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Memories

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Old Lewisham Central Library

In the early 1950s I worked at the Central Library, near St Mary's Church. My most vivid memories are the long working hours (difficult for the social life of a young girl) and having to manually count the 'issue' before we ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by rita

Rowley Bristow Hospital

This hospital played a big part in my childhood. My sister spent several weeks there after suffering a severe cut to her knee in the 1960s, her godmother worked there as a physiotherapist, and not long before it closed, my ...Read more

A memory of West Byfleet by Julia Edwards

1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel

On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by Jim Smith

Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting

Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1944 by George Ritson

Early Days

I was born and brought up in Pembroke terrace and with number of lads of like age wandered the mountains through theSaucy ap and over to overlook the Rhondda . We would climb up an run down hills,run through rivers and ply cowboys and ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale by Derek Barnard

Glades End, Surf Crescent

Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more

A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by Susan Copeman

V2 Rocket Dropped On Hatley Avenue

Late in Feb 1945 (I think it was the 25th) I was at Geary's school when during the dinner break a neighbour of my own age Sheila Solomon told me that my house had been bombed. At the time I lived at 39 ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1945 by John Zammit

Waiting For The Bus

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

Wonderful Memories Of Kessingland

My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1953 by Sue Robertson Danells

My Youth In Thornley

I was born at 128 Thornlaw, North Thornley. I am one of 8 children. My perants where Mr & Mrs Coles, Mary Ellen & Eric. My brother's names, Eric, Charles, Lawrance and Joseph. Sisters are Margaret, Mary, Pauline and ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1963 by Pauline Bagnall

Captions

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Caption For Daventry, Dryden Avenue C1965

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

Caption For Walsingham, High Street 1933

The long straight high street eventually opens up into the Friday market place.

Caption For East Clandon, The Village 1904

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

Caption For Cosby, The Brook C1965

The brook here somehow appears to be little cared for, with its chipped concrete posts arrayed along weedy banks.

Caption For Ascot, Church 1901

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864.

Caption For St Annes, Fairhaven Road 1901

The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.

Caption For Wallasey, Capitol Roundabout C1960

The roundabout was removed in 1979 to make way for a new road junction.

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

On the right, the Royal Oak, the shop with the arched door and window, and the building nearest the camera, here Dolly's sweet shop, all remain.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street.

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1950

The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.

Caption For Chilham, Old Wives' Lees 1908

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

Caption For Wainfleet, Woolpack Hotel C1955

North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.

Caption For Ollerton, Thoresby Hall, The Queen Victoria Room C1965

This plainer room is one occupied by Queen Victoria when she stayed at Thoresby, enjoying the lavish hospitality of Earl Manvers.

Caption For Elham, High Street C1960

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

Caption For Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church C1960

Churches were built to serve the suburbs north of Abington Park.

Caption For Shackleford, Village 1906

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

Caption For Boxford, View From Church Tower C1965

Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.

Caption For Carlton In Lindrick, High Road C1965

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

Caption For Oving, Church And Black Boy Inn C1955

Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the Portland limestone ridge.

Caption For Hailsham, The Church C1965

Another view, similar to H6031 (above), shows the brick-paved path and the holly bushes.

Caption For Stourbridge, Lower High Street C1950

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1901

Beyond the Clocktower, the Georgian brick front belongs to the George Inn, which was replaced by Burtons in 1936.

Caption For Glynde, The Square C1955

Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Bury House 1897

West of the church and across a stream is The Bury, the manor house until 1741.