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A Well Spent Life In Stourbridge

Most of my life was spent in Stourbridge although I came from Amblecote and went to school in Wordsley. Mom used to take me to Mary Stevens Park as I took my son in later years. I used to love the swingboat ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge

A Yokels Tale

A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by Tom Thornton

A Child Was Born In Bargoed

Born on the 15th April 1950 in my grandparents front room in Bristol Terrace I didn't realize until now what we had in those " good old days". I am a self made millionaire but I would trade all what I have now for those ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by rthomas

A Great Start To Life Growing Up In North Bitchburn

Here are just a few of my childhood memories of my youth in North Bitchburn. My name is Ian Pinkney, I lived at No 10 Constantine Road, along with my father Raymond, he was in charge of ...Read more

A memory of North Bitchburn

A Lovely Devon Village

We moved to No. 6 Tipton Vale in 1950. Maureen a baby, myself (Valerie) and parents Eric and Joan White fom Fenny Bridges. The house was a new council house, pink and blue. Dad dug out a bank at the rear and we found ...Read more

A memory of Tipton St John in 1950 by Valerie Jordan

A Very Happy Childhood At Westbury

My name is Andy Pike, getting on a bit now but lovely to read other folks memories of Westbury. Here are a few reminiscences of my childhood in Westbury on Trym in the 50's and 60's. Maybe this will ring a ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym by waylandpike

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 ...Read more

A memory of Kingsley by D Toovey

Abridge Picture A106012

This photo appears at the back of Essex Living Memories (pages 112 - 113) and in "I Remember When ... Memories of Britain (page 134)".  The two ladies in the foreground with the prams appear familiar - The lady on the left ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955

Achille Ratti Hostel

In 1953 I was a boy scout with St Patrick's 17th Widnes troop when we had our annual camp in The Lake District. I remember getting off the steam train at Windermere station where there was an old single decker bus waiting ...Read more

A memory of Cockermouth in 1953 by Brian Balfe

Additional Info...

Hi Martin, It was in fact Peter Frampton who lived there at number 12. His dad was the head of the art department at Ravenswood School for Boys (then Bromley Technical High), and I went to school at Pickhurst Primary with his ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Richard Holt

Captions

231 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.

Caption For Buttermere, The Hotel C1873

The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', married a man who claimed to be

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. Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

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. In the foreground is a Victorian sprung cart in the shape of a lifeboat.

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 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. Only the brick base survives.

Caption For Clovelly, Main Street 1894

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland. Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers.

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

The pulpit incorporates some 14th-century panels, and now stands on a modern wooden base. Pevsner rather sadly describes the nave arcades as 'disappointingly scraped'.

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 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 Alton, Normandy Street 1907

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

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 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. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.

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 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 Chester, Watergate Street 1888

The Rows continue around the corner and into Watergate Street. Here, just behind the horse, it is possible to see one of the many staircases that give access to the upper floor.

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 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.