Maps

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Memories

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46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

Lofthouse's Newsagents

So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by Roger Taylor

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Coomercial Studies

Went to the college from Heolgam Secondary school when I was 16. Took shothand, typing and all office Business related studies was Dale Stanton then. Although I went to a secondary school I still managed to get my O and A ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1968 by Dale Avery

Higher Bebington Road

I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Sue Fowler

Halton Gorse Cottages And Castle Road

I too spent my school holidays in Halton village, my grandparents were Lillian and Benjamin Atkinson, they lived in Gorse Cottages, you had to go up the steps from the underpass to get to it, or down the steps ...Read more

A memory of Halton in 1955 by Beryl Gordon

Dawsons Avenue

I was born in the front bedroom of 63 Dawsons Avenue on the 19th December 1954. I went to Grays Farm Primary School, then on to Midfield Secondary School for Boys. My local shops were Cotmandene Crescent. I remember the rag ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1954 by John Benson

Huntly

I went to the Gordon Schools until I moved to England in 1972, they were the best days of my life. My uncle George Robertson owned the painting and decorating shop in Castle Street. I remember the picnics down by the Deveron in the summer. ...Read more

A memory of Keith by Christine Bremner

Doseley

When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Doseley in 1944 by Angela Mathison

A Magical Time

My name is Peter Weeks and I lived on Llanwoanno Road. Every Sunday I would cross this bridge with my elder brother Kenneth, on our way to the Baptist Chapel. This was the time of steam trains. We could hear the trains comming ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1964 by Peter Weeks

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Captions

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Caption For Reedham, The Ferry Inn C1955

This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.

Caption For St Ives, Back Road West 1890

This road still exists and leads to Porthmeor Beach and to today's St Ives Tate Gallery.

Caption For Pembridge, C1965

The New Inn can be seen in this photograph, on the right-hand side of the road.

Caption For Irchester, High Street C1955

The High Street continues north, downhill towards the parish church, while the through road was widened and improved in 1950s.

Caption For Whatstandwell, The Valley C1955

The broad valley of the Derwent near Whatstandwell opens out between well-wooded sides, as we can see in this picture.

Caption For Pantasaph, The Road To The Village C1940

As the farmer leads his two draught horses along the road, the Convent of St Clare can be seen in the background.

Caption For Dalton In Furness, Town Hall 1966

The new Town Hall in Station Road was opened in 1855; the Local Government Board was replaced by the Town Council in 1894, with the same members serving.

Caption For Charmouth, Village 1900

Once on the high road between Axminster and Bridport, Charmouth has now been bypassed, but even so the traffic up the steep hill out of the village will never be as quiet as on the peaceful day

Caption For Watlington, Church Street C1955

The cart we can see approaching along the road is carrying a bicycle.

Caption For Cheam, Park Lane C1955

This view shows the picturesque weatherboarded cottages that still line the southern side of Park Lane as it curves towards the junction with Malden Road.

Caption For Yateley, The Common 1924

A bus with solid rubber tyres heads towards its Camberley destination on a road that was not made up.

Caption For Ham, The Street C1950

This village name has caused some amusement locally: a road sign indicates the distance first to Ham, then underneath to Sandwich. Naturally, at first sight the sign just reads Ham Sandwich!

Caption For Ferring, Sea Lane C1960

On this road leading to the sea front, the cottage on the left has flint walls and a thatched roof. The front garden is decorated with staddle stones.

Caption For Sheffield, Endcliffe Woods 1900

They remained at Endcliffe until removed to make way for a road improvement scheme and were re-erected at Hunter's Bar.

Caption For Little Baddow, The Rodney 1903

Danbury sits at the top of a long uphill haul on the road from Chelmsford to Maldon. Before the Navigation was opened, this was the main thoroughfare between the two towns.

Caption For Chelmsford, The River Can 1906

Museum Terrace, just to the left of the iron bridge in New London Road, was built in the 1840s.

Caption For Abergavenny, St Mary's Church C1960

The more recent road sign was no doubt meant to ensure free access to the church for weddings and funerals.

Caption For Betws Y Coed, Miner's Bridge 1953

This wooden bridge lies on the line of the Roman road, Sarn Helen.

Caption For Kingswinford, Summerhill House Hotel C1965

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

Caption For Cambridge, Caius College And Senate House 1890

Before the construction of the Senate House in the early 18th century, students received their degrees in the Church of Great St Mary's, whose tower dominates the right-hand side of the road.

Caption For Hinderwell, High Street C1960

The same scene today would present both kerbs of the road lined with

Caption For Loftus, Zetland Road C1960

Zetland Road forms the main commercial centre of Loftus.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

East Lodge can just be glimpsed at the entrance to the drive from Hartmoor Road which leads to Old Park House.

Caption For Cadair Idris, From Cross Foxes C1960

Traffic comes to a standstill for this large flock of sheep being driven along the main road.