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Memories

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Jaywick!

Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

Bird In Hand

The local pub was the Bird in Hand. For the workers it was a meeting place. There was The Bush on the bridge, they were always busy.The lights always bright, lots of talking ,shouting and sometimes men were ...Read more

A memory of Bradley

Fond Memories

My grandfather, Reginald Dean, of 130 Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, used to moor his boat- the Eel- in the Staithe. I used to walk there ever day with him to pump it out and make a brew in the summer holidays. his pipe kept the mossies at bay. Great times.

A memory of Broads, The in 1956 by Nigel Dean

Canley

The part of Canley where we lived was made up of what were called "the steel houses" and "the prefabs". Charter Avenue was a dual carriageway and then, at the beginning of Ten Shilling Woods it became a single road. I was always told that ...Read more

A memory of Coventry in 1950 by Tony Gillen

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

164 Bus Through Banstead To Sutton

Anyone remember the bus ride to Sutton from Drift Bridge, via Banstead. Didn't the bus have to stop at the end of the road through Banstead before turning very sharp left? The bus ticket man had to get off and see ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1949 by Sylvia Kerley

Greasborough Dam

I was born on Church St, Greasbrough, gran and granddad lived close by in a row of cottages alongside the top club now a car park? My father worked in the local pits and we moved several times. At age 10 we moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Greasbrough in 1963 by Mike Plant

Halcyon Days

My family moved from south London when I was about 4. We moved into no 5 cruick-avenue. Those were the days when only the odd family had a car, you would go to a neighbours house and pay to use there phone. All adults were mr ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1960 by Chris Sedin

Dogdyke County Primary School

Being born in 1957 I attended Dogdyke County Primary school from 1962 whilst living with parents in Witham Drive, Chapel Hill. We used to walk or cycle to school in those days. Shortly after then we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Dogdyke in 1962

The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey

heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more

A memory of Laleham

Captions

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Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Hodder Bridge 1921

Hidden among the trees in the centre of our photograph is a foot (and animal) bridge just a few miles outside Dunsop Bridge. The hill on the left is called Knot or Sugar Loaf.

Caption For Stirling, The Bridge Of Forth 1899

Stirling is the last place where there is a bridge over the Forth before the river widens into an estuary. The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions.

Caption For Cowan Bridge, C1955

Petrol pumps and the small village shop stand next to another café advertising cigarettes and the ubiquitous Wall's ice cream. The signpost points to Casterton.

Caption For Kelso, View From Maxwellheugh C1955

This magnificent stone bridge was built in the early 1800s to replace another that was washed away in the floods of 1797.

Caption For Slaidburn, Old Bridge 1921

Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages. The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.

Caption For Hornby, The Village C1955

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Caption For Congleton, Colley Bridge Mill C1965

Now we move two or three miles upstream to Colley Mill Bridge. This bridge is old and narrow, and was already controlled by traffic lights when this picture was taken.

Caption For Littlehampton, Promenade 1903

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

Caption For Littlehampton, Harbour 1903

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

Caption For Tickton, The Bridge C1955

A bridge, complete with a chantry chapel, has existed over the River Hull since the 13th century. It was rebuilt in 1803, when the toll was one shilling.

Caption For Maidenhead, Boulters Lock Bridge 1906

The view looking towards the bridge to Ray Mill Island (or, as some people call it, Boulters Lock Island) is the same that Edward Gregory painted in his famous 'Boulters Lock, Sunday Afternoon' (1882

Caption For Llanrwst, Y Bont Fawr Bridge And The Victoria Hotel 1892

This beautifully proportioned stone bridge (Y Bont Fawr means 'the big bridge'), built over the Afon Conwy in 1636, has been a well-known beauty spot and subject for artists for centuries.

Caption For Selby, Bridge 1901

The timbered toll-bridge carrying the York road over the Ouse was erected in 1791, and was one of the earliest of its type in the country.

Caption For Bothwell, 1897

Three hundred years ago, Bothwell was a strategically important village, its bridge being the only one over the Clyde apart from Glasgow Bridge.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

Nearby is the site of the forthcoming 1930s Woolworth store and 1980s redevelopment. Down past the latticed railway bridge is the new road over the bridge to Middleton.

Caption For Loughor, The Bridge 1936

A double-decker bus can be seen crossing the Iron Bridge, which spans the River Loughor close to its estuary. In the background is the industrialised shoreline leading to Llanelli.

Caption For Barmouth, Railway Bridge 1896

This famous bridge spans the Mawddach estuary. A train is heading south. The railway was built as part of the Cambrian railway, with two stations, Barmouth and Barmouth Junction.

Caption For Belfast, Canal Wharf And Queen's Bridge 1897

Most of the traffic was coal, which was loaded in the harbour beyond the bridge and taken to the linen mills along the river, but there was also a steady flow of sand downstream to this wharf.

Caption For Fakenham, Hempton Mill 1921

One in desperation has left his gear on the bank and has paddled into the river to assist the other hopefuls in an attempt to locate some fish.

Caption For East Farleigh, River Medway 1898

This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east.

Caption For Preston, Old Tram Bridge 1893

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

Caption For Bedford, Bromham Bridge 1897

The attractive village of Bromham is now bypassed, so the old bridge over the Great Ouse is mercifully much quieter than it was a few years ago.

Caption For Newport Pagnell, The M1 Motorway 1962

Newport Pagnell Services is now (2002) run by Welcome Break, but it is architecturally very little changed, with the glazed bridge a distinctive feature.