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St Johns School

I went to the school between 1965 -1968, the family then moved to Coventry. My name was Angela Holley and I would love to see any interior photos of the school. I do visit Farncombe a couple of times a year and take a walk down ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1968

Shirley In 1947.

Hi. I remember living at the 'Shirley Homes' for children in Shirley in 1947, I believe it was run by the old LCC (London County Council) It was a wondeful place to live, the staff looked after us as if we were their own, I lived ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1947 by Robert Munn

Three Main Memories Of First Visit

The first Madeira memory etched in my brain is the landing at (the original) Funchal Airport. The pilot had to land, brake and bring the aircraft to a standstill within seconds. White knuckle stuff!! The ...Read more

A memory of Royal Pavilion in 1974

The Burn And All The Names

I left Boldon in 1954 aged 7 years but my memories of Boldon remain with me like the footings of my lifebuild, I am sure that life through rose-coloured glasses has had an effect. Amongst the lads in Shelley ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery in 1953 by Eric Smith

Heber's Ghyll Off Grove Road, Ilkley

We used to live on Grove Road in the 1960s and 1970s and, being a tomboy, I would also go exploring with our two dogs. One of my favourite walks was up Heber's Ghyll - sometimes following the path up through the ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1961 by Judy Popley

Good Times

My parents moved into a prefab in Foxglove Crescent when I was 2.  They were still assembling them and German prisoners of war were building the foundations.  Compared to my nan's house they had everything, including an electric ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1945 by Brian Dudley

My Home Town 1947 1969

I was born in Liebenrood Road Maternity Hospital Reading in 1947 and for my first 5 years I lived in Salisbury Road, moving to Whitley until I left in 1969. I remember as a young child having many photographs taken at ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Wendy Fegan

Lumb Mill

Lumb Mill in the 1950s I remember my late mother and father working at this mill in the 1950s. My father worked as a boiler man. As a child I visited the mill during the school holidays also at weekends. I used to join my father ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1954 by Kenneth Drummond

Looking Back

Post house coffee bar (Dilaplos), I lived in there, lunch most dinner times, and back in when the shop closed. I worked in Stylo's, corner of Northgate and Crown Street. Myself and a lad called Frank Uttley(hairdresser) used to get ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1965 by Michael Pearson

The Sand Park

We lived in 41 Northern Drive, as kids we would play for hours in the sand park. We would watch women working in the Acme tin works, with the big steel presses banging down, making cake tins, cheese graters, kids' tin buckets. No ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1958 by Elaine Carlin

Captions

5,112 captions found. Showing results 4,057 to 4,080.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Civic Centre C1967

Steel and glass were used in the construction of these offices, opened by the Queen Mother in 1967.

Caption For Haslemere, From Recreation Ground 1902

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.

Caption For Stone, High Street 1900

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

Caption For Bath, Abbey 1911

The abbey is much shorter than its Norman predecessor, occupying only the space of its nave; the former choir and transepts were where the railinged green is in this view.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, Curfew Tower C1960

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

Caption For Denbigh, The Castle C1885

During the revolt of 1294 the Welsh won a victory at Denbigh: it is unclear as to whether this refers to a pitched battle, taking the castle, or the town, or any combination of these three.

Caption For Cranleigh, The Village 1904

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

Caption For Swindon, Regent Street 1967

Looking towards the Town Hall It is a busy summer's day in the 1960s.

Caption For Hailsham, Bell Banks Road, The Pond C1955

This pond with its island is a most attractive feature in the outer part of the town.

Caption For Chelmsford, Grammar School 1892

It is conceivable that, following the Grammar School's hasty exit from the old refectory, it had been patched up and gentrified until, by the 18th century, it had mutated into one of the town's

Caption For Chesham, The Church 1897

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west.

Caption For Ashford, Church Road 1901

Both the Congregational Church and the houses next to it on the left were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the town's Magistrates Court.

Caption For Bangor, Grand Hotel From The Old Pier 1897

A view of part of the town from the old pier, showing to advantage the turrets and crow-stepped gable of the Grand Hotel.

Caption For Loftus, High Street C1960

The pretty gardens on the 'embankment' surround the town's war memorial, and the bay window on the extreme left of the view is the window of the presbytery of the Catholic church.

Caption For Saltwick Bay, Holiday Camp, North Field C1960

This site looks almost deserted, except for a Volkswagen parked by one of the caravans and a few cows grazing in the field behind.

Caption For Middleton, The Town Hall C1955

Parkfield House became Middleton`s second Town Hall in 1925.

Caption For Sheffield, Whirlow Brook Park C1955

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.The house itself became a restaurant.

Caption For Ilkley, Wells House Hotel 1900

Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the architect of the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and the Leeds Town Hall, this splendid structure joined Ben Rhydding Hydro in putting Ilkley firmly on the water cure map.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

The first stage of the Otley to Skipton Railway reached Ilkley on 1 August 1865 - the town was decorated with bunting, and merrymaking continued day and night.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1950

The Marquis of Granby was another one of the many pubs and alehouses in the town centre that no longer exist.

Caption For Nannerch, Celtic Crafts C1965

As the motor car became the prime mode of transport after the war, every small village and town sought to capitalize on the additional, but highly seasonal, trade it brought.

Caption For Warrington, Town Hall And Fountain 1901

This ornate green and gold-painted cast iron fountain was presented to the town in May 1900 in honour of Peter Walker, founder of Walker's Brewery.

Caption For Boston, The River C1955

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street 1925

The Rose & Crown and the Whitehorse Hotel on the right were among the numerous inns which made this small town one of Hertfordshire's premier coaching centres, thanks to its position on the Great