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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 line ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Kathleen White

Wembley High Road

I grew up in Wembley, late 60’s to early 80’s. used to hang around the high road a lot . Who remembers a trendy shop called Screws ,it had like a coffee/cafeteria downstairs anc a record booth that you could listen to before you bought ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by e.tyndale

A Visit To My Nan Kirby

My Nan Kirby (Cozens and nee Annetts) lived in a bungalow in Woodfield. Memories of visiting her include sitting in front of a roaring fire with a large central dining table with a soft red tablecloth overhanging it ...Read more

A memory of Kingsley by D Toovey

Grandparents And Some Of Their Children

I have a large sepia photo hanging in the hallway of my grandparents and some of their children walking on the banks of the river in 1922. My mother is 8 yrs old. At the time they lived in Tredegar. How can I send a copy of the picture as an attachment?

A memory of Sirhowy River

Life In Burghfield In The 1950s

The passageway led from Clayhill Road all the way through the village, and came out on the Reading Road, some 2 miles away, the passageway was used by us children daily as a short cut to school, and it went by ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1955 by Andrew Cooper

Growing Up In Seaton Sluice In The 1960s

I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Sluice by Stuart Mc Leod

Childhood Days

Mitcham a lovely little place, here you used to catch the buses to Sutton and beyond, the picture house and opposite the pictures used to be a sweet shop where I can remember Mars bars used to cost 2/6 in old money, gobstobbers that used ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1963 by David Buettner Banks

Growing Up

We moved to Cattedown in 1952 when I was 8 years old, to Tresillian Street. My first memory is of the Coronation celebrations and a resulting street party, when we received Coronation Mugs, had bicycle decoration contests and street ...Read more

A memory of Cattedown by Jeffrey Smith

Before The Hippies...

During the '70's I lived in nearby Shepton Mallet. After I'd left school many of my mates & myself bought motorbikes, Glastonbury was often a destination - my first bike was a very unreliable Czech made CZ175. Luckily, near ...Read more

A memory of Glastonbury by bru.enzer

Seaford Rd In The 50s And 60s

I was born in 15 Seaford rd. in 1954. Tottenham then was like a village where everyone knew everyone else. I can clearly remember rag and bone men with their horse and carts, ringing their bells yelling "old rags and ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by John Martin

Captions

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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.

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1950

In the middle is the hanging sign for the Three Horse Shoes, which closed about 1968.

Caption For Ulverston, King Street 1950

The clock on the right hangs outside Lakeland Laundries, a chain once present all around the district.

Caption For Rothwell, High Street C1955

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.

Caption For Lowestoft, A Trip In A Lifeboat C1950

The Hatfield Hotel (centre right) looks very modern for 1950, and contrasts with the Victorian buildings on Parade Road South.

Caption For Garstang, Church Street C1955

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

Caption For Salisbury, Bridge Street C1955

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Caption For Clovelly, Main Street 1894

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland.

Caption For Ockley, The Windmill 1906

The mill was powered by four patent shuttered sails, and winding was controlled by hand with an endless chain gear hanging from the rear of the cap down to the staging.

Caption For Devizes, St John's Church, Interior 1898

The pulpit incorporates some 14th-century panels, and now stands on a modern wooden base.

Caption For Barnston, The Fox And Hounds C1955

The original inn that stood on this site dated from the 16th century, but it was dismantled in 1910 and the present inn built.

Caption For Chartham, The Green 1903

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

Caption For Chartham, The Green 1903

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

Caption For Castor, Peterborough Road C1955

This scene has changed little in the past 50 years, apart from the Royal Oak (left) losing its hanging sign and side entrance in the 1980s after a couple of lorries demolished the porch!

Caption For Stocksbridge, From The Clock Tower C1955

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Caption For Accrington, Town Hall C1965

An elegant lamp standard adorns the zebra crossing in front of the Town Hall, and hanging baskets brighten the stonework.

Caption For Alton, Normandy Street 1907

The building on the right with a hanging sign was the Bell Alehouse.

Caption For Liskeard, Fore Street 1906

On the right is Sando's multi-paned frontage and, on the left, a sizeable shop for ladies, advertising its clearance sale of blouses, which is in full swing.

Caption For Lacock, William Henry Fox Talbot, The Abbey C1955

This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family.

Caption For Chester, Watergate Street 1888

The Rows continue around the corner and into Watergate Street.

Caption For Savernake, Brown's Farm 1908

This fine old 17th- century farmhouse, built in a mixture of materials, stone, brick, tile-hanging and long straw thatch, is typical of the area around Marlborough.

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 Uley, The Street C1960

We are looking in the opposite direction from No U3011.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road 2004

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.