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Memories

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St Josephs Catholic Primary School Opposite The Empire Pool By Paul Farrell

I was born in 16 Dagmar Avenue. Then moved to 95 Oakington Manor Drive when I was 4. Our house at OMD backed onto the stadium and I remember I was in the garden when England ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by ukpa

Memories Of Bradford 1943 1966

memory of a very wealthy city. Beautiful shops- Brown Muffs, busbys, claydons, mathias robinson. Barclays bank international division was in Bradford but not in Leeds because the overseas dealings with all wool merchants ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by christine676

Reflections Upon The Changing Face Of Stafford Since 1964

It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by nimrod01

My Family In Old Bilston.

My maternal grandfather, Thomas Mottram, owned The Hop Pole pub on Market Street - sold it in 1924. My paternal great grandfather, A E Webb, started a haulage company, centred at a house called Mendham, on Wolverhampton Street, ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by smnwbb

Proud To Be 'a Thunsca Lad'

My name is Alan Moore and I was born at No.7 Church Street on the 18th December 1944. Apart from 12 years I spent down Bolton on Dearne, I have lived all my life in Thurnscoe, and that I am proud of. I was a Co-op milkman ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by moorealan040

A View From Doomsday Book Swells Hill 47364

Swells Hill is mentioned in the doomsday book where very little else in this photo is. the row of a few houses in the foreground are the top part of Swells Hill, perched on the "Knoll" Looking east up the ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Plympton Ambulance Station

I was resident in Plymouth up until 1963 when I moved to Exeter. However, between 1959 and 1963 I was a Red Cross volunteer at the Plympton Ambulance Station and did duties at weekends. The old Devon County Ambulance service ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by john.wickens

Arndale Centre 1970s

We used to visit my grandparents who lived in Wandsworth every Saturday between 1977 and 1981. I was aged 6 - 10 years old. We used to love the Arndale Centre, we would look around Woolworths and the indoor market which had a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth

Centre 70 Opfa (One Parent Family Association)

As I have a terminal illness my children had asked me to write some short stories of my life. Some of the most enjoyable and memorable ones were when living in Tulse Hill. I looked on the internet for ...Read more

A memory of Tulse Hill by contact

Dundonald School

I remember 1952 the year of the great smog, making my way back from school along Dundonald Road towards my home in Graham Road. I had to follow the railings along the recreation ground because I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by James Leslie

Captions

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Caption For Trowbridge, St James's Church, North East C1955

The two-storey north porch has a two- centred arch.

Caption For Bedale, From The Tower Of St Gregory's Church 1896

In the centre is the old cross: the blur to the left is a pony and trap moving too quickly for the photographer's camera.

Caption For Worcester, High Street 1931

A passenger boards a Midland Red bus in the centre, perhaps off for a day's walking in the Malvern Hills.

Caption For Penarth, The Cliffs 1893

At the centre of the photograph a wooden slipway stands idle – this section of the beach is apparently deserted.

Caption For Exmouth, The Strand Gardens 1938

The waters of the Exe estuary once lapped the edge of what is now a pleasant town centre park.

Caption For Laugharne, The Boat House C1965

The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life, and it is now a heritage centre devoted to him.

Caption For London, Westminster Hospital C1915

Afterwards the site remained vacant for thirty years until work started on the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, which has a wide, open frontage.

Caption For Goostrey, The Church C1965

St Luke's Church is pictured in the centre.

Caption For Caversham, From Caversham Heights 1908

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Caption For Cardiff, Was County Hall Now Part Of The University 2004

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

Caption For Cardiff, Welsh Institue Of Sport 2004

Following a two-year building programme, the £670,000 National Sports Centre opened in 1971 on a site near the Pavilion - the culmination of a ten-year effort to create a central home for

Caption For Flookburgh, Church Of St John The Baptist 1901

This church opened in 1900, replacing St Mary's Church, which formerly stood in the centre of Flookburgh.

Caption For Cartmel, The Square C1955

At the centre of the village is the ancient market cross and priory gatehouse, now owned by the National Trust.

Caption For Darwen, Market Street C1955

At one time, trams ran through the town and the course of the track-bed is still evident along the centre of the street.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

Hampshire's only commercial airport was once at the centre of a major controversy.

Caption For Heptonstall, The Two Parish Churches C1965

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Caption For Leyburn, The Market Place C1960

There was not much of an audience to watch the troops as they marched past the Black Swan Hotel in the centre of the picture, although there were a few curious bystanders.

Caption For Biddenden, The Village C1960

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Caption For Hove, St Andrew's Church C1960

This is the entrance to Brighton's Aquarium, now the Sealife Centre, which opened in 1872.

Caption For Madingley, The Church 1909

The parish church of St Mary Magdalene is all that remains from the original village centre.

Caption For Folkestone, The Leas Bandstand 1901

A large crowd has gathered to hear the band, including the lady in the invalid carriage in the centre of the photograph.

Caption For Walsham Le Willows, High Street 1959

David Collins was the owner of the Post Office Stores and chemist's shop(centre right).

Caption For Daventry, North Street C1965

That house, alas, was demolished, and the site used to build the Community Centre.

Caption For Daventry, The Reservoir C1960

The larger reservoir nearer to the town is now the centre of the country park.