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Memories

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Broad Oak Street

I was born in 1949 and then spent the next 15 years living there or visiting my grandparents in Broad Oak Street. The house in Broad Oak Street forms a part of my identity. I remember every nook and cranny - the coal cellar full ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1952 by Kate Melia Hooton

Faringford Road

During my time in training as a 16 year old student for just one year I had lodged at my grandparents, Fred and FLorence Clarke. Quite surprisingly whilst coming from a small hamlet nestling within Oxfordshire I settled in ...Read more

A memory of Stratford St Mary in 1975 by Mark Clarke

North Greenford In The Late 40s And 50s

I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1943. Like so many of your writers growing up then was a magical time; the freedom we had to wander the fields, play and fish in the canal (in homemade boats that ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by John Bowring

Battersea Dogs Home

I don't really have much of a memory of Battersea but lived there with my mom and her friend Charlie, who I believe was a big man and very loud and kind. He had three children; Carolin, Marylin but I forget the boy's name. I ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1972

My Month At Sheephatch School Camp

On 4th March 1946, about fifty children from Dury Falls School, Hornchurch, were taken by coach to Sheephatch School camp. We slept in double bunks in dormitories; did lessons during the day and went for many ...Read more

A memory of Frensham in 1946 by Elsie Ellis

My Early Chidhood

I was born at 32 Pisgah Road which was the bottom end cottage of a row of three opposite Pisgah Chapel. The cottages had no back entrances. There was a pathway running in front of the three cottages with an outside toilet opposite ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1945 by Brian Smith

Felixstowe In The 1970's And The Chippy Fire(S)!

We used to go to 'Beach Station' caravan park (Walton Avenue) for our annual August one-week holiday. My parents didn't own a car and living in Stowmarket, Felixstowe was very near and convenient! I ...Read more

A memory of Felixstowe in 1977 by Karen Dack

Childhood

My grandfather was a miner in the South Celynen. He started off at the age of 13 and was made redundant when the mines closed! But what's more interesting about him was that he had two hobbies. 1. was the love for repairing old clocks and ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn

Fred Batty

Forgot to mention good old fred batty , how could I !. Fred was our chief of the householding, he was almost invisible, fred lived in de singlies block , he kept the block in a state of imaculate condiion. The copperpiping in the baths ...Read more

A memory of Greatworth in 1971 by Phillip Geraghty

Hatton Cross (Heathrow)

I started work at Heathrow in Comet House by Hatton Cross. An RT bus went from Hounslow West to Hatton Cross. There was no railway station then. There was the Barclays bank and a large bus station in front. ...Read more

A memory of Heathrow Airport London in 1961 by Nick Beard

Captions

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Caption For Guisborough, The Church C1955

This view shows clearly the vestry block (to the right of the chancel) which was added in the 1880s.

Caption For Ravenscar, The Terrace And Robin Hood's Bay 1901

Sad to say, investors were unimpressed, and only the road layout and a hotel block and shops were built.

Caption For Hoddesdon, High Street C1955

On the right, the two Ford Populars and the Morris Eight Series 1 tourer are parked outside the Home and Colonial Stores (now a pizza parlour and a video hire shop) and the block of three chain shops -

Caption For Burwash, High Street C1960

There were also two brick mounting blocks about 15 inches high for the less agile people to mount their horses: one outside Burgesses the bakers (opposite the present car park) and one by the entrance

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1955

The block of buildings incorporating the Hotel Central and Lennards shoe shop (right) all have different occupants.

Caption For Chelmsford, Queens Head Inn, High Street 1892

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

Caption For Chelmsford, Tindal Street 1906

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

Caption For Glasgow, Dragon Boat Race On The Clyde, Chinese New Year 2005

The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

The great blocks of quarried stone, some 70,000 tons of which were transported from here annually, were utilised not only in the construction of many famous buildings in London from the time of James

Caption For Lyme Regis, Church And Town 1890

This was blocked in 1210, and so was an arcade in the north wall of the western old nave, which is now the porch.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Cranstone Bridge, Gadebridge Park 2005

The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

The upper floors of the blocks were given over to offices catering for the total life of the busy town.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

After a royal luncheon, the Duke had a tour of the town centre and the new Keay House office block.

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

Poulett Lodge, formerly the home of Earl Poulett at the top of Cross Deep, was demolished in 1933 and replaced with a block of flats, called Thames Eyot.

Caption For Clitheroe, From The Castle 1927

'The hill of lime or loose stones' is one meaning suggested in a recent book, or if we believe the name has a Celtic derivation, we end up with 'the shelter on a rock'; but no one can really pin the meaning

Caption For Pitsea, Railway Hotel And London Road C1955

Opposite is a parade of shops and an office block which still houses Lloyds Bank, but the road now has a complex set of traffic junctions.

Caption For Epsom, Ashley Centre 2005

Only at the back on the Ashley Avenue side are the car park and office block allowed to rise to their full height.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

The old two-storey workshops that could be found everywhere began to be replaced by bigger buildings, often of two or three storeys, with the ground floor brick, and the upper weatherboarded.

Caption For Guisborough, Sunnyfield House, Westgate C1960

The house (now a Town Council Community Centre), the stable block (now the Town Museum) and the immediate gardens eventually became the home in 1902 of Dr William Stainthorpe, who extended the house

Caption For Epsom, Horton Manor 1890

Later, this became the administrative block for the Manor Hospital and, although damaged by a flying bomb in the Second World War, the building is still largely intact, and has recently been converted

Caption For Clacton On Sea, Pier Avenue 1921

They formed a hotel company which, for £900, bought from Peter Bruff the street block to the east of the pier.

Caption For Huddersfield, Westgate 1982

It also survived a fire in the central office block occupied by a computer firm in 1994.