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Running Errands In Market Street

One of the shops I remember well was Fosters. It was like a mini department store. We had some of our clothes from there. You could buy things and pay so much a week. It was how we lived then. It was quite ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1960 by Marilynne Connolly

Drive Through

Not much has changed from this photo, to when I drove through in 2010.

A memory of Greystoke in 2010

Happy Days!!!

I was a pupil at Downshill School, Dockenfield Manor, sent there in 1946 or 42 at the age of 6½ or so. The headmaster was a small, self-important and often sadistic man. Of the other masters, Major Faro was a born sadist - "a double ...Read more

A memory of Frensham in 1942 by Michael Nassau Kennedy

5 Jubilee Cottages

Born here 1942 - mother a member of the Wicks family based at Holly House (hurdle makers) father an airman stationed at RAF Hullavington. I recall land girls, the drone of planes. I was too young for school & roamed ...Read more

A memory of Hullavington in 1942 by Tony Dighton

Good Old School Days !!!

I started Walker R C in the 1950's and remember my wonderful teacher called Miss Morgan - she was so sweet and kind. I had very long hair and she would often bring in lovely ribbons for me, I was very shy and she was so very ...Read more

A memory of Byker

Holiday Memories

My parents spent annual holidays at Taberners boarding House in Albert Road, Blackpool Central, when they were young children, and upon hearing of their eventual courtship and engagement many years later, the then owners vowed ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1959

My Childhood In The 50s And 60s

My mother, was born in Cwmaman as were a large number of my maternal family. I used to visit my aunts in Byron Street. You may remember them for running the local shop in the 50's - Maggie Evans, and her sisters ...Read more

A memory of Cwmaman by Margaret Seymour

Blacksmiths Forge On Kingston Road, Ewell

Further to Pat Dickinson's memories....... I remember it vividly,especially the roaring fire and clanging iron -,the way the huge (to me) horses stood so still. We used to stop on our way home from school. ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1940 by Chris Bragg

Grand Hotel, Littlestone, 1963

I remember attending my aunt's 21st Birthday Party at the Grand Hotel in 1963. I was 3 years old. They had strung a fishing net from the ceiling of the ballroom and filled it with balloons. Every now and ...Read more

A memory of Littlestone-on-Sea by Gordon Frampton

Morris Family The Gristmill Whitebrook

My father Eddie Morris was last of of 7 children who lived in the Gristmill. Even aged 70, he was still hugged & referred to as Baby Brother. (Ron, Tom, Jack, Jim, Trudy, Grace, Eddie). Story is that ...Read more

A memory of Whitebrook by Ruth Wolveridge

Captions

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Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

The tower was thought to date from the 12th century, but repairs in the winter of 1994 revealed a much earlier window, dating from about AD 980, in the south wall of the ringing chamber on the second

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

Cloisters with studies above run to the south and east of Old Quad, with a tall arch forming the entrance to the School House dining hall at the south-eastern corner.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

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.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The arched Venetian windows of a building of 1880 are still fairly staid, but in 1983 a ritzy V-shaped window would replace the flat front so the customers could see almost all round the display of Foster

Caption For High Wycombe, The Castle Mound And Castle House, Priory Avenue 2005

These medieval arches and walls survive because they were incorporated into the Grammar (Martin Andrew) The castle's medieval motte became a prospect mound with a garden room on top in the 19th

Caption For Hutton, Highcliff And Cleveland Hills C1885

commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much

Caption For Binfield, All Saint's Church C1955

An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in

Caption For Basildon, Whitmore Way 1961

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a post office, a Martin's newsagent and a much-needed chip shop.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Hill, The Junction With Tipton Road C1960

Between the two buildings runs the railway, at a much lower level. On the opposite side of the road stands the Plaza cinema with the Hippodrome theatre next to it.

Caption For Wimborne, The Minster, From The Chancel 1886

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

Caption For Inverlochy, Castle C1890

1645, after a forced march covering 30 miles in 36 hours over difficult terrain in some of the worst weather in living memory, that the great Marquess of Montrose, with fewer than 2000 men, defeated a much

Caption For Loughborough, All Saints Parish Church C1950

fabric of the present building is known to date from the 16th century, there is internal evidence in the roof beams and fireplaces, and in the large use of timber on one of the external walls, of a much

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

Caption For New Brighton, Lighthouse 1892

This was a period when thousands of hard-working Liverpudlians took their families on a much-needed break.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Caption For Lowestoft, London Road North 1896

Here we see solid Victorian architecture in this tree-lined street, with one well-established family retail chain much in evidence.

Caption For Nantwich, Parish Church 1898

Much of the structure dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that building work was probably interrupted by the Black Death and only resumed much later that same century.

Caption For Much Wenlock, The Bull Ring C1955

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

Caption For Oxted, High Street 1908

Although there has been much expansion in Oxted, this part, known as Old Oxted, has retained much of its charm.

Caption For Sheet, Village Green 1898

Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.

Caption For Cranborne, Wimborne Street 1954

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.