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A B C Minors Saturday Morning At The Ritz

Queuing up to go and see our films on a Saturday morning and singing the song about the abc minors. The words are as follows.We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the abc and every Saturday we ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Kathleen White

A Forgotten Piece Of Netherfield History

On 4th October, 1940, a Hienkel HE 111 h-2 bomber crashed nr the Mountfield Gypsum mines. Only one crew member survived, his parachute was caught in a tree. He was rescued unhurt. I was ...Read more

A memory of Netherfield in 1940 by Peter Venner

A Golden Summer

Firstly--although the date of this picture is not confirmed, the scene it depicts, is exactly how I remember the 'Blue Lagoon' from 1955. This encapcilates exactly--'The Seaside Holiday' in post war Britain. In our families ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1955 by Philip Croft

A Great Place To Live

I was christened at St Giles in 1950 and lived in The Grove until I got married in 1972. I went to Breakspear Primary School and then Vyners. As a boy I was always playing in the woods by the river Pinn, building camps and ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham by Bob Passmore

A Happy Time

I was born in 1965 at Cliveden and lived in Grubwood Lane near the entrance to Quarry Woods with my parents for 16 years. I remember walking to Cookham Dean Primary School where the headmaster Mr Turner made my life a misery! I ...Read more

A memory of Cookham Dean in 1965

A Kids Heaven And Hell

A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful ...Read more

A memory of Oddicombe Beach in 1940 by Frederick Watson

A Miners Son Growing Up

IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE OVER 55 YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE I WAS LAST IN PEN-Y-BANK. MY FATHER WAS A COAL GETTER IN MORGANS LEVELS, A HARD MAN THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF LEN THOMAS, OR BETTER KNOWN AS LT. I WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OF ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-bank by rthomas

A New Home

My family and I relocated to Llangattock in or about 1955/6.  We came from the American army camp at Dan-yr-Park.  I rather think that the local people thought we were aliens of some sort and regarded us somewhat disdainfully and not ...Read more

A memory of Llangattock in 1955 by David Palfrey

A Traditional English Pub!

The Queen's Head is little changed - maybe a horse trough on the pavement but the front of the building is pure English village pub! It was the starting point for many a village pub crawl and some fun times pushing ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1966 by John Howard Norfolk

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 1

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford in the 1960s and 1970s as a couple of walks ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Captions

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Caption For Filey, North Beach C1960

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

Caption For Wollaston, High Park Avenue C1960

That finished when the farm closed, but the Darbys are still around - Graham Darby is currently licensee of The Gate Hangs Well on High Park Avenue.

Caption For Dartmouth, Fairfax Place C1955

Fairfax Place was built in the 1880s, replacing some 16th-century properties. Oldreive Brothers (left) were highly successful butchers, supplying the 'Britannia' and visiting ships.

Caption For Winchester, Great Hall And The Round Table 1912

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Caption For Sunningdale, The Church C1960

The 1893 reredos is by Pearson, and the church has a remarkable painting of The Mourning of Christ after Van Dyck, the original of which hangs in the Berlin gallery.

Caption For Old Colwyn, Abergele Road 1908

All the hustle and bustle of Edwardian life is here in this photograph.

Caption For York, The Shambles C1960

The word Shambles derives from 'shamel', meaning benches or stalls.

Caption For York, Shambles 1893

The overhanging storeys were a feature of town architecture, which came into use some time in the late 13th or early 14th centuries.

Caption For Tadcaster, High Street C1955

It is a quiet day in Tadcaster's High Street as a cyclist pedals unconcernedly down the middle of the road.

Caption For Winchester, Great Hall And The Round Table 1912

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Caption For Padstow, Market Place 1906

You could hardly travel further from London than here, but Williams the Padstow newsagent is displaying the very latest penny dreadfuls.

Caption For Nottage, 1938

The Swan Inn, pictured on the right of this photograph, is still here today.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street C1960

The left- hand ground-floor window now matches its fellow, three dormers have replaced the original two, the end elevation has plasterwork instead of tile-hanging, a larger window and more

Caption For Blaenau Ffestiniog, Church Street 1901

This photograph looks uphill towards the great cliff of Carreg Du, which looms over the town's streets.

Caption For Colwich, The Lock House C1955

Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.

Caption For Hadley, The Village 1901

The pub is called the Old Bush Inn. This is an old name for a pub; it dates back to times when the brewer would hang a bit of a bush over the front door to advertise that a new brew was ready.

Caption For Fleet, Oakley's Stores, Market Place 1906

The impressive façade of Oakley's Stores simply oozes prosperity as it faces the larger department store premises across Fleet Road.

Caption For Cardiff, City Hall C1960

The Marble Hall forms a magnificent approach to the spectacularly ornate Assembly Room.

Caption For Teignmouth, 1906

In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry. The top of the sea wall provides additional seating and a pagoda shelter adorns the prom- enade.

Caption For Cousley Wood, The Village 1899

Weatherboarding - as seen on the inn - and tile-hanging are typical of this area of Sussex. W J Ballard's forge is in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Usk, The Three Salmons Hotel C1965

The Three Salmons Hotel, which stands on the A471 to Abergavenny, looks much the same today, except that it has now expanded to occupy the premises across the road.

Caption For Sharpness, The Training Ship Vindicatrix C1955

During that time more than 70,000 boys aged between 14 and 17 were trained on her prior to entering the Merchant Navy. Note the size of the twin anchors hanging from the bow.

Caption For Farnborough, Camp Road C1965

Looking towards the junction with Lynchford Road, a rather downmarket- looking Fine Fare supermarket with what appears to be a corrugated iron roof has managed to gain a toe-hold, next to

Caption For Edenbridge, High Street 1906

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.