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Dunstaffnage War Years

Like your other contributors I also spent my very early years in Dunstaffnage. Dad had spent the early part of the war from day one as a young Engineer Officer on North Atlantic convoys in the Merchant Navy. When you were lucky to ...Read more

A memory of Oban by john

Growing Up In Buckhurst Hill 60's 70's

I used to live in The Meadway, and went to St Johns infants School-a few memories of playing on 'the boxes' at play/lunchtime. These were actually old beer crates, and long before health and safety spoiled ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Richard Morgan

My Memories Of Melworking At Leybourne Grange Hospital

Hi yes I remember my time at the hospital well,I worked in the play therapy from 1971 to 1976. I loved working at the hospital and have many happy memories. I worked as a night nurse for two ...Read more

A memory of West Malling by wendycatt22

School Days And Beyond

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

Beachbank Caravan Site, Ulrome, East Yorkshire.

My Grandparents Sydney and Ellen Simpson built Beachbank between the world wars. Sydney had served in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and left seriously injured but that never prevented them from buying this plot ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome by Nick Simpson

When We Were Young!

Way back in the early 1950's my friends and I went everywhere on our cycles. On one occasion three of us set out from Grays and went across the ferry at Tilbury to Gravesend then down the old A road to Canterbury where we had a ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by Albert Wm Gosnall

Barking... So Very Different Now

We moved to Hertford Road in 1971, I was 3 years old. I remember playing in our overgrown garden which backed on to the Burges road playing fields soon after we moved in. There used to be a horrendous smell from the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by abridgeboy

Cluggies Pond

I obviously don't remember the common in 1911, but I did live in Old Common Road number 15 from about 1943 until 1955. Where the children are sitting was The Common, and a herd of Fresion cows were often grazed there. Old Common Road ran ...Read more

A memory of Cobham by trevor.cole

Brief Memories Of My First School: Noak Hill

It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more

A memory of Noak Hill by hilsidkay

Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

Captions

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Caption For Breachwood Green, Lower Road C1965

Outside the row of terraced cottages at Breachwood Green near Hitchin stands a pristine Ford 100E model. In front of one of these houses stood the community's well.

Caption For Great Meols, Railway Inn C1965

This pub should technically be called The New Railway Inn, because it stands on the site of a former inn of the same name.

Caption For Chesham, High Street 1921

The most striking change between this view and the 1903 view in image 49238 is the splendidly ornate bank building which replaced the two buildings beyond Patterson's.

Caption For Haywards Heath, South Road 2005

South Road became so dominant that it altered the character and subsequent development of other areas within the town such as Commercial Square, Boltro Road, and the Broadway.

Caption For Leamington Spa, St Mary's Church 1892

Mrs Hitchman, widow of Dr Hitchman, donated the site for this church together with a large sum of money.

Caption For Watton At Stone, The Church Of St Andrew And St Mary C1960

There has been a church at Watton at Stone since the 13th century. It was originally dedicated to St Mary, but St Andrew seems to have been added in the early 19th century.

Caption For Odiham, All Saints Church 1903

The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Street 1967

Looking towards the Town Hall It is a busy summer's day in the 1960s.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Mill And Pond C1950

A water mill has stood here since Norman times, but this red brick corn mill dates from the early 1800s.

Caption For Sudbury, Friars Street 1932

The name Trinity was chosen to indicate the group's opposition to Unitarian non-Trinitarian doctrine.

Caption For Cranborne, Wimborne Street 1954

We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Common Lane 1914

It is sometimes almost unbelievable when we realise how much of our heritage has been destroyed during the past century.

Caption For Newlyn, Landing Fish 1906

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty. These, judging by the smartness of their dress (complete with pocket handkerchief), are clearly not fishermen.

Caption For Calne, Central Gardens C1960

The Lloyds Bank building (right), originally a pair of attached houses, was built about 1870 before the decorative façade was added in two stages.

Caption For Oakwood, Bramley Road C1965

With the arrival of the Piccadilly Line came an influx of commuters, and with this influx came the promise of commercial profits.

Caption For Gresford, The Plough C1960

While not obvious from this photograph, Gresford is most famous for the tragic mining disaster of 1934 when 266 lives were lost following an explosion and fire at the Gresford Colliery.

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach 1900

We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right).

Caption For Langton Matravers, Dancing Ledge C1960

Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Churchgate Street C1955

On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.

Caption For Brampton, The Royal Oak And Signpost C1955

A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us

Caption For High Wycombe, The Little Market House, Cornmarket 2005

This was in the early phase of its transformation, mainly by the medium of brick. The

Caption For Luton, The Vauxhall Motors Canteen C1950

The canteen resembles a cave, but in its heyday there was far from savage fare to be had here! In the 1930s there were 3 lunch sittings, and it was routine to have 2 pints at the bar.

Caption For South Wigston, Countesthorpe Road C1960

These red brick terraces were built to house the employees of hosiery and shoe manufacturers at the turn of the century.