Maps

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Books

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Memories

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East Horsley In The Sixties

I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When ...Read more

A memory of East Horsley by Diana Johnson

My Happy Childhood In Berkhamsted.

I was born at the Grange Nursing Home in Berkhamsted on November 19th, 1950. My parents were John and Marjorie Stanborough, my father was a school teacher at Park View School which later reverted to Westfield. We ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted by Pauline Askey(Stanborough)

Leave Things Alone

I lived on Frenchbarn Lane just across from St Peters church from 1960 to 1972, I was 5yrs old when I moved there. Coming from Salford docks area it was like moving into one of Enid Blytons books. A real farm just up the ...Read more

A memory of Blackley by Neil Edwards

My Early Years In Longton 1870s To 1940s

I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Barbara Johnson

Alcombe School

This is a very exciting discovery for me because it is one of the oldest photographs I have seen of a part of old Alcombe that I can recognise, even at my great distance from the UK. My Great-Grandfather, George Mildon had a school ...Read more

A memory of Alcombe in 1880 by Richard Mildon

Searching The Tombs!

Oh I know it always seemed so huge and scary, with its giant red doors, but my brother and I had such fun in the churchyard climbing the trees and exploring the broken tombs and crypts. Pretty scary as I always expected a ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell in 1966 by Denise Masters

Childhood Of Norton Canes.

i was born in Hednesford Road, followed by my sisters in 1958 and 1960. We enjoyed a fantastic childhood - we lived in a three up, three down, with an outside toilet and a tin bath. I remember our toilet freezing over ...Read more

A memory of Norton Canes

Fulham Memories

I was born in 1951 at Parsons Green maternity home. I have many memories of my mum's family. My nan lived in Bayonne Road, Escourt Road, Heckfield Place, Bramber Road, Cassidy Road, Fairholme Road and latterly Charleville Road, then ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by jenny_blakemore

A Holiday Of Note

I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg ...Read more

A memory of Dollar in 1951 by Thelma Hurly

Berwick Road C Of E School

I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton.  There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by Kathleen Green

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Captions

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Caption For Wickford, High Street C1950

This busy street is crowded with shoppers, although the road is still fairly free from traffic. Awnings protect the shop fronts and the goods displayed in the windows.

Caption For Hindhead, Post Office 1909

The main crossroads at Hindhead, with the A3 London to Portsmouth Road descending the hill, is still recognisable today although the delightful and quaint cupola surmounting the post office on the corner

Caption For Moore, The Post Office 1952

This deceptively simple photograph captures the spirit of Moore in 1955: the road curving out of the village; the essential Post Office; and an absence of menfolk, who were probably hard at work on the

Caption For Macclesfield, Parkside Asylum 1898

The site, however, now houses the town's general hospital on Victoria Road.

Caption For Burnley, Towneley Park, Golf Links C1960

The photograph looks in the direction of Causeway End and Todmorden Road.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Bridges 1891

An interesting view showing the Ha'penny pedestrian bridge across Rifts Wood and the road bridge between the old town and new town.

Caption For Muker, From Rigg Road C1955

This is a classic view of the picturesque former lead mining village of Muker in Swaledale, taken from over the Straw Beck from the Rigg Road.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side-by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Caption For Poole, Peoples Park 1898

The houses indicate the line of Parkstone Road.

Caption For Hathersage, The Village 1902

This view looks towards the village from the Sheffield road. On the right is the Ordnance Arms, better known to today's tourists as the ivy-covered Hathersage Inn.

Caption For Ashford In The Water, The Old Pump C1955

Note the milk lorry loaded with churns parked in Buxton Road, which leads off to the right.

Caption For Stratton On The Fosse, The Memorial C1955

Stratton is strung along the Fosse Way, a Roman road. Its elaborate and recently restored war memorial stands on the junction with Church Lane.

Caption For Daventry, The Greenway C1965

The houses in the Greenway are 1960s infill with their own service road.

Caption For Hitchin, Old Houses Tilehouse Street 1931

The corner of Tilehouse Street and Charlton Road in 1931. This fine building has been restored, and substantial wooden beams uncovered on the façade.

Caption For York, Low Petergate C1960

The street was originally part of the Roman city's main road, or Via Principalis. The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

Caption For Oving, The Black Boy Inn C1955

to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this is the main A40 London to Oxford road

Caption For Burgess Hill, Church Road 1950

Church Road's late 19th-century shopping parade leads from the station to the steepled 1860s church, built to minister a burgeoning commuter town.

Caption For Melksham, Forest Road C1950

They were built by Spencer's Engineering Works, which moved to Beanacre Road in 1903.

Caption For Salisbury, River Walk 1923

River Avon looked alongside Churchill Gardens, just south of the city centre in 1923.The bridge in the distance is the old Harnham Bridge—the photograph was taken before the building of New Bridge Road

Caption For Forest Row, The Village 1902

An evocative view of wide shaggy grass verges, children and deserted roads characterises this view of Forest Row, the Ashdown Forest village that grew up on the site of Royal hunting lodges.

Caption For Pett Level, The Market Stores C1955

The photographer has moved slightly further back down the road to take in the whole of the Market Stores, no doubt for a picture postcard of the time.

Caption For Sapcote, The Post Office C1965

Sapcote granite was also in constant demand for road-making and kerb stones.

Caption For Warrington, The Knutsford Road Swing Bridge C1960

Manchester-bound, the 'Tarantia' passes through the Knutsford Road Swing Bridge towards Latchford Locks.

Caption For Wingham, Preston Hill C1955

this view looks up Preston Hill, with the Sandwich road to the right.