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The Odeon

I remember going to The Odeon on Saturday mornings with my cousins. My family lived in Stephenson's Way then before we moved to Chelveston Drive. It was a long walk from what was The Lodge Park Estate and we'd go in a gang and replay the ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1950 by Moira Jones

Rickmansworth Road

When I was about 6, we moved to Ricky Rd. The Cassiobury Park gates were over the road to us, slightly to the left. Me and my two sisters were crossed across a very quiet road by our mum, with a packed lunch. We just played all ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1960 by Lidia Skrzypek

Old Work Mates

I am trying to get in touch with men I worked with at Langley Park Pit where I worked with my pit pony, pulling tubs of coal out of Wembley West from the coal face. Where men such as; George Garforth and Jacky Lawton were coal ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1958 by David Leckenby

My Salford Life

I was born in West Park St in 1939. I went to Ordsall school in Taylorson St.I went to St Clements Church and sang in the Choir .I was The Rose Queen in 1953.My dad was called Jim Cartwright and he played the piano at weekends in the ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Myra Greenhalgh

Hounslow West

I lived at Hounslow West and went to Hounslow Heath infant and junior school. Don’t remember much about the infants. My first teacher in the junior school was Miss/Mrs Roberts. I remember filling up the ink wells in the desks. This ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

My Childhood Day's Growing Up In Pontefract

Pontefract a place I call home, my early years were spent Carleton Home's, it would be 58 years before I saw my real Mum Minne Martin from Castleford. from off the West wood Est. in Cutsyke. I was ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by michaelscorgie7

Southchurch Hall Farm And Park, A Branch Library In A Garden

The Hall was the closest Library to my family-home in Marlborough Rd. I used to spend hours there every week, researching school homework; and collecting Library Books for myself, - ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

Good Childhood In Willesden/Neasden

I was born in Park Royal hospital in Feb 1952 then taken home to 70 Craven Park Road spitting distance from Harlesden police station. Just across the road from our family doctor, (Dr Curtis) not much bedside ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by pjspence18

Christmas Day On West Park

I was born the third of four children in Breaston. Our Christmas's were spent with my Mum's sister's family consisting of Aunty, Uncle/god father and a male cousin 7 months younger than me who I mercilessly tormented ...Read more

A memory of Long Eaton by tina_l62

Gants Hill Newbury Park Ilford

Hi there, I'm not sure whether my first memory registered on this page. I'll always have fond memories of Ilford, Gants Hill and Valentines Park. I'll always remember those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets, the ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by bevjoemorris

Captions

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Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Long Chaulden C1965

The Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club plays at Heath Park, and Boxmoor Cricket Club plays on the 'Oval' in St John's Road. Hemel Hempstead (Camelot) Rugby Club use Chaulden Meadow.

Caption For Ferrybridge, High Street C1955

Here on the High Street was the busiest part of town, once the coaching and postal services began in 1660.

Caption For Ripon, The Spa Baths 1914

On the west side of the city, towards Fountains Abbey, stands the Spa Baths and Pump Room, opened on 24 October 1905 by Prince Henry of Battenburg.

Caption For Preston, New Road 1924

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

At one time the High Street stretched to the west, to the south of Gadebridge Park, when the land there formed the grounds of the Bury.

Caption For Reeth, Green 1913

Fortunately for the village, this was also the time of the new tourist industry: Victorians came in search of peace and tranquillity away from the industrial West Riding.

Caption For Leicester, Cavendish House, Abbey Park C1955

The Abbey of St Mary de Pratis, which is laid out in the north- west angle of the park, was one of the largest in England of the Augustinian Order.

Caption For St Neots, From The Air C1955

A bus is parked outside the Cross Keys, maybe delivering passengers from the railway station - the inn advertised `meeting every train` in the mid 19th century when the coaching business

Caption For Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery C1965

workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west

Caption For Nether Alderley, Church 1896

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

Caption For Minehead, Beach Hotel And Avenue 1923

Along with the building to the left, it is now part of an amusement arcade, yet much of the original façade remains intact.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, C1960

By the Second World War it became St Paul's Hospital and was the main maternity unit for a number of years, until transferred to the extended West Herts Hospital in 1987.

Caption For Abingdon, Tea Rooms C1960

Stevens's Boatyard withdrew to the west parts of Nag's Head Island beyond the bridges, and the Abingdon Bridge Restaurant and Tea Rooms took over their buildings to serve river- borne

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Beach 1898

Much of this view looking west from the pier is now dry land occupied by the west part of Adventure Island, while Never Never Land lies amid the now much thinned trees on the right.

Caption For Sheet, Sandy Lane 1898

Ruts either side of this ravine prove the use of this short cut to West Mark.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place C1955

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Grantham, Market Place 1893

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Caption For Stamford, St Mary's Hill From George Hotel C1955

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Caption For Llandudno, Happy Valley 1913

Happy Valley was described as one of the best public parks or 'leisure grounds' in Britain, and was presented to the town by Lord Mostyn.

Caption For Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall C1950

The Cartwright Memorial Hall in Lister Park, Bradford, built during the time of Bradford's pre-eminence as one of the major woollen manufacturing towns of the world, now houses one of the city's best museums

Caption For Belvoir Castle, 1890

Here is a wonderfully atmospheric shot, typical of the best of late 19th-century photography, illustrating the beautiful view from which Belvoir derives its name.

Caption For Teddington, From The Bridge 1899

Nationally it may be best remembered as the home of Teddington Studios, the location for films and TV productions.

Caption For St Neots, Poppyfields 2005

Another important aspect of this development is a new park, and this forms part of a wider vision to improve access to, and the environment of, the whole of the green wedge that runs through the