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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

Post Office On The Corner Of Endsleigh Road

I was a postman in the 1960s and collected the post from this post office.

A memory of South Merstham in 1966 by Derek Warner

Courtenay Road 1953

I moved to Wantage with my parents Ted and Phyllis Willey and my brother Ken and sister Susan. At Garston Lane school one of my first friends was John Campbell who lived in Courtenay Road. We were aged 8. Another friend was Jim ...Read more

A memory of Wantage in 1953 by Keith Willey

My Beginning...

My name is Russell Ham. I was born on May the 10th, 1962. I was adopted at about the age of six weeks, I think. The best thing that ever happened to me. I arrived at number 5, Thomas Street, in the summer of 1962, to the home of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1962 by Russell Ham

Growing Up In Cadishead

I was born in 1943 in Bankfield Avenue, Cadishead. When I was 5 we moved to a brand new council house in Devon Road, on the same day I started school which was 2 minutes away round the corner. There were 6 in our ...Read more

A memory of Cadishead in 1940 by Jean Walsh

Remembering Downend

Yes, I too remember the pig sty slaughter house that was there on the corner. It seems a long time ago. I too went to Downend County and I lived in Burley Grove 1953 to 1968. I was with the church lads' ...Read more

A memory of Downend by Stephen Fisher

Cargo Fleet

I lived in Cargo Fleet as a young child, having moved from Australia. My grandmother was born in Cargo Fleet, and she ended up returning with my grandfather, where they purchased a shop on the corner of Bristol Street. We lived up ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet in 1977 by Andrew Catton

Leinster House, Spencer Park

My great-grandfather's house, Leinster House, No. 1 Spencer Park was built in about 1880 and stood on a large corner plot at the top of St. John's Hill. It was demolished in 1964 and a block of flats were built soon ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1880

The Good Old Days

I was born in Luton in the 1940s and remember well the shops in Manchester Street with WG Durrants butchers on the corner of Manchester Street and Bridge Street. Next door in Bridge Street was a garage and further along Manchester ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

Plumpton Close

My grandparents Jack and Beral Storey lived at 8 Plumpton Close with their kids Ricky, Stevie, Sharon and Darrell. My dad was Stevie who sadly passed away in 1980. I spent every weekend at my nan's and have great memories like ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1977 by Steve Storey

Captions

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Caption For Hoylake, Market Street C1960

We are looking west along Market Street from the corner of Cable Road, a scene that has changed remarkably little, apart from a big increase in the volume of traffic, especially on sunny weekends and holiday

Caption For Sabden, Whalley Road C1955

Dressed stone walls, bay windows on the cottages, a corner shop, two early television aerials and motor traffic indicate that times are changing.

Caption For Hailsham, Bell Banks Road, The Pond C1955

The walled enclosure on the far bank is inscribed 'This Sheltered Corner was Endowed by Harold and Winifred Morgan in Memory of their Father, James Henry Morgan'.

Caption For Caergwrle, The Castle C1955

It sits in one corner of what is thought to be an old hill fort, and was the last castle to be built by a native Welsh prince, Dafydd, brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales.

Caption For Eastwood, Beauvale School C1955

Turning into Dovecote Road we wind half a mile east to the corner of Mill Road to finish this chapter on a literary note.

Caption For Misterton, The Church 1960

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

Caption For Boreham Street, White Friars Hotel C1955

It is an attractive village, and at the west end, on the corner of Wood Lane, is the White Friars Hotel; we see it here from Wood Lane, with the main road passing between the creeper-clad hotel

Caption For Sudbury, Exchange 1895

On the corner of Station Road is a three-storey block of Victorian shops. The gable beyond is Thurlows the draper's in Friars Street.

Caption For Aberdare, Cardiff Street C1955

There appears to be only one car on the road; however, in the left- hand corner there is a wheeled vehicle on the pavement.

Caption For Hambleton, Congregational Church And The Manse C1960

The land here on the corner of Paul's Lane and Sandy Lane was purchased for nine pounds in 1870.

Caption For Warrington, Horse Market And Town Centre C1950

Here, shopping expedition completed, mother and son walk down Horsemarket Street, passing Sterlings shoe shop on the corner of Lyme Street (right.)

Caption For Manchester, Royal Exchange C1885

Here we see the Royal Exchange from the corner of Market Street and Cross Street.

Caption For Patricroft, Liverpool Road C1955

There were pork butchers', egg shops, pawn shops, bric-a-brac and second-hand shops, and of course a public house on nearly every corner.

Caption For Stroud, High Street 1910

On the corner, Hillier's the butcher advertises its bacon curing operation. On the right, Smith's the chemist is next door to the double-fronted grocery, wine and spirit merchants.

Caption For Chatteris, Market Hill C1965

The Cross Keys and the Crown stand to the left, and further around the corner is the George, one of the coaching inns.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Further down on the right a bus passes Bradley's Corner and turns into Rylands Street.

Caption For Warrington, Marshall Gardens C1960

Across the road, on the corner of Mersey Street, the Packet House Inn hints at the days when packet boats carried passengers along the Mersey to Liverpool.

Caption For Berkeley, The Old House C1955

The rickety-looking oriel window on its timber props and horned sash window frames are Victorian additions to the centuries-old corner house, which was a shop at the time this photograph

Caption For Worcester, Queen Elizabeth's House 1896

Occupying the corner of The Trinity and Trinity Street, this timber-framed survivor recalls the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Worcester in 1575.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1950

Silver Street was a place for refreshment; the ornate façade of the Rising Sun is on the right near the corner of Montagu Street, with a cluster of cafés like the Hollywood Restaurant and London Grill.

Caption For Hartley, The Village C1950

A V Powell's fruiterer's shop is built in a curious style, with an arched corner entrance somewhat in the manner of a church hall or theatre.

Caption For Abingdon, The Square 1893

Now in Ock Street, Frith's photographer was looking into High Street (right) a decade after the fire that destroyed this corner.

Caption For Tetbury, Long Street Corner C1955

The fine half-timbered corner premises that in the 1950s housed Fawkes Stores is now a clothes shop.

Caption For Cheam, Station Way 1938

The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way.