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Streatham Ice Rink
With my future wife and two friends we often went skating at Streatham. We weren't very good skaters and had no skates of our own. In those days the skating boots that you hired at the Rink were not always in good condition ...Read more
A memory of Streatham in 1961 by
Growing Up Childhood Memories
I was born in Elm Park Avenue in 1937 and have memories of the Second World War and after. I can remember during the war, especially during the Blitz, bedding down with my mother under the stairs in a steel wire ...Read more
A memory of Elm Park in 1940 by
Wool Shop On Or Near Princes Street
My great-great-aunt's (sisters called Copland) kept a wool shop in Edinburgh in the 1800s. I have tried to find out about them but without much success. I would be delighted to hear from anyone with any knowledge of them or the shop. Many thanks. Jennifer Cook (Copland)
A memory of Edinburgh in 1880 by
The Rose And Crown
Ivy Myers. I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of ...Read more
A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1949 by
Harrington Board School
This is a memory from my own childhood when my grandmother used to tell me about her life as a child mill worker. Born in 1885, she died when I was 8 years old, and I so much wish I had more details of who the real Fanny ...Read more
A memory of Oldham in 1890 by
St Johns School
My primary school years were spent at St John's school until the age of 10, when during the summer, we moved to Berkshire. I never got the chance to say farewell to my friends who were moving into the final year in the ...Read more
A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1959 by
Hop Picking During The War
I hated hop picking. We started in 1938 to help pay for my sister's uniforms when she went to Ashford County School. At first my mother was slightly ashamed but soon entered ino the spirit and competition as to who ...Read more
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Old Jackson Street
I still remember the Co-operative in the 1960s being used as a funeral home for a while, William Brown I think he was called, memory goes a little but I vaguely remember the old man who worked on the desk there dying just ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1960
Old Funeral Home On Jackson Street
I remember the old funeral home on Jackson Street, or as I knew it as, Jackson Chare, eee it was a long time ago, old man died there in what is now the Co-op, died there shortly after he opened it one day, long ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by
Baldock Hostel
I lived in the hostel in the 1960s and liked the area very much. I was a member of the working man's club, the cinema always had up to date films. The town boasted good pubs, there was plenty of work in nearby Letchworth. I had ...Read more
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The arches around the veranda carry the shields of the Lancashire towns who supported the movement.
The site was much fought over by the Vikings, the Normans and the Welsh, so that the cathedral has been rebuilt on several occasions. The cathedral is modest in size and squats in a hollow.
Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.
Built in 1864, it replaced a much older hotel, itself a replacement for an inn, the Antelope, which existed here in 1538.
The bridge carried the great North Road until Ernest Marples opened a much- needed bypass in 1962.
Carefully positioned, with views to the north over School Lake, this is an imposing Italianate house with fine red brick and terra cotta facing, accessed by an imposing triple-arch porte-cochere.
The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe- arched
Mock Gothic turrets were added, a profusion of sharply arched windows and much other sham detailing. To many the stupendous structure had the look of an ornate medieval castle.
The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.
The old medieval stone bridge, with one central and two pointed side arches, carries Yarmouth-bound traffic over the Thurne. Its painted warning 'Caution, proceed slowly' must not be ignored.
In 1924, after engineering reports of a dangerous weakening of one of the main arches, the old bridge was closed to traffic.Work on the new Waterloo Bridge was started in 1937.
A familiar landmark, as well as serving as a reservoir Lockwood Beck has for many years been a much-used fishing haunt, and has also been visited by an interesting variety of wild fowl, including
The old medieval stone bridge, with one central and two pointed side arches, carries Yarmouth-bound traffic over the Thurne. Its painted warning 'Caution, proceed slowly' must not be ignored.
The road passes through the walls between the two arches shown in this photograph, and the walk around the surviving walls of York is still one of the finest ways to see the city.
The pillars and arches are of different Norman periods. The eight round-headed windows above them were the clerestory windows of the original Norman church before the roof was raised.
Opened in 1934 on the site of the former Middleton Hall corn mill, these gardens became another focal point for the town and a much-loved asset.
It is superbly proportioned, with one wide central span and three smaller arches on the approach. Sailing barges are beached on the far shore.
The oldest part of the existing castle, the Portcullis Arch (shown here) dates from the 14th century.
All the houses on the left have been bought by the Thomas Hickman Charity in recent years and refurbished, including the Chantry on the left, a pretty Gothick front of about 1840 with arched and hood-moulded
The ground floor was again rebuilt in 1873, including the round arched windows, which were retained after its closure in 1996 when it was converted into two shops.
A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.
Our tour now heads north-east to Greenwich to a much grander building.
At the time of the opening of the Leeds Town Hall in 1858, an arch commemorating Queen Victoria's visit was erected in north Leeds.
The outline of the three main entrance arches marks the centre of the building.
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