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A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To Wick Lane

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

A Walk From Wickford High Street Down The Rettendon Raod

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford in the 1960s and 1970s as a couple of walks around ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Growing Up In Tottenham

I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Jacqueline Dagnall

Bursledon Bridge

This picture is of the two Bursledon bridges over the River Hamble - the A27 road bridge in the foreground and the rail bridge behind it. Sarisbury Green is further up to the right on the A27 at the top of the hill. The photo is ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Roger Pols

Pero's Bridge

The warehousing which dominated Prince Street, Narrow Quay and Prince's Wharf have been found new uses, largely cultural and media-based. The industry on Canon's'Marsh has gone, replaced by the new industry of tourism. With the ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Acton Bridge

Hello Laurie My dad had the boat 'Jan' - I still see Roger & Jean from time to time. We still have a boat on the Weaver at AB, and she is called 'Triton'. I have a brother called Peter and my parents were called Peter ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1960

Tennis Courts Portway Bristol

These Clifton Tennis Courts alongside Bristol's Portway road were built just after the road was opened. The new built Portway from Bristol to Avonmouth a very modern road in its day. The wide A4 Portway trunk road ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Paul Townsend

Growing Up

I remember the long hot nights when we would all play football down the park till it got dark, the shops on the main street when you could buy any kind of sweets (or nick them if you were skint he,he), the bridge that divided the two ...Read more

A memory of Salsburgh

Lovegreen Street

My maternal grandmother lived in Lovegreen Street from around 1900 until 1957 when she moved in with my family in Framwellgate Moor. Her name was Parkinson and I believe her house was the first one as you turned the corner into the ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1950 by Jean Watts

Captions

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Caption For Addingham, The Church C1955

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Caption For Lancing College, 1890

This wooden bridge survives. Authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1781, it carried traffic until 1971.

Caption For Shoreham By Sea, Norfolk Bridge 1919

What a tragic loss this superb 1833 suspension bridge was. Designed by William Tierney Clarke, it was replaced in 1923.

Caption For Sheffield, Fitzalan Square 1902

The single-deck trams were used on routes with low railway bridges. Note also the wooden stalls used as tramway stops.

Caption For Tadcaster, Market Place And Kirkgate 1907

This picture was taken from the junction with Bridge Street. Just getting into the picture on the right is the recently completed Becketts Bank.

Caption For Barnstaple, Bridge 1890

The Long Bridge over the broad waters of the River Taw was certainly built by 1300, but it may be a hundred years or more older.

Caption For Burton On Trent, The River Trent C1960

Andressy Bridge, built in 1884, joining Andressy Island to the town, is featured in this view from Hay Walk.

Caption For Sutton On Trent, The Railway C1955

The photograph was taken from a bridge built in the 1930s to replace the delay-producing level-crossing which carried the Great North Road.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

Caption For London, Clock Tower And Westminster Bridge C1890

The cast iron bridge was built in the 1850s, with Sir Charles Barry, the Houses of Parliament architect, acting as consultant. To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

Caption For Cardiff, The Hayes Looking Towards Working Street 2004

The dated 1960s architecture of Oxford House opposite faces demolition - clearance of the Hayes/Bridge Street site is scheduled to make way for a vast new retail complex.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1903

The Square lies at the north end of the Long Bridge. The building to the right is the red façade of The Athenaeum, built in 1888, which houses the museum and a collection of fossils.

Caption For Leeds, Seven Arches, Alwoodley 1891

There are two massive bridges in the town, and before the line east reaches another viaduct at Golcar, it passes over these smaller seven arches opposite the town of Linthwaite.

Caption For South Cerney, The Village C1965

The lane in the centre of the village that crosses the bridge is called 'Bow Wow', while not far off is another named 'Upper Up'.

Caption For Chelsworth, The Bridge And Peacock Inn C1960

This is taken from the 'tongues' in the middle of the River Brett, adjacent to the two 18th-century hump-backed bridges. The Peacock is early 15th-century.

Caption For Hutton Le Hole, The Ford C1955

The ford was replaced by a bridge over the beck in the winter of 1966/67.

Caption For Boston, High Street 1899

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

Caption For Andover, High Street C1960

Perhaps some of these cars came from Wessex Motors that sold Morris, MG, Riley, and Wolseley cars in nearby Bridge Street.

Caption For Honiton, New Street 1904

The Methodist chapel is on the left, whilst ahead is a railway bridge. The station is to the right, on the old London and South Western Railway line from Waterloo to Exeter.

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

This photograph shows the corner of High Street and Bridge Street. The Electricity Service Centre and the London Central Meat Company have been replaced by a beauty salon and a florist.

Caption For Buckfastleigh, The Bridge Over The River Dart C1955

This bridge is first recorded as 'Dertebrygg' on the Assize Rolls of 1356; since then it has been enlarged several times as traffic has grown heavier.

Caption For Two Bridges, The Hotel C1955

Two Bridges is at the junction of all the ancient packhorse trails that cross the moor, and was thus the obvious meeting place for miners from all points of the compass.

Caption For Chippenham, C1955

The bridge over the Avon is in the distance. On the right, a shop front has been added to an earlier building. From the pavement the change would be almost invisible.