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Coal Shortage

During the war we lived at 4 Sunnyside Terrace. At one point during 1942 Mr Chaffey, the coalman, could not deliver coal because his horse and cart could not get up the hill because of ice and snow. We were rapidly running out of ...Read more

A memory of West Lulworth in 1942 by Albert Spavins

The Winter Of 1963 4 When Petts Wood Was Cut Off By Floods

I lived in Town Court Crescent with my parents, Norman and 'Babs' Treliving, from 1957 until 1974. The house was one of many designed by the architect Basil Scruby, whose name was carved in ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood by margot.rohan

The Ghost On Station Road

I lived at 59 Station Road, Royston. My parents moved there in the very early 1960's and I was born in 1969 and my brother David in 1972. It was a semi, with what seemed to be a garden that went on forever. I was ...Read more

A memory of Royston by hbvrl

Childhood Visit

I have a lasting memory when I was a child probably about 1952 when my parents visited my great uncle Herbert Breed. I think the house that I visited has now gone but I remember it well and I would love to hear from anybody who knew ...Read more

A memory of Eaton Socon by Bob Hewitt

Matthew Wilson

I was born in Motherwell and moved to Inzievar Terrace in 1940 Dad was away in the navy so mum and I lived with my Grandparents Francis and Margaret McKendrick I remember the steps I used to go up with my Aunt Margaret to get to Tollcross ...Read more

A memory of Carmyle by Matthew Wilson

A Handy Short Cut

This led down to Castle Terrace where my Auntie Lizzie Cuthbert lived. If I had no money to spend in the baker's, I could nip down here on my way to school. We could course also see the stepping stones - a source of wet feet ...Read more

A memory of Anstruther Easter by sheenaliddell

Vine House Farm Nene Terrace

Not so much a memory, but I'm researching my family tree and my family, the Patmans, lived in Nene Terrace at Vine House Farm. My great grandfather is Arthur George, born in 1899 and died 1964, he was married to Vivian Paul ...Read more

A memory of Crowland by bc1976

Find Family

Born railway terrace tottenham n 17 next to railway bridge in white hart lane family cant and johnson went to st frances de sales then onto risley avenue would love to hear from anyone remembering me very hard ,but great times rose andrews thanx

A memory of Tottenham by r_schaffer

Lovely Holidays In Fleetwood

I was born in 1942, and most of my hoidays as a child were spent in Fleetwood. We usually stayed in Balmoral Terrace with the McGurk family who had a daughter called Marilyn. They also had a lovely golden spaniel which ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood by motot

Stafford Coop

This development included a Coop Department store and a bookshop that I frequented in my teenage years. The Coop skirted around the corner into Stafford Street and two of the original terraced houses on that street were occupied by the ...Read more

A memory of Stafford

Captions

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Caption For Wisbech, St Peter's Churchyard C1950

Here, looking past the tower towards Church Terrace, we can see how close the church was to the ancient castle.

Caption For Nottingham, Trent Bridge And River C1955

This busy scene looking along the river terrace steps on Victoria Embankment shows the1860s Town Arms pub by the bridge, the gabled building with bay windows and white stucco dressings.

Caption For Ramsgate, St Cloud Hotel 1901

Built between 1881 and 1882, these eight large houses were known as Granville Terrace. In 1897, a Mr Robert Stacey bought the first five houses and converted them into the Hotel Saint Cloud.

Caption For Heysham, The Foreshore C1950

Can you make out the concrete terraces that have been constructed on each side of the village slipway?

Caption For Kenfig Hill, Pisgah Street C1965

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron Ages

Caption For Skegness, The Pier Hotel C1955

Pier Terrace, on the left, has not yet been converted to penny arcades. The large building on the right is the Imperial Café and Grosvenor House Hotel. Butlin's amusement park is in the foreground.

Caption For Oakham, Northgate C1950

After the terraced houses there is a large white house which may be the former Angel Inn, then a private residence. Nearby is Angel Yard; Barlow Road broke through here some years later.

Caption For Edgware, Station Road From Edgwarebury Lane C1950

Dated 1923, the neo-Georgian terrace of shops and flats was built to coincide with the arrival of the Northern Line in that same year.

Caption For Penarth, Pier And Italian Gardens C1940

The original iron railings seen here skirting the lowest terrace were removed during the Second World War – chains eventually replaced them in 1948.

Caption For Penarth, The Italian Gardens C1940

Perhaps more redolent of the English Riviera than the Continent, the terraced gardens facing the ocean, opened in 1926, were to be an instantaneous and roaring success.

Caption For Kensington, Commonwealth Institute C1965

Behind Silvia Crowe's landscape of paved terraces, trees and a pool is the exhibition hall and offices designed by Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners and completed in 1962.

Caption For Littlehampton, High Street 1892

Further east is the seaside resort, built soon after 1800 in stucco terraces with Waterloo balconies. Not until late Victorian times did the two parts merge.

Caption For Brent Knoll, 1903

The sides of the Knoll are fringed with medieval strip linchets, or terraces, formed for ploughing very steep slopes.

Caption For Newhaven, Fishermen's Cottages 1897

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the type of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-storey terraces

Caption For Rothwell, Church Walk C1955

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

Caption For Bishopstoke, Montague Terrace C1955

There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right

Caption For Fleetwood, Bold Street From The Mount 1901

Mount Terrace (left) was the first row of houses to be built next to the Mount. Like London Street, Bold Street was envisaged as a tree-lined boulevard; in later years the trees had to be pollarded.

Caption For Willesden, St. Marys Church C1965

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, Station Street C1955

We are looking in the opposite direction to S51047 towards Albion Terrace, with the Queen Hotel and the Primitive Methodist church just visible on the left-hand side of the street.

Caption For Overton, The Church C1955

Overton is situated near the Lune Estuary; it is said that a terrace on the main village street uses stone that came from Cockersand Abbey. Of the abbey, only the chapterhouse remains.

Caption For Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery C1965

- Brightside, Attercliffe and Darnall - to accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, West Parade 1904

The local landowner, Lord De La Warr, started developing the land between the old town and the sea only in 1885, and the long seafront terraces shade from ornate High Victorian to Dutch gabled brick

Caption For Oundle, St Osyths Lane C1950

Of the long terrace of 17th-century cottages on the right, only the former Anchor Inn remains, dated 1637 and now a private house.

Caption For Weymouth, Beach 1923

heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick Terrace