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My Visits To Dormanstown.

My mother came from Dormanstown and my grandparents, Ellen and James Mitchell, lived at 67, Broadway West. This was a Dorman-Long house as my grandfather and an uncle worked for the Dorman-Long Steel Works. I spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Dormanstown in 1950 by Elizabeth Cannon

York Avenue

York Avenue is the one road in Jarrow (although I am from Manchester) that I could never forget, it's like a main road into Jarrow, my cousin had a house on York Avenue, it's a road you can a bus to anywhere up the north-east, and to most of the lovely beaches. Primrose

A memory of Jarrow

Wesco Not Tesco The First Ever Supermarket On The Uk

I have so many wonderful memories of growing up in Quarry Bank - from moving into the brand new 'fashion houses' when I was 3; four of us on a motorbike, with me wedged between mum and dad (Wes ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1966 by Clive Archer

Little Sandhurst Shop

This is more or less as the centre of Litle Sandhurst appeared in 1958 - very little changed from 1939. We lived on the other side of this photo at a row of houses called (I don't know why!) Gibletts Folly. To the left ...Read more

A memory of Little Sandhurst in 1958 by Chris Hollins

Maidstone High Street

My first job was at G H Laveys 65 High Street (corner of Mill Street). The store sold clothing for men, women, children's school wear, also an equestrian dept. It covered four floors and even had a lift. I was 15 years old. ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone in 1965 by Andrew Dawton

Castle Street Near The Square

This picture brings back so many memories; just a simple shot of the square in Maesteg, but if you could move that tree way over on the left you would see my grandmother's house at 5B Castle Street; it was called ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1959 by Sharwynne Drennan

Lovely Braunton

My parents, my aunt and myself moved to Braunton in 1971. We lived next door to the Clarkes who were very kind to us. Although we had moved from a large town house, this house seemed large too - it had a wonderful view right across ...Read more

A memory of Braunton in 1971 by Jenny Lister

Farleycroft

I was in Farleycroft in the late 1950s. I agree it was a beautiful house with a lovely winding wooden staircase. I didn't go to school in Westerham as I left there when I was 5 to be fostered out, moving to Bromley. I went there ...Read more

A memory of Sundridge in 1949 by Kay Williamson

Dear Or Dear House

I am attempting to trace my grandfather. I cannot find his birth place, but third child registered as born at either Dear - Deer or Dean House - Monkton - Prestwick. Can anyone provide any information?

A memory of Ayr in 1900 by James Conn

Derby Home Guard/Derbyshire Golf Club House

Does anyone have any information about the Derby Home Guard 102 stationed at Markeaton Park during the latter part of WW2? I understand the Army used most of the buildings in the area, ...Read more

A memory of Mackworth in 1944

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Captions

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Caption For Crickhowell, High Street C1965

The columns on the left are on the front of the Market Hall below the old court house. Next door to the Bear Hotel is Kirkland's the chemist's.

Caption For Neath, The Abbey 1893

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

Caption For Welshpool, Broad Street C1955

The Victorian town hall and its dominating clock tower overlook some fine Tudor and Jacobean town houses.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

The building was formerly the Clevedon House Preparatory School and a boarding school for boys. Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Swanbridge, The Manor House C1955

The Spinney, as the manor house of the parish of Sully, was sold at auction in 1938 as part of 164 acres of land that included Sully Island.

Caption For Hitchin, The Market C1965

The white-faced building, to the right of the church, is the recently built Church House.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1895

the photographer looks east along High Street, a wide market place with typical market encroachment blocking the view at the end; the building with the gable is a rebuild in 1877 of a 17th-century house

Caption For Newark, Castle Gate 1904

In later years the house on the extreme left of the picture would become the Castle Garage.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Market Cross C1955

This used to be the Red Lion public house in the late 18th century, and later in the 19th century, with a remodelled shop front, it became Frederick Newman & Sons, a grocer's.

Caption For Salisbury, De Vaux Place 1928

Most of the old houses here were built in the 18th and 19th centuries using stone from the remains of the De Vaux College, which was established here by the Bishop to train clergy as early as 1262

Caption For Lancaster, The River Lune From Skerton Bridge 1918

Our view clearly shows the terraced housing, built on the north side of the Lune outside the old city walls, where Lune Terrace and Derby Road are today.

Caption For Portland, The Bill C1955

Two landmarks - or seamarks - were provided by Trinity House for the benefit of shipping: the beacon of 1844 (left skyline), constructed as a pyramid-shaped obelisk, and the island's 136ft-high lighthouse

Caption For St Austell, Pondhu Road 1912

The site of the cottage is now an open space for parking, and houses have been built on the left side of the lane.

Caption For Great Wakering, High Street C1950

On the left-hand side typical Essex weatherboard cottages survive, with the front door leading directly on to the street.The Lion and The White Hart public houses can be seen in close proximity on

Caption For Pangbourne, View From The Swan 1899

Ashley no longer lets 'Boats by the Week, Month or Season', nor are they 'Housed and Varnished'. This view is from The Swan pub, still in existence.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built many cottages for estate staff.

Caption For Burnham On Sea, The Promenade 1918

north from the corner of Pier Street past the Queens Hotel, now painted to protect the rapidly- eroding stone work, towards the short pier; its pavilion-roofed structure is now named The Pavilion and houses

Caption For Dorking, St Martin's Church 1890

Meetings were first held at the Red Lion Hotel until a meeting house was established in Church Street; it still stands in the car park of the King's Arms.

Caption For Cardiff, Queen Street 1893

The open aspect of the street pictured here and familiar to us today originates from the demolition of older buildings in 1862 to allow road widening.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Cragg 1901

Now, houses occupy the slope in front of the camera. On the left we can see the long, steeply pitched roof of the Methodist church on Kents Bank Road.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Hazlewood Terrace

The house at the right has a sign for W A Tattersall, a coal merchant.

Caption For Hartlebury, Gypsy Caravans, Worcester County Museum C1960

Today, Worcestershire County Museum is housed in the north wing.

Caption For Govilon, The Drawbridge 1936

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

Caption For Aynho, The Green C1955

All these stone houses and cottages remain little altered, although the pavement is now smarter. The road has also been widened and has a pavement on the right.