Places

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Photos

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Maps

12 maps found.

Books

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Memories

7,548 memories found. Showing results 301 to 310.

Wonderful Times

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

Born And Bred

Born in Ablington just after the war we moved to Avon Banks, where I lived until married in 1970. My mother's father, mother and brothers (Fenners) all lived in Figheldean. Having read other peoples memories it brought back probably the most enjoyable part of my youth.

A memory of Figheldean in 1951 by Conrad Evans

Schools

Does anyone remember when the school in Wheatley was called the Wheatley Secondary Modern, all I hear about now is Holton Park. I can remember Mrs Jones the PE teacher, Mr Hanson was Headmaster. Seeing the pictures on this site really ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley in 1952 by Phyllis Elswick

Colindale The Early Years

I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1958 by Jack Richardson

Horney Common As A Child

I was born in London in 1938. When war broke out the following year my father sent my mother and myself down to Devon but soon after that he, and many of his regimental colleagues in the Army, rented a large country ...Read more

A memory of Horney Common in 1940 by Juliet Baxter

Fun Times

I was born in Lower Aire Street in 1944, my brother was born in 1942. I left when I was 8 years old but can still remember the street. We lived next door to Mr and Mrs Wiley on one side and Mrs Hargreaves on the other ...Read more

A memory of Windhill in 1944 by Christine Thomas

Dorset Dairies

Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@me.com  Would your great grandfather be a Harry Hann? He was the owner of Dorset Dairies next to my birthplace in Factory Road, Eastleigh. I went to school in ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke by John Scott

Manchester Road

Born in Ryan Street. I remember walking all the way down Manchester Road to St Joseph's Infant School, which at that time was on Grafton Street and part of the Girls School, it seemed to take ages, we walked past all the pubs and ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1955

Helmshore 1950 1968

I was born in Musbury Road at the bottom of Tor Hill and spent 5 years with Tor as my back yard; my name is still chiselled in the rocks at the top. Anyone remember the Tor Mile race? In 1955 we moved up to 3, Lancaster ...Read more

A memory of Helmshore by Ian Seville

Mother's Brother And Sisters

Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1940 by John Scott

Captions

2,471 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.

Caption For Stanford Le Hope, View From Church Tower C1960

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1955

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

Caption For Thrapston, The Nine Arches Bridge C1955

This view is also from the Islip bank, but further upstream. The houses in the distance have been demolished.

Caption For Alford, Five Sail Mill C1960

This is a beautifully proportioned Lincolnshire ogee-capped windmill, which is located on the A1104 road to Mablethorpe.

Caption For Evesham, Bell Tower From The Avon 1892

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

Caption For Aldershot, Victoria Road 1927

On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.

Caption For Bridport, Old Cottages 1897

Already falling into disrepair in Victorian times, thatched cottages on the east side of South Street, beside South Bridge, would soon succumb to the front-line of urbanisation.

Caption For Sheffield, The University C1955

These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.

Caption For Seatown, Village And Beach 1922

The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).

Caption For Windermere, The Lake 1929

This slightly later view looks across what has become the motor launch area of the Bowness boat station.

Caption For Botley, The Village C1950

The peace and tranquillity of Botley all changed in 1964 when major development took place. Today, the village is a thriving suburb of Oxford, with many shops, banks and offices.

Caption For Great Brington, Post Office 1922

The village Post Office on the right has a small sign attached to the wall which reads 'Post Office for money orders, savings bank, parcel post, telegraph, insurance and annuity business'.

Caption For Oxford, Eights 1906

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Caption For Stacksteads, Piper Bank C1955

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

Caption For Newton Ferrers, Bridge End 1931

Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, 'Newton and Noss' to all locals, line the opposite banks of the Yealm estuary.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Caption For Botley, The Square C1960

Here we are looking east towards the hill down to the Hamble River. On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.

Caption For Wilmslow, Carrs Bridge C1955

Pownall Bridge over the River Bollin carries the public footpath that runs from Wilmslow along the river bank to Styal.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Marsh Lock C1955

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

Caption For Blakeney, The Quay 1925

The pleasure of children playing contentedly around their sand castle, on the far side of the river, creates a charming picture often repeated with the passing years.

Caption For Newark, Market Place C1955

To the left of the Town Hall is the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, while to the right The Central Pharmacy is still a chemists, but under the name of Cherrington.

Caption For Nottingham, Old Market Square C1950

Another moment in the square caught by the camera. This appears to be lunchtime judging by the number of peo- ple taking their ease.

Caption For Ipswich, Tavern Street 1896

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

Caption For Rhymney, High Street 1967

With the decline in industries such as iron, steel and coal, many villages such as this went into steep decline. There are still signs of life, however!