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Maps

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Memories

1,253 memories found. Showing results 781 to 790.

Police

My father was a police constable in Camberwell from 1945-1960s. I used to be very worried when I saw him in the centre of this huge crossroads, with doubledecker buses and belching great lorries streaming past him on all sides, this was ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell in 1955

I Was Married Here

I was married there in 1964, long before it was swamped by the town centre. My daughter was christened there. I then went to work at Van Moppes, can anyone remember it? I was living at Viables Farm, a working farm then, I believe it's a craft centre now. They were good days.

A memory of Basingstoke in 1964

The Horsefair, Broadmead, Bristol Bs1.

This 1953 photo shows Bristol's Horsefair in Broadmead not long before the rebuilding of Broadmead after the blitz of theSecond World War. Broadmead runs between Union Street and Penn Street, and was a part of ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1953 by Paul Townsend

St James Barton Bristol Bs1 The History

The old St James Barton area of the city was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Bond Street and the bus station. The rebuilding of the city started almost as soon as the Second World War had ended. ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

The Llandoger Trow History

Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Greenford 1954 1974

I lived in Locarno Road from 1954-1974. I remember clearly going to Saturday morning pictures at the Granada (later known as Tescos) and getting an ice cream from Creamery Fare afterwards. We used to go to Greenford community ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Angela Bush

Streatham1953

I lived on Wellfield Road until I emigrated to Canada in May of 1953. After looking at this site it brings back a lot of memories. I attended Sunnyhill Road School then Dunraven High. I was only back for a visit once in 1984. ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1953 by John Edwards

Canadian Red Cross Hospital

I was born here in 1949, then both my children. The first in 1967 and the next in 1971. The maternity unit was around to the left in a seperate building. They were very strict about visiting times etc. The staff were ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1967 by Terry Herring

Reminiscence

Yvonne Colwell's notes brought back memories of a few families, but I can't place St John's Lane, even though I lived in Pantycelyn until I moved in the late sixties after the prefabs were demolished. Both my parents are ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Ray Davies

Unsettled Times

I have very vivid memories of the war years as it was coming to an end. I was born in Cambridge Street in The Sportdman's public house, which up to the present time is the only pub left on Cambridge Street. Where the John Lewis ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1944 by David Rowe

Captions

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Caption For Gidea Park, Hare Street C1950

This view from the corner of Balgores Lane looking towards Gallows Corner shows (left centre) the Unicorn Inn.

Caption For Newbury, Bartholomew Street C1965

Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street. This general view shows the street about 40 years ago.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, 1932

In the centre of the photograph we see the entrance to the railway station, again bringing holidaymakers to the town from different parts of the country.

Caption For Wakefield, Bull Ring C1965

At the centre is the magnificent Cloth Hall building at the head of Cross Street. The Bull Ring is now partly pedestrianised, offering a relaxed starting point for a walk to the cathedral.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street C1965

The station in the centre presides over this view. On the left D S Sole fulfilled decorators needs. Over the crossroads, with altered priority, are the offices of Jacobs & Hunt.

Caption For Bacton, Sea View Cafe C1955

embrace the holiday trade with an amusement arcade and new shops like Sea View Café, which were conveniently sited near the beach for visitors staying on the campsites away from the village centre

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1891

There is no traffic on Main Street, which at this time had a problem caused by a dog-leg in the road by the tree visible in the centre background.

Caption For Crantock, The Church 1904

Churchgate Cottage is the neat white building in the centre, but behind it near the lychgate we can see a roofless cottage, now at the end of the Old Albion Inn.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1920

Evidence in the centre of the road suggests that horse traffic has recently passed this way.

Caption For Nottingham, The Market Square 1923

Griffin & Spalding's Victorian department store in the centre was soon to be demolished and rebuilt.

Caption For Nottingham, Theatre Square 1927

In 1969, when the theatre was in danger of closure, the Corporation stepped in and bought it, and it was then incorporated into the Royal Centre.

Caption For Eype, The Village C1955

Cottages on the other side rise from Lea Cottage (left of centre), to the terrace comprising Hydrangea Cottage, Clematis Cottage, Rosemary Cottage and Sunset Cottage (beside the

Caption For Lincoln, Monks Abbey 1890

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Caption For Marske By The Sea, High Street C1960

The road in the centre distance is the Coast Road to Redcar.

Caption For Ormesby, Main Street C1965

This is a very interesting view, because the old Red Lion Inn in the centre must have been demolished very soon after this photograph was taken.

Caption For Burford, High Street C1960

The town, once an important centre for the woollen trade, has many fine golden Cotswold stone buildings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when many affluent wool merchants made their home here

Caption For Didcot, Broadway 1950

The town developed with the success of the railway, and thus the centre is relatively modern. Looking west along the Broadway we see amongst the shops branches of Curry's, the Co-op and W H Smith.

Caption For Farnborough, Queensmead Shopping Centre C1965

There are three massive shopping centres here. One of these is Queens Mead, which is home to over 80 shops.

Caption For Reeth, The Green 1960

Cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the green, which is surrounded by public houses such as the Black Bull (centre) and the King's Arms (right).

Caption For Ash, The Street 1964

There is a cosy feel to the main street of this little village, between Sandwich and Wingham; it centres around the local shop, the Chequers Inn (on the extreme right) and the brick-built bus shelter.

Caption For Aylsham, Market Place And Hotel C1965

The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Palmers Green, The Triangle C1965

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

Caption For Bath, Lansdown Crescent 1896

It has twenty houses to its centre range with its pedimented central and bow-fronted end houses, flanked by two further ranges of houses.

Caption For Nailsworth, General View 1900

Viewed from Watledge, the Railway Hotel is shown clearly in the centre of the picture, with C W Jones' coal office behind the chimney to the right.