Maps

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Memories

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Drake Street.

Although we lived in Spotland, our family Doctor was a Doctor Gordon a brusque Scot whom I was Little afraid of. His surgery was at the top left side of Drake street. Just after the war. They did house calls in those days. The ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by Patricia Anne Heywood Jones

Gilbey St. Tooting

Hello does anyone know Margery Trip lived in Gilbey street Tooting or  husband Dereck Trip if so will be please to hear from you thanks thank you francis frith I have been in contact with these people .

A memory of Tooting in 1956 by Beryl Clark

Cronkeyshaw Junior School

I'm writing about my memories of Cronkeyshaw School. It was situated to the north of Rochdale Town Centre in the corner of a large open common grassland area, Cronkeyshaw Common, opposite Falinge Park. After school each ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale in 1955 by Norman Foulds

Joynson Street, Off Lower Broughton Road

Born in May 1949 at no. 98 Joynson Street, two up two down,as they all were in them days. Tin bath in the back yard. Open fire in the front room where mam made us toast when we had enough bread. Dad was a ...Read more

A memory of Salford by John Hall

Market Square/Anchor Lane

Market Street/Square holds lots of memories. Those underground toilets, buses maneovering round to take us home to the Marsh, which when young seemed miles away. My father was born in Anchor Lane, and there used to be ...Read more

A memory of Lancaster in 1948 by Maureen Frude

Julie Millburn, Park View.

HELLO AGAIN, CAN YOU REMEMBER THE PRISONERS OF WAR USED TO GET DROPPED OFF AT THE TOP OF THE STREET BY ARMY WAGON AND THEN PICKED BY TRACTOR AND TAKEN UP TO HANKEYS FARM UP THE NORE LANE TO WORK ON THE FARM. PLEASE ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1947 by David Leckenby

21 High Street

I lived in this from 1964 until I got married in 1987. My father Leslie Lougher lived here from 1962 with my mother Monica until she died in 1986. He then lived there until he died in 2012. He used to tell me that it was ...Read more

A memory of Nantyffyllon in 1964 by Catherine Lougher Harris

High Street, Midsomer Norton

Does anyone remember an old school building that used to be roughly where the library is now? I remember going in there with my school friend but I don't know what school it was.

A memory of Midsomer Norton in 1965 by Lyn Bettridge

Barking 1938 64

I was born in Barking, Suffolk Road, in 1938. Elder son of David & Edith Wardell (nee Fenn), and lived there until I married in 1964. My mother's family had lived in Barking for several generations, with Grandad Fenn living in ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Howard Wardell

Bexleyheath Growing Up

I used to live in Oakland Road off of the High Street. I also used to go to Uplands Road infants and Junior School. Saturdays were spent at Saturday Morning Pictures at the ABC cinema. I also remember Hides department ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1961 by Sue Molloy

Captions

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Caption For Willingham, High Street C1955

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

Caption For Newtown, Broad Street C1950

Aptly named, this wide street wends its way down to the river. In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.

Caption For Guildford, High Street 1895

This classic view looks west down High Street to the Wey valley and beyond to Guildown (The Mount).

Caption For Colchester, The Sign Of The Old Rose And Crown C1955

A range of 15th- and 16th-century timber- framed houses, some jettied, the Rose and Crown follows the curve of a lane linking Ipswich Road and East Street.

Caption For Swindon, Men Leaving G.W.R. 1913

Gas street lighting was common at the time.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1950

Stand by the Burton monument and look down the High Street to compare this photograph with the scene today. The Lion and Lamb on the right has changed its name, and is now called Fridays.

Caption For Oundle, West Street C1950

West Street includes various almshouses and picturesque stone cottages. The Victoria Inn on the left of the picture is now a private house.

Caption For Hitchin, Park Street 1901

In 1901 the main road to the south was Park Street. The lane to the right leads to Gosmore, and at the top of the hill in front of us, hidden by the bushes, is the Moorhens public house.

Caption For London, Oxford Arms 1875

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Caption For London, Park Lane 1890

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

Caption For London, The Hand In Hand Office 1904

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Caption For East Dereham, Church Street 1893

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

Caption For Easebourne, Village 1906

This is the same street as in view 54380 but we are looking in the opposite direction. There are cart tracks in the loose, unsealed road surface.

Caption For Exeter, High Street 1896

We can wlak along the High Street today and pick out most of these buildings, even if the delightfully named Public Benefit Boot Company on the right is more.

Caption For Axmouth, The Harbour Inn C1955

A comparison with the previous photographs of Church Street will show how little it changed in the half century following Victoria's reign,

Caption For Laindon, View From St Nicholas Church C1960

At the top of the street, Church Road was already bisected by the arterial road to Southend.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Mariner's Square 1906

Note the sign on the left advertising Cadbury`s chocolate and the cobbled street leading up to the church.

Caption For Wellingborough, Zoo Park C1950

Off the west side of Sheep Street, a plaque informs us that the Zoo Park was opened in the grounds of the historic Croyland Abbey in 1943.

Caption For Cardiff, Queen Street 1902

Before the town council renamed it Queen Street, this road was called Crockherbtown, allegedly because the monks of Greyfriars used to grow pots of herbs here. The last Cardiff tram ran in 1950.

Caption For Bideford, The Quay 1919

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

Caption For Exeter, High Street And The Guildhall 1929

Another view of the High Street. The exquisite Guildhall is in the centre. It was built in 1330, remodelled in 1468, and the portico over the pavement added in 1592.

Caption For York, The Shambles C1960

In the 15th century, this little street was full of open-fronted butchers' stalls with the meat being displayed hanging from large hooks.

Caption For London, The Cutler 1890

Many older tradesmen, unable to find work, took to the streets with their handcarts.

Caption For Market Harborough, The Square C1955

The open space around the square and the High Street to the north is bounded by well-mannered Georgian houses. 19th-century encroachments on the right do not distract from the beauty of the church, which