Maps

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Memories

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Childhood Holidays

I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by Keith Palmer

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

Old Manor Cafe

My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by Graham Davis

Before The Town Centre Was Built ...

My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1957 by Susan White

46 Bridge Road, Cove

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

My Father

My father worked for BP Llandarcy from the 1960s. I was born in 1971 and some of my earliest memories are the smell of my dad coming home from Llandarcy. He worked on a machine called the catreformer. He rescued my first cat Sooty from ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1974

Cooksons Leadworks Part 2

1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Higher Bebington Road

I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Sue Fowler

Spring House Farm And Spring Cottage

I also have special memories of the two houses shown - Spring House Farm and Spring Cottage. Tilly and Fred (as mentioned by Marie Sloane) were my great aunt and uncle as were the Davis sisters and ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Bourne by Jan Doling

Living In The Village

We moved to Compton Bassett in 1957 when I was 11 and lived there until my father died in 1986. My parents were George Edward (Ted) Jones and Lucy. First we lived in Dugdales Farm house with Mr and Mrs Monck, and then ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1957 by Jennifer Mera

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Captions

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Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Birthplace Before Restoration C1850

This picture was taken before the house's restoration in 1857.

Caption For Loders, The Village C1955

Perhaps its master is a few yards away in Loders' public house, the Farmers Arms? Loders has changed little in fifty years, though the outskirts of Bridport have crept nearer.

Caption For Cononley, Village Institute C1960

Shackleton Ghyll Farm on the left is adjacent to the large Manor House, now converted into luxury apartments.

Caption For Hatfield Heath, The Clipped Hedge Tea Rooms C1960

The pond has been much reduced in size: a road has been built over part of it, and the land behind has been used to build a small housing development.

Caption For Waltham Abbey, The Welsh Harp C1955

Part of the building may once have been the priest's house.

Caption For Asfordby, The Street C1955

Its self-contained agricultural origins have almost totally disappeared, and today modern housing is fairly extensive. Views such as this, however, are still easily recognisable.

Caption For Barry, The Knap C1965

We can see housing at Marine Drive on the skyline.

Caption For Winchester, Buttercross 1899

By the end of the 19th century the building behind the cross had abandoned its role as a general store and had become a refreshment house.

Caption For Pewsey, Southcott Road 1929

At one time Pewsey had many venerable houses such as this one. It is a sad fact that most have now disappeared, but some survive on the edge of the town centre.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's Birthplace Before Restoration C1850

This picture was taken before the house's restoration in 1857.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Downstream From The Railway Bridge 1890

On the Hampton Wick side, hidden by the trees, are Walnut Tree House and Grove Cottage, with Wick Lodge Boathouse just beyond the motor launches.

Caption For Easthampstead, The Church C1960

From Reeds Hill this view towards the Crowthorne Road shows, on the left, buildings that were part of the Churchill House complex.

Caption For Dersingham, Hunstanton Road C1965

Dersingham is on the ridge running north towards Hunstanton; many of the houses are built of local carstone.

Caption For Puddletown, Athelhampton Hall C1955

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.

Caption For Bembridge, High Street C1955

A railway arrived nearby in Victoria's reign, and accommodation was provided in guest houses and hotels, some offering 'special terms to golfers'.

Caption For Colchester, The Residence Of Jane And Ann Taylor C1960

These Georgian brick-fronted houses were lived in by Jane and Ann Taylor from 1796 to 1811.

Caption For Dunoon, East Bay 1901

It gets its name from the Hunter family of Hafton House.

Caption For Norwich, The Cathedral 1922

this view is, admiration is tempered by the knowledge that the road leading to the south transept was created by the demolition in the 1830s of the mainly 12th-century monastic dormitory and chapter house

Caption For Dublin, Westmoreland Street 1897

The imposing Greek portico is the east front of the Bank of Ireland, originally the entrance to the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament, erected by James Gandon in 1785.

Caption For Farnworth, Church 1900

Established on 34 acres of land that had previously belonged to the Appleton House estate, Victoria Park opened to the public in 1900.

Caption For Barry, Park Road 1906

The houses in this road were the largest and most impressive in Barry, and were occupied by mainly business and professional people.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

The rambling Tudor brick house stands on the site of an Augustinian monastery, and fragments of the original abbey were used in its construction.

Caption For Bagshot, The River 1903

Just to the rear is the Three Mariners public house, and in front is Wardle Close.

Caption For Glasgow, The Grand Hotel, Charing Cross 1897

Originally George Square had terraces of dwelling houses on all four sides, but they were demolished from 1869 onwards and their place taken by the great public buildings occupied by the Bank of