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The Orchid Ballroom Purley
Ah yes, I remember it well. It was magical to go there and dance the evening away. So many great bands in the 50's. The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1950 by
Miners Strike
My father (Robert Summers born Dec 1916) was 6 months old when his father was killed in Ypers. A few years later my gran remarried a miner, James MacLachlan, an ex Cameronian. My father told me a story of how, during the strike and at ...Read more
A memory of Twechar in 1920 by
Play
I know records will prove me wrong, but summer seemed to start around the beginning of May and last until getting on to Bonfire night. We walked to Witton-le-Wear night after night to swim then walked home or, if we were lucky, got a lift ...Read more
A memory of Howden-le-Wear by
My Favourite Haunt
My memories scan over 50 years, I lived in Anhalt Road and then Ethelburga Street and spent countless hours in the Park. The funfare, with fireworks every Friday night for the end of war celebrations, the tree walk along the ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1950 by
My First Visit To Eaglesham Church
My first and last visit to Eaglesham church was when i was a schoolboy at lawmuir agricultural school in nearby Jackton. I must add that lawmuir was a boarding school in those days, and pupils went there on a ...Read more
A memory of Eaglesham in 1959 by
My Great Granny Barker
At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the 1950s ...Read more
A memory of Heighington in 1944 by
The Odeon
I was a member of the Odeon choir and it was around this time that we were taken to I think it was the Festival Hall, to compete against choirs across England and I got a bronze medal, I think it was the Star Festival. Unfortunately my ...Read more
A memory of Watford in 1952 by
Unchanged Lerryn
Lerryn is a place that one almost wants to keep secret so that it does not become a popular destination. It has barely changed in a hundred years. A beautiful and unspoilt village in a steep sided valley, Lerryn lies at the tidal head ...Read more
A memory of Lerryn in 2004 by
What Happened To Me
My name was Lynette Evans I’d just like to say hi to everyone that has shared memories of Splott. I remember so much, so clearly, I was barely 3 years old when I moved from Llanharran to Portmanmore Road. It was a supermarket ...Read more
A memory of Splott in 1964 by
Chingford Hatch
I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1956 by
Captions
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Early maps have the name Bloreys or 'bare spot' for the mountain - this was a name given to high exposed places.
With barely enough wind to keep under way, small craft lie just offshore.
The bucket and spades, bare feet, donkeys and wickerwork basket chairs recapture a vanished era.
Barely 12 years old at this time, and still looking pristine, this mock-Tudor hotel was rebuilt and reworked by Herbert Green.
This evocative view, wholly unchanged today, is barely 200 yards from the busy High Street.
Wirksworth was the 'Snowfield' of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede.
It was a bare-knuckle fight between Tom Sayer, from England, and John Heenan, the American.
Founded for women 28 years before this photograph was taken, Somerville College is barely visible from the street.
When enlarged, this photograph reveals that a couple of the boys in the street are bare-footed.
Overlooking Ilkley is the Swastika Stone, so called because of its attractive engraved markings; in reality, they barely resemble the emotive 20th-century swastika symbol.
He also built the station - a great achievement for a man who could barely write his own name.
The bare chalk in this view of the Whiteleaf Cross is nowadays not seen so clearly; the downs have since become covered in trees and scrub, with woods in the middle distant field.
Here we see a busy day in the summer.
There is not a bare head to be seen in this view, which looks towards the old grandstand - new the year this picture was taken.
Founded for women 28 years before this photograph was taken, Somerville College is barely visible from the street.
These Edwardian ladies are looking at the Iron Age cemetery that was discovered here in 1900.
Barely visible in the distance are the level crossing and signal box.
Here we see the bare central beach of a century ago, with no Embassy Centre, fairground car park, Marine Walk and Esplanade, shops, arcades or cafés.
Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times.
A bare-footed fisherman sits in his boat at low water.
What remains is a gaunt flint mountain with barely a dressed stone intact.
This scene is barely recognisable today.
Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'.
Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew
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