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Memories

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Town Hall

I think this a picture of Abergavenny Town Hall, but am not sure. When we were staying in Abergavenny we lived outside, in Albany Road, on the way to the Rholben and the Deri, which we often climbed and as we didn't go into the town ...Read more

A memory of Abergavenny in 1940 by Diana Dioszeghy

Claremont Aldershot Road

The house on the right hand side of this picture was called Claremont.  We lived there in the early 60s.  There were two cottages to the side.  In one of those cottages lived a girl called Elizabeth Holland, she used ...Read more

A memory of Church Crookham by Jane Webb Sankey

Grandparents

My nanny & granddad lived in Orrell Park, Westfield Road. I remember very well growing up because I lived in Aintree at that time, visiting them with mum & dad.  We would get the number 60 bus up to the corner of their road. ...Read more

A memory of Orrell in 1953 by Brenda Vanderwert

Growing Up In Barnes 1950s

We moved to Glebe Road in 1952 (Cousland) and it was a wonderful place for children. We had a back gate opening on to the common and made full use of it. The grass was cut every year and baled for hay and we used to rush out ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Liz Mc Laren

Growing Up With All My Relatives Living In Stramshall Parish

I was born in 1928, to John James and Olive Mellor, my grandfather was Percival Jackson Mellor, my grandmother Mary Ellen Mellor. They built with help Park Hill Farm, New Road, Uttoxeter, ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

Favourite Outing

My family and I often walked to the River Usk, going down Pentre Road and crossing the Brecon Road. We used to have picnics on the side nearest St. Mary's church in Llanwenarth, and look in the water for tiny fish and insects. I ...Read more

A memory of Abergavenny in 1949 by Diana Dioszeghy

Wickford And Runwell Hospital

I got a job as a Junior House Officer at Runwell Hospital in March 1958 and worked there for a year, initially living in the hospital residence and then, after I married in Dublin, Ireland later the same year, moved into ...Read more

A memory of Runwell in 1958 by Steve Nugent

Little Foxes Hotel Charlwood Road Ifield Wood

I have been working at the above bed and breakfast for a number of years and am often asked by guests what was here originally. Is there any one out there that remembers the original building? I ...Read more

A memory of Charlwood by Geraldine Todd

Leos Cafe/Espresso Bar

Although I lived in Tooting, all my cousins lived on the Mitcham side! I was a tomboy and used to hang around over Figges Marsh, playing rounders or smoking illicit ciggies in the red shed! The Teddy boys (later the mods) used ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1964 by Jackie Rice

I Am A Beach Boy

I was born in July 1942 at 2 Church Road ,the youngest of eight children,the time I remember best is around 1952,being a kid in the Beach then was brilliant,so many things to do, Boating Lake,Minature Railway,Swimming ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1952 by Robin Stockham

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Captions

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Caption For Clapham, High Street C1965

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

Caption For Chesham, Waterside, From Lord's Mill 1906

Not only Lord's Mill went: all the buildings in this view also went in the 1950s and 1960s for road improvements and were replaced by undistinguished modern houses.

Caption For Coningsby, Silver Street C1955

This view looks to the north end of Silver Street and its junction with the High Street, the main Sleaford to Skegness Road.

Caption For Galgate, The Bridge C1960

This fine stone bridge spans the Preston to Tewitfield Canal; alongside runs part of the A6 road. Railway trains travelling from London to Glasgow thunder nearby on a high viaduct.

Caption For Amroth, The Beach C1960

A great storm in the 1930s washed away some of the cottages that stood on the seaward side of this road.

Caption For Cheam, Old Cheam, Park Lane 1925

The timber framed jettied house called Whitehall, standing on the corner of Park Lane and Malden Road, is thought to have been built as a farmhouse c1500, and over the last five centuries it has undergone

Caption For Clayton West, Church Lane C1960

This is how we lived forty years ago: a quiet road, milk delivery by pony and trap to the pub, schoolchildren waiting for a bus - all bathed in sunshine.

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street C1955

The large building at the end of the road is the impressive Shire Hall, built 1789-1791; it serves as the courthouse.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, C1955

On the side of the bus is an advert for Timothy Whites & Taylors Ltd, who had premises in Calverley Road.

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Holiday Camp C1955

In 1906, Fletcher Dodd began to provide holidays for groups of socialists from the East End of London in the grounds of his house on Ormesby Road.

Caption For Richmond, Castle Hill 1929

In the centre is a fish and chip saloon; to its right is the narrow wynd called The Bar, and on the railings is an advertisement for wet fish on sale in the basement of No 1 New Road.

Caption For Mytholmroyd, View From Scout Road C1955

Prominent in this view from Scout Road, which leads up through Hathershelf Scout Wood, south east of the village, is the Moderna Blanket Factory.

Caption For Peterborough, St Mark's Church 1890

A parish to include New England was created in 1857, and St Mark's Church was built on the edge of Spital housing estate in Lincoln Road.

Caption For Tadcaster, Market Place And Kirkgate 1907

Nine miles from York on the road to Leeds, Tadcaster was once the Roman outpost of Calcaria.

Caption For Stafford, The Public Library C1955

The White Lion Inn Unfortunately, construction of Stafford's new road system was accompanied by another act of civic vandalism.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1935

A roundabout has replaced the gazebo, and trees have been flattened behind the Albert Clock to improve road visibility. The building thus revealed is the Imperial Hotel.

Caption For York, The Treasurer's House 1908

When the cellar floor was dug up, the remains of a Roman road was discovered where the soldiers' feet would have been!

Caption For Stone, High Street 1900

Pump Square, several establishments that did provide alcoholic drinks may be seen among the 18th and 19th century buildings, including the Crown Hotel and Joules' brewery further up the road

Caption For Sutton On Trent, The Railway C1955

The photograph was taken from a bridge built in the 1930s to replace the delay-producing level-crossing which carried the Great North Road.

Caption For Eridge Green, The Neville Crest And Gun C1950

The scene is much the same today, with business continuing beside the busy main road.

Caption For Berwyn, The Chain Bridge Hotel 1888

Here the railway, canal and Holyhead Road (A5) run beside the river amid the Berwyn Mountains, a wild heather-clad upland. King's Bridge spans the river on the left of the picture.

Caption For Barmouth, High Street 1908

St Ann's Hotel, on the other side of the road, advertises medical, physical and therapeutic benefits.

Caption For Old Sarum, C1955

This fort is also the junction of four Roman roads and, after the Norman invasion, was the original Salisbury until the 13th century when a 'new town' was built.

Caption For Runcorn, Transporter Bridge C1906

The transporter remained in use until 1961, when it was replaced by a new single-span 1,082 foot-long road bridge.