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Cowes From 1937 To 1955

I was born in Cowes, so many lovely photos! I left for Canada in 1957, Vancouver Island. Sidney, BC, reminds me of a Canadian Cowes. I know all the locations that you display. Things changed a bit over the years, but on a visit ...Read more

A memory of Cowes by Caroline Houston

Great Bridge 50’s And 60’s

I was born in Great Bridge in the 1950’s in Slater Street, I went to Fisher Street School until I was eleven. I remember Irene Edwards sweet shop and Teddy Grays on the the canal bridge just before the market. I loved ...Read more

A memory of Great Bridge by dianeworley1

Ilchester Crescent

Living in Ilchester Crescent was just fantastic. Lots to do and friends to play with. I remember the shops in particular the newsagent and me following my brother to deliver newspapers in 1965, mike from Presses the newsagent ...Read more

A memory of Bedminster Down by jude.hince

.All My Yesterdays.

The footpath running down the side of The Bull took you to Herd Lane School and beyond. On the left of the footpath is a disused quarry, which was a popular fishing venue called Woodies Pond. Audawn Coaches were based at the entrance to Woodies. ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies

Life On Kingwood Common

I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just 'The ...Read more

A memory of Kingwood Common by richardhayes516

Memories

My maiden name was margaret greenfield and I used to go to st batholomews church regularly and I was confirmed there in about 1951. I was friendly with a girl named Brenda Falcus who lived in granville drive. My sister now lives at 73 ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall by Margaret Hillier

Memories

My maiden name was margaret greenfield and I used to go to st batholomews church regularly and I was confirmed there in about 1951. I was friendly with a girl named Brenda Falcus who lived in granville drive. My sister now lives at 73 ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall by Margaret Hillier

My Childhood In Wolverhampton 1946 1955

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

Boring Morden

i hated morden when i was a child, sunday was a dead day, no shops open, i couldn't wait to get away, now 72 years later & living in the north east of england, happily married for 51 years i still have feelings for the the place, my ...Read more

A memory of Morden

My Childhood In Hornchurch

My parents bought our house in Mansfield Gardens in 1934 for £500. It had no garage but nobody in the road had a car anyway. My name was Jenifer Shearring. I went to North Street Primary School, infants and juniors from1950 ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by jenny

Captions

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Caption For Bedford, High Street 1921

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Street 1921

The shop on the right was replaced in the 1930s by the neo-Georgian offices, Royal Chambers, and beyond the gabled building, now the Bedfordshire Probation Service, several buildings made way for the Granada

Caption For Walsall, Park Street 1967

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

Caption For Countesthorpe, Main Street C1965

The remainder step down the street in chronological order: later 19th-century shops, and the Bull's Head Pub built around the turn of the century.

Caption For Golders Green, Finchley Road C1960

The view is dominated by a very attractive shopping parade by Welch and Hollis of 1913, and beyond somewhat utilitarian premises of the 1930s looks on towards Hampstead Garden Suburb; this was said by

Caption For Debenham, Cross Green C1955

When the shoemaker's single-storey, former shop beyond had been demolished, he moved into No 6.

Caption For Laxfield, The Street C1965

When the shoemaker's single-storey, former shop beyond had been demolished, he moved into No 6.

Caption For Daventry, Market Square And The Burton Memorial C1960

However, the hub of the town has now moved to Bowen Square, the 1970s shopping precinct.

Caption For Corfe Castle, From The Church 1897

The newly erected cross for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (centre foreground) faces Refreshment Rooms (bottom left) and the shop front towards the centre carries the name of grocer Robert

Caption For Malmesbury, High Street 1924

On the left, the shop with the sign on top of the white window is the family business of Riddick, printers, bookbinders and stationers from 1911 to the 1970s.

Caption For Preston, Town Hall 1893

There were grumbles that its grandeur was diminished by too many shops, literally cramping its style.

Caption For Luton, Town Centre C1965

The forerunner of modern supermarket shopping next door (J Sainsbury) held its peace.

Caption For Southport, The Sands 1902

Working people usually had one set of clothes for work and another for best, and for a trip to the seaside the best clothes came out of the closet - or the pawn shop.

Caption For Manningtree, High Street C1955

That house is now a shop, and the large building with the clock has been replaced with new houses. We can see the Crown Hotel towards the end of the road on the left.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1937

This shows pre-war motoring at its peak, moving both ways up and down West Street, which was the A35 main road.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1940

The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1903

The tall three- storey building remains, now an Oxfam shop, while all beyond the towering Baptist Church on the left has since been demolished and is now the entrance to the car parks formed between

Caption For Thornton Cleveleys, Victoria Road East C1960

This area was once part of a quiet seaside village, but by 1960 a parade of shops close to Bay Horse level crossing on the original Preston and Wyre Railway had appeared, and regular motor buses traversed

Caption For Hindhead, Post Office Corner 1924

By 1924 the motor car has made its appearance, along with a parade of new shops on the left-hand side, and an AA patrolman is already on hand to assist traffic.

Caption For Swindon, Fleet Street C1955

On the corner of the northern section of Bridge Street stands Lennard's shoe shop.

Caption For Hucknall, Co Operative House C1965

Currently (2003) all the buildings are being refurbished as flats over shops, and renamed, of course, the Byron Centre.

Caption For Uckfield, Church Street 1902

The barber's shop on the right is still a hairdressers. Church Street is one of the best surviving streets in the town architecturally. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield

Caption For Cocking, The Village 1906

The shop on the right is now the Moonlight Cottage Tea Rooms, and the turn into Church Lane is just beyond. There are several estate cottages with dates of 1902 and 1904.

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury C1960

This view shows the bus station that disfigured the open space of Kingsbury until the new bus station was built as part of the Friars Square development in the 1960s.