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Memories

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Sunday Treat

I remember travelling over to Nantymoel in an Austin 7 from the Western Valley. It was very cramped with my mother and father, younger brother and a friend of the family. This was a regular family outing to see my grandparents, ...Read more

A memory of Nant-y-moel in 1948 by David Thomas

Patricroft , Liverpool Road

There was a fish shop named Tommy Cockers' I think and old Tommy used to come out and chase us with a wet, slimy fish.

A memory of Patricroft in 1953 by Chris Reid

Llanddona

Went to Llanddona as a baby and still going. Every year we went in the October holiday and stayed for a week. When I was 1year old a cat had attached herself to us and as we left she jumped in the car so home she came. She passed away ...Read more

A memory of Llanddona in 1963 by Caroline Sherburn (Bugg)

During Wwii

I lived on Seal High Street (pretty well opposite the half timbered building & the horse trough in the photograph) from 1939 to 1951. My father was in the fire brigade. In those days you auditioned to become a choirboy. The Church ...Read more

A memory of Seal in 1940 by Mike Turner

Once My Home

I lived here for two years in 1941/42.  My father rented it from Mrs Switzer who owned Bell Court.  I was ten years old and together with my parents was escaping the Birmingham bombing.  I used to fish from that very unstable ...Read more

A memory of Bidford-on-Avon in 1941 by First Name Last Name

Wonderful Bucks!

My mum first came across Bucks Mills when we went for a bodyboarding holiday in Westward Ho! before the march of the mobile homes..! Next year we stayed in Driftwood in Bucks itself and did so for the next 7/8 years until my ...Read more

A memory of Buck's Mills in 1965 by Nick Neter

Living In North Boarhunt 1965 1968

My parents moved to North Boarhunt in 1964/65. We lived at the top of Trampers Lane - sideways to what was then Doney's Garage. Our house was called "Tryfan". I went to Newton Primary School and have very ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt in 1965 by Louise Selves

Wonderful Memories

What an unexpected pleasure it was stumbling quite by accident upon this website this evening! I was born in Croydon in 1948 and lived in West Croydon till 1955. I have very vivid memories of the high street, even of being ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1954 by Yvonne Kolessides

The Slate Islands Easdale

                                                  THE SLATE ISLANDS                                                         By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 2005 by Walter Deas

When It Was An Aerodrome !

Ok, so it may have been a little later than 1955, but we used to live in Southbourne Grove, and used to thrash our bicycles across the fields (over the arterial road) and make our way to the back of the airport ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport in 1955 by Colin Hayes

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Captions

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Caption For Uttoxeter, Market Place C1965

There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Broadway 1961

Looking southwards, this photograph gives an indication of the many businesses along this aptly named road.

Caption For Ripley, Village 1903

The pub sign is for the Ship, always, it seems, a locals' watering hole as opposed to the other inns and cafes that have catered for travellers on the London to Portsmouth road.

Caption For Mitcham, Lower Green C1962

Around Cricket Green and along Church Road are some good late 18th- and early 19th-century houses.

Caption For Maidenhead, Skindles Hotel 1906

This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.

Caption For Preesall, The Village From The South C1955

The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls. Across is the Saracen's Head Inn with its unusual massive stone sign.

Caption For Coningsby, The Mill C1955

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

Caption For Cowden, The Village C1960

Note that on the left-hand side of the road the old trees are now obliged to sink their roots in tarmac.

Caption For Elham, The Square C1960

Set off the main road, this square accommodates considerably more parked cars today.

Caption For Shorne, The Post Office C1955

There is a story that when Charles Dickens lived at nearby Gadshill, he had a tunnel constructed that led under the main road and came up in his garden on the other side in the parish of Shorne; here he

Caption For Cheam, Upper Mulgrave Road C1950

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

Caption For Grendon Underwood, Main Street C1965

This view is at the less interesting east end of Main Road, away from the parish church, the moat, the Georgian rectory and Shakespeare Farmhouse, where the bard is reputed to have stayed.

Caption For Oving, Church And Black Boy Inn C1955

Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.

Caption For Carlton In Lindrick, High Road C1965

At the heart of the old village to the west of the Doncaster Road is the parish church with its fine Anglo-Saxon west tower.

Caption For Stapleford, The Church C1955

In Church Road there are some older houses and the parish church; the south churchyard boundary runs along Church Lane to the left.

Caption For Bridport, 1966

Beyond the Esso petrol logo of Stevenson`s Garage are road signs, pointing into Barrack Street, for Beaminster and Crewkerne.

Caption For Lewes, High Street 1898

Until the mid 19th century this vista was closed by a town hall in the middle of the road. Apart from this loss, little has changed.

Caption For Eaton Socon, The River Mill 1897

Built at the end of Washbank Road, Eynesbury, on the site of one of the earliest St Neots` crossings of the Ouse, Conygear takes its name from the nearby rabbit warren owned by Margaret, Countess of

Caption For Llanymynech, Main Street C1960

The parked lorry belongs to Jones & Co, Corn and Seed Merchant; perhaps it is more than mere coincidence that a transport café is just across the road.

Caption For Edgbaston, Hagley Road 1949

In 1949 the shops along Hagley Road were all taken. Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Caption For Lyme Regis, River Buddel 1900

Here we see the 13th-century Buddle Bridge (centre) and the buildings of Bridge Street which crossed it until demolitions for road widening in 1913.

Caption For Fowey, The Ancient Inscribed Stone At Four Turnings C1950

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town. It is reputed to be of the 6th century.

Caption For Warlingham, Ye Olde Whyte Lion 1903

The Working Men`s Club, opened in 1902, is on the other side of the road.

Caption For Martock, Church 1900

The main road turns past the imposing church, whose churchyard is entered by two 17th-century gateways.