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Whitstone School 1970's

I attended Whitstone during the changeover from Secondary Modern to Comprehensive. It was quite a shock to me. I'd always been to small, private schools, & it seemed huge. I was also amazed & shocked by the ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by bru.enzer

Whifflet Shawhead And Coatbridge

My memories of the above are vivid in my memory, I remember Shawhead from about 1959 when we first moved there, when we moved in there was an old railway line that ran in front of the shops which then were the ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge by George Mc Conville

Where My Old Folks Settled

My people were tinkers of the road. Power, Riley, Macarthur, O'Connor, Macallister and a few I have no knowledge of. Generations had mended tin, woven baskets, bunched broom and heather, one to sweep the floor the ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1947 by Jess Smith

When I Was A Young Girl

I was born in a quaint village in Nottinghamshire called Huthwaite, we moved to a farmhouse in Wrawby when I was 7. My aunt and her family moved there with us. We had great times in the barns, sliding down the hay, watching ...Read more

A memory of Wrawby in 1965 by Chrissy Walker

When I Was A Child

My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by Arthur Hatter

When England Was England.

From a book my sister left me I chose Rosedale Abbey as my destination on my first journey through England. I was alone and took the train to York in 1971. From there I went to Whitby and then the moorland train to ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by David Ebertt

What Was It Down The Burn

In and about 1960 I was a boy who spent many an hour down the burn, at one end just below the station part of the burn had very sturdy concrete walls at either side, these walls were some sort of supports or ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery in 1960 by Michael Oakes

West Hill Hospital

Early in the morning of September 5th 1940 a bomb struck West Hill Hospital. It killed 2 nurses and a score of new and expecting mothers. My own mother survived with a fractured skull. All of the newborn, myself among them, ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1940 by David Burns

West Fleetham

I lived at West Fleetham for some 6 years, my father had a small business there making fancy goods etc.I went to school in Seahouses by bus when the weather was OK. I spent may happy hours fishing in the Long Nanny burn, it was ...Read more

A memory of West Fleetham in 1968 by Martin Henderson

Wembley

My family moved to The Avenue in Wembley Park from Liverpool in 1948 when I was just a baby. Early childhood memories include De Marco's ice cream parlor and Wembley Market with it's fish counter. Wally Kilminster's was brilliant. I went ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1966 by Ian Grierson

Captions

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Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Caption For Slaidburn, Church Street 1921

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

Caption For Charlwood, Place Farm 1904

The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.

Caption For London, The Houses Of Parliament C1955

A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street C1960

Only the tower survives of the original church. The building was rebuilt and restored on a number of occasions, first in 1630 and later in 1870 to a plan by Blomfield.

Caption For Preston, Town Hall 1893

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Caption For Harlaxton, 1890

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

Caption For Boston, Bargate C1955

This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.

Caption For Plympton, St Mary's Church 1898

Construction of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr was commenced in the 14th century but the building was not completed until the late 15th or early 16th centuries.

Caption For Worksop, Canch Walk C1955

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

Caption For Wakefield, The Rose Gardens, Thornes Park C1953

Next to the gardener's house is the present-day rose garden, with delightful walkways and tropical houses. The last occupant of Thornes House was the Morley MP, Charles Milnes Gaskell.

Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Caption For Charlwood, The Old Mill 1906

This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.

Caption For Gilsland, The Village C1950

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

Caption For Abingdon, High Street C1965

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

Caption For Hothfield, Church 1901

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

Caption For East Dereham, Market Place 1901

This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.

Caption For Great Eccleston, Cartford Lane C1965

In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.

Caption For Gisburn, Main Street 1921

The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.

Caption For Manchester, Ship Canal, Grain Elevators C1965

Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.

Caption For Standon, High Street C1965

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

Caption For Easthampstead, Church 1901

Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping

Caption For Hatfield, St Etheldreda's Church C1960

Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.

Caption For Luton, The Town Hall C1960

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons