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The Delta

This memory of 1961, and me and me pal Wes Coulthard started work at the Delta Rolling Mills (this was over Scotswood Bridge towards Blaydon, left along the river by the Skiff Inn). It was hard work but the dosh was better than other ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1961 by Jimmy Burrows

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 Below

Continued from Part 1 below. Next to Martins Bank was a record shop, where I remember going with my parents and standing listening to records in the small listening ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

A Week To Remember

It was always a sense of adventure searching for new place to visit on our holidays - and certainly we found an idyllic spot just a mile or so outside the town of Cemaes Bay. Mother had been staying with my younger sister who ...Read more

A memory of Cemaes Bay in 1976 by Margaret Mosley

Fitzroy Street, Off Westderby Road. 1950s/60s

Did anyone live around here in the 1950s & 60s? My memories are of being sent to search out the sandstone on the Hollas so that my mum could do the steps. Going to the coal yard off Low Hill with a ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool by Barbara Mcdonald

Great Days And Fond Memories

It was with great warmth that I read the memory about the O'Dells at the Cross Keys Pub. I too spent some great times with young Cliff at the family garage and at the X Keys. My mother also worked for many years with Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham

Growing Up In Holbeach St Marks (The Marsh)

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta Gray, ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

Growing Up In Southall

I grew up in Southall in the 1940s and 50s. We lived in Gordon Road in a terraced house that backed onto The Tube. We had an outside toilet, no bathroom and, until I was about 6, no electricity. At the age of 5 I could change ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1945 by John Lennon

Rye Grammar School

I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye

School Uniform And Schooldays

This was 1958 the time when I seriously got into drainpipes, drapes and rock 'n roll music. I was at Walbottle Secondary Modern School. I used to take in the leg width of my jeans by hand using a needle and thread to ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

The House I Lived In

I lived in the white bungalow on the right of the picture with my parents from 1953 until 1959. My father was Secretary of the Saunton Golf Club and the house was owned by the Christie Estates at that time. I have many happy memories of holidays at Saunton during that time.

A memory of Saunton in 1953 by Chris Duckworth

Captions

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Caption For Prestatyn, 1895

Before that, it was the site of a castle built before the time of Henry II and held by the Prince of Powys, Owain Cyfeiliog.

Caption For Fairford, The Mill C1965

The mill stands on the northern edge of town, with St Mary's graveyard visible beyond; it dates from Norman times, and by the Middle Ages was used for fulling cloth.

Caption For Bury, Town Hall And Clock Tower C1955

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

Caption For Conisbrough, The Castle 1895

By the mid 16th century the castle was semi-derelict: a long stretch of curtain wall had collapsed and at least one floor of the keep had fallen in.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Quay 1929

The harbour was developed by the railway companies – wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.

Caption For London, Houses Of Parliament 1908

By the time of this photograph, the old wharves along the river had been cleared away to create Victoria Embankment Garden, a more fitting context for the Mother of Parliaments, which was rebuilt in Gothic

Caption For London, King William Street 1880

On the left is the City Luncheon Bar, and passing in the foreground carriers' carts, two owned by Henry Draper and another by the railway.

Caption For London, Houses Of Parliament 1908

By the time of this photograph, the old wharves along the river had been cleared away to create Victoria Embankment Garden, a more fitting context for the Mother of Parliaments, which was rebuilt in Gothic

Caption For Penarth, The Bay C1955

Since its grounds were bisected by the redevelopment of Beach Road, the council initiated plans to purchase it in 1947.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

Further east, Franklins Outfitters, a mid 19th-century Italianate building on the right has gone, as have those in the distance on the left, to be replaced by the tepid Neo-Georgian Talbot Court.

Caption For Nubia, Greek Tablets At Wady Kardassy C1857

Since this view was taken, the lock has been reconstructed; the lock-keeper’s cottage was rebuilt in 1928 by the Thames Conservancy.

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

It was said to have been cut in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria by Henry Eatwell, parish clerk of Broad Hinton, assisted, according to some accounts, by the local publican.

Caption For Swindon, Regents Circus C1955

The classical portico of the Baptist Tabernacle on the left was enhanced by the flight of stone steps which ran the entire width of the frontage.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village 1902

Burton was an estate village, owned by the Pitt-Rivers family of Hinton St Mary and Tollard Royal, until its sale in 1958.

Caption For Chideock, Village 1930

Trees partially obscure Bridge Cottage, By the Stream and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

Caption For Daresbury, All Saints' Church C1955

Many of the characters that feature in his books are thought to have been inspired by the strange carvings within the church.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street 2003

Today the site is marked by a sperb memorial to all of those affected by the tragedy.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 1893

They in turn are overshadowed by the much larger Royal Hotel across the street.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 2004

They in turn are overshadowed by the much larger Royal Hotel across the street.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Old School C1955

On the far right is part of the extension to the school built in 1817 by the rector, the Rev Edward Stanley. When the boys moved out, the whole building became the parish hall.

Caption For Conisbrough, The Castle 1895

By the mid-16th century the castle was semi-derelict: a long stretch of curtain wall had collapsed and at least one floor of the keep had fallen in.The fortress was in such poor condition that it was

Caption For Odiham, Wharf 1908

The roof of the New Inn can be seen through the trees (left); next to it is Wharf House, built in 1815 as the wharfinger's residence by the Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal.

Caption For Lulworth Cove, 1925

Eastwards is Lulworth Cove (centre), caused by the sea breaching through the Purbeck-Portland formations into softer Wealden sands and Cretaceous chalk in the dip beyond, in far more recent

Caption For Seaton, Promenade 1922

The Esplanade Hotel, on the right-hand end of the terrace, had incorporated the neighbouring Gould's Hotel by the 1920s, when a guide book described it as 'a well- appointed and comfortable