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Ealing 1962 Onwards

I moved to Windsor Road in Ealing in 1962 when I was 11. I remember the Grove with fond memories. All the shops! The tailor's shop and the barbers. The sweet shop which always had a bowl of water for the dogs outside in the ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1962

West Street Wath Upon Dearne

I left Wath Grammar School in 1948 after 7 happy years. My father was the owner of Waddington Bros. Ironmongers in West Street, but the shop and all the rest of the shops in West Street were demolished around ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne by Betty Harris

Childhood In Benham Valence

It was in April 1950 that I was born in the Victorian wing of Benham Valence - actually in the flat above the garages - a very primitive dwelling with no bathroom or indoor toilet. Unfortunately the whole wing was ...Read more

A memory of Benham Park in 1950 by Nicolette Craggs

Victoria Park Latchford

I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and ...Read more

A memory of Warrington in 1945

School And Before

I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by John Mac Dougall

County Oak Tushmore Sports And Social Club

So named because members were from north of Crawley on the main A23 Brighton Road, not big enough to be a village, but a hamlet stretching half a mile north and south of todays Manor Royal Estate ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1954 by Tony Tester

East Ham In The 1960s

In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1963 by Jackie Craig

Getting Locked In The Arboretum

I remember when I was 14 my friend Josie Weston and I rode our bikes along Broadway West to the Arboretum. We were walking along the paths and around by the lake when we met two boys and one of the boy's mothers ...Read more

A memory of Walsall by Patricia Littel

Sittingbourne To Australia

My name is Margaret.  I was born in Park Road, Sittingbourne on 18.4.45. My parents were Flossie and Cyril Neaves. My dad worked as a machine man in the Sittingbourne paper mills and my mum worked fruit picking in ...Read more

A memory of Sittingbourne in 1971 by namscox

Margaret

Margaret lived at 20 West View in 1951 and came regularly to Gateshead. She had a friend who lived near Saltwell Park. When I was called up to do my National Service on 4/10/1951 we were pen friends but she stopped writing after a good ...Read more

A memory of Washington in 1951 by Les May

Captions

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Caption For Laleham, Chertsey Lock C1960

West of Sunbury and on the former Middlesex bank of the Thames is Chertsey Lock, near Chertsey Bridge, an austere seven-arch stone bridge of the 1780s by James Paine.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1921

The west-bound traffic, overtaking a parked vehicle and cyclist, is rather hogging the middle of the road.

Caption For Brook, The Dog And Pheasant 1957

A little south-west of Witley, the route passes the tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub on the A286 Haslemere Road; it stands opposite the village cricket ground with the 1923 village hall.

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

Caption For Fornham St Martin, The Church 1898

Inside there are monuments to Sir William Gilstrap, a pottery manufacturer, of Fornham Park (who died in 1896) and Henry Claughton, an HMI in West Suffolk for 38 years (he died in 1924)

Caption For Watford, Cassiobury Park And Iron Bridge Lock 1921

Here we see two horse-drawn narrowboats, 'Linnet' and 'Evelyn', at the attractively-sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

Caption For Thurmaston, The River C1965

The river weaves its way southwards from the pastures of Quorn and Cossington into the almost solidly developed northern edge of the city between Birstall to its west, and Thurmaston

Caption For Hill Head, C1955

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

Caption For Sutton, St Barnabas Church 1904

It served the Sutton New Town development to the east of Manor Park up to the Carshalton parish boundary. The road is now St Barnabas Road.

Caption For Leicester, Town Hall Gardens C1965

Dominated by the Town Hall on its west side, and sheltered by trees and hedges, sandwiches could be consumed and pigeons fed on the crusty remnants.

Caption For Pleasington, Priory Church 1894

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

Caption For Chiseldon, The Church C1960

Inside, there are many monuments, including a number of interesting tablets of the Georgian period to members of the Calley family of Burderop Park.

Caption For St Austell, Pondhu Road 1912

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

Caption For Sherington, Crofts End C1960

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

Caption For Cockfosters, Christ Church, Chalk Lane C1965

Designed by Henry Edward Kendall in 1839, and situated to the west of Cockfosters Underground station, this stock brick church was financed by the Bevan family who owned Trent Park, and whose origins were

Caption For Westerham, The Village 1925

It is a quiet morning in this pleasant small town, situated on a gentle hill a few miles west of Sevenoaks.

Caption For Northampton, Market Square C1950

A market place since at least 1235, the west side shown here survives much better than the north side.

Caption For Petworth, Lombard Street 1900

The high walls of Petworth House dominate the west side of the town.

Caption For Bedford, St Paul's Square C1955

St Paul's Square, also known as Market Place, is bounded on the west by the churchyard of St Paul.

Caption For Bridport, West Street C1965

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

Caption For Ilkley, West View Park 1906

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1930

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.

Caption For Latimer, The Water Splash 1897

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.