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Erith Shops

I used to work at the Midland Bank in the High Street which was next to the corner carpet shop. When I started there the Bank was just on one shop site but it later expanded to two shop sites. Mr Baker was the Manager who retired in my time ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1962 by Bob Hewitt

The Best Time Of My Childhood

From 1954 until 1958 The Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Woolverston was where our Thames Sailing Barge was moored, and I spent my holidays from boarding school sailing, swimming, climbing trees or running free in the ...Read more

A memory of Woolverstone by Claire Greenway

Happy Days

I lived at 13 Westfield Close, from 1951 until 1965 when sadly my father died and we all moved to Weston. My memories of living there are very happy. I went to Backwell C of E School and the head, I think, was Mr Branch who kept bees in ...Read more

A memory of Backwell in 1955 by Jackie Beard

Music

We moved to Burghfield Common when my father started work as an MOD policeman at Burghfield. We moved into Bannister Road when the estate was still being built and I remember my mother saying that one day she opened the back door to ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1956 by Nancy Mc Giveron

Happy Times In Groes Village

Knowing where to start with the many memories that I have of Groes Village is difficult. For many years my brother and I were dispatched, from our home in Hertfordshire, for the entire school summer holiday to stay with ...Read more

A memory of Margam by Gwynneth Stanbrook

Clara Vale

My family lived in Stanner House, a lovely old house in Clara Vale from 1952 until 1964 - my parents moved there shortly after they got married in 1951. I was born in 1958 and can remember the house as if it was yesterday. In the 1800's it ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1958 by Helen Mc Guinness

Haig Hall

I have wonderful memories of sunny day outings to Haig Hall. Mum and I would catch the bus from Newtown to Wigan and then we would walk from the town centre up to the main gates. A short walk in from the main gates and the little tractor ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1954 by Christine Ackland (Nee Hunter)

Memories And The Tunnel

I remember the loyalty to family and friends who worked at the pit. My grandfathers (Frickley) did, my father was a fitter and turner there at South Kirkby colliery. I miss the place. I remember digging a hole with my ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1969 by Leslie Baddeley

My Memories Of Salwarpe

I lived in the first house opposite the church, before we moved to Australia in 1963. Next door lived Dr Adenbrook (I think), next to the church lived the Hoods in the now college, mum worked for a Brenda & Bryan Mullens ...Read more

A memory of Salwarpe in 1960 by Sheila Myers

Growing Up

I was born in 6 Hedgefield View, Dudley on 4th January 1947, this is where my life's journey started and at 5 years of age I attended the junior school, then the secondary modern (or the big school as it was known locally), leaving in 1961. ...Read more

A memory of Dudley in 1940 by Granville Hindhaugh

Captions

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Caption For Lancaster, The Town Hall 1903

The array above the annexe beside the old Town Hall belongs to the telephone exchange, which moved there in 1888.

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

The views are remarkably evocative of a past era of the town, as the road has, with one notable exception, been entirely redeveloped.

Caption For Parkgate, The Beach C1939

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached.

Caption For Corfe Castle, The Hotels 1899

The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

Caption For Ryde, The Esplanade 1918

The Esplanade 1918 In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

Caption For St Ives, Market Hill C1955

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

Caption For Warrington, The Circus And Sankey Street C1955

Below the Town Clock the blackened sandstone of Holy Trinity Church bears witness to the effects of industrial pollution.

Caption For Halesworth, Market Place C1955

The increasing sizes and numbers of vehicles led to the town centre being by-passed.

Caption For Paignton, Gardens And Wesleyan Church 1896

Looking from the Hall (or the Palace Avenue Theatre) through the gardens, we can see Norton's and Welton's shoe shops.

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury Square 1901

Kingsbury Square is the market place for the oldest part of the town; this grew up around the church, whose tower can be seen beyond the roofs.

Caption For Kettering, The Bridge, Wicksteed Park C1955

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1949

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town.

Caption For Featherstone, Town Hall C1955

After a succession of owners and tenants, the estate was sold to Featherstone Council in 1930 for £3,600, after which it was used as the Town Hall and a public park.

Caption For Chepstow, Beaufort Square 1957

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

Caption For Tewkesbury, High Street 1891

Lack of major industrial development in Tewkesbury meant that the town retained much of its 17th- and 18th-century character and did not experience much of an explosion in its population.

Caption For Poole, High Street 1931

The town achieved some status as a holiday resort, particularly as a touring centre and as a base for leisure yachting.

Caption For Launceston, The Arch C1960

With the introduction of the one-way system, traffic now travels only out of town through the arch.

Caption For Manchester, Albert Square And The Town Hall 1889

Although Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall dominates the scene, it is the small round building almost in the middle of our picture that intrigues me.

Caption For Hockley, Broad Parade C1955

Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used.

Caption For St Ives, The Promenade C1960

St Ives as a holiday town in the 1960s, with cafes and restaurants.

Caption For Greenock, Harbour 1904

It is sad that most of the shipbuilding and heavy industry have now gone into decline.

Caption For Hunstanton, Green And Pier 1907

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east.

Caption For Aylesbury, Narbeth Drive C1965

After the First World War, Aylesbury began developing along the arterial routes into the town.