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Hackbridge
I lived in Orchard Avenue, number 4, when the whole road was mock Tudor exteriors. I had quite a shock to revisit a few years ago to see them all plastered over and looking very tired. In the l950s and early 1960s when I lived here we ...Read more
A memory of Hackbridge in 1956 by
Court Crescent Junior School And Wellinger Way
I was born at my Grandmother's home at No: 50 Hand Avenue on the Braunstone Estate. When I was about 3 we moved from Grandma's to our own home at No: 9 Wellinger Way. I went to Queensmead Infants ...Read more
A memory of Braunstone Town by
The Memories Are Endless
Good morning from Waterloo, Canada. I was absolutely thrilled with your site and stumbled on it quite by chance. I was born in 1943 at my grandparents house at Yew Tree Terrace just off Station Rd. I grew up in Shepley, ...Read more
A memory of Shepley in 1957 by
Visiting My Grandfather's Shop.
Although this photo pre dates my first memories of the High Street by about ten years, I still remember visiting my grandad's confectioners shop on the right side a little further up. Ever the businessman, he would ...Read more
A memory of Folkestone in 1966 by
Unchanged Lerryn
Lerryn is a place that one almost wants to keep secret so that it does not become a popular destination. It has barely changed in a hundred years. A beautiful and unspoilt village in a steep sided valley, Lerryn lies at the tidal head ...Read more
A memory of Lerryn in 2004 by
Wonderful Memories
What an unexpected pleasure it was stumbling quite by accident upon this website this evening! I was born in Croydon in 1948 and lived in West Croydon till 1955. I have very vivid memories of the high street, even of being 'bumped' ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1954 by
Visiting This Shop
I started Gainford School in 1954 & remember Miss Browns little shop crammed full with habberdashery, stockings (nylons) hankies, knitting-wool, etc., everything you could possibly want - an oasis in this small village. She ...Read more
A memory of Gainford in 1955 by
Madeley As It Was
I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more
A memory of Madeley in 1949 by
Orange Hill
Hi there... great to read these posts. Seems like most are from alumni who attended earlier than me but clearly some of those teachers had been there forever. I started in the second year in 1964, and immediately started a friendship with ...Read more
A memory of Burnt Oak by
Bad Times Of The Past.
If there is any one alive who went to Widdecombe House (The school to shock Britian) please text me dianna.earley@ntlworld.com Thank you.
A memory of Torcross by
Captions
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This was the scene of a devastating lightning strike on 13 December 1779.
This harsh treatment shocked the world, eventually winning the Martyrs a pardon which allowed them to come home.
Hangman's Cottage, seen here on the left, was the home of the town's resident executioner in the 19th century.
This harsh treatment shocked the world, and the Tolpuddle Martyrs were eventually pardoned and allowed to come home. A small museum chronicles their ordeal.
This photograph must have been taken when the bridge was still very new, as it was opened in April of that same year (1923).
When a new rector came to Chipstead's church of St Margaret in 1809, he got something of a shock. It had become quite dilapidated and very unholy indeed.
In the late 1950s, prompted by the highly visible contamination of the coastline, scientists undertook an extensive survey of the problem.
The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian
The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who
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