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Memories

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Sunday Afternoons At The Mere

I have wonderful memories of Sunday afternoon visits to the Mere in the 50s with my parents. They ran a pub in Shrewsbury and Sunday afternoons were family time. We came in spring when the daffodils were out along the ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere by Sylvia Ashton

Newton A Aycliffe In The Sixties

Mu aunt Cecilia Hood lived in Clarence Chare Newton Aycliffe. My Uncle was involved in building the clock in the centre of Newton Aycliffe. My cousin Terence Parnaby and his son Robin also lived in Aycliffe. As ...Read more

A memory of Newton Aycliffe

Civic Centre, Dagenham (1955)

I remember that I used to accompany my mother to pay our rent at the Civic Centre. There were revolving doors at the entrance and these used to fascinate me. I always looked forward to going there because of the doors.

A memory of Dagenham by Patricia Haskell

Growing Up In Camelon

I was born in Falkirk in 1962. I lived in Mariner Drive then Mariner Road until I was 40 years old before moving to Summerford. I went to Easter Carmuirs Primary School and hated most of my time there; only really enjoying ...Read more

A memory of Camelon by joe.fae.kemlin

Young Patrol, Eskdale 1965

As an Essex Police Cadet I went to the Eskdale Outward Bound Centre in 1964/65 where I was subsequently elected the leader of Young Patrol. Every morning between 6-7am we were woken and had to run down to the lake and ...Read more

A memory of Eskdale Green by b12ley

A Little Evacuee ......

Hello, the year 1944/45, my mother had put up with the V1 ‘s being dropped near us, we lived on the out skirts of London. A V2 was dropped one day, killing 22 people at the bottom of the road where we lived. So with ...Read more

A memory of Lambley by chrisrob1942

Midge Heaven Or Hell

It would have been roundabout the mid ‘70’s when I first went to Glen Etive & Glencoe. A group of us went up in a 1966 BMC/Commer mini bus. As the owner said, it was coloured cream, maroon, & rust. I learnt a lot about ...Read more

A memory of Taynuilt by bru.enzer

I Am Looking For Felix Road West

Ancestors are listed on RG12/1030 Page 2, of the 1891 census, but I can't find any trace of Felix Road West, apart from just Felix Road. The area immediately west of Felix Road is a cemetery which predates ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by ff

Lydiate Townswomens Guild In Lydiate Community Centre

Our Lydiate TG Guild was active from the 50's to 2012, when the membership dropped and it was embarrassing to see the numbers attending for speakers and we had to close. We had some very happy ...Read more

A memory of Lydiate by David Mc Guinness

Growing Up In Greenford 72 86

Brought up from age 7 Lived at 9 ferrymead gardens directly opposite holy cross church. Used to watch all the Saturday weddings and the cherry blossom along the middle verges. Schooled at Bethams, coston girls ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by sj-sarahjane

Captions

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Caption For Chideock, Gathering The Hay 1922

This was taken from the slope below Newfoundland Coppice, looking south-eastwards to Eype Down (centre), with Doghouse Farm in the dip below (right).

Caption For Sydling St Nicholas, The Stream And Bridge C1955

The old Mill House (centre) was demolished in 1966.

Caption For Crewe, Bus Station C1960

Notice the steeple of St Paul's Church in the distance (centre) – it was taken down soon after the bus station opened.

Caption For Sedbergh, Market Place 1901

The bold black-and-white half-timbering of G Sedgwick's draper and outfitters shop in the centre of the picture (the owners are proudly standing outside) is in marked contrast to the same shop which

Caption For Cardiff, Church Street 2004

The thoroughfare now pedestrian, the laying of its Chinese granite cobbles marked the initiation of the city centre repaving programme.

Caption For Astwood Bank, Evesham Road C1965

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

Caption For Barnt Green, Hewell Road C1965

Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

A Saxon settlement beside the River Cuckmere,Alfriston was a centre for smuggling.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Gun Cliff And Cobb Gate From Back Beach 1890

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

Of the two pubs shown here, The New Red Lion (centre) survives. The Bell Inn (left) is now a private house. The retaining wall on the right was part of Chalford Station yard.

Caption For Feckenham, High Street C1967

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.

Caption For Cheshunt, Grundy Park C1955

Originally one of the largest country houses in the town of Cheshunt, Grundy Park is now home to one of the Borough of Broxbourne's leisure centres.

Caption For Warrington, Training College Chapel 1894

The chapel survived, and later became a community centre in the new housing estate at St Katherine's Way.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Angel Hill C1955

The Athenaeum (centre), which was re-fronted in 1802-04, has a Victorian observatory on the roof.

Caption For East Keswick, Stock's Hill 1951

Note the stone-faced telephone box (centre right).

Caption For Malham, Village C1955

The Buck Hotel, seen in the centre of the picture, is still a popular hostelry, while the Airedale Hotel on the left provided lunches and teas for the fast-expanding tourist market, in addition to accommodation

Caption For Bozeat, Red Lion C1950

Later, the village became a centre for shoe production. In 1914 many soldiers marched off to war wearing locally-made boots.

Caption For Wellingborough, Market Street C1955

The tall domed building on the left survives as a Burton's clothes store, but the building beyond, with the conical roofed turret, was demolished as part of the 1990s Swansgate shopping centre redevelopment

Caption For Bodiam, The Castle 1890

Bodiam, built in the 14th century, stands in the centre of a lake-like moat covered in water lilies.

Caption For Landewednack, Church Cove C1900

At low tide the visitors clambered out onto the Battleship Rock in the centre of the view.

Caption For Sea Palling, The Village C1955

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.

Caption For Enfield, Town Centre C1950

Although it is as well-designed as a high rise building can be in a small-scale setting, the twelve-storey Civic Centre lurks menacingly just round the corner in Silver Street.

Caption For Bath, Milsom Street 1925

Built in 1782 to designs by Thomas Baldwin, Somersetshire Buildings remain the most elegant and ornate in the street; the bowed centre house is a total contrast to the regular flat fronts of the other

Caption For Stourbridge, Hagley Road C1950

Two car dealerships feature in this scene - Stour Valley Motors selling Austins (centre right), and just beyond it, a Ford dealer.