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Memories

2,797 memories found. Showing results 341 to 350.

Childhood In The Village!!

I was devastated in 1964 when my mother told me we were to leave the village so that my mother could pursue her dream of owning her own small business elsewhere. It was a dreadful culture shock, one that has remained ...Read more

A memory of Mollington in 1961 by Vanda Godwin Marriott

Early Memories

My birth on 30 Nov 1946 at 34 Oldberry Road, Burnt Oak, is where it all started for me, but my mother & her parents moved into the house when it was built for the LCC. She's 89 now, but recalls that she, as a 9-yr-old in 1928, ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1946 by Anthony Kerrison

Ann & Vic Norman's Shop

My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1960 by Julia Stannard

Roby Mill School

I attended Roby Mill School. Miss Simm was my teacher. She caught the bus to the monument (Vicarage Corner), and walked down College Road picking pupils up along the way. It was almost 1 mile in distance, she did this twice a ...Read more

A memory of Upholland Sta in 1949 by Dorothy Kelly

Goldthorpe In The Fifties

I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by swamidhyan

Growing Up In Hawkhurst

I have so many happy memories of growing up in Hawkurst in the 1940s /1950s  and although Hawkhurst has changed a lot over the years it's a lovely place to visit. I still remember all the shops along the colonnade and the ...Read more

A memory of Hawkhurst in 1950

Delivering Our Daily Bread

The picture shown is of Russell Road which runs left to right centre of the picture. Every day except Sunday during the early 1960s I used to deliver bread all around Weston Point and remember well reversing my Co-op van ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1961 by Brian Balfe

Fair Green

I lived in that stange area of Mitcham known as Lonesome, situated between the level crossing at Eastfields and the bottom of Streatham Vale. It was a sort of 'No Man's  Land'. My schooling from 1951- 1957 took place first at the wooden ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by Mike Walker

Buses

I had forgotten that the buses used to use the area in front of the abbey as a terminus. I lived in Selby from my birth in 1954 until 1972. I frequently caught a bus from the corner of Buller Street & Flaxley Road to school on Abbotts Road. ...Read more

A memory of Selby by Pete Jones

The Real Winters Of The 1940s

I recall, with the occasional shudder, the freezing cold winters of the 1940s. I spent Saturday evenings earning a couple of shillings (that's 10p to you youngsters!!) working from 4.30pm to 6.00pm selling ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1948 by Neil Mac Gregor

Captions

1,235 captions found. Showing results 817 to 840.

Caption For Kingswinford, The Townsend Precinct C1965

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

Caption For Chelmsford, Moulsham Street 1919

Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

Caption For Edwinstowe, High Street C1955

The Mansfield, Sutton and District Co-operative Society shop on the corner (left) was funded by Earl Manvers in 1895.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 1893

Lack of capacity precipitated the huge Wood Street corner extension of 1890.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 2004

Lack of capacity precipitated the huge Wood Street corner extension of 1890.

Caption For Arlington, Church C1955

On the right we can see the timber-framed Tudor walls of The Corner House.

Caption For Aberdare, Victoria Square C1960

The Castle Hotel once stood on the left-hand side, but today there is a National Westminster Bank on this corner.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Hodder Bridge 1921

River Hodder shows the magnificent scenery of the area.The photograph shows the scene as it could have been 100 years earlier, except for the gas pipe crossing the river in the bottom left- hand corner

Caption For Woodmansterne, Rectory Lane C1955

Today the corner shop is Surrey News & Mini Market and, although there is still a hair salon next door, the adjacent shops have changed character to include two financial advisers, a security

Caption For Wrotham, High Street 1901

On the left-hand corner of the street, J Coleman's operation combined the service of local undertaker with that of grocer and draper.

Caption For Stoborough, Holme Lane C1960

This rare shot shows the old turnpike cottage (left) at Holme Toll Bar, before the corner was cleared for road widening, looking westwards from Stoborough to East Holme.

Caption For Eynesbury, St Mary Street 1897

Around the corner at the Chequers Inn is a quoit ground, where matches with visiting teams were held.

Caption For Datchworth, The Tilbury C1965

The name and licence were moved from a public house standing on the corner of the churchyard and owned by the parish. The rent was paid to the Overseer for the relief of the poor.

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

crossroads at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner

Caption For Loftus, Mill Bank C1960

The lane down to Skinningrove village runs off at the bottom left-hand corner. On the skyline we can just see the overhead tramway carrying buckets of ironstone from one of the mines.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Lym Bridge Antique Shop C1955

Guildhall House is the white-fronted building on the corner (far centre).

Caption For East Ham, High Street C1965

The Midland Bank on the corner of Caulfield Road (right) is one of their 1920s Classical-style single-storey buildings that add quality to many High Streets.

Caption For Eling, St Mary's Church C1955

Much has changed in this area of Hampshire, but little Eling, at the head of Southampton Water, is one tiny corner of the county that seems delightfully timeless.

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

Caption For Lumley Park, Castle 1892

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets, from which unpleasant things could be dropped upon the heads of unwelcome visitors.

Caption For Needham Market, St John's Church 1922

On the next corner is the 16th-century Bull (John Esling was the landlord), now closed.

Caption For Saundersfoot, From St Bride's 1933

The Hean Castle Hotel (centre) stands on the corner of Cambrian Terrace and Wogan Terrace. On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office.

Caption For Saundersfoot, Cambrian Terrace 1949

The Hean Castle Hotel (centre) stands on the corner of Cambrian Terrace and Wogan Terrace. On the right is the Barbecue restaurant, originally Bonville's Court Colliery Office.

Caption For York, The Minster From The City Walls 1921

A lone tram trundles around the corner, and a few cars can be seen.