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Dunoon Best Holidays Ever

Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon

Thoughts Of Eskdale School

I returned to Eskdale this weekend after 60 years. Yes I was there in the very early years and the experience is still fresh (in some things today ) today. It was not a planned visit but, the welcome I got made me feel warm ...Read more

A memory of Eskdale by 330176

Widnes Memories And Friend Search!

I was born in widnes in 1949, my dad taught at St Maries so we all went there to school. My best friend for a long time was Valerie Casey, she lived on Bancroft Rd and we spent a lot of time playing on the ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by Sue Christensen

Nork Shops

My Gran lived in the flat above the shop in the photo, next to the garage. Her front door was down the side, and her windows (both open) looked out over shops. The bay window was her living room and her kitchen had the dual aspect windows on ...Read more

A memory of Nork by soojaygee

Forest Hill Baths

The number 12 bus went past it and it cost me 2 pence each way from Crystal Palace. The bus stoped by the Libary and we ran down to the Baths entrance. It seemed masive that vitorian fronted building. Up the steps to the ticket ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hill by Wayne Ruffle

Cottage Hospital Near Buckhurst Hill Station

I have just read the memory posted by Tine Kooiman dated November 13th 2013 regarding a small hospital near the Buckhurst Hill railway station. She does not mention what time period she was there but ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by gordonroberts1159

Port Regis Delicate School For Girls

i to went to this place,i was not abused myself, however the treatment was harsh, and i remember the girl standing under the fireplace being violently sick, as she had to eat the food that she had not eaten the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by Sandra Popple

Wartime Coalville

I lived in Coalville in 1940. My father was a Police Inspector and we lived at the Vaughan Street Police station. There were two flats, the other was occupied by Dad's Sergeant. The Court used to sit upstairs in another part of the ...Read more

A memory of St Austell by John Roberts

National Service 1958

I was posted to Burniston Barracks as a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Pioneer Corps in 1958. Our task was to clear the Fylingdale Moors of unexploded munitions. Unfortunately we experienced the deaths of ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough by rphickling

Saint Claires Convent/Pantasaph

I was there in the convent along with my 2 sisters from 1955 to 1959. I truly sympathise with the children who experienced the terrible suffering as we did whilst placed there. My auntie was a friend of the nuns and ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph by mbebbington

Captions

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Caption For Cleobury Mortimer, High Street C1955

The Savoy Café is on the right, and further down hill across the road Mazda lamps are for sale close to the inn sign.

Caption For Grinton, Church And Bridge 1923

The original font was rediscovered and replaced in the 19th century. Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

Caption For Peel, Castle 1903

At the height of the season, Peel harbour was often full of fishing boats - Manx, Cornish, Irish and Scottish - as they followed the migrating herring into Scottish waters.

Caption For Runcorn, Weston Point C1955

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

Caption For Newquay, Bank Street 1930

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1902

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

Caption For Fleetwood, The Harbour 1894

They planned that the town would be a little way inland and separate from the dock area.

Caption For Horley, Station Road 1905

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

Caption For Belfast, The Isle Of Man Steamer, Fenella 1897

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

Caption For Langdale Pikes, The Valley 1892

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

Caption For Bakewell, Old Packhorse Bridge C1955

For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

Caption For London, Mansion House And Cheapside C1890

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

Caption For Corfe Mullen, C1960

The view is from Lockyers School looking down Blandford Road North.

Caption For Bray, Ferry Road 1929

From the High Street, Ferry Lane leads down to the river and the former ferry point. We are looking back up the lane with the river behind us.

Caption For Collingham, The River Café C1933

Collingham village has a fascinating mixture of houses - down past the parish church of St Oswald are the Old Rectory, the Manor House, the Dower House and some well preserved artisans' cottages.

Caption For Hull, Alexandra Dock 1903

Behind her is a small steam tug which was making ready to tow several barges down the Trent to Nottingham. The steamer in the background is the locally-built (1896) and registered 'Dido'.

Caption For Rodney Stoke, The Rodney Stoke Inn C1955

This building was erected in 1911 when the original inn burnt down. There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard.

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Caption For Burnley, Public Library 1961

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

Caption For Whetstone, High Road C1955

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

Caption For Menai Bridge, Suspension Bridge 1890

The bridge was the first structure of its kind in the world, and is pictured here when it was 64 years old. The bridge is best viewed from Belgian Promenade which overlooks the water.

Caption For Brecon, Lower Ffrwdgrech Waterfalls 1910

As we have already seen, Breconshire is renowned for its many waterfalls and caves in the far south west.

Caption For London, The Tower Of London C1955

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.