Maps

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Memories

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Philip Streets

This is the photo in the distance of the house where I was brought up (from Dec 1952 to March 1964) with my three brothers, Michael, Alan and twin Roger, N° 1 Abbey Close. Our neighbours were Mr and Mrs Orchard with their two ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1952 by Philip Streets

Childhood Memories

I started staying with my Aunt Reeves and Uncle Sam at about 2 years old. I remember we use to go for long walks across the hills which was the golf course, or we would meander through Cowdry Park. Aunt use to take me to Bendboe ...Read more

A memory of Easebourne by Eileen Crowhurst

My Memories Of Wickford

My parents and I lived in North London near Hendon aerodrome.  Because it was well known as an RAF base the German Luftwaffe raided the area regularly.  My parents decided to move to somewhere safer and because my mother's ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1940 by Denis Mitcheson

My Mother's Memories Of Ospringe

After a time Mother married Charles Gamble, we called him Pop.  He left the Merchant Navy and went to work on the Estate for my Grandfather. We got a house at Ospringe it was next door to a water mill. The water used ...Read more

A memory of Ospringe in 1910 by George Allen

Home

I remember living at 2 Chapel Street, it was a grocery shop fronting a farm owned by the Jarvis family. And I remember my uncle charging accumalators in a shed in their back yard. Posted by Ted Williams.

A memory of Woodhouse in 1930 by Edward Williams

High Street

I was born and lived in Christchurch for 10 years (1952-1962) but still count  it as my home. Iremember walking down the High Street with Mum and my sister, when she stopped to talk to someone I looked around and saw them knocking down some building at the top of the street ready for the by-pass.

A memory of Christchurch in 1957 by Marten Humphries

Work

From leaving Bookham I moved to Dorking where I worked for the same family at Dorking High Street, Earlswood Lakes and their Wimpy bar at Box Hill, it was good. I lived over the shop, the tobacconist, and I know and love Dorking.

A memory of Box Hill by Veronica Parker

General Store, Hosier Street

Please can anyone help? Do you remember a general shop in Hosier Street on the left-hand-side going from St Mary's Butts in the name of F W Hawkins before the civic offices were built?

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Keith Hawkins

Sidcup High Street

Just looking at this photo brings a lump to my throat. We lived in Blackhorse Road just off the High Street. The shop in the photo is on the corner of Blackhorse Road. I was 15 yrs old in 1965 and the Beatles were topping the charts ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1965

Shopping Memories.

This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground.  On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth.  My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations.  My mother's car is ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by Claire Allen

Captions

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Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including The Bell and The Chequers Hotels.

Caption For Kingswinford, The Townsend Precinct C1965

Townsend was an early name for this part of Kingswinford, which is at one end of the High Street, and thus the 'town's end'.

Caption For Parham, Village 1929

The double row of Street Cottages (right) is 17th-century; the further one is still three separate dwellings, and the nearer one was extended in the 1970s.

Caption For Ockley, The Green 1905

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Caption For Gloucester, Northgate Street From The Cross 1949

Further down Northgate Street is The New Inn, still in business today and one of the best-preserved medieval galleried inns in the country.

Caption For Marnhull, New Street C1960

Opposite and older are Oaklea (left) and the ecclesiastical window of Providence Place, with the Retreat along the street (centre).

Caption For Edwinstowe, High Street C1955

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

Caption For Uppingham, C1950

The large house with four bay windows, on the corner of Queen Street (Horn Lane) was built after 1870.

Caption For Maldon, High Street 1921

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

Caption For Calne, The Strand C1955

At Nos 1 & 3 High Street was J H Cole & Sons, a drapers (left). It was a high- class shop, and offered many services.

Caption For Ashwell, West End C1951

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

Caption For Baldock, George And Dragon Hotel C1955

The George and Dragon stands opposite the corner of Sun Street and adjacent to the site of the Sun public house (later the Victoria.) Only the 1950s 'Keep Left' sign differs from the view today.

Caption For Redditch, The Post Office, Evesham Street C1955

This detail from R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly

Caption For Great Staughton, The Sundial C1955

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

Caption For Northampton, All Saints Church 1922

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

Caption For Towcester, Park Hall Gates C1955

South-east of the town on Watling Street, the entrance to Towcester Race Course and Conference Centre is through this fine gate screen linking two lodges.

Caption For Nailsworth, Bridge Street C1955

On the right, Davis the jeweller's and watchmaker's displays its wares, while on the opposite side of the street are advertising hoardings promoting a football match between Swindon and Port

Caption For Sudbury, Ballingdon Street 1904

On the right the three stylish ladies are approaching the Railway Tavern, now a private house, with its prominent sign over the street.

Caption For Kingsclere, George Street C1955

The view down George Street towards the church and the Market Square is still recognisable, though the garage just seen on the right has gone.

Caption For Newbury, The Clock Tower From Oxford Road C1955

Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

Caption For Dorking, High Street 1888

Much of the market trade was performed in the public houses which lined the High Street.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street 1902

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

Caption For Winsford, Village 1930

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.