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What A Shop!

I, too, remember Birkheads with great affection though in rather earlier times. I was born in what is now called "Ashby House" which is being converted from an office building into a restaurant and flats but which then was the ...Read more

A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1930 by Malcolm Macleod Carey

Remembering Three Bridges, As A Boy

I lived in No.29 New Street. I remember playing with Jeff & Billy Kowach, Alfie Manzoli (who lived in the now Barclays Bank), John Denman (also of New Street), Richard Freakes, Graham and Michael ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges by Terrie Hounsome

High Street Northfleet

we lived in northfleet high street my father owned fleet autos (car sale) and his father before him Also owned the green grocers on the corner of rose street and fronting on to high street, opposite There was knolls the ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet by cehead

Woolworths

As a 14 year old I was a 'Saturday girl' at Woolworth's in 1961. I was on the glass counter, selling everything from vinegar bottles with plastic tops, ashtrays, jugs etc. The number of items displayed on the sloping counter was enormous ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by mrsjdennett

Happy Days

I went to Wescott Road school in 1950 then St Crispins 1956. I can recall quite a few shops. Herrings furniture where you could buy on HP with no checks, as Mr Herring assessed whether or not you looked trustworthy. NSS newsagents. Next ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham by keithmorshead

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories

As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Martin Harris

Grandmother

Born Glasgow 1952, visited my granny at 249a Edgware Road on many occasions, she lived above Barclays bank.

A memory of Colindale by John Robertson

West Horsley Previously Under Ockham

The Barley Mow, we went up there for my sister's hen night, and ended up at the caravan park down Green Lane. I have just visited it, well last year actually, and didn't realize it was such a lovely park, ...Read more

A memory of West Horsley in 1970 by Loraine Roles

Barleyfield

We lived on Fishers Lane, Pensby then moved to Barleyfield Road where my little sister was born in the front bedroom of no 1. We walked down to Greenbank Junior School every day, three little kids holding hands through fields of barley ...Read more

A memory of Pensby in 1967 by Debbie Ranson

Captions

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Caption For Melton Mowbray, Nottingham Street C1955

The sign of the popular White Lion Hotel is just visible in the centre of this photograph and Barclays Bank (now Ladbrokes) is on the far left.

Caption For Rochdale, Entrance To Yorkshire Street 1898

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank (now Barclays, left) opened on 4 July 1896. Both are faced with Yorkshire stone, which became blackened but later cleaned well.

Caption For Wells, The Market Place C1965

westwards shows (from left to right) the Midland Bank, Mac Fisheries, Cathedral Antiques (the Abbey National Building Society today), a solicitor's premises, and Traveller's Joy travel agents (Barclays

Caption For Studley, The Barley Mow C1960

Samuel Lewis, compiling A Topographical Dictionary of England in 1831, described the Barley Mow as 400 years old even then.

Caption For Swaffham Bulbeck, The Maltings C1955

The maltings were part of the development that followed; the surviving kiln of the maltings would originally have included the malting floors, where the barley was allowed to germinate before being heated

Caption For Alton, High Street C1965

Beyond lies 'Banker's Row' - the location of the Westminster, the National Provincial, Lloyds and Barclays Banks.

Caption For Chelmsford, Shire Hall C1955

In the background, Barclay's Bank stands on a site already occupied by a bank in 1790.

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make

Caption For Haverhill, High Street C1965

On the right, we can see the carriage entrance of the Red Lion next to Carter's the jeweller's; further on is Barclays Bank, which was re-fronted in 1822.

Caption For Truro, Boscawen Street 1923

Barclays Bank dominates the west end, while Lemon Street can be seen emerging on the extreme left. In the centre of it all a policeman on point duty waits for traffic to direct.

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

On Barclays Bank, left, is a sign for the Warminster Journal, which is still produced by Coates and Parker next door.

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Caption For Twickenham, King Street 1909

Built as the London and Provincial Bank, this Palladian-style Edwardian building is now a Barclays Bank; it is more visible now, as the right hand buildings were demolished and rebuilt further back to

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

The Barley Mow is one of the most famous and historic inns on the Thames. Jerome K Jerome featured the pub in 'Three Men in a Boat', published a year before this picture was taken.

Caption For Redditch, Market Place C1950

There are familiar names here, with Barclays Bank, Woolworths, Currys, Freeman Hardy Willis and Hepworths. None of them remains on the same site, though Woolworths has not moved far.

Caption For Debenham, Market Green And High Street C1955

At this end was Mark Ellis the tailor, later Fleming's Antiques; at the other end Barclays Bank. The sign is on the Red Lion (centre left), which closed in 2000. Opposite is H E Rose, the butcher.

Caption For Bishop's Waltham, High Street C1955

Bishop's Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country, before it was sold to Barclays in the early 1950s.

Caption For Ramsey, The Great Whyte C1955

Barclays Bank (right) still stands on the corner of Little Whyte, but the other traders have all gone.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway And The War Memorial C1955

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

Caption For Newtown, Market Day 1950

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

Caption For Walton On The Naze, High Street 1921

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

Caption For West Stafford, Thatching C1960

Local thatch was originally made of wheat, rye or barley straw, but now longer- lasting reed is often used.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1965

There are still louvered windows on the ground floor, remnants of the time when the building was a malting with fires beneath the upper floors to help the barley laid out there to ferment.

Caption For Raunds, Brook Street C1960

On the right of the picture is Barclays Bank, and next to it is the National Provincial Bank, now defunct.