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Memories

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Brook Road Youth Centre. I Think This Was The Same One We Had Backin The 50's

We used to have regular dance nights but these were conducted with a record player playing 78's. I took a few of my records and one of the favourites was of Piano Red a boogie ...Read more

A memory of Loughton by royg

Dewhurst Butchers

Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I left ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Donald Jay

My Childhood.

I was born in 1961. I moved away in 1986. Looking back at the pictures reminds me of the fun I had as a child. We used to play at a place we called 'the splash', down by kennel Lane. I spent hours down there, you could look at the farm ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by hughgoodden1

Cheshunt

Yes Valerie - I too have a similar memory of the day I walked home from Cheshunt Secondary School on my last ever day. The sun was always high over Grundy Park during the summer months, and shone down directly onto your neck and head as you ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by Russ Boys

The Greengrocers In Sale Moor

Does anybody remember the name of the greengrocers in the centre of Sale Moor,I worked there for a short time .They supplied you with one of those bikes which had a basket on the front which didn't turn and on the first day ...Read more

A memory of Sale in 1964 by Mike Keaveney

Childhood Cannock

I started school at The Croft in High Green next to WG Smiths. This was near to the Danilo - Queen of Cinemas of the time and fascinating to visit. Later from Walhouse School we spent lunchtimes playing cowboys and Lone Ranger ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1951

Hyde In The Late 60's

I attended Greenfield Street Boys School from 1965-6, until I moved to another school. Shops around that time included, Woolworths. Hyde Sports Centre on the corner of Newton Street and Manchester road. Garbutts shoes, ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1969 by Alan Hesketh

St Bede's School

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died in ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

The Original F.Frith & Co

My first job after leaving school in 1968 was at the original Frith & Co. in Raglan Road, Reigate. The company was based in a large Victorian mansion and in many ways the working methods probably hadn't changed much since ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1968 by Stephn Gale

Danbury Village School C.1950

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

Captions

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Caption For Binbrook, C1965

A far noisier centre was established nearby when RAF Binbrook was built during the Second World War.

Caption For Wells, The Market Place C1960

Wells Cathedral is reached through the 15th-century Penniless Porch (centre left), so named because beggars sheltered there.

Caption For Stafford, Library Gardens C1955

In the centre we can see the Grapes public house, and to the right is the sign for the Sun Inn, behind which was a smithfield, or cattle market.

Caption For Warminster, High Street From St Lawrence's C1965

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

Caption For Romford, The Drill 1908

Where Heath Park Road (on the right) meets Brentwood Road and Slewins Lane (in the centre), meets Manor Avenue and Balgores Lane (on the left), is the Drill public house.

Caption For Dagenham, Civic Centre, Becontree Heath C1950

Situated on an open site between Rainham Road North and Rush Green Road, the Dagenham Civic Centre is a superb example of late-1930s civic architecture.

Caption For Liverpool, The Exchange 1890

In the centre is a monument erected in 1813 to Lord Nelson, the first public sculpture commissioned for the city.

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 Little Missenden, Missenden House C1955

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal C1955

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Caption For Marske By The Sea, The Beach C1955

The end of the High Street lies in the centre, and Cliff House stands just out of view on the right.

Caption For Middlesbrough, Albert Road C1965

property on the left is of particular interest, because in about 1970 a large section of the older central Middlesbrough buildings was flattened to create the first major shopping mall - the Cleveland Centre

Caption For East Bergholt, Burnt Oak C1955

The area of Burnt Oak was centred on the King's Head, just off to the right.

Caption For Matlock Moor, 1892

It stands at the top of the steep climb of Bank Road, in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Lymington, High Street C1955

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port, and there was shipbuilding here between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Caption For Grappenhall, The Village 1953

Bypassed by the Bridgewater canal, the cobbled village centre has retained much of its quaint atmosphere.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Northleach, High Street C1960

Most of the buildings in the town centre are of stone, although there are a few half-timbered examples.

Caption For Minehead, Esplanade Hotel 1923

It was converted into flats in the 1930s and more lately has been divided between a Baptist holiday centre and Foxes Hotel.

Caption For Cannington, The Village C1965

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1950

It throttles the town centre, and its construction involved the wholesale demolition of attractive buildings.

Caption For Wollaston, Bridgnorth Road 1968

It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

Caption For Yardley, Bakeman House C1965

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road.

Caption For Chipping Campden, Alms Houses And Church C1960

'Chipping' means 'market' in Old English, and it was as a market centre for the woollen industry that Chipping Campden rose to affluence.