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Such Memories

I lived in 14 west street from birth 1962. to 3 years , My great Aunt Jane Penny (Davies) lived there for years looking after a lady. When she died, the house was left to My aunt Jane. My mum and brother and me, moved just up the ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook by Carina Smith

The Only Television Set In The Street.

I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow by Howard Hill Lines

How Burghfield Common Has Change.

I have lived all my 60+ years in Burghfield Common and I have seen it totally transformed. I was born and brought up in Three Firs Way, and lived here until 1987 when I got married and moved to Hunters Hill. ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Ian Turner

Hounslow In The 80s

I was born in 1974 and grew up in Rosemary Avenue. I went to Alexandria Infants school until 1980 when I started Hounslow Heath Infants school and then junior school. My teacher at the infants school was Mrs Crump, I think there was ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow

My Fenny Stratford Childhood

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins

There Are Still No Yellow Lines In Brook Street!!

Hello, My name is Graham Matthews and I was 7 years old when this photo was taken. I was born in Bampton but my family moved to Reading, Berkshire in 1961. However, I always thought of this lovely ...Read more

A memory of Bampton by Graham Matthews

Purley Parade

We moved into the spacious four-bedroomed maisonette over Purley Radio in Purley Parade in 1955 and I attended Christ Church primary school, just over the other side of High Street (sadly demolished in 1967). A policeman used to see us ...Read more

A memory of Purley

My First Saturday Job In Bhs, Hounslow

I had my very first ‘Saturday job’ working at BHS in Hounslow High Street in 1956. My wage packet at the end of the day was fourteen shillings and eight pence! We used to stand inside a counter in those days, ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Carol Gaches

Young Parkinson Family Of Crook, Howden Le Wear, And Barnard Castle Co. Durham

My Mum, Edna Young, was born at 6, Cemetery Cottages, Crook, on the 26th of December, 1922. Dad was Walter Lawrence Young, who was born: (35) Bridge Street, in Howden le Wear, and Mum, was ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Pauline Barker

Ymca 1967

Myself and a few others from N. Wales stayed at the YMCA for a couple of years 1966 onwards. Some of us attended the Technical college just up the road. We were young apprentices working for Etchells forgin and fasteners in ...Read more

A memory of West Bromwich by Bryn Roberts

Captions

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Caption For Slinfold, The Post Office C1955

To the east of Stane Street, and four miles north of Billingshurst, is the village of Slinfold.

Caption For Old Swinford, The Labour In Vain C1955

Red Hill is one of the pleasantest streets in Stourbridge, created centuries ago by cutting through the red sandstone which outcrops locally.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1929

Unsaddled horses are being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Caption For Lymington, High Street C1955

This photograph of the town shows the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian buildings and shop fronts.

Caption For Old Bursledon, The Village C1955

The older part is more interesting and certainly more picturesque, with its streets of quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Caption For Ringwood, Fridays Cross C1950

Further down the street is a sign for the estate agents Woolley and Wallis, still trading today.

Caption For Bala, High Street C1965

The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

Caption For Sewerby, Main Street C1955

At the end of Main Street is the entrance to Sewerby Hall, now a fine museum officially opened in June 1936 by the Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson (1903-41).

Caption For Polperro, 1888

Polperro is the archetypal Cornish fishing village - a higgledy-piggledy maze of narrow streets leading down to a perfect, tiny harbour.

Caption For Marazion, Fore Street 1920

The name 'Market Jew' lives on in the name of nearby Penzance's main street.

Caption For Richmond, Frenchgate 1913

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

Caption For Kirkbymoorside, High Market Place 1951

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

Caption For Gainford, The Corner Shop C1955

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

Caption For Upper Dicker, C1955

The main street runs north lined with estate cottages of around 1900, which seem to have been built on the village green.

Caption For Gravesend, The Clock Tower C1950

Now it provides a focal point for the start of the town's main shopping street.

Caption For Cawston, High Street C1965

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

Caption For Southgate, Chase Side C1955

Unfortunately, flashy cuckoos have taken over the High Street nest.

Caption For Leamington Spa, The Fountain And Royal Pump Room C1960

Those on a restricted budget could avail themselves of the York, a temperance establishment on Spencer Street, where a room could be had for 1s 6d.

Caption For Bath, From Rainbow Woods 1929

Looking west from Bathampton Down, past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with

Caption For Edenbridge, High Street 1906

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Caption For Barnwood, Barnwood Road C1955

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Caption For Lydney, Newerne Street C1955

Newerne Street is Lydney's main shopping area; it has undergone a great deal of redevelopment since this photograph was taken.

Caption For Northleach, High Street C1960

Although this scene looks tranquil, Northleach High Street was chock-a-block every day with heavy traffic until the by-pass opened in the 1990s.

Caption For Uppingham, School 1927

To the right is the ivy-covered gateway leading into School Lane and High Street West.