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St. John Ambulance Brigade, First Aid Post,

The St. John Ambulance Brigade of Grays Thurrock had three wooden first aid posts that they manned over bank holidays and summer weekends which were along what was the main road from East End of London running ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Albert Wm Gosnall

Brentwood High Street

I remember this view like it was yesterday. It is looking east towards Wilsons Corner. On the right is the Arcade and on the left side of the Arcade is a shop called Sacks & Brendalls (might have been Sacks & ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood by tim.blake69

Petrol Pumps On The Cross

The Seaman family lived at the house in the centre of the photo with the petrol pumps alongside the house. George Seaman lived here with his wife Lillian and ran the business. His 3 sons were born at the house and later ...Read more

A memory of Morriston by theseamans

When I Was A Wolf Cub In Grays

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

Training Pit Ponies At Oxclose. Ryhope

Training Pit Ponies at Ryhope Oxclose was a row of 5 terraced houses owned by the Colliery and located at the top of the lane which passed the eastern side of the Cricket field. At the Western end of 5 terraced ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by harrydhx

Twydall Shops 1960

My sister was born in March 1960. We children, the four of us aged 9yrs, 10 yrs, 11 yrs 12 yrs had to go and stay with an Auntie and Uncle on the Estate In Twydall. We helped out, and I remember we had to go and shop with our ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham

Remember Pevensey Bay

im an ex Pevensey bay man born and bread in the bay in the late forties,my name is john parks iv a twin brother Alan we used to live next to the castle inn till I was about five then moved to the centre of the bay. my ...Read more

A memory of Pevensey Bay by John Parks

Corringham Town Centre

This is Corringham not Stanford

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope

Bettys Memory Of Dagenham

My family came from the Merry Fidlers Dagenham, My Aunt lived in the Limes on Nanny Goat Common, My Nan lived in the cottages opposite the pub, and several of my aunts also lived in the cottages, We used to watch the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by bettjeff39

Collinson's Cafe And Brown, Muff & Co., The Early 1960s

As a schoolboy in the 1960s I would generally go to the city centre to lunch with my parents so as to avoid school meals. Large stores offered various dining options. Collinsons’ had an ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by michaelpeterpeyton

Captions

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Caption For Chertsey, Guildford Street 1908

The butcher on the extreme right arranges his display, and the postman in the centre delivers letters.

Caption For Liskeard, Church Street 1906

Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

Caption For Gorleston, Old Dutch Pier 1952

In the centre of the photograph we can see the 64ft, red brick lighthouse on the Brush Wharf, built at a cost of £400.

Caption For Stourbridge, Public Library And Hagley Road 1953

Today the library has moved to the Crown Centre, and this building is part of Stourbridge College, as it is now known.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Mariner's Square 1906

The building to the centre is now without its bay window.

Caption For Datchet, The Green And Manor Hotel 1950

This photograph captures an ice cream vendor waiting for business in the village centre.

Caption For Ballymoney, High Street C1900

In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road C1965

Tyrell's butchers shop at No 44 is a reminder that the town then had several such shops and now, in the whole of the town centre, there is not one left.

Caption For Wareham, The River And Bridge C1965

Abbot's Quay and Holy Trinity Church (centre) are beyond.

Caption For Swanage, The Shore C1950

Swanage remained a centre of the quarrying industry until well into the last century.

Caption For Forest Row, 1931

Here we see a busy scene in Forest Row's attractive centre on the London to Eastbourne Road (A22).

Caption For Uppingham, Beast Hill C1965

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

Caption For Cambridge, King's College C1955

Whilst the bicycles remain a common feature, cars have vanished with city centre pedestrianisation.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

After a royal luncheon, the Duke had a tour of the town centre and the new Keay House office block.

Caption For Clitheroe, From The Castle 1927

The large railway sidings that we can see here denote how important Clitheroe was as a distribution centre for this part of the Ribble Valley.

Caption For Peel, The Town From The Castle 1893

The tower in the centre of the picture overlooks the causeway linking the islet with the town, and was probably built by Sir William le Scrope in the 1390s.

Caption For Hull, Queen Victoria Square C1955

The 35ft statue of Queen Victoria, designed by the architect J S Gibson and the sculptor H C Fehr, dominated the centre of the new city square following its unveiling by the Prince of Wales on 12 May

Caption For Corsham, Wesleyan Chapel 1904

Now called St Aldhelm's Methodist Reformed Church, this lovely little building stands alongside and open to a busy street near Corsham town centre.

Caption For Burwash, A Group Of Friends 1889

Then it declined, and found an unsavoury niche as a smuggling and sheep-rustling centre.

Caption For East Grinstead, Council School 1911

the decorative work - finials, dormers, chimneys and belfry - was removed, leaving a much plainer facade, but the school survived until 1990, afterwards being adapted as Chequer Mead Arts Centre

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Church 1898

Centre left is the Bethany Baptist Church, which opened in 1827 when 30 members left the Frogmore Street Church.

Caption For Stonehenge, C1960

So too were aspects of the 'alternative society', who used Stonehenge for all sorts of spiritual enlightenment or protest, as can be seen by the CND sign daubed on the stone in the centre.

Caption For Wragby, Market Place C1965

It received a market charter from Charles II, and at its centre is a big triangular Market Place.