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Huntingdon Street

Me and my family lived here, my parents ran the local taxi service, called Jackson's Taxis, 23 Huntingdon St,nearby was Bartletts the butcher, and Miss Skipper had a real old fashioned sweet shop in East St, I have plenty of happy ...Read more

A memory of St Neots by Eileen Sheppard

Violet Wray Nee Ingrey

My Grandmother Violet Owned and ran a shop on the corner of Mora & Hassop Road, Dollis Hill behind Rolls Razor and opposite Smiths Factory, does anyone have information on this and what she sold. Or any photos of the shop, I believe it was bombed during the war! Thanks so much Ernie

A memory of Dollis Hill by Ernest Careswell

Joining Marianne Thornton School When First Opened

Hi I was at a school in Balham for 1 year before we moved into the brand new MT School. The first year at Balham school was horrible we had a very strict teacher called Miss Smart. She used to ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by Lizzie Maloney

Farley Croft Wwii

I am 86 but still remember the time at Farley Croft during WWII. My siblings and I were evacuated to Westerham in 1939. Around 1942/46 my sisters Rose, Sylvia and I were taken from the billet we were in and put in Farley Croft which ...Read more

A memory of Westerham by rbbrett2004

Hatch End 1960 1978

I lived in Derwent Ave and went Grimsdyke School .I remember Mrs Swan im sure she was a Dinner lady had a son called Nigel .Im trying to remember the head teacher she was a lady was in Miss Forsyth??I should remember i was outside ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Janice Haslett

Hornchurch, Upminster Road C.1950

Opposite where the bus is located is a row of shops at the end of Glanville Drive. For the first part of my life from 1947 I lived at the far end of Glanville Drive. The large house in the background with the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch

1969

I lived in Headley for a short time…. I remember living opposite a few houses and a phone box with a riding school opposite… I remember a friend called Fran… A small youth club… A post office/shop… And somebody called Ian , he had a red van ...Read more

A memory of Headley

Mandrake Road

My siblings and I were all born at Weir maternity hospital in Balham, we lived on Mandrake road and we all went to Fircroft primary school opposite our house. I was at Fircroft from 1976-1982. Mr. Chaimings was the headmaster then, Mr ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Sylvia Amoah

Memories Of Market Drayton

This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands West; ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

The Fairway

I was born at 28 The Fairway in 1946. There was (is) a wide grassed area down the centre of the road making it a kind of dual carriageway. In the years following the 2nd World War there were, "Pig bins", on several sections of the grass ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by David Jagger

Captions

3,478 captions found. Showing results 121 to 144.

Caption For Winchester, High Street C1955

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

Caption For Teddington, Broad Street C1955

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Caption For Sproughton, The Stores C1965

Lower House (right) and the former shop date from 1520-50.

Caption For Heswall, School Hill C1955

Notice the shop in the building on the right – this was known to local children as Dolly's Shop, and it served as an unofficial tuck shop for the local children from the school that was between it

Caption For Ellesmere Port, Whitby Road C1955

The row of shops is still there, but Mellor's baker's shop (centre) is now a locksmiths; the shops with awnings outside are now a florist's and the offices of the TGWU.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

This premises is now a fashion shop.

Caption For Cheltenham, High Street 1906

A tram takes Edwardians to Charlton Kings along a High Street decorated with some lovely examples of shop advertising signs.

Caption For York, The Shambles 1909

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1960

Stylo Shoe Shop, John Collier ('the window to watch'), Richard Shops and Stead & Simpson are among the many varied shops facing the Market.

Caption For Kidsgrove, The Shopping Centre C1970

This was in the days when supermarkets complemented high street shopping.

Caption For Weybridge, Baker Street C1965

The buildings remain much as they were earlier; only the shop fronts have changed.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1965

This view shows the same buildings as C490092 from the other end, showing clearly the Westminster Bank before its amalgamation with the National Provincial to become NatWest.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Circus And Commercial Road 1961

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

Caption For Galleywood, The White Bear C1965

Fifteen years earlier, this scene would have looked very different: the houses and shops on the right were still open farmland.

Caption For Chertsey, Guildford Street 1954

The 18th-century King's Head Hotel survives, and so do the shops to the right, a 1930s parade, and a few shops beyond the hotel, but there has been much injudicious rebuilding from the 1960s onwards

Caption For Churt, The Village C1965

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.

Caption For Cheam, The Broadway C1955

The corner site (right), with Price's confectionery and newsagent's shop beneath the flats above, has now been developed.

Caption For Liverpool, Ranelagh Street C1950

Named after the 17th-century London pleasure gardens, Ranelagh Street provides an important link between Lime Street and the now pedestrianised shopping centre to the north of Hanover Street.

Caption For Guisborough, Bow Street C1965

Mr Pallister's butcher's shop flanks the entry to Bow Street.

Caption For Morden, Abbotsbury Road C1955

The variety of shops in Morden was to alter after the underground railway station opened in 1926 and large-scale retail development began.

Caption For Bulphan, The School C1955

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

Caption For York, Hemmens's Shop 1909

Arthur Hemmens's tiny shop clearly has a minimal space available for display.

Caption For Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street 1897

Most of the buildings shown here have gone, and there is a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities where the clock tower appears.

Caption For Talgarth, The Square And Tower Shop 1938

Here we have a close view of Mr Evans' builder's and ironmonger's shop built on to the old tower, which was constructed in the 14th century.