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Places

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Memories

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My Apprentice Days With Northmet Electricity (Eeb)

I was born in Elmgrove Crescent Harrow in 1933 and lived in Pinner Road North Harrow, moving to Wealdstone in 1934. I started at Bridge Scool in 1938 and followed on to Belmont Sec. Modern School until ...Read more

A memory of Kenton in 1948 by Brian Grainge

Combe Florey Primary School

The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum would ...Read more

A memory of Combe Florey in 1958 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Chippenham Swimming Pool

I was about 12 when the pool opened and what excitement it brought to us kids of Chippenham. I learnt to swim their with my friends (Margaret Ritchie, Jean West etc. and many more). I remember the bank being covered in sun ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 1961 by Sheila Dawn Robbins

River Wear

This is the famous and wellbeloved view of the Cathedral with the three towers - one can climb the central tower - the Galilee Chapel and houses occupied by Cathedral officials as seen from Prebends Bridge and the bank of the River Wear, ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1956 by Diana Dioszeghy

The Hub Of My Young Universe

London's main railway stations truly are wonderful and Charing Cross was the one that I frequented the most as I travelled every weekday from Woolwich Arsenal in SE London to Green Park Underground, near the great Victoria ...Read more

A memory of London in 1959 by Dylan Rivis

Calceby My Soul Mate

Calceby... I came to live here in 1947, not a country girl by birth, having lived in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, for the first fourteen years of my life. This hamlet was to become my home for the next three years, isolated and ...Read more

A memory of Calceby in 1947 by Barbara Johnson

The Memories Are Endless

Good morning from Waterloo, Canada. I was absolutely thrilled with your site and stumbled on it quite by chance. I was born in 1943 at my grandparents house at Yew Tree Terrace just off Station Rd. I grew up in Shepley, ...Read more

A memory of Shepley in 1957 by Marilyn Haywood

Picture Postcards And Photos

Just wondering if there are any photo's with regards to a sweet shop on Bridge Road Blundellsands called "Confectioners" and photographs of Merrilocks Road.I also remember a great design house on Burbo Bank Road called ...Read more

A memory of Crosby by Angela Cameron

Early Schooldays

My memories of Byfield, where I lived on the brand new council estate, in Lovett Road, are idyllic. I was there from age 6 to 10, then we moved to York. We children had to walk what seemed like miles, in all weathers, to the village ...Read more

A memory of Byfield in 1954 by Rosemarie Delaney

Mixed Feelings

I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more

A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by Bob Boyd

Captions

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Caption For Runcorn, Runcorn Bridge And The Transporter Bridge C1961

Two of the three bridges which have spanned Runcorn Gap over the River Mersey are seen from Runcorn.

Caption For Cark In Cartmel, Mill Close C1968

Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

Caption For Malmesbury, Baskerville C1955

Here the River Avon flows under Goose Bridge. This steep old bridge was unfortunately modernised in the late 1960s, but the medieval cutwaters underneath still remain.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Caption For Frome, The Bridge 1957

There has been a bridge here over the River Frome since the Middle Ages. An unusual aspect of the bridge are the three-storey houses, dating from the 19th century.

Caption For Wetherby, The Bridge 1909

The first bridge, built in 1235, was eleven feet wide. By 1773 the hump was lowered, and a second widening took place in 1826. All three stages can be seen from underneath the present bridge.

Caption For Runcorn, The Railway Viaduct 1900

The Widnes-Runcorn railway bridge is seen from the West Bank Docks, Widnes.

Caption For Stafford, The Royal Brine Baths C1950

The river Sow surrounds Stafford on three sides. This is the Green Bridge, over which traffic had to pass before entering through the Green Gate in the medi- eval walls.

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Caption For Crowland, The Trinity Bridge C1965

The 14th-century bridge was a three-road crossing point all those years ago. Now it is a unique part of Lincolnshire's history.

Caption For Staines, The Bridge 1907

The refined and somewhat austere rusticated three-arch bridge of 1829-32 by John Rennie, the architect of old Waterloo Bridge, has been marred by a widening in 1958 in which footways were cantilevered

Caption For Crowland, The Trinity Bridge C1965

The 14th-century bridge was a three-road crossing point all those years ago. Now it is a unique part of Lincolnshire's history.

Caption For Berwick Upon Tweed, The Tweed Bridge C1960

The 1405ft long concrete four-span Royal Tweed Bridge, designed by L G Mouchel & Partners, was built in 1925-28 to take traffic off the old stone bridge that still stands nearby.

Caption For Mells, The Village 1907

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

Taken from the bridge over the River Bride, this view looks northwards into the southern section of the High Street.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

Taken from the bridge over the River Bride, this view looks northwards into the southern section of the High Street.

Caption For Alport, Mill Bridge C1960

The Mill Bridge in the pretty hamlet of Alport crosses the River Bradford near its confluence with the Lathkill, three miles south of Bakewell.

Caption For Leatherhead, Bridge Street C1955

We are looking up Bridge Street past the North Street junction.

Caption For Aysgarth, The Village 1908

The village owes its fame to Aysgarth Force, which comprises three main waterfalls, and a number of cascades. The upper falls can still be viewed from a 16th century single-arch bridge over the Ure.

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Bridge C1955

The old bridge over the River Aire was rebuilt in 1765 and survived 32 years before its demolition in 1797.

Caption For Aylesford, The River Medway 1898

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford. It is superbly proportioned, with one wide central span and three smaller arches on the approach.

Caption For Bewdley, Bridge 1904

Thomas Telford's three-arched stone bridge dates from 1798 and cost £9000. The town is said to derive its name from 'beau lieu', or beautiful place.

Caption For Congleton, Colley Bridge Mill C1965

Now we move two or three miles upstream to Colley Mill Bridge. This bridge is old and narrow, and was already controlled by traffic lights when this picture was taken.