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Growing Up In Clydach

I was brought up in this small village, lived at 1, St John's Road with my grandparents Frank and Emily Potter. Then, when the prefabs were built in Graig-Felen, my parents and my two sisters moved there. My ...Read more

A memory of Clydach in 1959 by Kathleen Potter

Linwood C1968

This picture is of Queenie Shuttler's cottage. She used to keep a cow and made the most delicious cream. Her brother, Les Shuttler, drove me to and from the bus stop, about 4 miles away at the White Hart, Poulner, to go to school ...Read more

A memory of Linwood in 1968 by R A Fletcher

Pre Post World War 2

Attended Houghton Road Junior School, then in 1944 the Hill School. Lived 45 Windsor Street. Memories going to school eating breakfast of bread and dripping, transporting a ton of coal from the street to the coal house at ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Dennis Flavell

Living In Streethouse

I lived at 136 Meadway, out of the back door, down the garden and on to fields. My Aunty Lucy never locked the door when we went to shop, you could trust people then, happy days.

A memory of Streethouse in 1960 by Michael Brown

Part 15

I remember Peter went in one day for a cup of tea, and stayed chatting. The horse got fed up waiting and came home five miles away. Peter was fuming; he had to walk home, and lost half a day’s earnings. He was ribbed rotten about ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

When I Was Young

I was born 1948 in Chop Well and lived in South Terrace down by Mark and Lenin Terraces. Played cricket for the juniors and had friends called Bill Bailley and John Baum. My cousins where Tom and Bill Hughes. My eldest brother ...Read more

A memory of High Spen in 1948 by Peter Scott

Childhood Memories

I was born in Templecombe Hospital in 1956. My dad is Ron Hatcher who was also born in Templecombe. We lived in Templecombe until I was three years old then moved to Castle Cary, but returned frequently to visit my ...Read more

A memory of Templecombe by Beverly Graham

School In The 50s

One of my earliest memories of school in Easington is of Miss Nicholson telling my mother, Alice Stephenson, nee Griffiths, that she would look out for me when I started at Easington Infants. Actually, I was never in ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Carol Donald

A Young Boy In Cranford 1949 1955

My name is Michael Mancey. In 1949, when I was four years old, my parents, youngster sister and I, moved to a brand new council house in Windsor Road. Although the postal address was Hounslow West, it was in ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1950 by Michael Mancey

Rothley My Home

It is now 41 years since I resided in Rothley, and there is not one day that passes that I don't think about it. Recently I found photographs on an 'Old Rothley' website, as I was browsing I found a photograph of my parents ...Read more

A memory of Rothley by Sandie Lee

Captions

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Caption For Old Sarum, C1955

Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community. The inner rampart would have had a wooden stockade.

Caption For Talgarth, High Street 1937

Talgarth is a small town a few miles south of Hay-on-Wye. Its narrow streets today are almost always congested with passing traffic.

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1955

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

Caption For Bath, Water Fountain 1909

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

Caption For Woking, The Old Bank And Chertsey Road 1898

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

Caption For Bournemouth, The Pavilion C1955

The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom was established in 1928, and has remained popular with visitors ever since.

Caption For Southport, New Infirmary 1902

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

Caption For Southport, New Infirmary 1902

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

Caption For St Albans, Market Place 1921

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

Caption For Thetford, Mill Head 1929

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Caption For Kettering, Bus Station C1965

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

Caption For Wollaston, Park Street C1955

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

Caption For Rosedale Abbey, C1955

It was a boom town during the 19th-century iron-mining era, and takes its name from the remains of a 12th-century Cistercian nunnery, now built into the parish church.

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep. Stricklandgate, the northern extension of Highgate, is one of Kendal's main thoroughfares.

Caption For Bedford, Stone Bridge 1897

Besides being empowered to replace the bridge, they cleared away numerous houses near St Paul's Church and the medieval Guildhall in their zeal - no doubt the area was in serious decay.

Caption For Widnes, Victoria Square C1965

The original intention was that there should be a tower on top of the Town Hall but the local people felt it looked quite grand enough as it was and so did not bother to add it.

Caption For Billingham, The Statue C1970

The founders of the modern Billingham Town Centre felt the need to introduce features which helped to take away the starkness of the new surroundings.

Caption For Ashford, High Street C1950

Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving. On the left is an optician's, A Bateman's.

Caption For Morriston, The Cross 1954

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

Caption For Bridgnorth, From Castle Walk 1898

This is a view over Low Town from about one hundred feet above the Severn.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway C1955

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

Caption For Sheringham, Fishermen 1906

Their clothes were strong, too, and water-resistant, especially the knitted jumpers which were made in the town with specific designs for individual families, a very similar idea to the tartan of

Caption For Holt, High Street 1896

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

Caption For Southwold, The Lighthouse And Sole Bay Inn C1965

The strangely landlocked lighthouse was safely positioned away from the cliff edge but not too central in the town, where the smoke from coal fires might have obscured the light.