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Memories

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Junction Of Countesthorpe Road And Orange Street

I used to walk home this way from school in the early 1970's passing "Jack Hills", a grocery store that is just out of shot to the left of this picture. I remember the little roadabout with a ...Read more

A memory of South Wigston in 1971 by Steve Popple

25 Church Street, Kington

Hi,does anyone know the people that lived at 25 Church Street, Kington in the 1950's as they are relatives of my mother. Would be grateful for a reply. Surnames of Turner or Warren... maybe? Kind regards, Clare

A memory of Kington in 1959 by Clare Allen

The Boardmans

Hi, my name is Janice. Does anyone remember William & Sarah Ann Boardman (nee Hickson) living on Osborne Street in early 1900's? They brought my grandmother Alice (b1904), their niece, up from the age of two. She went to Abbot ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1910

Morgan Family Who Took In Evacuee's

Hi this is a stab in the dark but maybe someone will know of something. My Nanna was a small girl during the war. She was born Annie Elizabeth Gordon in 1935 in Gateshead. Her and her older brother, Luke ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Hengoed in 1940 by Gav Liddle

Prestbury, My Home.

Although I moved from Prestbury to Gloucester in 1966 when I got married, then to Somerset in 1967. Prestbury has always held a special place in my heart, I always call it my home. I lived in a small cottage in ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury by Pat Procter

St Luke's

I was a choirboy at St Luke's, we met for choir practice once a week. Mr Hatton was the choirmaster and took a register and we were paid for attending. Weddings were the big earner - we got two shillings or half a crown. It was all ...Read more

A memory of West Norwood in 1960 by Stephen Carroll

Howard Winstone Wins Title

My grandparents lived in Penydarren all their lives. I just wonder if anyone remembers them, their names were Dai and Tydfil and they lived on the High Street. They had a daughter Joan and my granny worked at the ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Tydfil in 1964 by Christine Mahoney

Black Notley Hospital

When I was a very young child I spent many months at Black Notley Hospital suffering from bovine TB. Fortunately I was unaware of the significance of my bed being near the door to the corridor and one evening a kind nurse ...Read more

A memory of Black Notley in 1952

Brook Street

My memories of Brook Street from around 1955 through to 1969 are numerous. Schooling at University Place and Brook Street primary, junior and senior school which I left in 1963. From one end to the other I must have walked ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath in 1957 by John Wilson

My Second Home, Somerton

My name is Ken Pickles, I have been in the Western Gazette may times over the years. Stories on my life that I had in Kingsdon and Somerton in 1963 to 1966. Visited Somerton every year since I left in 1966. I want to move ...Read more

A memory of Somerton in 1964 by Ken Pickles

Captions

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Caption For Cheltenham, The Promenade C1945

The Promenade, with its central well-cared- for flower beds, and memorials to all those lives wasted in wars, is claimed as one of the most beautiful streets in England.

Caption For High Wycombe, High Street C1955

Beyond the Red Lion (left), in the 1950s still a hotel, the tall many-chimneyed buildings of 1901 flank Corporation Street, the road cut in 1900 and originally intended as the site for council offices

Caption For Eaton Socon, The Church C1960

This resulted in 1921 in the first council house estates being built off the Cambridge Road, just before the railway bridge in St Neots, and off Berkley Street in Eynesbury.

Caption For Leigh, The Old Post Office C1955

Cheltenham, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the

Caption For Langdon Hills, Entrance And Keepers Cottage C1950

The Fenchurch Street railway line had reached Laindon and Pitsea by 1888, which gave Londoners the chance to escape from the city to the countryside for holidays and weekends.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Smithy 1909

As he climbed the steep main street he must have heard Samuel Govier's hammer crashing against steel in his yard, and seen the glowing fire and the shower of incandescent sparks through the dim doorway

Caption For Blackburn, Sudell Cross 1895

The family built a large town house on King Street. They also built a large warehouse, and Sudell Court and Sudell's Yard appeared round it.

Caption For Cheltenham, The Promenade C1945

The Promenade, with its central well-cared- for flower beds, and memorials to all those lives wasted in wars, is claimed as one of the most beautiful streets in England.

Caption For Twickenham, The River And Parish Church C1955

despite vociferous local opposition, struck a deal to sell the site to their preferred developers, the property group Dawnay Day, who own most of the shops and flats on the south side of King Street

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Caption For Fareham, C1965

Holy Trinity Church in West Street was built to accommodate the growing numbers of ordinary working people.

Caption For Twickenham, York House C1965

despite vociferous local opposition, struck a deal to sell the site to their preferred developers, the property group Dawnay Day, who own most of the shops and flats on the south side of King Street

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

This tobacconist's shop (far left on above photograph) was originally Murray's English and Foreign Bazaar, which is first shown on Wallis' street map of Worthing dated 1826.

Caption For Rugby, Clifton Road C1950

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

Caption For Basildon, Whitmore Way 1961

The early neighbourhoods were characterised by winding streets, plenty of open spaces and a high standard of landscaping.

Caption For High Wycombe, Hughenden Manor 1906

These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No 28 High Street of 1897, and many houses

Caption For Wells, High Street C1960

Just west of Liptons (left), the 13th-century Grope Lane became Grove Lane in 1840, and is now Union Street. The library was built here in 1968, winning a Civic Trust Award.

Caption For Chelmsford, Tindal Square 1906

Everyone else simply watched from the street. Some of the Market Cross's duties were, in due course, farmed out to a second courthouse.

Caption For Petersfield, Path From Workhouse To Town 2005

path lay across the meadow which is now crossed by Tor Way, then alongside the Tilmore Brook, turning sharp right where there is still a footbridge, and finally down Folly Lane to the High Street

Caption For Luton, Chapel Street 2005

Geoff Cox observed: 'The rush hour is an absolute (Robert Cook) Looking across at Chapel Street today, from under the canopy of the large shopping centre.

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river

Caption For Cowes, Birmingham Road C1965

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

Caption For Pilton, Tithe Barn C1955

The parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, developed from the Norman period onward through the Middle Ages, and is down in a dip at the junction of several streets.

Caption For Weybridge, Oatlands Park Hotel 1906

Also near the top of Monument Hill at its junction with Baker Street is the Grotto Inn. The name refers to the 18th-century grotto built in the grounds of Oatlands House by the Earl of Lincoln.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

Although the water level beneath the Green Bridge rose to a dangerously high level the arch never quite flooded, and apart from the Picture House, which suffered severely, the main street escaped