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Great Story But A Few Corrections
The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner ...Read more
A memory of Cookridge
Pickfords/ Thomas Hutchinson, Or Huskinsons,
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, HUSKINSONS REMOVALS,? THEY WERE THE LAST HORSE DRAWN,REMOVAL COMPANY IN MANCHESTER, THEY HAD SHIRE AND CLYDESDALE HORSES, FINISHED ABOUT 1960/61.THEY WERE ON I ...Read more
A memory of Ardwick by
Growing Up In Brentwood
My name is Viv Bayliss, I was born in my nan’s house opposite the Alexandra public house in 1948. Mum and dad moved to a prefab in Costed Manor then to Pilgrims Hatch. Who remembers Preslands fair and listening to them playing ...Read more
A memory of Warley by
Dolobran Road, Sparkhill
I lived on Dolobran Road Sparkhill from 1956 (DATE OF BIRTH) to around 1962 when we moved to Northfield. We were the only double fronted house on the street and we fronted Lime Grove where my grandmother lived at Number 1. ...Read more
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Before The By Pass
In the 1960s winter frost would make going up Greenhead and Glenwhelt Bank too slippery for cars and lorries - they would need to wait for it to thaw. A few wagons crashed into a tree on the right hand bend - it's now a house ...Read more
A memory of Greenhead by
Born In Belvue Road
Lived in Belvue Road until 1970. Attended Northolt Primary by Target roundabout . Remember well the headmistress Miss Wayman and teachers Miss Bottomley and Mrs laprake. Also remember the male teacher with Percy the plimsoll. ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
Early Career Memories At Piccadilly Circus.
I started my career in January 1959 as a young bobby at West End Central Police Station Savile Row. The trestles positioned to the east of 'Eros' which cordon off the road suggest the photograph was taken ...Read more
A memory of London in 1959 by
My Most Memorable Corner
I lived at Corbieton Cottage for 22 years between 1939 & 1961 and this is the view I saw as I came down the hill to go to school, to Sunday school, to Scouts, to the Kirk, to the pub, the Hall, the bowling, the ...Read more
A memory of Haugh of Urr by
My Memories Of Resolven.
The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I ...Read more
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Daresbury Firs And Other Memories
Brought up in the Square I have happy memories of playing in Daresbury Firs. The blue bells were always marvellous in the spring! I used to help my stepdad (Roy Forster) collect leaf mould for his vegetable ...Read more
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Captions
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Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.
An early 20th-century view of that bastion of English life, the Post Office.
At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria's realm.
These children are part of the post-war baby boom.
Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny.
According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.
Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber-framed building that was Beach's bookshop.
This is a quiet mid-afternoon picture, deserted save for workmen re-fitting the shopfront to the post office on the left.
D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road.
The Posting House on the right is a reminder of the earlier age of horse-drawn transport.
The Sanctuary is now well surfaced to accomodate motor traffic, and a 'Keep Left' notice has been fixed to the lamp-post at the end of Queen Victoria Street.
Mr P T Andrews, grocer and provision merchant, ran the Post Office Stores and made deliveries throughout the district.
Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner.
Under the Mendips, the Old Post House (by the phone box) and Weare House (to its left), now private houses, and the Lamb Inn (behind the photographer) offered refreshment and accommodation to travellers
A London Transport RTL-class bus on the 87 approaches the Clock Tower from White Post Corner.
Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road.
The weatherboarded building on the right has served as the post office for many years, and the white building on the left is the Blue Boar.
Two little girls have been pressed into service to add human interest to this picture of the rustically styled post office.
On the corner by the wall is a Midland bus timetable; across the road is Blisworth Post Office, with its huge advert for Players Navy Mixture.
The post office next door is now clad in painted roughcast and the buildings beyond that have been demolished.
Post-war reconstruction and redevelopment of the Moor was just one of many schemes to rebuild the city.
Both now privately owned houses, the building on the right was the village shop and post office, whilst the black and white building was once a pub, the Eagle and Child, more popularly
The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.
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