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1930s Grant Road And Also Plough Road School

Hi, My beloved Dad who sadly passed away in the Summer was born in Grant Road .He I also lived in Harbut Road and Lyford Road .His home in Harbut Road and Lyford Road are still there .He attended Plough Road ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by murphsmum

1934 To 1961

I was born in Grove Avenue in 1934. Was not evacuated in the war .attended St Marys Church as a choir boy, went to St Marys. Infant school , then on to Orleans. Sec Leaving in 1949., after winning the Twickenham Schools Cricket ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by aataylor34

1939 Onwards I Remember

I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1940 by whisky1974

1940's Wortley

The photograph shows the entry to Hell Mill Lane (sometimes called Riley Road) which runs along the valley of the Little Avon towards Ozleworth; to the right behind the trees is Wortley Farm, occupied in the 1940's by the ...Read more

A memory of Wortley by rontavender

1940s And 50s

I was born in 1942 and lived in Ovington Grove behind The Lonnen. My memories would fill several books, but for starters:- the Regal; Quadrini's; Number 2 blue bus; Holy Cross Church; Cowgate then Wingrove Schools; playing football by ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by David Kemp

1944

I was born in Romwood Court, Langley Maidstone on 7th March 1944. My Father was in the Royal Engineers serving in France.

A memory of Langley

1944 Vi Flying Bomb

This isn't really a memory because I was too young at the time. I was born in a timber bungalow called "Midway" on Lowford Hill, Bursledon in April 1942. Dad was working at the Follands aircraft factory at that time, building war ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Nigel Olliver

1946

My name is John Lewis. I was born in Blackmill in 1946 in a cottage on the mountain, lived in the village later, played soccer with my friends and in the early 1950s we all went and watched children's TV in Lloyds Farm. It was a very ...Read more

A memory of Blackmill in 1946

1948 To 1965

My name is Margaret Saunders. I was born at 3 Theobald Street, but at sometime we moved to 18a Theobald Street. I went to Furzehill Infant and Junior schools, then on to Lyndhurst. We lived over the shop that was the stationers, ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1948 by Margaret Wilson

1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel

On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by Jim Smith

Captions

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Caption For Bournemouth, From The Square 1900

A great effort was made to tame the wild landscape across which Bournemouth grew up.

Caption For Bournemouth, St Peters Church C1955

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the Bourne Stream.

Caption For Bekesbourne, Church And Lychgate 1903

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

Caption For Addlestone, Crockford Bridge 1904

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

Caption For Eastbourne, High Street, Old Town 1890

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Bourn, Bourne Mill C1955

A windmill was first recorded in Bourn in 1279.

Caption For Bournemouth, From West Cliff 1897

Bournemouth pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate C1955

This was Southampton's main entrance until the 1930s.

Caption For Market Deeping, Church Street C1955

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

Caption For Bournemouth, From The Pier C1871

Bournemouth's Pier stands above the original mouth of the Bourne Stream.

Caption For Biddulph, Mow Cop Castle C1955

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park Lake 1902

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

Caption For Gomshall, The Tilling Bourne 1917

The Tilling Bourne quietly adds its own liquid note to this peaceful scene as its flows past The Compasses, one of two pubs in this small village on the main Guildford to Dorking road.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.

Caption For Peaslake, The Village Green C1955

It lies along the slopes of a narrow valley at the head of a stream that flows towards the Tilling Bourne. This

Caption For Bournemouth, From Southbourne Terrace C1870

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the River Bourne. Other

Caption For Coulsdon, Public Library C1955

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

Caption For Margate, The Sands 1906

This crowded beach scene shows minstrels performing on the sands.

Caption For Addlestone, Pyle's Farm 1904

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

Caption For Wareside, Babbs Green C1955

They face onto the road leading to Wareside village centre.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place C1955

This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.