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Ardwick Green Area History Project

I'm working on a Heritage Lottery funded project to find out what it used to be like to live, work, go out and grow up in the Ardwick Green area of Manchester in the 1930s - 1960s. If you have stories or photos to ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick by alison.crush

Happy Times

i spent lots of holidays at the miners holiday centre with my family i went on to work at dawdon colliery i visit skegness often but would like to go and revisit the centre what is it called now the chaletys were basic and we ...Read more

A memory of Skegness by william.oakley

When I Was A Wolf Cub In Grays

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

When I Was A Wolf Cub In Grays

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

When I Was A Wolf Cub In Grays

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

West Byfleet In The 50's

I LIVED IN Scotland Bridge Road, New Haw, just down the road from West Byfleet. I attended WB primary school and then briefly the secondary school before I went to Woking Grammar. These were very happy days. I worked ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by tonyvermot

More About Bracknell

Hi Susan , I always thought that Joe Smith was the bookie that done the train trip to the sea side each year , got a packed lunch , and a coin as you said , My wife worked at Thompkins the Bakery , there sun Dave , married Jenny ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by Colin Lennox

Still Clear Memories Of My Birth Town

I notice many other contributors focus on the shops in the town centre and I will cover these in my next ramblings but start with my schools. I was born in March 1949 at Upney maternity hospital and my first ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

St Mary's Church

We lived in the village from 1954-1964 before moving to Bournemouth. St Mary's Church was a centre of our social life...I went to St Mary's School in Bourne Road - now gone- also Sunday School. Later after the Evening Service we would ...Read more

A memory of Bexley by margaretemullett

A Long Time Ago

I used to stay with my Aunt in Lowic in late 1950/1960. She lived in the centre of Lowic from what I remember - possibly opposite the pub. Her name was Hilda Bird and she had a daughter Hilda Joan - known as ...Read more

A memory of Lowick by pbatblythewood

Captions

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Caption For Hawkhurst, Highgate And Post Office 1925

Are the two men (centre left) discussing the latest scandal of the day - a dance craze known as the Charleston?

Caption For Solihull, The Civic Hall C1965

All were demolished in 1998 to make way for the Touchwood Centre, a shopping and leisure complex which opened in 2001.

Caption For Sawley, The Village 1921

The large building at the centre is the Spread Eagle, an inn since the 16th century and probably belonging to the abbey before then.

Caption For Loddon, Chedgrave Basin C1965

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

Caption For Bath, Roman Bath, King's Bath, Main Spring 1907

The ornate stone wellhead in the centre of the bath copies that in a well-known 17th-century print showing scenes of uninhibited mixed bathing.

Caption For Spalding, Market Place C1960

Its bell turret was replaced in 1974 by the South Holland Centre, an extremely busy building architecturally but quite enjoyable.

Caption For Haworth, Main Street 1958

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

Caption For Leek, Market Place 1959

By the mid-1950s, Leek had become a major centre for the knitwear industry: three-quarters of all the scarves worn in the UK were said to have been manufactured in the town.

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

The tower of the 14th- century St Mary`s Church, surprisingly positioned some way from the town centre, rises above the graceful Georgian frontages along this throughfare.

Caption For Culham, College 1900

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Caption For Preston Candover, The Purefoy Arms Hotel C1960

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

Here we see busy shoppers, but little traffic - one man (centre right) is even able to pause in the middle of the road to pick something up!

Caption For Greystoke, Castle 1893

The castle stands at the centre of a neat estate-type village, which is perhaps best known for champion jockey Sir Gordon Richards' racing stables.

Caption For Ambleside, Tarn Hows C1955

A classic view of Tarn Hows, near Hawkshead, with the peaks of the Langdale Pikes in the centre background.

Caption For Crewe, Market Street 1956

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

Caption For Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Stores C1955

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.

Caption For Havant, East Street C1960

Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Caption For Topcliffe, Annual Gypsy Fair C1960

Dealers cast a critical eye over a pony as it is led past them outside The Angel Hotel in the centre of the village.

Caption For Westleton, The Village C1965

In the centre is Hiller's Garage, now Scarlett, with the skeleton framework of the present workshop, which will block the view of the church from here.

Caption For Crewe, The Square C1955

The statue in the centre of the Square is the town's war memorial – Crewe was a new industrial town with a relatively youthful population, so that many of the town's men were called up to serve in both

Caption For Llanystumdwy, Lloyd George's Home In His Boyhood Days 1930

Highgate's cottage kitchen with its cast iron range and beamed ceiling was the centre of family life.

Caption For Dinas Powys, Highwalls Avenue C1955

This view up Parish Road affords a glimpse of what was a centre of communication for the village.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1960

As neo-Georgian buildings replaced the older local shops, the shopping centre of Kettering also developed wth nation-wide multiple stores.

Caption For Basildon, Market Place 1961

Everything bears the hallmarks of the late 1950s and early 60s—from the contours of the ice-cream van (right) to the Guinness advertisement (with the shoe-soles) on the hoarding (centre left).