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My Memory Is Of Foodieash

I lived in Foodieash from the age of 3 to 17 and remember it as a peaceful little village, there was no electric, the loo was down the back garden, but they were happy days. I remember going to Foodie farm every ...Read more

A memory of Blebocraigs in 1940 by Jean Williams

My Youger Days

Hello, I lived on Hadleigh Road & I went to Boxford school from age 7 until 11 plus, Mr Sore was Headmaster who lived in the village in Riverside house. The village hall opposite the school was where I would go to have my lunch ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1956 by Audrey Pamplin

Family Holidays

My grandparents lived in Brenchley for many years, and all our summer holidays in the 1950s and 1960s were spent there. We lived in London so I really looked forward to the summer! My grandparents lived near Castle Hill, and on ...Read more

A memory of Brenchley by Pamela Foster

Welshs Grocery Shop

When I was a little girl, my mother, Violet Helmore, would take me into Welsh's regularly to do her shopping. Biscuits could be bought loose then as could sugar tea etc. I always thought that I was a good little girl, ...Read more

A memory of Midsomer Norton in 1954 by Diane Shearn

Hixon Village

I was 6 when we moved to Hixon from Stowe by Chartley. My dear dad Len, my 2 sisters Rose and Sue and my 2 brothers Gray and Mick. We lived in the Croft no 24, my brother still lives in that house today overlooking the woods that were ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1965 by Pam Clemson

Down Town Shopping With My Mum Aunt Edie

I remember shopping with my mum & aunt every Saturday. When we were finished with the shopping we would visit a little cafe right next door to Woolworths. After I had drank my bottle of Tizer, I ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1953 by June Fahnestock (Nee Clea

Leaving Ware Grammar School

My elder sister and I both went to Ware Grammar School. My sister Christine Beattie from 1953 to 1956 and me, Catherine (Rena) Beattie from 1955 to 1956. We travelled from Hertford by bus to school and back. We left the ...Read more

A memory of Ware in 1956 by Catherine (Rena) Young

Bronze Street Collyhurst

Hi everyone, I went to St Pat's 1956 -1962 and lived at 17 Bronze Street. I remember Brian Kidd going to our school. We had a good football team, I think the headmaster was Mr Cassidy who played for United in the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1959 by Anthony Flynn

Peartree Close

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by Paul Smith

Crosby Rosedale Aveune

I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1947 by Ann Hamlet

Captions

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Caption For Manchester, Exhibition Station 1887

On one day over the Bank Holiday, a total of 74,600 visitors were recorded in one single day, and in the 166 days it was opened, 4.75 million people came to view the delights.

Caption For Send, The Canal Lock 1909

The stacks of timber on the opposite bank (centre) show, in this view downstream to the lock, that even at the start of the 20th century the Wey Navigation had an important role to play in the local economy

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

The openness of the village centre is striking, with some good later 18th/early 19th-century houses ranging either side of the grass-banked brook, with its modest urban district council railings

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.

Caption For Barton Upon Humber, Market Place C1955

The NatWest bank building, built in 1913, is on the left. The Market Place is now mainly a car park and pathway.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

The photograph shows the Provincial Bank, which had in fact been in 'Hercules Place', now absorbed. Its railings and shrubs helped to put it in line with the new Avenue, and it became number 2.

Caption For Manchester, View From Victoria Hotel 1889

She wanted it here on the banks of the Irwell because Thomas had saved her life here when her father's boat, the 'Emma', capsized on its launch. Many people were drowned in the tragedy.

Caption For Manchester, King Street C1885

Next to it towards the camera is the District Bank, later the site of Nat West House, and now up for sale.

Caption For Eccles, Church Street C1955

The square tower of St Mary's can be seen peeping out at the centre back of the picture.

Caption For Exeter, The Port 1896

This approach to the city is picturesque, with the canal winding its way through the meadows between reed-fringed banks.

Caption For Coningsby, High Street C1965

Barclays Bank beyond has gone and been replaced by Goodwins hardware store. Further on was Hall's men's wear shop, but it too is no more.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1897

On the north side of the street the confident commercial frontage is that of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, which was absorbed into Lloyds (right).

Caption For St Neots, High Street From The Cross C1965

The spire of the Congregational church stands proudly above the row of shops spanned by the Westminster Bank and the premises of John Rayns Smith (the first white building on the right).

Caption For Coningsby, High Street C1965

Barclays Bank beyond has gone and been replaced by Goodwins hardware store. Further on was Hall's men's wear shop, but it too is no more.

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

On the right is a branch of the London and County Bank, with Dorset's shop next door exhibiting a gleaming display of light fittings.

Caption For Castle Acre, The Priory, The West Front 1891

Situated on the Peddars Way on the banks of the River Nar, it has an old castle and a picturesque priory. William de Warrenne was granted Castle Acre by William the Conqueror.

Caption For Scalby, The Village C1965

The bank building was once the Sir Christopher Keld Hospital Almshouses from 1647 to 1909, and it was rebuilt in 1854. It is now a private house.

Caption For Newton Le Willows, High Street C1965

The relevance of two fish and chip shops sited directly opposite the Pied Bull pub needs no further comment, but one has to question the suitability of the branch of a national bank - apparently located

Caption For Standon, Old Paper Mill C1965

The ford does not cut straight across the Rib, but runs along the river bed and then emerges further down stream on the opposite bank.

Caption For Glasgow, The Necropolis 1897

The medieval fair was held at the upper end of the High Street (Townhead), but as the town began to spread southward, the fair moved to the north bank of the Clyde, near the Stockwell.

Caption For Belfast, Alexandra Park 1897

The banks of a short stretch of Milewater had once provided clay for bricks, tiles and a pottery.

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.

Caption For Swindon, High Street 1948

The Masons Arms (beyond), with its own stables, which stood opposite the junction with Newport Street, had parts of the building dating back to the late 17th century.

Caption For Bashall Eaves, The Village C1955

Bashall Eaves stands on the banks of the river Hodder in the parish of Mitton.