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Memories

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Fishing With Billy

Billy was a hero to we boys. In the daytime you could go crabbing with him; at night, out drifting. He drove an old open jeep and at times you would see five, six or even seven boys clinging to parts of this ex-US vehicle as it ...Read more

A memory of Downderry in 1955 by D'arcy Blank

My Childhood Years In Stebbing

My Grandparents, Harry and Hannah Young lived in the first cottage on the left as you enter the village. I spent most of my school holidays there with them and my Mother and I were evacuated to live with them during ...Read more

A memory of Stebbing in 1940 by Vera Webster

Station Road Meopham

My parents moved into Station Rd in 1963, as a newly married couple. There was a terrace of new houses built in Station Rd in 1962/63 & theirs was the furthest house down the road, the end of the terrace, I think No.28? I ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1963 by Tracey Acton

Can We Get Married?

After a day down the front we sat just around the corner of the Donkey just past where the cars are.  It was a great summer evening and we were just finishing the day with a drink.  I thought it was the right time to ask ...Read more

A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1956 by James Chelton

School Days

Before becoming the home of George Harrison of the Beatles, Friar Park was run as a school by sisters of the St. John Bosco order. This was my first school and I remember having to walk all the way to the main door along the ...Read more

A memory of Henley-on-Thames in 1960 by Mandy Lester

Wonderful Memories

What an unexpected pleasure it was stumbling quite by accident upon this website this evening! I was born in Croydon in 1948 and lived in West Croydon till 1955. I have very vivid memories of the high street, even of being ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1954 by Yvonne Kolessides

Hobbs Farm

Our family moved from Bognor to Yapton in 1951 just before my 10th birthday. I was only 13 and attending Chichester High School for Girls when I started working weekends at Hobbs Farm, Bilsham Corner. It was a pedigree Jersey dairy farm ...Read more

A memory of Yapton in 1954 by Josephine Hammond

I Lived Here

I lived at The Malt House, Claverdon in the early mid 1960s. It was owned at the time by Mr Jefferson who lived in a lovely new bungalow a little further away. I loved this house even if it was a bit unusual to live in. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Claverdon in 1964 by Deboragh Lewis

Our Home For 30+ Years

Mam and Dad, Lizzie and Edwin Ridley, moved into Slaghill (the cottage on the right of the picture) in 1948 when I was 3 years old. Dad died there in December 1978 and Mam moved up to Chapel Cottages soon afterwards. There ...Read more

A memory of Allenheads in 1948 by Evelyn Jones

Grandparents

My nanny & granddad lived in Orrell Park, Westfield Road. I remember very well growing up because I lived in Aintree at that time, visiting them with mum & dad.  We would get the number 60 bus up to the corner of their ...Read more

A memory of Orrell in 1953 by Brenda Vanderwert

Captions

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Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street 1937

The large brick-faced building on the corner of George Street announces A V Britton, cars and coaches for hire.

Caption For Burnley, St James Street C1955

Originally, when this part of the street was known as Blucher Street, after the Prussian general at Waterloo, the bend was much more pronounced — it was known as Munn's Corner because of the business that

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Station Road 1914

doors along is Boots, 'the largest chemist in the world', and just beyond that Sainsbury's, with its distinctive shop interiors, spacious, practical and hygienic, worlds away from the small, cramped corner

Caption For Whitby, Crescent Terrace 1925

Beyond Crescent Terrace lies the Royal Hotel corner, which is in North Terrace.

Caption For Horsham, East Street 1891

The newly-completed building with the corner tower survives, as does the Dutch-style mission hall beyond, dated 1891.

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

The building on the far left is the corner of the Nestle's works.

Caption For Aylesbury, St Mary's Square C1965

On the far right is the old school on the corner of Pebble Lane, which leads back into Kingsbury; it is now an exhibition gallery for the County Museum.

Caption For Mansfield, Market Place C1950

This view was taken from beside the Town Hall of 1836, looking north to the corner of Westgate.

Caption For Aylesbury, Cambridge Street C1955

The pub has now merged with the Barleycorn on the Buckingham Street corner and is archly renamed the Farmyard and Firkin.

Caption For Petersfield, Market Place C1950

This Wednesday morning 9 o'clock photograph is the first view we have in this book of Sheep Street in the far corner of the Square.

Caption For Bletchingley, The Hunt At Ye Olde Whyte Harte Hotel C1965

The 1890s terrace with its four gabled full-height bay windows steps down the hill; the left-hand one on the corner of Outwood Lane is now no longer a Barclays Bank, but the offices of financial consultants

Caption For Abingdon, Town Hall 1890

To the left is the building on the corner of Bridge Street which was demolished in 1938; in 1890 it was a coffee tavern.

Caption For Odiham, High Street 1908

Aaron Cooper, a clock and watchmaker on the opposite corner, was continuing his father's trade. The entrance gates of The Priory are on the right.

Caption For Hitchin, Bancroft C1955

The building in the distance stands at Moss's Corner. The firm of W Moss became the largest group of shops in the district - at one time they had 10 outlets.

Caption For Reigate, High Street 1919

Along with its turret, containing a clock with four illuminated dials, the town hall also boasted two corner chimneys which were added in 1853 by Lord Somers, but these have since been removed.

Caption For Doncaster, St Sepulchre Gate C1955

We are looking towards Baxtergate and the Clock Corner (built 1894). We can see the 15th-century tower of St George's church on the horizon (left).

Caption For Sevenoaks, Constitutional Club 1895

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.

Caption For Penarth, The Roundabout C1940

The London & Provincial Bank established itself c1883, relocating to a vacant school building on the corner of Stanwell Road c1886. It became Barclays (left) after bank amalgamation of 1919.

Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955

The corner stationer's is still just that. The market day is Friday. The whole square is the property of the Duchy of Lancaster, states a notice in the shelter in the middle of the square.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Abbeygate Street C1950

On this corner is the International, and beyond is Jenkins the chemists, in a building that has been a chemists since 1798.

Caption For Weymouth, Alexandra Gardens 1899

Devonshire Buildings and Pulteney Buildings (centre) have those rounded corners that are so characteristic of Georgian Weymouth.

Caption For Calne, The River Marden And New Road C1955

Storah's outfitters and drapers is in the centre on the corner of Church Street. The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

Caption For Chelmsford, Moulsham Street C1950

Loveday and Son, the watchmaker and jeweller's, complete with the clock, still survives on the corner of Baddow Street (left), but the International Stores (right) and many of the other shops have now

Caption For Bishop's Stortford, Potter Street C1950

Behind the Morris 8, Church Street turns to the left with Boots 'Cash Chemist' on the corner. Today Potter Street is one-way - the traffic in the photograph is facing in the wrong direction.