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My House

The white house shown was the house I grew up in. If this photo is 1960 I would have been living there at the time it was taken - how fascinating to see this. The street at the time was the main A2 and very busy. What memories this has rekindled.

A memory of Boughton Hill

Holidays

It's just great to look at the old pictures of Blakeney's High Street, it seems almost like yesterday when I used to walk from my gran's house in the row of cottages where the railway bridge used to be. We used to go on ...Read more

A memory of Blakeney in 1955 by First Name Last Name

Snowed In

If my memory is correct it was the winter of 1940/41 when I was a teenager, working for a long distance transport company from the midlands. We had left Carlisle on our way south via Shap Fell when we were caught in a blizzard and the ...Read more

A memory of Carlisle in 1940 by Douglas Robinson

First Job

This picture has particularly fond memories as on the immediate right is Darks the Jewellers' shop, where I started my first job as an apprentice. The window immediately above the sun blind is the watch repairer's workshop. Two doors away is Timothy Whites, a name long gone from our High Streets.

A memory of Barnstaple in 1966 by Stuart Ackland

The Late 1950s

I remember the baker's van coming down to Church Street in the summer, we could choose a cake, the baker would open the back of the little van and pull out the drawers, out would come a thousand wasps.  No one ran for cover and the ...Read more

A memory of Burham in 1959 by Teresa Shearing

The Mining Community

Although I no longer live in Northumberland, I still have a soft spot for North Broomhill. I was born in School Row in 1943. From there we moved to Coronation Terrace in 1947 which was a complex of rudimentary row of two ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1940 by Albert Taylor

Ducie Street

My Nan and Granddad lived in Ducie Street for many years up until their deaths in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My Mum and Dad had two rooms at the top of the house when they married in 1960 and I came along in November 1961. ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by Christine Oakley

Riding School

I remember the ponies coming along the beach and back to the stables along the high street, past what was then the cinema, now a village hall.

A memory of Rhosneigr

1980s

I was the newspaper reporter for the Coventry Evening Telegraph regional office on Wood Street for a year and lived off Joseph Way on a new housing development. I remember reporting on time share appartments at the former home of ...Read more

A memory of Stratford-upon-Avon by Shirley Jones

Dukeshouse Wood Camp School Hexham (Part One)

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

Captions

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Caption For Aldeburgh, Childrens Boating Pool C1955

This area was originally the market place, with streets now lost to the sea running parallel on the right. The mock-timber building on the left is the Mill Inn.

Caption For Llanrhystud, General View C1960

A row of houses was built on the old road to Lampeter and another on the street to the church (visible on the right).

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church C1955

The approach to the church is from Sheep Street, along a gravelled tree-lined avenue through memorial gates.

Caption For Woodford Halse, Moravian Church And Parsons Street C1965

This view looks along one of the best streets in Woodford Halse with mainly stone houses and the dominating Moravian Church of 1906.

Caption For Yardley Gobion, Moorend Road C1965

Frith's photographer has focussed on the north side of the street with its interesting variety of stone cottages, while opposite, out of view, are modern 1960s houses which clearly did not grab his attention

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including the Bell and the Chequers Hotels.

Caption For Clovelly, Post Office, Transfer Of Mail 1936

Clovelly clings to a cliff, and its street is a steep, cobbled flight of steps. Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

Caption For London, A Hokey Pokey Stall, Greenwich 1884

They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled clothes and battered boots, and were probably bought their penny treats in return for posing for the photographer.

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Caption For Bridport, W.Frost Shop Front 1909

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the 'Bridport News' office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1897

Looking north into the continuation of the High Street, the Cock pub on the left survives while on the right is the 1886 Congregational Chapel, an Early English Gothic style front flanked by pinnacled

Caption For Wigston, Bell Street C1965

Looking towards Bull Head Street, a mixture of building periods come together to provide a pleasant moment in Wigston.

Caption For Enfield, Gentleman's Row C1965

To the west of the town centre, and parallel with Chase side, this picturesque street has to be seen by any visitor to Enfield.

Caption For Wellington, Church Street 1907

Hesba Stretton is a little-known writer who was born in New Street, to the left of the timber framed building at the far end of the square.

Caption For Sleaford, Southgate C1950

the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house on the corner of Handley Street

Caption For Fairhaven, Pollux Gate C1955

On the right by the pillar box is a circulating library; across the street is the Lantern Bakery, next door to H Brooks, grocer and Italian warehouseman.

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

There are almost as many visitors in this High Street as there are in its neighbour Cromer, with every other premises a cafe or public house.

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at the junction of the High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street C1955

Here we see the busy High Street in the days long before it was pedestrianised. The large building at the end of the road is the impressive Shire Hall, built 1789-1791; it serves as the courthouse.

Caption For Sabden, The Caravan Site C1965

Popular Sabden attractions are Pendle Antiques Centre in Union Street and Pendle Toy and Train Museum. A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1900

The town, a prosperous agricultural centre, consists mainly of this long street, with its attractive lines of trees, which widens at its west end into a picturesque boulevard with grass verges.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale Park C1950

At the bottom end of the High Street is The Vale, a park formally opened in 1937 in fields between the now vanished London and North Western Railway station (demolished in 1960) and the gas works, also

Caption For Trimley, High Street C1960

The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

Caption For Braunston, The Green C1955

At the top of the High Street stands the old National School, now the Village Hall (centre).