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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

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

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

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

Court Crescent Junior School And Wellinger Way

I was born at my Grandmother's home at No: 50 Hand Avenue on the Braunstone Estate. When I was about 3 we moved from Grandma's to our own home at No: 9 Wellinger Way. I went to Queensmead ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Jaycie Perkins

When Dad Came Home

There was a knock at the door, and there he was, this tall man wearing a bush hat who grabbed my mom, giving her a great big smacker of a kiss. Of course I wasn't having this strange man doing this to my mom, so I promptly got ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1945 by Patricia Taylor

Brothers And Sisters

My brother Christopher and I first went down to school at Visitation Convent, Bridport in September 1957. We lived in Ascot as our father had been an officer in the Royal Horse Guards and had been based at Windsor. We took a ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Timothy Clarke

Hartlepool

I am trying to find any info on my grandmother, Frances E Robson who was born in Hartlepool 1894. Her mother was Mary Robson born 1874 and her mother was Elizabeth Frances Robson born 1842. Her husband was William Robson. They ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool by Deborah Farrow

Our Ladies High School 1950 1960

I was born in 1943 and lived in Wilmington. I initially went to an infant school in Oakfield Lane, however, my mother was told by the Sisters of Charity that they should pay for me to go to a Catholic school ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Pat Mc Loughlin

Kennylands In 1959/60

My parents taught at Kennylands in 1950/3. I have photographs of their time there. My Godfather was John Delves who taught history and also there was a Mr. Dicky deWanderler who had been a ballet dancer. He chain-smoked ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common by Adrian Wood

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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. In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

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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 Stratford Upon Avon, Market Place 1892

Stratford once boasted two temperance hotels: McNeille's and The Fountain. In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

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, 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 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 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 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 Whitby, 'gemini' 1891

The only thing twin-like about these children is the very bad-tempered scowl on their faces. They certainly are not saying 'cheese'.

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 Doncaster, Baxtergate 1903

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy & Willis had their branch, and where those who had signed the pledge could find a room at the Albany Temperance Hotel.

Caption For Crawley, Albany Temperance Hotel 1907

The Victorian temperance movement was sufficiently concerned at the drunkenness of commercial travellers to set up and encourage the building of alcohol-free hotels everywhere for them.

Caption For Farnborough, Lynchford Road 1903

In this turn-of-the-century photograph soldiers can be seen marching into the distance while the Temperance Hotel offers suppers and beds and includes the Soldiers Cafe.

Caption For Newark, Ossington Coffee Palace 1890

Erected in 1882 as a coffee house and temperance hotel by Viscountess Ossington as a memorial to her late husband. The Palace is said to be a replica of a 17th-century hostelry.

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 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