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Railway Info.
The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more
A memory of Barnstaple in 1870
Raglan Street
I was born 1943 and lived with my mother and sister, Joan, in Raglan St., Lower Broughton. My mother was Barbara Joels who had lost her husband (our dad) in Casino, during the war. I remember attending St, Andrews Mixed Infants School, ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1940 by
Radlett Prep
I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove was ...Read more
A memory of Radlett by
Royal Oak Hotel / George Hotel
In 1964 I was (as Jim Wright) fortunate enough to move to Keswick to work as the assistant manager at the then Royal Oak Hotel, just past the Moot Hall on the far left corner in this photograph. The Royal Oak and George ...Read more
A memory of Keswick in 1964 by
Raf Carnaby
I returned from RAF service abroad and was stationed at nearby RAF Station Carnaby from mid 1945 t0 mid 1946 when I was de-mobbed. Barmston was about a once-a-week trip on station bikes to look at the sea and a couple of hours in the ...Read more
A memory of Barmston in 1945 by
Pyford, The School
Yes I remember the school - I remember Miss McDermot & Mr Stevens & also Mr Cowie - he stayed at our house (The Coach House) in Blackdown Avenue one night during the 1963/4 bad winter as he could not get home - I remember ...Read more
A memory of Pyrford by
Purston Featherstone
I can hardly believe this; I've just looked at this website for the first time, and see a comment from someone who lived at the police station from 1953. Would you believe, so did I! My father was based there and we lived in ...Read more
A memory of Featherstone in 1953
Purfleet In The Past
The Royal Hotel was one of the "whitebait inns" which drew custom down-river from London in the nineteenth century. In both World Wars Purfleet was a transit camp for thousands of soldiers waiting to be shipped abroad from ...Read more
A memory of Purfleet by
Pontrhydyrun Avondale Road
I am Roger Davies of 11 Avondale Road, DOB 19.09.43. Went to Sebastopol Infants school 1948 and then to Griffithstown Junior Mixed - Bryn Jones prior to 11+ ! West Mon 1954. - Harrison, Garnet, et al. Recall ...Read more
A memory of Pontrhydyrun in 1948 by
Pitts Cottage
I should have said it was "Over the Way" that was the boarding house opposite Pitts Cottage that belonged to the same people. "The Old Way" was a tea house at the Croydon Road end of the High Street - there was a "co-op" grocery store opposite.
A memory of Westerham in 1963 by
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Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.
With its broad greens, its sandy beach, the lighthouse on North Green, and its picturesque buildings, Southwold has long been popular.
It is now bypassed by the A55, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey.
This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.
This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.
At the time when this photograph was taken, it was possible to hold a cattle market in the broad street of this sizeable village.
During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London.
The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the
The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.
Corn Market 1951 This classic market town is famous for its broad streets and many inns - The Black Horse can be seen on the left in the picture.
New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.
It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town.
Presiding over the town's broad High Street is the 120 feet high, pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.
The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick
These women players are at a considerable disadvantage with their long, billowing dresses and broad-brimmed headgear.
Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.
The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.
This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.
Amid displaced stairs and other paraphernalia, Samuel Govier (1855-1934) shoes a horse at the forge in Broad Street, where in 1895 he had been immortalised by the American artist James
The Broads have been called the pleasure grounds of Norfolk; they are the remains of a huge estuary that once spread over much of the eastern part of the county.
A small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes.
This is a historic lost view of Lyme's eastern cliffs before they were entombed and extended in 1984, by sea defence works which incorporated and hid sewage disposal facilities.
While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late
The broad verges and continuous avenue of trees bring green, open space to the High Street and make it an attractive place to explore.
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