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In The Town Where I Was Born......

In 1955 I was 9 years old and lived at No. 16 Putney Hill, which was on the right in this picture and if memory serves was the house before the white one behind the tree. My grandfather owned the tobacconist and ...Read more

A memory of Putney in 1955 by Rod Chunn

Working Memories.

I was the main weekday driver of the launch photographed during the student holiday periods of 1955-1958.  When I drove it, the name was 'Silver Stream'.  It was the largest of a set of three electric launches which carried paying ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1955 by Claire Allen

Baring Road

I was born at Mayday Hospital. My parents still live in Baring Road and my mother has lived there from the age of 13, as my grandmother had the house before they did. I vividly remember playing 'up and down the road.' It is so sad ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1955 by Jacky Hughes

Ive's Paper Shop

I was a paper boy for Ives when the Father was in charge and then at the end his son Brian? took over. I did not have many papers to deliver but the round started by the Junction Pub and cottages by the Canal along the towpath up ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1955 by Ken Chapell

Joining The Vindi

I was at the Vindi (Vindicatrix) from July to Augusts 1955 and how I remember that fish pie on arrival and all the lads cadging anything you would part with and shouting 'Where're you from?'. I'm a bridge boy, it took me a ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1955 by Gerry Keating

My Childhood

You caught newts in the reservoir, just off Greig Park....down at the trenches....apples and pears in the berries...an old garden down Haughmill Lane...who remembers the barrel bridge....and the tennis courts?

A memory of Balcurvie in 1955 by Jimmy Wilson

Senghennydd Railway Station

At 17 years of age, after interviews at British Railways commercial HQ at Cymric Buildings in Cardiff, I started work as a Booking Clerk at Senghennydd Station, replacing David Sellick who lived overlooking the ...Read more

A memory of Senghenydd in 1955 by Arthur Davies

Sunny 1950''s Sunday Mornings

I have many memories about the old St Mary's Church. Until I started thinking of them I realised that I have not got one involving a rainy day apart from when my Grandad was buried in the churchyard. He was ...Read more

A memory of Clayton-Le-Moors in 1954 by Ann Arthur

My Memories Of Selly Oak And Bournbrook

I was born Anne Shirley Crofts back of 622 Bristol Road (opposite where Aldi is now) in July 1944, brother Ronnie was born 1940, sister Vivienne was born 1942, and Alan was born 1947, between Riverton Road ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1954 by Anne Crofts

My Grandad Humphreys Thomas John1875 1965

Grandad Humphreys, he was a carpenter making and restoring the Lockgates on the Montgomery Canal. Born in Welshpool 1875-1965. I remember the little trains running across Church Street as a boy of 8 ...Read more

A memory of Welshpool in 1954 by Keith Bedford

Captions

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Caption For Worcester, The Bridge 1936

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

Caption For Seatown, Seatown Farm C1955

The view is northwards, towards Chideock, and the mixed herd of cattle - including long-horns - had crossed an ancient packhorse bridge on their way into the hamlet from the eastern pastures.

Caption For Sabden, Old Bull Bridge C1955

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

Caption For Ulverston, Princes Street 1895

Ulverston's railway station, dating from 1878, is below the wall to the left - this view was taken from the railway bridge.

Caption For Runcorn, Devonshire Place 1961

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

Caption For Rugeley, The Canal C1955

In the early 19th century, the colliery at Brereton nearby was connected by rail to a wharf, which enabled coal to be transported along the Trent and Mersey canal.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal C1955

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal 1929

A fishing boat lies in the tidal section of the canal that linked it to the River Nene, which can be seen under Sluice Bridge.

Caption For Chester, The Cross 1903

The corner of Eastgate Street and Bridge Street. The buildings are from the Victorian half-timber revival period, designed by T M Lockwood in 1888. This area of the city is known as The Cross.

Caption For Staines, The River 1907

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

Caption For Sandwich, The Barbican 1924

In 1924, this compact little town had (and still has) its own town council.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

The Maidstone tramway system opened in 1904, but by 1930 had been replaced by buses and trolleybuses. Maidstone Bridge, which spans the River Medway, lies at the bottom of the hill.

Caption For Wisbech, The Hope Inn C1955

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Yacht Basin 1906

The river upstream from Kingston Bridge was largely free from commercial traffic, and consequently safer for yachtsmen.

Caption For Clydebank, Kilbowie Road 1900

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Caption For Bedford, The River C1965

The river basks in afternoon sunshine, with swans and a hired rowing boat on the water.

Caption For Bristol, A View From The Centre Towards St Augustine's Reach C1950

The Reach dates from the 13th century and used to extend further into the town.

Caption For Barton Seagrave, Old Cottages C1955

Only a couple of miles from Kettering, the village of Barton Seagrave retains plenty of charm and character.

Caption For Chelford, Village C1955

Once a common sight throughout the country, roadside petrol pumps such as those shown here are a severe fire risk, and are now placed well away from the kerb.

Caption For Warrington, Buttermarket Street C1950

Like much of Bridge Street and the Circus (shown here in the foreground) this street, too, is now a smart pedestrian area.

Caption For Great Sampford, View From The Bridge C1955

Behind us is the bridge across the young River Pant. As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

Caption For Haverfordwest, Bridge Street C1955

Haverfordwest first developed when the Flemings established a town here and built the castle. Henry Tudor also passed this way with his army on the way to Bosworth to defeat Richard III.

Caption For Hammersmith, The Bridge C1960

We meet Bazalgette later at the Embankment in central London; seen here from the Barnes bank towpath, his suspension bridge has a 420-foot main span, and the towers are finished with French-style pavilion

Caption For Stone, Railway Station 1900

Stone was on the North Staffordshire line from Stoke, which linked with the London & North Western at Colwick West Junction.