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Memories

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Holidays In The 1950s

My parents and I used to stay in a bungalow owed by a Mr & Mrs Tidy and I was made to keep it tidy! I loved the sandy beach and remember playing deck tennis on the sand. Next door was a family with three girls, their ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Bay by Bette Schoots

Whitethorn Morris At The Winchester May Fest 08

May 2008, and the city of Winchester hosted a festival of music and dance, with the streets closed to traffic and thronged with entertainers, market stalls and happy crowds. I was part of the band ...Read more

A memory of Winchester in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

Where Does The Time Go

This is the church where my 17 year old son was christened. This is also the church where I spent most of my childhood. From about the age of 10, my friends and I would go grave rubbing. We actually spent more time cleaning the ...Read more

A memory of Farndon in 1980 by Tracey Nevitt

My Memory Of Going To School In The Manor House

Chew Magna, High School - this was in fact the High School for Sacred Heart High School & Preparatory School, which I attended for 3 years. I was in my first year senior's when the high school ...Read more

A memory of Chew Magna in 1983 by Helen May

Bus Shelter

Many is the time I have spent in that bus shelter, on a winters night, freezing, waiting for an Eastern National bus or a Campbell’s Flyer [1/2 penny cheaper in old money]. Having been to the Kingsway cinema and munching on a bag of ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1951 by Horace Rogers

Homes Boy

I entered White's Children's Home and Mission (known as CH&M) in June of 1945 having come from Surbiton, Surrey. I was 9 years old. The home was situated in Church Rd opposite "The Pond", it is now a CO-OP supermarket.  There was a large ...Read more

A memory of Tiptree in 1945 by alanclffrd

Neston Cross

Remember The Cross very well, worked my apprenticeship at Leighton Printing Works from 1950 to '55 when I joined the RAF, the photos bring back lots of memories. Went back in '77 to visit the old works to see if anybody remembered me. ...Read more

A memory of Neston in 1950 by William Mc Cully

Missing Home

I was born in Wales and lived at 3 Bailey Street until moving to Canada at age 10. All of my memories of Cwm are wonderful ones, sliding down the mountain on cardboard, wading in the river behind our house, climbing the hill to play at the ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1966 by Debbie Turner

Family Holidays

My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

Youthful Pranks In Binstead! 1958 1962

I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Simon Hornsby

Captions

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Caption For Bushley, The Old School House C1960

This lovely half-timbered house is typical of many houses in this quiet neighbourhood, not far from the banks of the River Severn.

Caption For Sleaford, West Banks C1955

Sleaford is built on the banks of the River Slea which splits into two branches no more than streams in size.

Caption For Tenby, The Church 1898

Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210. The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

Caption For York, The River C1950

In this later view, we can see the Guildhall on the left side of the riverbank. As well as an underground passage opening right onto the water's edge, the Guildhall has two secret rooms.

Caption For Weybridge, The Eyot 1903

The Eyot (meaning island) is called after Richard D'Oyly Carte; he strengthened the banks of a small island in the River Thames below Shepperton Lock, and built this large house upon it in 1889.

Caption For Oxford, College Barges 1890

This scenic stretch of the Thames, by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as clubhouses and

Caption For Andover, Charlton Village 1908

If we stand where this picture was taken, we can see that the row of thatched cottages remains.

Caption For Old Bursledon, The Village C1955

Bursledon consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, The River Yare 1919

John Sell Cotman, who founded the Norwich School of Artists with Crome, was born in this riverside village in 1782.

Caption For Bedford, River Ouse C1955

Taken from the bridge, this view looks along a busy Embankment to Embankment Gardens in the distance with its tree-lined river bank.

Caption For Grassington, The Wharf And Old Mill 1926

Grassington was at one time a centre for lead mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, athough there was still some quarrying in the locality.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1934

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1901

The bank on the right was Simonds Bank, opposite Princess Street, now called Princess Way.

Caption For Worcester, The Cross 1923

Worcester was a walled city until the 18th century, and witnessed a great deal of conflict, particularly during the English Civil War.

Caption For Shap, Abbey 1893

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Athenaeum 1906

This picture faces the opposite direction to the previous one. The cabman's shelter seen in photographs 49616 & 64564 on pages 34 to 36 is still in place.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Market Place C1950

The Barclays Bank building was designed in an Elizabethan style by William Eden Nesfield in 1874 - at the time it was the Gibson and Son bank.

Caption For Carmarthen, Coracles 1898

This picture, on the banks of the River Towy, was obviously taken in the fishing season, where coracles were used for their convenience.

Caption For Tewkesbury, Mythe Bridge 1891

The beautiful River Avon penetrates to the very heart of England at Shakespeare's Stratford.

Caption For Launceston, Square And War Memorial C1922

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

Caption For Gainsborough, Silver Street C1950

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1929

On the left outside Rodber's furniture and floor coverings shop can be seen tables, beds and a chest of drawers, and also their delivery van.

Caption For Glasgow, George Square 1897

It used to be said that George Square reminded visiting Londoners of Trafalgar Square, but the central column was a monument to Sir Walter Scott rather than Lord Nelson.

Caption For Wilmslow, Bank Square Gardens C1955

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.