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Memories

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Post War Harlesden.

I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by John Howley

Schooldays In Dearne

It's incredible how one can recall memories from a remarkably long time ago. In fact, I still remember that on my fourth birthday, I received two identical birthday cards from different people. I can even remember the ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Dennis Ford

Wrinstead Court

I went to Wrinsted Court with my mother and brother and sister in 1950. We went as tenants. Here is a short background. My father was killed in 1941 as he was in the Navy. Then my mother met my first step-father who was also ...Read more

A memory of Wrinsted Court by Christine Smith

Life In Cannich And Fasnakyle

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

Summer School

happy holidays at eastwood grange national temperance summer school in 1970s trips to matlock and walk to ogston resovoir

A memory of Ashover by Bernard Orchard

Life Without Love

I’m Don Spencer. I entered homeleigh orphanage in 1954 at the age of 7. After a period in reception, I was transferred to home 10, a house for boys, run by miss Shaw as our mother. A ginger haired bad tempered woman, who took ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Donald Spencer

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

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Boddington School Maureen Simpson.

I attended the school from 1946-1951. The teacher at first was Miss Semper, who I do not remember too well. After her came Mrs. Pat Bishop, who was a lovely lady, she and her husband lived in the school ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington in 1946 by Maureen Tuffin

Memories Of The Red Lion

I was born in 1966 and lived in the Red Lion. My dad and mum were married in 1961. My dad lived in the village all his life, moving to the Red Lion on his marriage. My dad was formerly of Temperance Hall, down the road ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1966 by Amanda Shaw

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Captions

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Caption For Ilfracombe, At Sunset 1911

It was a temperance hotel, named after the leading 19th-century temperance activist Dr Granville, and designed as a mock castle by W H Gould.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Market Place 1892

Stratford once boasted two temperance hotels: McNeille's and The Fountain.

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Caption For Gourock, From The Pier 1900

Over to the right is Seaton's Temperance Hotel, one of several in the town.

Caption For Gourock, From The Pier 1900

Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.

Caption For Gourock, From The Pier 1900

Over to the right is Seaton's Temperance Hotel, one of several in the town.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Market Place 1892

Stratford once boasted two temperance hotels: McNeille's and The Fountain.

Caption For Gourock, Haddow's Temperance Hotel 1900

John Dunlop, a local lawyer, was one of the leading lights in the Clydeside temperance movement, founding the first society in the 1820s.

Caption For Aspatria, Market Place C1960

The memorial fountain to Sir Wilfred Lawrence, the local MP and campaigner in the Temperance Movement, dominates the Market Place.

Caption For Newark, Kirkgate 1900

Next to it is the church hall, and beyond that the Rutland Arms: uneasy neighbours, no doubt, for temperate Wesleyans (nowadays known as Methodists).

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate And Surrey Street 1893

The Albany was the only temperance hotel in Sheffield to be mentioned alongside the likes of the Royal Victoria (rooms from 3s 6d, dinner 5s), the Midland, the Talbot and the Wharncliffe.

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate And Surrey Street 1893

The Albany Hotel was the only temperance hotel in Sheffield to be mentioned alongside the likes of the Royal Victoria (rooms from 3s 6d, dinner 5s), the Midland, the Talbot and the Wharncliffe

Caption For Whitby, 'gemini' 1891

The only thing twin-like about these children is the very bad-tempered scowl on their faces.

Caption For Norwich, The Cathedral 1922

Wonderful as 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

Caption For Edinburgh, Princes Street 1897

There was also the Old Waverley, which was a temperance establishment.

Caption For Norwich, The Cathedral 1922

Wonderful as 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

Caption For Chesham, High Street 1897

along rather than following a straight line, shows the George and Dragon inn on the left with its projecting sign reading 'Commercial Hotel' and to its left a bitter rival, the Dunlop Temperance

Caption For Stone, High Street 1900

Looking up to the Granville Temperance and Commercial Hotel in Pump Square, several establishments that did provide alcoholic drinks may be seen among the 18th and 19th century buildings

Caption For Canford Magna, The Coffee House 1904

Sir Ivor and Lady Cornelia Guest, later Lord and Lady Wimborne, were supporters of the temperance movement, in furtherance of which cause they closed the Swan Inn and opened The Firs (later

Caption For Askrigg, The Market Cross C1955

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

Caption For Newark, Wesleyan Church And Barnby Gate 1904

Next to it is the church hall, and beyond that the Rutland Arms: uneasy neighbours, no doubt, for temperate Wesleyans (nowadays known as Methodists).

Caption For Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street 1897

Joining the east and west quarters of the city, this was where you could buy quality confectionery from Assafrey, dine out at the Hippodrome, attend an exhibition at the Institute of Fine Arts, or stay at a temperance

Caption For Cardiff, Park Hotel 1893

The three hundred rooms offered 19th-century opulence tempered with comfort and convenience in the city centre.

Caption For Andover, London Street 1904

The Temperance Hall of 1868 was next door, and across the road was the Forester's Arms, once a Heath family property,which still stands today.

Caption For Wendover, Aylesbury Road C1955

Sturrick House on the far left, once a temperance hotel, is 16th-century, but the ground floor frontage is 18th-century.