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Growing Up In Tideswell

Memories abound about my childhood, jumping and leaping like a rabbit at Eastertime. I remember staying at my grandmother's (Norah Gregory, a marvellous woman from the no-moaner generation), or at my Great Aunty Jessie's ...Read more

A memory of Tideswell in 1976 by Alexander Buttle

Broadlads Estate

My grandfather farmed Bushey Leazes farm on the Broadlands estate until his retirement. I loved that farm, playing in hay lofts, milking the cows, they had guard geese that would come down the long lane from the farm and not let you ...Read more

A memory of Romsey in 1949 by Jackie Brown

Childhood Memories Of Penrhyn Bay

My grandmother and grandfather lived at "Oaklands", in Maesgwyn Road, opposite a corrugated iron church. The road was unmade and beyond the church to the sea was a large meadow where cattle and sheep grazed. On the ...Read more

A memory of Penrhyn in 1930

Mascot Hotel

I can't help with a photo - but I can confirm that the Mascot Hotel was in York Street. I stayed there for a couple of nights in June 1958. As I recall, the hotel was about 1/3 way down York Street on the right coming from the direction of Baker street. John Cavill

A memory of London in 1958 by John Cavill

Hopton Hill

My family were from this area and my grandfather Edward Gough Jones and grandmother Rosa Jones brought up 7 children Joan, Nora, twins Eileen and Beryl, Ron (who still lived in a bungalow at the Crescent Nesscliffe until this year ...Read more

A memory of Nesscliffe in 1910 by Yvonne Dixon

Oddington 1946 1959

I was born in Moreton in Marsh and lived the first 13 years of my life in Oddington. My father was a farmer and we lived at Green Farm right in the middle of the village. We used to have the village bonfire (November ...Read more

A memory of Lower Oddington by Tim Gaskell

My Place Of Birth

I was born in one of those prefabs halfway down on the righthand side, number twenty three in fact. My mum and dad must have thought they`d gone to heaven, moving from a blitzed east end tenemant with a shared outside toilet ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Glenn Spicer

Potts Ancestry Kibblesworth

My father Edward Potts was born in Kibblesworth in 1900 his brothers were William Potts, Noble Potts and his sister was Hilda Potts. All the brothers were miners in Kibblesworth. When dad married we moved to Birtley ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1900 by Catherine Cowing

Raddlebarne Road

1978 was the date I left Sellyoak to live in Wales. I have a lot of fond memories. I was born at 132 Raddlebarne Road in 1965. My mother was called Sheila, she sadly passed away last year, My grandparent were Edith and Osbert ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1978 by Amanda Thewlis

Best Days Of You Life?

I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1967 by Dot Laird

Captions

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Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1900

Other systems that closed down in 1934 were Colne, Derby, Middlesborough, Nelson, Northampton, Guernsey, Rhondda and Torquay.

Caption For Exeter, Fore Street 1896

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

Caption For York, The Castle Gate C1885

These awe-inspiring and formidable walls and gates were knocked down in the 1920s. At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

Caption For Storrington, High Street C1955

Situated at the foot of the South Downs, where the River Stor flows north-west to its confluence with the Arun, Storrington is the only downland settlement that became a small market town.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street C1955

To the right of the bend in the road there is a drop down to what was the Commercial Hotel, sited near what was the port in times past.

Caption For Langwathby, From The Station C1955

Looking down the hill from above the station, we see the bridge carrying the Settle- Carlisle railway line running along the edge of the village.

Caption For Somersham, Bank Houses C1960

We are looking down the Chatteris road, where very little has changed in the past 40 years.

Caption For Waldringfield, The Yacht Club C1955

The two ladies in the distance have just come down from the May Bush Inn.

Caption For Eastbourne, Convalescent Home 1891

Meads and the slopes leading up to the Downs and Beachy Head were consid- ered ideally healthy, and convalescent homes and large villas proliferated: it used to be known as Eastbourne's Belgravia.

Caption For Totton, By Pass C1965

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

Caption For East Harting, The Village 1906

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

Caption For Goudhurst, Village 1901

This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill. On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

Caption For Tetbury, Long Street C1960

Originally an Elizabethan building, this was knocked down in late Victorian times and rebuilt as a mock coaching inn.

Caption For Preston Candover, The Purefoy Arms Hotel C1960

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities

Caption For Llangennith, General Stores And Church C1965

According to legend St Kennith was sent down the river Loughor in a coracle, landed on Worm's Head and founded a monastery at Llangennith.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Holy Trinity Church 1914

This was rescued during renovation work in the 1860s - it had been used, face down, to repair paving.

Caption For Langham, Well Street C1950

Can you see the sign of the Noel Arms further down on the left, and the Wheatsheaf on the right? Dulcie Ellingworth was headmistress here.

Caption For Market Drayton, The Swimming Pool C1960

The open-air swimming pool in Market Drayton was built in the 1930s; it attracted people from a large area around the town, even from as far away at Stoke on Trent.

Caption For Crewe, Market Street 1956

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

Caption For Havant, East Street C1960

Today the varied selection of shops down this street includes a ski shop. Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Caption For Slad, Steanbridge Lane 1910

Down the lane which passes behind it and leads to the right is the pond in which, in Cider with Rosie, the body of the unfortunate Miss Flynn was discovered floating.

Caption For Skinningrove, The Jetty C1955

A railway line ran directly from the works down an incline and along the jetty to make the transfer of material into the ships an easy operation.

Caption For Bardsea, The Beach 1895

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.