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The Keelings 1940 Evacuees

My sister, Joy, elder brother, Richard and myself, John Keeling, were evacuated to Llanharan in June 1940. After a short time Richard and myself were placed with a lovely old lady at 12 Seymour Avenue, Mrs Surridge. I ...Read more

A memory of Llanharan in 1940 by John Keeling

Alan & Hilda

Alan and Hilda Slater were my Uncle and Aunty and lived at the post office for many years and were quite possibly the funniest people I ever knew. Stanhill Post Office is reputedly haunted and Uncle Alan took every opportunity to use ...Read more

A memory of Stanhill by Steven Hargreaves

West Street Shops

Shops on West Street in the 1960s were left to right: Merritts the butcher next door to Blackiston the butcher, famous for the specialty sausages, also had its own slaughterhouse and in the back garden an Anderson shelter used ...Read more

A memory of Midhurst in 1960 by Doug Murphy

12 Glebe Avenue Kolordek

This picture is just too small to see if my parents' shop - Kolordek - is illustrated in the row. We moved away around 66/67. Vaiseys had the grocers next door - I was friends with their daughter, and the grocer's next to ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1962 by Patricia Reeve De Becker

Marshes Pies

Does anyone remember Marshes pie and confectionary shop, corner of Old Whint Road, opposite no 1 Labour Club? They were the best pies ever made at the back of the shop.

A memory of Earlestown in 1960 by Phil Cunliffe

Fish And Ice Cream!

Hello. I used to live in Thornhill from 1958 to 1968/9 (aged 1 -11) and I always seem to remember it being sunny even though the area is one of the wettest in the UK! Fish and Ice Cream....not together. I remember my mother ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1965 by George Middleton

Growing Up

I have some very happy memories of growing up in and around Burwash. Both sets of my grandparents lived in Swife Lane. Mr and Mrs Frederick owned Corner Farm, where my mum grew up, and Mr and Mrs Smith lived in Byeways. I remember as a ...Read more

A memory of Burwash in 1972 by Helen Hobbs

Cranford Shops 1980s 2010

Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

Harlow Market

This was the year we moved to Harlow from Tottenham. The market was much nicer then than it has been since, especially since the council put up those awful permanent stalls. At the corner of the market nearest the clock on the wall ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1960 by Sue Rowley

Reminiscences Of Portsmouth In The Late 1930s

I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Brian Veall

Captions

1,235 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.

Caption For Eye, Church Street C1960

On the left corner is Nunn's, the gents' outfitter's, which was hit by an unexploded bomb on 11 September 1940.

Caption For Abergavenny, Cross Street C1965

On the opposite corner of Monk Street the agricultural merchants has gone, to be replaced by the new South Wales Electricity Board building.

Caption For London, Mansion House And Cheapside C1890

Mappin and Webb's corner premises, together with the section of Queen Victoria Street down to Cannon Street, were completed in 1869.

Caption For Ludham, Village From Lower Ludham 1929

The memorial cross at the corner of the churchyard commemorates those who fell in the 1914-18 war.

Caption For Kettering, Newland Street 1922

One local resident of Kettering recalls visiting Woodcock's department store on the corner of Newland Street and Montagu Street as a child in the 1920s and 30s.

Caption For Earls Barton, The Square C1965

The tall building behind Underwood's shop (now The Corner Shop) is the old Harcourt shoe factory - recently converted into flats and a sound studio.

Caption For Aylesbury, Victoria Hall 1897

The Victoria Club for Working Men in the west corner of Kingsbury is another benefaction from the Rothschilds, in this case Baron Ferdinand of Waddesdon.

Caption For Alcester, Oversley Green C1965

When the Alcester-Stratford road was turnpiked in 1753 a toll house was built on the Oversley side of the bridge, but it was later transferred to Hoo Mill Corner.

Caption For Swindon, The College 1961

At centre right a Bristol bus (Service No 65 to Chippenham) is leaving Rolleston Street with the Bristol Omnibus Company offices on the corner.

Caption For Swindon, Cricklade Road C1965

The large shopping precinct to the right on the corner of Whitworth Road, Clive Parade, had been built circa 1960.

Caption For Mildenhall, Market Place C1955

Whitworth's the grocer's is on the left- hand corner. The Tiger's Head, in the centre, also had a taxi service run by Sid Bonnett.

Caption For Bearsted, Church 1898

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

It is interesting that in the right foreground is a Belisha Beacon, a common sight before the introduction of zebra crossings.The familiar store of Boots is to the left, and W H Smith is on the corner

Caption For Wangford, The Village 1895

The corner site was the former post office of 1879. At the bottom is the Angel, landlord John Copley, which is the only hostelry functioning today.

Caption For Tidenham, Church 1906

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Caption For Sutton, The Cock Hotel And High Street C1955

The terrace of shops stepping down the High Street, beyond the busy junction with Carshalton Road and William Pile Ltd (the stuccoed corner building), was erected in 1880.

Caption For Woolpit, Main Street C1955

The shop at the near corner is Addison's, established in 1889.

Caption For Whitchurch, White Hart Hotel 1939

One of the best Georgian buildings is the White Hart Hotel with its rounded corner. To the north-west of the centre is the church of All Hallows, where parish rooms were added in 1974.

Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

The familiar store of Boots is to the left, and W H Smith is on the corner by the car that is turning.

Caption For Dursley, Silver Street C1947

The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view. The venerable Austin Seven must be about twenty years old at the time of this photograph.

Caption For Torquay, The Bowling Green 1906

This celebrated and fashionable winter resort occupies the northern corner of Tor Bay, and is securely sheltered from all winds, except those from the south-east.

Caption For Sheffield, The Town Hall 1896

The gabled Renaissance-style Town Hall, built on the corner of Pinstone Street and Surrey Street, was designed by E W Mountford and completed in 1896; its official opening by Queen Victoria took place

Caption For Raglan, Castle Street 1914

Two of them still have large windows by their doors to remind us that they used to be the corner stores and Jones's Refreshment Rooms.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road 1899

The charmingly rustic stone lion at the left has been replaced by a corner turret and all the buildings are now shops, many of which have been rebuilt, but the view is still terminated by the Jubilee Clock