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Places
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Photos
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Maps
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Memories
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Growing Up In Potters Bar
My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the scene.I ...Read more
A memory of Potters Bar by
Aw Penmans 221 Ballards Lane N12
Hello All, New on here, my name is John Carpenter, born 1949 in Palmers Green N13. Moved out to Welwyn Garden City, as a lot of families were, to the "new towns" just after the war. I did all my schooling there. I ...Read more
A memory of North Finchley by
"Digger" Hunwick Growing Up At No 7, Hall Road.
Born under a table in the front room of No.7 Hall Road on 16/7/1944 while an air raid warning sounded to herald the German V1s presence above. I attended Aveley Infants and Primary schools between 1949 and 1955 ...Read more
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Bits I Recall
Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more
A memory of Winchmore Hill by
The Co Op In Conway Street Corner Of Cathcart Street
My first job when I left school (St Hughes, Park Road South) at 15 was in this shop. I was there for 3 years, until I left for bigger money at Levers. The manager was Jack Francis, a decent man ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead in 1961 by
Memories From An Evacuee
I was a World War II evacuee, and after a short "phony war" trip to Northampton, when the Blitz began I was sent to Llantrisant. I have nothing but warm memories of the town. I was thee years old and billeted with an ...Read more
A memory of Llantrisant in 1940 by
Air Raid
I was born in Laurel Avenue in 1936 and lived there until 1959. During the war we were bombed out of our house following an air raid during the night, when German bombers were trying to cut the main line between London and Edinburgh. ...Read more
A memory of Potters Bar in 1950 by
Grand Parents
With my parents I used to visit my father's parents at Nowton every summer between 1946 to 1950. My grandparents were William and Rose Bradley. My grandfather was always in a 'bath chair', I do not know what his illness was. I remember ...Read more
A memory of Nowton in 1946 by
Gardeners Blacksmiths
My grandfather was Stanley Gardener and lived with his wife Rose at the Blacksmiths House, 11 Worthing Road. My mother, Joyce was born here, as were her sisters Marjorie and Peggy. The forge gradually turned into a garage, ...Read more
A memory of Southwater in 1900 by
Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY BACKGROUND: My mother Milly and father Bert moved to Winchmore Hill from Camden/Kentish Town. I was born in 1944 at The North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton. I grew up initially ...Read more
A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1944 by
Captions
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This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.
This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.
Simply elegant, this is the last of a superb series of 1930s underground stations extending along the northern section of the Piccadilly Line, including Arnos Grove, Southgate and Oakwood, all designed
Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.
Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.
One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.
This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.
Set back before the gable of Southgate Farmhouse is the wheelwright's shop of Eric Burroughes in the former Congregational chapel.
This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.
Now the pace of change has accelerated: the shopfronts in Station Parade have been renewed, and Southgate's is now Parade Stores and Post Office.
Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.
This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.
This, the south gate to the castle keep, is today the main entrance, but it is thought that in the castle's heyday the north gate was the main access.
It is possible, though, that the actual Ravern Tavern was located in Southgate Street.
Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.
In the early 1800s it passed to the Powys family, and was finally bought by Southgate Council in 1903.
Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.
Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne
One of Gloucester's best-known features is the ingenious clock that stands at first floor level above G A Baker & Sons in Southgate Street.
St Paul's, New Southgate was repaired, and Ponders End Congregational Church was rebuilt on a new site. Another new church built in 1956-57 was Suffolks Baptist Church.
South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.
In the centre of the curtain of the outer ward is the south water gate; there might also have been one on the north side, but alas no trace remains.

