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Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

Coomercial Studies

Went to the college from Heolgam Secondary school when I was 16. Took shothand, typing and all office Business related studies was Dale Stanton then. Although I went to a secondary school I still managed to get my O and A levels ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1968 by Dale Avery

Mr Laidlaw

I read a post from STEVEN LAIDLAW asking if I/we remember his grandfather who owned a building company. Yes, Steven, I remember it well and I believe the entrance to his yard is still there in St. Albans Road, but I'm not sure. Mr ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet by Roland Wood

Badger Hall, Thundersley, Essex Circa 1900

My Great Uncle and Aunt, Archibald “Arch” and Clara Meade, owned Badger Hall, Thundersley, around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. It was then described as having 22 acres of parkland and holding ...Read more

A memory of Thundersley by John Sharpe

St John's Gate Broad Street

St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

Bristol's Cabot's Tower

Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and some ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1890 by Paul Townsend

Cranford Shops 1980s 2010

Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

The Shops And Doctors At Sandiway 1956

We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our ...Read more

A memory of Sandiway in 1956 by Keith Wilson

Happy Days

Oh the memories stored away!! Charlie's opposite Cove Green, going there for sweeties on a Sunday, Cove Green (not as good as Tower Hill swings though!), Mundays closing at 1pm on Sundays, Thorntons with its yellow facade, and wool etc, I ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Ann Mozdzer

The Old School Memories

I attended Pengam school until 1945, when spotty Willliams was the head master, only a little man but he could swish the cane on you which I remember well. During the war we all had to carry our gas masks with us ...Read more

A memory of Pengam in 1940 by Dennis Hallett

Captions

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Caption For Tawstock, Tawstock Court 1890

Today, it has become St Michael's Independent and Day Boarding School, a much-respected educational establishment.

Caption For Shrewsbury, The Old Mint 1891

Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

Opposite is a pair of brick cottages with doors and windows in a pretty segmental arch, and on the pavement outside are some children's tricycles.

Caption For Launceston, Southgate Street 1906

The south gate with its twin arches is a remnant of the walls which once enclosed the town.

Caption For Mortehoe, The Church Of St Mary Magdalene, Interior 1935

The enormous mosaic above the chancel arch was created in 1905 in memory of the churchwarden's wife.

Caption For Cardiff, From Penarth 1893

With their ground floor bay windows, they could be from a much later period, and would not look out of place in the 1930s.

Caption For Bollington, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

There are any number of pictures of the mills in the archive, but not a single one of the twenty-three arched railway viaduct straddling the valley of the Bollin.

Caption For Matlock, Bank Road From Crown Square C1949

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

Caption For Tideswell, Church Nave 1896

The nave of Tideswell church dates from the 14th century, and its size and standing give the building the air of a much larger church or even a cathedral.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.

Caption For Seahouses, The Harbour C1936

After the trade finished in the 1860s some pre-1825 kiln arches on the quayside saw service as fishermen's stores.

Caption For Aysgarth, The Village 1908

The upper falls can still be viewed from a 16th century single-arch bridge over the Ure.

Caption For Canterbury, St Peter's Street C1955

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

Caption For Shillingford, Swan Hotel 1890

The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river. The road was turnpiked in 1764.

Caption For Leatherhead, Bridge Street 1899

Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782.

Caption For Whitby, The Viaduct 1884

The first brick was laid in 1882 and the first locomotive crossed the thirteen-arched viaduct in 1884.

Caption For Ironbridge, The Bridge 1904

It is a single-arched structure weighing 380 tons, with a span of 100 ft and an overall length of 196 ft. Today the bridge is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Caption For Lostwithiel, The Parade 1906

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

Caption For Burnsall, The Bridge 1926

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

Caption For London, Waterloo Bridge 1895

Canova considered the old Waterloo Bridge, with its nine elliptical arches, to be one of the most magnificent in Europe.

Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen And Apsley House C1908

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

Caption For Staines, The Bridge 1907

The graceful three-arched bridge over the Thames was rebuilt in 1832 by John and George Rennie, close to the site of the many bridges that have crossed the Thames since the Romans first spanned it.

Caption For Sonning, Bridge 1904

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

Caption For Accrington, Christ Church 2004

Without the finials and pinnacles seen in earlier photographs of Christ Church it looks a much plainer building.