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Memories
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Dalelands
The car in this picture is parked outside my old home. I wonder, was it my Dad's car? Not many of us had cars then. I spent many hours under the lamp-post as it got dark, before I got called in. We were pretty safe to play out ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1960 by
Distant Memories
I had returned to UK from Queensland to visit my mother who was ill and waiting at the platform entrance at Waterloo station when a former colleague from Post Office Overseas Telegraph came up to me and we began a ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1978 by
Crichel House During The War Years
Dumpton House (Preparatory) School was evacuated to Crichel during the Second World War from Broadstairs in Kent. My older brother (Paul Cremer) was already at the school and due to the war my parents sent me ...Read more
A memory of Crichel Ho in 1940 by
Old Village Barry
Not wishing to sound pedantic, but (with reference to another 'memory' posted about this photo) I'm pretty sure the photo shown is of the cottages on Old Village Road Barry, and not buildings adjacent to Cadoxton school which is a ...Read more
A memory of Barry by
Ellen Mary Aiton And Her Family
My mother grew up in Dunscroft, living at Hatfield Main View then later on in a converted railway carriage. Her father Feorge Aiton was a coal miner and lost his life in a coalface accdent in 1961. She told me many ...Read more
A memory of Dunscroft by
1960’s
I remember Stanford Dingley when the cottages existed opposite Dumbledore on Jennets hill, they used the water pump opposite. A fire destroyed the semi-detached house opposite where Casey Court now stands. There was a post office ...Read more
A memory of Stanford Dingley
Post Office
My name is keith howlett and I was born in 1946 at the post office my dad was the post master there his name was percy howlett we had chickens lots of them.
A memory of Stokesby by
Woodville Road, Ham, Prefabs
My Family moved into the newly built Prefabs in Woodville Road when they were first opened up for occupancy. I can't remember what year it was. Does anybody know what the date was? The Prefabs were kitted out with a Fridge ...Read more
A memory of Ham by
A Trip Down Memory Lane
I am very pleased to have found this site, I was on Friends Reunited but it closed. I was born in 19 Chester Street in 1947, went to Lawson infants school, Smeaton Street and Middlesbrough Tech. My sister, Pat, grew up ...Read more
A memory of Cargo Fleet by
Oakfield School
Great to see some posts on my old school Great memories, I was there from I guess 1959 to 1965 I can remember the music teacher Mr fletcher deputy head Mr Evens and Mr Spry Nobby Norville as he was known science teacher. My main ...Read more
A memory of Penge by
Captions
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Later brick houses also feature, including the Blisworth Post Office and Stores in the middle distance. The corner shop advertising Tizer is now a house.
L T Gamblin's village smithy with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a shop, Poppy's Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and has lost
On the far left is the Post Office Inn. Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right).
We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.
Beyond are the four little cottages now adapted into three shops (one of which, Ada Francis, is advertising her Dining & Tea Rooms), and the post office, which replaced that at Maplesden's
The black smock mill Jack is conserved, while the white post mill Jill is in full working order and open to visitors.
The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating
In the immediate post-war era, Luton was a medium sized town - albeit a county borough - about to become very much larger.
Post-war, caravans advanced on to the pea-gravel beach, and this photograph was used by the National Trust land agent John Cripwell when he presented the case for the purchase of Burton Cliff (top right
The post office has closed, but another is now located half-a-mile away in Melbreck Road.
The large building in the centre was formerly known as the Angel Inn and, as the sign above the door still testifies today, was 'Licensed To Let Post Horses'.
This tranquil scene, showing the church of St Mary, tastefully rebuilt in 1860 by Henry Woodyer, and the picturesque village stores and post office, gives little hint of a gruesome legend which developed
The post office is on the far left, and immediately next door is A Shenton, dealing in baby linen and ladies' clothes.
Many local authorities were to save ratepayers the expense of erecting lamp posts by attaching their street lamps to the trolley poles, as we see here.
Many local authorities were to save ratepayers the expense of erecting lamp posts by attaching their street lamps to the trolley poles, as we see here.
The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.
The only post- medieval feature is the Georgian dormers in the steep roof. The school is an undoubted success, and a great asset to the town.
Most, however, has been demolished to make way for a new dual carriageway through the town.
This view looks north up Church Street with No 15 on the left, a medieval house with a good crown post roof, and on the right the toy shop with the evocative names of makes of toy on its facade is now
This photograph captures the great changes that were going on in Blackburn during the post-war period.
A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance. The Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings used the area for invasion.
Further along is a newsagents where Picture Post and Farmers' Weekly are advertised. Next door was the Market Tavern.
By the post-war period traffic had increased, so traffic lights were installed (see K13018, pages 52). The KICS (Co-op) drapery building with Jacobean bay windows can be seen down Newland Street.
On the left just off camera is Christ Church, and over to the right is the Post Office.
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