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Henry And Sarah Jane Christelow Eddy

Henry and Sarah Jane were my husband's grandparents. I'm not sure where they were born but they were married at the Chester-le-Street Registry Office and were living at Pelton Fell when my father-in-law, ...Read more

A memory of Pelton Fell by Elle Eddy

Childhood Memory

I recall moving house from the Spike, Blaydon, to a newly built house in Linden Road, Blaydon. The steps leading down from the gateway where not quite finished so my Dad had laid wooden planks down so my mum could get down to the ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1955 by Isobel Dunbar

Childhood Memories We Never Forget

To anyone reading this; I was born Valerie Harding and lived in Wedges Mills and I remember so many things about my childhood in Cannock. The Maypole dancing at John Woods school, attending Church each Thursday ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1953 by Valerie Van Ramesdonk

My Childhood In Southall

My parents were born in India. My grandfather settled in Africa and had a good job. When my father got married he stayed Africa where all my brothers and sisters were born. My dad was a carpenter by trade; he arrived in ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1962 by Amy Bhambra

The Old Hawkes Sweet Factory In New Street, Chelmsford

Hi my name is Doug, when I left school at the age of 15 in 1955 I worked at the Hawkes sweet factory as a sugar boiler, amongst other things, and it was there that I met my first girl ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1955 by Doug Watts

The Time Bomb On Bell Vue Terrace

I can add information about the September bombing and suggest that one reason for the low number of casualities was that it was a time bomb that landed on Bell Vue Terrace. Aunt Alice and Daisy lived ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1940 by Richard Pealling

Martin Street

I remember S C Cummins quite well, their factory was close to the corner of (I believe) William Street. My grandparents lived at 55 Martin Street for many years and my aunty lived on Earle Street. My uncle lived on William Street and ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1970 by Raymond Kennedy

Born In Greatfields Road In 1952.

Went to Eastbury School, Dawson Ave. Was friends with Joan Petchey, Jane Peterson, Joan Palmer, Wendy Roberts, Doreen Spooner, Janice Bridgeman,Linda Etty, Heather Saint. Now live on Canvey Island as do Doreen and ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1966 by Kathleen Perry Nee Martin

Tuckers Cafe Commercial Street.

I well remember their delicious very large cream puffs, we would try to make them last as long as possible while friends and I sat and enjoyed them; also their goose loaves - so crispy. My husband Terry and I ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1950 by Brenda Smith

Hall Place, Spalding.

When I was very young, around 1950, Hall Place was cobbled and the fountain which is now in Ayscoughfee stood there. On market days, when it was quite busy, there used to be a little roundabout for very small children. Later ...Read more

A memory of Spalding in 1950

Captions

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Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1965

This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

Caption For Earlestown, The Parade C1965

A few years earlier, one local commentator had written: 'the other side [of Earle Street] has been considerably improved with the growth of the local Co-operative Society.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Academy 1897

There were already several schools in the town when the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Belfast advertised the arrival of a new academy.

Caption For Hampstead, Rosslyn Hill 1898

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

Caption For Blackburn, Market 1894

This photograph shows the open market in New Market Street. Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Caption For Clovelly, Landing On Quay 1908

alerted the new breed of holidaymaker to the charm of its steep, cobbled streets; by 1890 there were three hotels.

Caption For Wells, The Ancient Gatehouse C1960

In 1451, Bishop Bekynton commissioned his 'New Works', which included the Dean's Eye, or Browne's Gate, built in 1453, which connected the cathedral precinct with the city.

Caption For Ormskirk, Derby Street 1895

School - was built by public subscription on Derby Street. That building, now Stokers' furniture store, was originally only one storey; in 1853 an upper floor was added at the cost of £1,007.

Caption For Epsom, High Street C1955

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

Caption For London, Pall Mall C1950

Part of the Trafalgar Square scheme included Pall Mall East, which was laid out to link it to Nash's Regent Street at Waterloo Place.

Caption For Elstow, The Swan Inn 1921

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

Caption For Gloucester, Westgate Street 1923

The street lighting by the chemist was a new innovation, only introduced in 1900 after the generating station opened in Commercial Road.

Caption For Aberaeron, The Harbour C1955

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of broad, airy streets was laid out.

Caption For St Neots, Poppyfields 2005

Some of the most notable developments of the new millennium have taken place at the Eynesbury end of the town.

Caption For Huddersfield, Westgate 1982

Some blamed the slowness of firms in meeting the challenge, by not investing in new machinery or responding to new fashions.

Caption For Luton, George Street C1950

the site of Corn Market House, where weekly markets were held for the sales of corn and straw plait, Market Hill underwent a major refurbishment in the 1860s, culminating in the joint opening of the new

Caption For Highworth, Swindon Street C1950

Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced

Caption For Abingdon, Albert Park, The Albert Memorial 1925

Until the mid 19th century, Abingdon grew little beyond its Tudor limits, but in the 1860s an estate of villas around a public park was set out to the north of Ock Street.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1955

Historic association abound in this section of the main street. Ye

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

The North View Hotel was remodelled as the Midland, and became a firm favourite with the new visitors.

Caption For St Neots, River Terrace C1955

During the 1990s, River Terrace was demolished, and a new complex of houses and flats fills the area between the River and Brook Street.

Caption For Copthorne, Franciscan Convent School C1960

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

Caption For Carlisle, Market Place 2005

Opened in 1984, the new Lanes keeps frontages on English Street and Lowther Street and manages to retain something of the character of the old properties.

Caption For Conwy, Castle C1865

The new A55 road tunnel beneath the river diverts through-traffic from its streets. The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.