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The Bird Man

I was reminded today of The Bird Man who went round all the schools doing Bird Call imitations. We were at Ladyland School and this presentation was a welcome break from school work. At the close of his performance he asked for ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1955 by John Allan

Working At Litton Mill

I went to work at Litton Mill when I was seventeen. Worked in the Sizing, Charlie Mellor was the supervisor. I met many lovely people and a great lot of characters. The sizing was machines with huge rollers set in a bed of ...Read more

A memory of Litton Mill by Elsie Hollis

Lawrence Weston Comprehensive School

I attended Lawrence Weston Comprehensive School from September 6, 1963 until February 1969. Although I had passed my 11 Plus examination very highly (highest in the southwest of England) and wanted to go ...Read more

A memory of Lawrence Weston in 1963 by Timothy Purnell

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

Captions

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Caption For Brixton, Angell Town From The South C1965

Nearly all the villas have since been demolished and replaced by four-storey council flats in yellow stock brick.

Caption For Palmers Green, Broomfield House, Broomfield Lane C1965

Through the 16th century, and into the 17th, rooms were added; in c1820 the brick wing clearly visible in the photograph was built.

Caption For Wrexham, Town Hall In High Street 1895

The town developed fast during the 19th century, and became an important centre for brick and tile manufacture.

Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.

Caption For Darwen, Bold Venture Park 1896

Built of local brick with wide stone viewing balconies, it is modelled on the bell-tower of St Marks Square in Venice, and it took fourteen years to build.

Caption For Leeds, Infirmary 1894

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

Caption For Aylesbury, Church Street C1960

The brick front dates from 1739, and is a re-fronting of a mid 16th-century timber-framed house by Thomas Hickman, a native of Aylesbiry born in 1695.

Caption For Byfield, The Village C1960

The 1905 primary school is on the left beside the Ford Consul, next to a pair of 1920s brick houses.

Caption For Wokingham, St Sebastian's Church, Nine Mile Ride 1910

The building is of red and blue brick diapering, and it has a small bell turret with Jacobean balusters. The south porch is timber, and in the north aisle there are two wooden posts.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Village C1955

On the right of the tree, the low tiled building is the Forge (now Forge Cottage), whilst the brick-fronted houses are the delightfully named April and May Cottages.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

The 18th-century stone building of the Lion pub looks snug, and the 3-storey red brick New Inn can be glimpsed on the corner.

Caption For Kempston, The Mill C1955

Semi-derelict; a collection of rusting iron and crumbling brick, its former glories (few) were well hidden.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

Caption For Barkway, High Street C1965

The building on the right with the tall brick chimneys is the Reading Room, erected in the 1860s to provide a respectable meeting place for the young men of the village.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Southchurch Hall, The Lake C1950

the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west of the building in 1560.Here we have an excellent view of part of the moat around the brick

Caption For Minehead, Church Town 1929

Most were enlarged upwards, with bedrooms added, their little semi- dormer windows breaking the line of eaves.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street 1897

On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.

Caption For Crouch End, Clock Tower And Broadway C1965

The quirky terracotta and brick Clock Tower was designed by F G Knight 1805. Crouch End possesses two of London's outstanding late 19th-century pubs, the Queens Hotel and the Salisbury.

Caption For Ruislip, High Street C1955

Not many years ago, in an unprepossessing house off the High Street, a timber-framed building of the 17th century was found, quite by accident, wrapped in its 1930s brick overcoat.

Caption For Otford, The Archbishops Palace 1895

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Caption For Corby, High Street C1955

It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Caption For Durham, Market Place C1915

This wonderful photograph shows a beautiful convertible car, probably belonging to one of the landed gentry; the two delivery men enjoy a break whilst their horses tuck into their nosebags; and the little