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Memories Of Benson
My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the ...Read more
A memory of Benson in 1947 by
Rose Cottage, Loweswater
The cottage nestling in the foreground was purchased from the White family in 1986 by my parents. Between the vicarage and smithy it was built in 1780, and from 1782 the curate's school before moving up the hill to the ...Read more
A memory of Crummock Water by
Now O'connell Street
The street was officially renamed O'Connell Street in 1924 after Daniel O'Connell as Ireland moved forward as a free state! Nelsons Pillar seen in the distance (middle) was destroyed in the early morning on the 8th of March 1966 ...Read more
A memory of Dublin by
Australians On The Cut 1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat ...Read more
A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by
The Causeway Looking Towards St Mary's Church
This is before the road was made up. The main property to the right was three dwellings and is now one, known as Minstrells. A lamp post remains in the same position but the property is now tile hung.
A memory of Horsham by
98 & 100 High Street
These two shops in the High Street in Crowle were owned by my grandmother Rose Raper. They were handed down to my father and aunt. My dad Raymond Raper had the grocers shop at number 98 and we lived above the shop until I was ten ...Read more
A memory of Crowle by
Tilshead In The Last Century!
Tilshead was the place where I was born and have lived in for a long time. It is a quiet village of around 400 or so people. There was and still is a post office. There was a pub called The Bell but is now a private ...Read more
A memory of Tilshead in 1966 by
Northfield Ymca C1964
My family, mum, dad and 2 brothers, moved to Northfield from Whitehaven in 1964. My dad was General Secretary of the Northfield YMCA. The "club" building was still under construction at the time with it's distictive Hyperbolic ...Read more
A memory of Northfield by
Summer 1951
Our last holiday before my father was posted to Germany, Royal Air Force 2TAF. We stayed at the Strathyre Inn. Proprietor A D Davidson. Is that now the White Stag? I have a photo of my sister and I sitting on the front step., I ...Read more
A memory of Strathyre by
Lost Father
Hi mine is not a memory but wanting to say my birth father was at Blandford Camp he was training to be a physical trainer his name Brian he never knew I existed as he left the camp before he knew my birth mother was pregnant. They ...Read more
A memory of Blandford Camp by
Captions
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We are looking back from Bath Square, with the General Post Office on the right.
The village is scattered along the margins of a long green, and Frith's photographer took his near-obligatory post office view on the north side of the green.
There is very much a Victorian suburban feel here, apart from the 1950s concrete swan-necked lamp-post.
Many of these buildings have been demolished to make way for Foundry Walk and the post office.
In common with other mills in the area, it is a post mill, with the mill revolving round the central post.
In common with other mills in the area, it is a post mill, with the mill revolving round the central post.
One of Tintagel's most famous buildings, the Old Post Office dates from the 14th century and was used as a post office in the 19th century.
On the other side of the road is a lamp post advertising the post office.
The garage on the left has been replaced by two houses, but almost fifty years later, the post office still sports its black exposed timber on white rendering.
This must rank as one of the most picturesque post offices to be found anywhere in the country.
By the mid 1950s, tourism was starting to occupy a more important position in the Dales economy, alongside the traditional industries of farming and lead mining.
Because Samlesbury Hall was so near, the area was popular with walkers and day trippers in the post-war years.
The post office stores continues to supply the needs of the village, and even the letterbox, advising that 'letters containing coin, paper money, or jewellery should not be posted in the
This is not only the most westerly but perhaps also the most ugly and ill-sited post box in England, but it is clearly a place to post those souvenir postcards after a long cycle ride – perhaps from John
One of the original 'post and socket' mills, suspended on a post and turned into the wind by means of a tailpole, High Salvington dates back to about 1700 and was the first mill in England to be insured
This new post office has been opened recently at the corner of Baytree Hill and Windsor Place.
The house to the right was built c1965 by W A Leeks, who owned the adjacent Post Office and stores.
Looking across from within the churchyard is the post office, which occupies an 18th-century stone house.
The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop.
The old post office (left) was turned into a bed & breakfast in the late 1960s, and the petrol pump disappeared about that time also.
On its eastern side is the George Inn, an old posting inn where post chaises and saddle horses could be hired in c1800.
The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.
A marvellous set piece, showing East Clandon Post Office.
The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop.
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