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Piddock And Smiths

My gt. grandfathers married sisters named Brothers. The three familes have been in and around Deal for centuries Gt. grandfather Maxwell was a Royal Marine, as was grandfather Piddock.  My father 'Phys' Pidddock was welterweight boxing ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1860 by Herbert Piddock

Glasgow Agency Of The Bank Of England

"The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" as the Bank of England is known maintained a small office in Glasgow fir many years. It was on the north side of St VIncent Place and I worked there between 1975 and 1978. ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk

Sellincourt Road School

In 1932 I was taken to my first school just up the road from where we lived in Sellincourt Road. It seemed quite a forbidding place at the time but I can remember the head mistress whose name I forget as being rather a tall ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1930 by Victor Stotten

Spooner's Corner

Living in Park Street Lane from 1940 to 1961 I passed this corner every day to go under the railway bridge to the recreation ground and school or on to the village. The branches of the Horse Chestnut tree in the foreground gave a ...Read more

A memory of Park Street in 1940 by Valerie Tomlinson

Courtlands Stores

The shop on the left was where I lived as a child.  My father (Ron Stone) bought the property which was an old doctor' surgery and transformed it into a general store.  My Mum and Dad used to open the shop in the evenings ...Read more

A memory of Milton Regis by Lynda Hollister

Thornton Heath, High Street

My family moved back to Thornton Heath, to 35 Gilsland Road, just off the High Street, at the end of the war and stayed until 1951. United Dairies was the shop on one corner and next to that a sweetshop and ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1946 by S D Hunt

Holidays In Gorton

I am Kenneth Overend Edwards from LLandudno, north Wales, and my story about Gorton is surprising because from an early age I was sent by my mother Ellen Edwards (nee Overend) to stay with my grandad, Eric Theodore Overend, who lived ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1952 by Ken Edwards

Those Were The Days

I was still a teenager, 17 years old and my baby brother at school at Bede Campus. I escaped the campus by virtue of it not having been completed when I passed the 11+. The town centre in Billingham was still being built, and ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1965 by Paula Hollingworth

Family And Friends 1942 To 1961

I was born Cramlington 1942, my sister 1940. l have some happy memories of Blyth, lived with mam and dad and sister Betty in Cowpen Row. Dad was in the army so did not see much of him then, when he came ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1964 by Anne Hayes

Church Town

In 1960 my home was just out of shot: next door to the house that is partly visible on the far right of the picture. I lived at number 18 Church Street, Church Street being the road that is accessed by turning right in the middle ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pam Gotham

Captions

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Caption For Blaenavon, C1955

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The High Street starts to curve its way around the church, and motorists were no doubt aided by the solid white line in the middle of the road.

Caption For Prestbury, Old Cottages C1950

He also, it must be said, made a fortune from the slave trade, both for himself and for the city of Liverpool, where there is a street named after him.

Caption For Christchurch, High Street 1900

The High Street shows some splendid examples of Georgian and Victorian architecture; with the castle and priory, it would have been the focus of the ancient town for a thousand years.

Caption For Irby, The Hall C1950

The building looks much the same today, except for a row of old-fashioned street lamps lining the left-hand edge of the drive.

Caption For Newark, The Old Governor's House, Stodman Street C1955

Stodman Street leads out of the south-west corner of the Market Place. Its most famous building is the Governor's House, a 16th-century timber-framed house with three storeys of coved jetties.

Caption For Retford, Grove Street C1955

Grove Street runs east from the Market Square, a mix of 18th- and 19th-century buildings, and a mix of shops and houses.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1955

At this date Church Street, leading out of the Market Place, was very narrow. It was widened in 1962. Cafés have always been a prominent feature in the town – there are at least three on the left.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, High Street C1965

It is claimed that Stockton has the widest High Street in England - a good example of early town planning!

Caption For Market Rasen, Queen Street C1960

This is the main street through the town. The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.

Caption For Lacock, The Village And Church 1904

The streets and lanes here present a delightful medley of building styles, with their half-timbered houses and steep-roofed stone cottages.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, High Street C1960

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as it carries

Caption For Burton Bradstock, High Street C1960

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as

Caption For Maidenhead, King Street 1904

This is a much-changed scene along the road leading to Maidenhead Station, for virtually nothing now survives of King Street's earlier buildings.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1925

West of the Queen Street junction the London-Bath A4 was remarkably narrow, but is now pedestrianised and by-passed. This view looks east.

Caption For Amersham, The Kings Arms C1955

The alley through the archway to its left leads to the Baptist Chapel built behind the High Street in the late 18th century, its roof seen on the left of view A148068.

Caption For Kibworth, High Street C1955

The red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the

Caption For Cambridge, Pembroke College 1890

This view looks north along Trumpington Street, with Pembroke College on the right, and the Peterhouse Museum on the left.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1911

The view of the Bear and the adjacent buildings on the right is now hidden by High Street Colonnade.

Caption For Heckington, High Street C1955

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Caption For Cockerham, Main Street And Post Office C1960

On Main Street were the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the fishmonger, the butcher and the post office, which was run by Mr R Ireland in his general stores (right).

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

Caption For Waddesdon, The Church 1897

St Michael's parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre- Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in 1877.

Caption For Bradpole, Village And Holy Trinity Church 1907

This view shows Middle Street and Village Road, between the flagstone-topped terraces of high raised pavements, looking towards the 1863-built spire of Holy Trinity parish church in the northern