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Better Than A Knickerbocker Glory

Following a week at school the weekend was always eagerly anticipated, especially Saturdays. On this day I would take the long walk from home at the north end of Gipsy Road and make my way via Pickford Road to the ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Always Think Of It As Home.

I was born in Dovercourt hospital 24th December 1959. I lived above the Home and Colonial shop in the high street where my lovely Dad Mr. Roe was manager. My lovely mum Margaret often used to work there when my sister's ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt by Susan Stapleton

Derek Hall’s Pensax School Memories

As I was brought up in Menith Wood from the late fifties until the early sixties I attended Pensax School where Miss Jones and Mrs Attwood were our teachers for every lesson. I remember some of my school friends like ...Read more

A memory of Pensax by Derek Hall

Wanting To Find Out Information About Walter Cyril Lansley

My Dad lived in Hounslow in the 1930s, in Ellerdine Road soon after the estate was built. His name was Walter Cyril Lansley and was born in 1919. He moved to Hounslow in the 30's with his ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Peter Lansley

Wonderful Times

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

Colindale The Early Years

I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1958 by Jack Richardson

Boyhood Memories From 1952

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Childhood Wwebsters Village Shop

I was born in 1951. My parents owned the W Websters store in Barmoor Lane. I believe the old premises is now known as Orchard Cottage. I remember the sandshoes for sale dangling from the rafters and the butter was ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1957

Broadstairs And St Mary's Home 1957

I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1957 by Tessa Farthing

Raf Radar At Inverbervie

I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more

A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by Martin Dilly

Captions

331 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Easby, Abbey 1893

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved.

Caption For Andover, Winchester Street 1904

Morris's building, on the left, has boldly rounded eaves closers and moulded brick strings of better quality Victorian work.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Castle 1891

Deep cracks have appeared in the better-preserved tower.

Caption For Redcar, High Street C1960

We get a better view of the elegant bank building on the left.

Caption For London, Nomads, Battersea 1885

The working classes were very superstitious and, although wary of the gypsies, their curiosity would get the better of them and they would pay to buy the wares or have their palms read.

Caption For Beoley, The Post Office C1965

William Sheldon fought for Henry VII at Bosworth Field in 1485, but is better known for encouraging a renaissance in English tapestry, sending workmen abroad to learn the then lost art.

Caption For Chelmsford, Infirmary 1895

A Free Dispensary for the poor had been set up at the rear of the churchyard in 1818, but there was an increasing need for better facilities, and the Infirmary & Dispensary was built in New

Caption For Bristol, Christmas Street C1950

In the 1530s the old hospital of St Bartholomew had seen better days, and the decision was taken to convert it into a grammar school.

Caption For Northfield, The Black Horse 1949

The mock-Tudor style is often mocked, but anybody taking the Bristol Road through Northfield today (and possibly even in 1955) would struggle to find a better-looking building than this mock-Tudor pub

Caption For Easby, Abbey 1893

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Castle 1891

Deep cracks have appeared in the better-preserved tower.

Caption For Wimborne, Minster 1904

A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of

Caption For Daresbury, Parish Church C1955

Most famous as the church where Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) was baptised in 1832, the church now has a memorial window with scenes from the Alice books, and draws visitors from all

Caption For Ladram Bay, 1918

In a manner typical of this coastline, the soft red sandstone has been blasted into grotesque shapes by the constant battering of wind and wave.

Caption For Spilsby, Market Street C1955

It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate.

Caption For St Mawes, The Castle 1938

St Mawes is sited on lower ground 'the better to annoy shipping'.

Caption For Chesterfield, Hotel Portland 1902

The Portland was considered to be equal to, if not better than, the Station Hotel: a rare accolade indeed when Britain's railway-owned hotels were amongst the best in the country.

Caption For Odiham, Cemetry Hill 2004

The black paintwork enables better appreciation of the timber frame.

Caption For Colchester, Castle Park

The castle was also repaired, and the ground outside was lowered to expose its 'battered' plinths.

Caption For Harwich, Corporation Pier C1955

Corporation Pier, seen here, is better known as the Ha'penny Pier, after its original toll charge.

Caption For Coventry, The Stocks, St Mary's Hall C1890

The stocks were usually positioned on a main thoroughfare, or better still in the market place; convicted wrongdoers were secured in them by either their legs or arms.

Caption For Widnes, Widnes Road C1960

St Nicholas, of course, is usually better known these days as Santa Claus.

Caption For Wembley, Park Drive C1960

The attractive domestic-scale shops look even better when compared to the intrusive, faceless Columbus Dixon office block.

Caption For Hendon, The Circus C1960

Hendon did not develop as a major shopping centre until well into the 20th century, when the rapid increase in the population made it necessary to provide better facilities for residents