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Memories

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Fleet Airarm

I was 17years old when I came to work at the Fleet Air Arm at Worthy Down. I wanted to join the army but, my Father wouldn't allow me to. So I joined the Naffi, and they sent me to Worthy Down - I loved my time there. Once I was ...Read more

A memory of Worthy Down in 1952 by Eileen Groenenberg Roche

Parents

I Remember the early Twenties. My mothers family, had a woodturning business, pianos, violins, and such good quality instruments, in Bethnal Green, London, She had two brothers, George and Albert, and a sister Sara. Sara was a cripple, ...Read more

A memory of Billericay in 1920

The Whit Walk

Does anyone remember the Whitsun walk (known as the Whit walk)? We all dressed up in our finest clothes and paraded through town. I think the Selby Times has some old photos of my two sisters on that walk. Also, do you remember the ...Read more

A memory of Selby in 1955 by Mary Steers

The Ferry From Penzance To The Scilly Isles

I spent my summer holidays in Cornwall in 1958. Two whole weeks on a farm just to the north of Marazion was not my idea of excitement, so I was not looking forward to it. However, things improved when we ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's in 1958 by John Howard Norfolk

The Blitz

My Mother returned from a visit with her Mother to the Odeon Cinema in Petts Wood at 11 pm on Wednesday 16th April 1941, to find my father extinguishing, with sand from a bucket, an incendiary bomb behind our semi-bungalow at 154 Pickhurst ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1941 by Michael Seakins

The Post Office And Stores

My family and I lived in the post office and stores when this picture was taken. I am Christine Sheldon, one of the twins of the Sheldon family. We loved living there, my dad was the baker and the shop sold everything - ...Read more

A memory of Coolham by Christine Grigg

It Was No Surprise

It was at Insh carnival where my disabled wife and I and our two month old daughter went, simply to spend a few hours from our home village of Inverurie. There were the usual sorts of entertainments such as pipe bands and the tug ...Read more

A memory of Muirtown in 1990 by Roland Mitchell

The Flying Fortress Crash

I remember, during the war, two flying fortresses crashed in Hordon. One came down near the Half Way House, the other one in a field in Chiderditch behind the pub. They were returning from a bombing raid on Germany. ...Read more

A memory of West Horndon in 1940 by James Chalkley

Levenshulme

I remember my earliest memories of Levenshulme (where I have lived for the past 15 years) was as a boy of about 4 or 5 in the early 1970s, going to the dairy on Lloyd Road where the bus terminus was - with my grandfather and also ...Read more

A memory of Levenshulme in 1970

Family Home

Ahh Instow.. Always in my heart. Gran moved from Plymouth to Bickleton (2mls inland from Instow) c1930. Mum (Nancy Rooke) went to Instow school. During the war years she met Dad (Ron) married (1942) and moved to Staines where I grew up. ...Read more

A memory of Instow by Patrick Dipper

Captions

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Caption For Northleach, Market Square C1950

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1955

The architecture of the High Street reflects the wealth that a depressed town gained from its booming boot and shoe industry in later Victorian times.

Caption For Huddersfield, The George Hotel, St George's Square 1957

It was built in 1850 by Joseph Kaye, who was well-known in the town as a merchant, a brewer and the owner of four mills at Folly Hall.

Caption For Ambleside, From The Gale 1886

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

Caption For Holywell, High Street C1955

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

Caption For Dawlish, The Seafront From The Royal Hotel 1890

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Grannys Teeth 1912

One of the most memorable images in the entire Frith archive, this intimate shot of the Cobb wall was inspired by Jane Austen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Caption For Bangor, High Street And Clock 1908

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Market Street C1955

This view shows the rear of the Swan Hotel on the left and the remarkable turret of the Town Hall rising above it.

Caption For Madeley Wood, From The South 1896

Such a pretty name, such an ugly town.

Caption For Luton, Upper George Street C1950

Certainly there would have been confusion between the original title and the burgeoning Dunstable Road just visible in the photograph beyond Christ Church at the top of the hill.

Caption For Amesbury, St Mary And St Melore's Church C1955

Amesbury dates back to at least 973; it is the nearest town to Stonehenge, and has a population of about 6,000.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour 1892

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been

Caption For Harpenden, Village Pond 1897

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

Caption For Looe, Fishermen 1906

The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

Caption For Polperro, An Old Smugglers Cottage 1924

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

Caption For Bournemouth, Gervis Arcade C1874

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

Caption For Heckmondwike, The Market Square C1950

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow.

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1955

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive

Caption For Redcar, The Bowling Green C1960

Lord Zetland had given the town six acres of land, which was developed and opened in 1924; it originally also included tennis courts and gardens, a lake and an aviary.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

This was once the town's market place.

Caption For Wednesfield, High Street C1965

The town's past industrial importance was partly based on an unpleasant speciality, the manufacture of traps.