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My Younger Life In Penge

I remember the High Street quite well. This photograph is looking north. Just up past the Police Station there was a cake shop, then a chemist shop (A J Mack), then there was Olby's, then the large shop, Rogers. Next was ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Anthony Godly

My Favourite Place (God's Country)! Ystrad Mynach & Hengoed.

My most vivid memory of Hengoed Viaduct was when I travelled by train over the viaduct (Hengoed High Level) to Stoke on Trent in the summer of 1961. The whole family went and we stayed at my ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed by Barrie Evans

My Early Years In Batley Carr

I LIVED IN 23 UPPER MOUNT STREET, MY NEIGHBOURS WERE KATHRINE HILL, PAUL AINSWORTH. BRIAN DUXBERRY MARGARET HALLAS THE STUBLEYS AND A FEW MORE. I WENT TO WARWICK ROAD SCHOOL UNTIL 1958. SOME OF MY TEACHERS WERE MR. ...Read more

A memory of Batley Carr by johntho3

My Early Days In Hackney

Hi , My name is Vic Ballard , I was brought up by my Grandparents from 1942 and lived next door to Cassland Rd school which later became my secondary school , my first school was Orchard Rd at the end of Cassland Rd and ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's

I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. The ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by ian.blundell

My Youth In Uxbridge.

I lived in Cherry Grove in Hillingdon until 1965, I went to Hillingdon Primary School then Evelyns Secondary School, when I left school I work for a Company called H.J. Smarts at the back of Uxbridge Station. I have fond memories ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by yvonne1946

My Salford Days From 1953

I have very fond memories of Salford. I first lived in Franklin St, Ordsall, until I was about 4 or 5 years old. I recall the pub on the corner and the church at the other end. I lived on the landings facing the resevoirs. I ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Barbara Webb (Dore0

My Memories Of Greenfordin The 1950s And 1960s

We actually lived in Northolt Grange but our cousins, the Barltetts, lived in Stanhope Road, Greenford (does anyone remember them?). I worked from the age of 8 or 9 for Ron and Stella Valente who owned ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by John Nicholls

My Greenford Memories

I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1955 and lived in the flats in Dabs Hill Lane, Northolt until I was 3. We then moved to Ferrymead Avenue in Greenford. It was a strange little bungalow on the corner of Eastmead ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Peter Wilkinson

My Carlton

The first twenty five years of my life were lived in Bakerdale Road, but during the war years when toys were hard to come by, my mother would buy me Dinky toys from Harry Rutherfords on Burton Road when he managed to obtain ...Read more

A memory of Carlton by Brian Clark

Captions

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Caption For Walton On Thames, High Street C1955

Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.

Caption For Daventry, Market Square C1960

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

Caption For Lincoln, High Bridge C1955

The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.

Caption For Lincoln, High Bridge C1955

The swan looks lonely; usually there are dozens on the river and the Brayford Pool, which is under the bridge.

Caption For Barton Mills, The Bull Inn 1925

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn.

Caption For Redhill, High Street C1955

Redhill grew from nothing after the building of the London to Brighton road in 1807 and the railway in 1841.

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street 1922

Hitchman's, the chemist on the left, was on the corner of Silver Street and Gold Street.

Caption For Northampton, Abington Park Bandstand 1922

10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton.

Caption For Barton Upon Irwell, Barton Aqueduct 1894

One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams.

Caption For Batley, Commercial Street C1955

Others stores date from the thirties, including Woolworth's (1931) and Burton's (1937).

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Marlowes C1965

The building of the new town centre had been designated a priority in 1951, and the market moved here in 1955.

Caption For Swindon, Bridge Street C1955

A group of young men of fashion are keen to show off their new suits to the photographer outside Burton's store.

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill 1897

Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of the net-makers Joseph Gundry & Company (centre left), Ewens & Turner in

Caption For Eccles, The Town Hall C1955

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

Caption For Stamford, Brooke's Court 1922

In the distance is Richman's and St Mary's Street.

Caption For Fraserburgh, Herring Boats C1900

The masts had no standing rigging, being supported by the sail halyard and burton stay tackle.

Caption For East Budleigh, Village 1938

This attractive village at the lower end of the Vale of the Otter was the birthplace in 1552 of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Caption For East Budleigh, Village 1938

This attractive village at the lower end of the Vale of the Otter was the birthplace in 1552 of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

Caption For Bidford On Avon, The River And The Nest 1950

Though by no means unchanged, this riverside house is still recognisable and has an enviable situation.

Caption For Earls Barton, The Village C1955

Dominating this photograph is the richly-decorated Saxon tower of the church of All Saints, standing sentinel and soaring above the rooftops of the village.

Caption For Frome, Christ Church Street West 1957

This view shows how the street had a mixture of commerce and private residences.

Caption For Calne, High Street And Market Hill C1960

West Hill House, right, at the corner of Market Hill and Quarr Barton, is Grade II* listed; it was the home and surgery of Dr James for 42 years.

Caption For The Broads, Near Barton Staithe C1945

The Parish Staithe at Barton is a lovely backwater off the broad.