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Summers In Porch Cottage Luccombe...The Happy House.

Porch Cottage must be called the happy house because as three little girls from a chemical town in the North West we also spent our summers there......of course we are now aged 58, 61 and 63 years ...Read more

A memory of Luccombe in 1958 by Maggie Fowler

Good Old Feth!

What a joy to read all the memories. I lived in the terrace houses down the side of the Welfare, leaving when I was 12 to live in the new Coal Board estate. All my childhood was spent playing down Green Lane on the pit stacks, ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1950 by Susie Williams

Finchley Road & Frognal Station, Looking East

Having lived from 1938 to 1959 in the adjacent Lymington Road, which backs onto the Richmond-Broad Street Line serving this station and having passed it daily to and from my way to school/work, I ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Dennis Paul

Holidays In Northlew

Re the photo of Northlew Bridge, I am sure this is me, the tallest girl, my sister the smallest girl and the other is my cousin. My grandparents lived in Northlew and we went down from Bolton to visit for holidays.

A memory of Northlew in 1961 by Pauline Hamill

Drum Roll. Matha Broon Fell Doon

For over thirty years MATHEW BROWN played the BIG BASE DRUM for the local Salvation Army Band. Marching back one morning from an open air service MATHEW slipped on the ice as we marched down a steep hill known as ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1970 by John Allan

Annie Rowlands Of Stoke Works

I remember staying with my grandmother Annie Rowlands during World War 2 in the village of Stoke Works on Harbors Hill Farm. There was a neighbouring farm there and I remember a John Ford. My grandmother took me on ...Read more

A memory of Bromsgrove in 1947 by June Manson

Evacuated To Talsarnau 1940/41

My name is Edward Hughes and at the tender age of 3/4 I was evacuated from my home town of Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire to Talsarnau during the second world war; staying around 2 years or so in an allocated home ...Read more

A memory of Talsarnau in 1940 by Edward Hughes

Born At Barony Hospital

I was born, illegitimately, in Barony Hospital, Nantwich and lived in Church St, Crewe, moving to Cliffe Road when the "slum" houses were demolished and the police station was built there. I moved from my first school ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Lesley Spray

Seaforth Royal Container Dock

I was born in Walton Hospital 1943 and spent a good part of my childhood living in Seaforth. Later in my early 20's moving to Coronation Drive, Crosby. Between 1970 and 71, I worked on the construction of the new ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1970 by Denis Fay

Port Regis Catholic School

I never thought I would be commenting on Port Regis. In fact, I have totally forgotten about this place. I could not even remember where it was located. Somehow, the name of Port Regis came into my head tonight and I ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1960 by Maria Lam

Captions

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Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Caption For Chipping Norton, Market Street C1945

Just outside the town stands Bliss Tweed Mills, built by George Woodhouse in 1872, whose thriving clothing business provided 700 jobs.

Caption For Runcorn, Market Hall C1965

When this market hall was built a number of houses, shops and even a church were demolished to make way for it.

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park, The Main Entrance C1950

using subscriptions from workers in all departments of the LNWR Company 'as a token of their appreciation of the generosity of their Board of Directors (who) presented the park to the town

Caption For Beccles, Market Square 1900

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles, set alongside the marsh-lined River Waveney

Caption For Swanbridge, The Spinney C1955

It is accessible by foot at low tide, and many a holidaymaker has fallen foul of the tide's rapid reversal – a sobering cold night spent on the island their reward.

Caption For Fittleworth, The Village 1921

Modes of travel have progressed from the time when local workers walked to their workplace, and when wealthy people used horse-drawn carriages and stagecoaches for local and trunk travel.

Caption For Edinburgh, Palace Of Holyroodhouse, Entrance 1897

He had used bribery, threats and possibly blackmail to persuade the Scottish parliament to agree to the match.

Caption For Ashwell, The Museum C1951

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

Caption For Redcar, The Bowling Green C1960

Lord Zetland had given the town six acres of land, which was developed and opened in 1924; it originally also included tennis courts and gardens, a lake and an aviary.

Caption For Polperro, An Old Smugglers Cottage 1924

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

Caption For Heckmondwike, The Market Square C1950

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow.

Caption For Harpenden, Village Pond 1897

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

Caption For Bournemouth, Gervis Arcade C1874

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

Caption For Looe, Fishermen 1906

The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1955

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive

Caption For Christchurch, High Street 1900

Christchurch's High Street boasts much fine Georgian and Victorian architecture. Leading up to the castle and priory church, the High Street has always been the focus of the town.

Caption For Cirencester, Cricklade Street C1960

One of the town's main shopping areas, Cricklade Street is also home to the Brewery Arts Centre, which opened in 1979.

Caption For Ramsey, The Great Whyte C1955

Ramsey in the 1950s was a thriving Fenland town, but it has now declined. Barclays Bank (right) still stands on the corner of Little Whyte, but the other traders have all gone.

Caption For Wednesfield, High Street C1965

The town's past industrial importance was partly based on an unpleasant speciality, the manufacture of traps.

Caption For Paisley, Dunn Square 1901

Dunn Square is a haven of tranquil peace amidst the bustle of a busy town centre.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

This was once the town's market place. The later brick frontages here often conceal 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings that had been plastered for preservation.

Caption For Brynmawr, The Church C1965

The parish church of Brynmawr is the church of St Mary the Virgin, and it was opened by the licence of the Bishop of St David`s in January 1850.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been