesday is still half-day closing. We can see how the Castle dominates the street, even though only its keep is still standing. The Starkie Arms Hotel is on the far right of our photograph.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Chapel Road C1955

Lindow Moss, the peat bog shared between Wilmslow and Mobberley, is still in places the mysterious half-land half-water landscape where two thousand years ago a Celtic tribe sought to appease the