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Slough High Street Park Street & Chandos Road
Hi, I am researching my family tree and am trying to locate Chandos Road and Unity Cottages in Park Street. I believe that Chandos Road was knocked down when the Queensmere Centre was built. I wondered if ...Read more
A memory of Slough in 1900 by
Chairman Of Abram Bamfurlong And Bikershaw
My father Ernest Peter Houghton was chairman of the local council 3 times. He was Labour councillor for over 30 years and was well respected in the community. During one of his terms of ...Read more
A memory of Bamfurlong in 1949 by
Boyhood Memories From 1952
It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the streets ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by
Swimming Above Stepping Stones Weir At Bothal
Our Mam being an Ashington lassie, we returned to her birthplace when Mam divorced my father who she met before the Second World War - that was when Mam was in London and working in 'service'. We were ...Read more
A memory of Bothal in 1949 by
Croydon Thornton Heath And Norbury
I was born and brought up in Croydon and although I now live in the Channel Islands I still regard it as my home. I remember living in Northborough Road, Norbury and attending Norbury Manor Infants School only ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1963 by
Lymington In The 1940s
My maternal grandmother and mother were both born in Lymington, my mother attending the grammar school in Brockenhurst (I remember as a small boy her pointing it out to me from the train) In 1944, when the V1 'doodlebugs' ...Read more
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Salfords Memories Of A Small Boy
We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old school, ...Read more
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Growing Up In A Small Village
My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more
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Cherished Memories
Finding this site has brought many wonderful memories back to me. I was born in St Mary's Hospital, Croydon. My maiden name was Chappell. I lived in Purley Road, South Croydon not far from the Red Deer until 1957. Every Saturday I ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1953 by
Memories Of Sneinton
Betty and I were brought up in Davidson Street, Sneinton just before the Second World War. It was a small back-to-back terraced house with an outside toilet. One of my first recollections was being bathed in the small kitchen ...Read more
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As well as portable gangways, boat-carts were also used to get trippers to and from the sailing boats.
All the familiar seaside fun is here: happy holiday-makers digging in the sand, deckchairs and bathing machines fill this evocative picture of Edwardian Broadstairs.The steps and the lift house are
The quality of Brydon's work is well brought out in this view; I have heard visitors commenting on the remarkable survival of so much Roman work!
More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.
Some consider the Talbot Inn to be the best, in architectural terms, in the whole of the country, and even the finest in England.
Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church.
A quiet day in the Market Place when it reverts to its more usual function of bus station and car park.
The jetty has played an important part in English history, as it was from here that Admiral Nelson set out to join his fleet and fight many of his most famous battles.
This photograph shows the holiday season in full swing. The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.
Their poster proclaims 'on with the show', and they have attracted a large crowd, some watching from the ledge in front of the bandstand.
Beyond the overdressed Victorian beachgoers are a number of stalls selling ice creams and other refreshments.
At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.
Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.
The only attractions on offer here are boat trips and donkey rides; to the far right, on the water's edge, are a number of wheeled bathing machines.
In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry. The top of the sea wall provides additional seating and a pagoda shelter adorns the prom- enade.
A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard
The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.
Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.
The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.
One early visitor to the new resort was Mr Tregonwell, who bathed in the sea and walked the dunes of Mudeford.
High above the East Cliff promenade are the turrets and flags of The Royal Bath Hotel, one of the town's leading resorts at this time.
By the 1950s the first high rise hotels had appeared; also, Bournemouth's old trams had given way to trolley-buses, hence the overhead lines.
Felixstowe was a genteel seaside resort built around a wide shingle bay which offered excellent, safe bathing.
Nailsworth may not be the most attractive town in the Cotswolds, but the student of industrial archaeology will find it a fascinating place to visit.
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