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Memories

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The Milton Road Coronation Party. 1953?

A large wooden hall was built on land behind Mr and Mrs Chrime's house in Milton Road and we had a street party for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. I remember seeing bits of the ceremony on someone's ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1953 by Ian Mabbitt

Harriott Brothers The Butcher's Shop

My Father was Arthur Harriott who owned Harriott Brothers Butchers Shop (which can be seen at the bottom left-hand corner of the picture) together with his Brother, Edward. We lived in "Old Sarum" which is the ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1950 by Pamela Beeching

A Long Marriage

This is a photograph of the Regent cinema on the right opposite York House in Twickenham where I met my Wife who was an usherette. It has since been knocked down to make way for a garage. She sold me a very long lasting Choc Ice. We ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham in 1955 by Des Adams

Faraway Castles

As a child playing on the allotments behind the Fire station in Trowbridge I used to see the white buildings gleaming in the sun of the Manor on the far hills. It was always so beautiful sitting majestically in the distance I longed ...Read more

A memory of Trowbridge by Barbara Thompson

Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There

I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in Mitcham. ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by James Bonser

Greenwich In The 1940s And 1950s

I was born, during the Battle of Britain, at 8, Roan Street. Our back yard bordered St Alfege's churchyard. The house is not there any more because it had to be pulled down after the war. We had several 'near-hits' ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich by marionlangham

Little Boy's Heaven

In 1961 or 1962, as a small boy of 5 or 6 my mum, brought me to Hednesford to visit her grandmother, my great-grandmother, Emily Chetwyn. A diminutive lady, we, the children, called her little nana. I believe she lived in the end ...Read more

A memory of Hednesford by Steve Brooks

Infants School

Born and bred in Red Houses (then Red House Estate) at a time when everyone took time and effort to keep their home and gardens beautiful.  Everyone knew everybody and it was a community that looked after each other.  I remember ...Read more

A memory of High Etherley in 1957 by Marjorie Richardson

Apprenticeship

C&W Walkers Ltd Gas & Constuctional Engineers - I worked here from 1964- 1976 when I did my apprenticeship as a welder/fabricator. Unfortunatly it was demolished in 1993 and turned into a housing estate.

A memory of Donnington in 1964 by Anthony Ardis

My Childhood In Coldharbour

In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village.  My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite ...Read more

A memory of Coldharbour in 1959 by Rosemary Shields

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Captions

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Caption For Skegness, The Clock Tower C1955

Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.

Caption For Cockfosters, The College, Trent Park C1965

The present red-brick house supersedes the much smaller original one designed for Jebb by Sir William Chambers; although it is large, with re-used features salvaged from other demolished London buildings

Caption For Lingfield, Church Road 1895

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

Caption For Rousdon, House 1900

Built on a massive plinth, with balustrades above and cellars below, the high-Gothic lines of Rousdon House rise above lawns which slope away towards the Undercliff.

Caption For Saffron Walden, High Street 1919

The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

Caption For St Ives, Crown Street 1925

It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Caption For Long Melford, Hall 1895

This early Elizabethan mansion was built on the site of the former house of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds by Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, who founded the hospital on the Green.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

In the 1970s, it housed H Donaghue, the fish, game and poultry merchants.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Summer Hill 1909

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Caption For Simpson, Main Road C1958

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.

Caption For Worsley, Court House 1889

The impressive-looking Court House appears to be 16th-century, but it was in fact erected in 1849.

Caption For Edinburgh, The Canongate Tolbooth 1897

In the great days of the Old Town, Canongate Street was where members of the Scottish aristocracy had their town houses.

Caption For Leicester, Charles Street And Belgrave Gate C1965

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic House

Caption For Hillsborough, The Castle, Gatehouse 1890

This 18th-century house links the family with the first Hill arrivals.

Caption For Belsay, Old Castle C1955

Built of honey-coloured sandstone, the old castle is in fact a 14th-century L-plan tower house built by the de Middleton family.

Caption For Broadstairs, Promenade 1902

A turn of the century view of the promenade, showing Holy Trinity Church, Bleak House and the harbour.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1932

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.

Caption For Burnley, Hurstwood (Poet Spenser's House) 1895

This picture shows the rear of the property, a very fine example of an East Lancashire house of the later 16th century.

Caption For Port Isaac, Temple Bar 1906

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard.

Caption For Epsom, War Memorial 1924

A first venture into council housing supplied 180 houses on the Ebbisham Road estate at the edge of the Common.

Caption For Burnley, Barcroft Hall 1895

This is a typical E-shaped house.

Caption For Belfast, Queen's Square 1897

Some of its very old houses survived until recently.