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Memories

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Growing Up In Aberkenfig

Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Catherine Delahay

Looking Up The Long Drive

I remember in 1957, aged 13, arriving with my mom and dad up the drive and going round to the needle room to take my casefull of my clothes for the first term, then being taken into Main Block and up the stairs to dorm ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1957 by Colin Bowen

Life At Langleybury

We were privileged to have lived in Langleybury house from approx 1970. My two boys were born during our time there. We lived both on the top floor of the mansion and in the stable block after the birth of my second son. It's ...Read more

A memory of Langleybury in 1970 by Jill Tidmarsh

Holy Trinity Church 1891 Margate

The Margate cliffs were chalk. An extremely tall church named The Holy Trinity Church sat in the middle of Trinity Square about 800m from the sea. During the war, the roof had collapsed leaving the outer walls, tower ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Dave Harris

Surrey St.

I have only just discovered this website and felt compelled to respond. I was born in Heathfield Gardens, South Croydon in 1948 and my maiden name was Murphy. We moved to Wyche Grove near the Purley Arms, South Croydon when I was about 5 ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Kate Sims

Camping On The Benthills

I too, as others, have many fond memories of holidays in Sizewell. During summer school holidays I travelled from Scotland to London to be with my grandparents. They were well connected with Sizewell and would take me there ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell in 1953 by Ronald Mcdowell

Though Tis Dorset, I Thought Twere Devon

When I was a child, I lived at Axminster. My favourite seaside resort was Lyme Regis, about 6 miles away from home. Even though I was told, on countless occasions, that Lyme lay in Dorset, I would not ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis by Marjorie Alcock

Infant And Junior School In Earl Shilton Late 1960s To Mid 1970s

I lived on Cedar Road, my parents having bought a house (in which my mother still lives) on the new estate in 1964. I attended Wood Street Infant School from 1968 to 1971, Hill Top ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton in 1970 by Stephen Geary

The Roundway I Remember

In 1954 Roundway was the site of the Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre. Nothing now remains of this except a plaque erected by the local council to commemorate the fact that thousands of young men conscripted for National ...Read more

A memory of Roundway in 1954 by John Pettitt

What We Ate

Eeh! Remember potted meat? You could eat it as it was or put it on bread for a sandwich, where is it now? Then there was dripping which was quite solid and spread like margarine on your bread for sandwiches. I worked in Leeds on the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows

Captions

238 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Botley, The Mills C1950

This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

Caption For Penarth, Stanwell Road C1955

To the left is the Washington Super Cinema section of a bold 1930s block which was also designed to accommodate flats, shops and garages.

Caption For Dorridge, The Village C1965

The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

Caption For Botley, The Mills C1950

This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

Caption For Alton, Normandy Street C1955

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1950

Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

The replacement buildings are, without exception, blocks of flats, mostly three- storey, built between the 1950s and the present day.

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

All these houses have now gone, to be replaced by blocks of flats.

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock, The Elevator 1913

A series of rollers with blocks upon which the boat sat, this looks slightly alarming.

Caption For Seaton Delaval, The Hall C1965

In January 1822 the central block was badly damaged by fire; though time and money was spent reroofing it, it remained uninhabitable.

Caption For Birkenhead, Hamilton Square And City Hall C1955

The white block in front of it is the town's war memorial.

Caption For Milford On Sea, C1955

Not long after this photograph was taken, flats became popular, and today there are unsightly blocks of flats on the outskirts of this village.

Caption For Snaith, Selby Road C1950

The only thing that can be said about the horrendous building in the centre is that it served a useful purpose - a toilet block.

Caption For Exmouth, Morton Crescent 1906

It was built in 1870 for the benefit of the hotel trade in Victoria's reign, and several hotels survive to this day, though some of the buildings are now blocks of flats.

Caption For Bitteswell, Russett Cottage C1965

The cottage was originally semi- detached, but the second entrance door has been blocked, and a window substituted.

Caption For London, Blackfriars Bridge 1890

Nowadays, to the left beyond the cathedral are the tower blocks of the Barbican, completed in 1981.

Caption For Foxton, The Grand Union Canal C1955

comprehensive history of the locks, and the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust hopes one day to reconstruct the lost building; but as in most similar projects, money might well prove to be the stumbling block

Caption For Yoxford, The Church 1909

The window of the Cockfield chapel is blocked by later monuments.

Caption For St Austell, View From Ring Road C1955

The white block of the 1930s Odeon cinema dominates the town centre in the background (centre left).

Caption For Sutton, The Cock Hotel And High Street C1955

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Caption For Caerphilly, Castle C1955

The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Milk Factory 1897

The left-hand bay's top storey has gone and the ground floor windows are mostly blocked, but the building remains in use.

Caption For Twickenham, Barmy Arms 2004

wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down virtually every house in the area to be replaced by blocks