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Memories

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The Good Old Days

I was born in Luton in the 1940s and remember well the shops in Manchester Street with WG Durrants butchers on the corner of Manchester Street and Bridge Street. Next door in Bridge Street was a garage and further along Manchester ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

Then & Now

I remember during my teens to early twenties there always seemed to be gigs on. From The Green Man (where it must be said, I really shouldn't have been, not then being 18), where it was very bluesy music, plus of course the mighty ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1973 by Dylan Mears

Crichel House During The War Years

Dumpton House (Preparatory) School was evacuated to Crichel during the Second World War from Broadstairs in Kent. My older brother (Paul Cremer) was already at the school and due to the war my parents sent me ...Read more

A memory of Crichel Ho in 1940 by Jonathan Cremer

Holme Valley Memorial Hospital

View showing Holme Valley Memorial Hosital (in centre of picture).

A memory of Holmfirth

I Am The One Who Baby Sat For Ian Warburton

Dear Ian, If my memory is correct it was about the above year that I baby sat for you while your mother and father went to Scotish Dancing. Bob who was studying at night school would sit and do his home work ...Read more

A memory of Helsby in 1954

Growing Up In Woolton

My family from many generations back have liven in Woolton and Gateacre. I grew up in a house opposite the English Rose pub and went to Out Lane primary school. We spent our summer days playing in the orchard by Watergate Lane, ...Read more

A memory of Woolton by Lynda Barlow

Samuel Lloyds

We came to Corby in 1956 from Staffordshire and I attended Samuel Lloyds girls school. We used to spend our dinner money in Tipaldis. My dad, Ted Simmons, was the groundsman for Stuarts and Lloyds Recreation Club and we lived on ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1956 by Joan Simmons

Evacuated To Great West Farm

My mother Eileen and her brother Ian Carter were evacuated to Great West Farm, Quethiock in 1940. Here are her memories of that time:- On June 16th 1940 we were evacuated from Marvels Lane School, Grove Park, London SE12 ...Read more

A memory of Quethiock by Mark Lambert

St Alkmund's Churchyard, Whitchurch, Shropshire

In 1973 a new vicarage was built on part of St Alkmund's churchyard burial ground in Whitchurch, Shropshire which entailed the exhumation of a number of coffins from vaults and the removal of their ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Michael Beach

Welwyn School

Not much to remember, i was about 7 years old and was always losing my pencil for class. My grandparents came to visit me on week ends, and going out for the day in their old Ford car.The school itself had a cobbled courtyard with a tree in the centre. Happy days.

A memory of Welwyn by nigellinwood

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 553 to 576.

Caption For Laindon, South Essex Partnership Nht Trust, High Road 2005

For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

Caption For Bellerby, Village 1929

Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre.

Caption For Loughborough, Market Place C1955

The essence of a modern commercial centre is evident.

Caption For Kirkburton, North Road C1955

Many Pennine woollen towns had strong Liberal leanings, and prominent in this photograph of Kirkburton, near Huddersfield, is the tall four-storey building of the Liberal Club, a centre of local community

Caption For Hitchin, High Street 1903

The lady in the centre appears to be the mistress of the house instructing her two servants.

Caption For Exeter, Mol's Coffee House 1906

The elaborate Elizabethan structure in the centre, with tiers of multi-paned windows and a high gallery, was the renowned Mol's Coffee House, standing beside Cathedral Green.

Caption For Salcombe, From Portlemouth 1928

Kingsbridge, five miles to the north, was the closest the line ever penetrated.

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place C1955

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place C1955

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Caption For Bolton, Nelson Square 1893

The large building at centre left is the post office, and just in front of that and to the right of James Wilde & Son is the single-storey Pack Horse Hotel.

Caption For Ambleside, Bridge House 1912

Originally built in the 17th century as the apple-store for Ambleside Hall, it is now a National Trust Information Centre.

Caption For Cuddesdon, The Old Mill And River C1955

The 18th-century working water-mill lies on the River Thame, about a mile from the centre of the village of Cuddesdon.

Caption For Ilfracombe, The Harbour 2004

Beyond the slipway (centre) are the open doors of the new lifeboat station, built in 1984 and housing the Spirit of Derbyshire, a Mersey Class boat capable of 16 knots and with a range of 145 nautical

Caption For Winster, Market House C1955

The sandstone and brick structure originally had open archways on the ground floor, like that of the similar building in the centre of Bakewell.

Caption For Tavistock, Brook Street 1910

This view, looking back towards the town centre, shows both the Congregational and parish churches.

Caption For Evesham, Bell Tower From The Avon 1892

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

Caption For Meifod, The Village C1955

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

Caption For Leintwardine, The Village C1955

The church in the centre of the village sits on Roman earthworks and Roman tiles and bricks have been discovered beneath the chancel.

Caption For Pitsea, View From Church C1955

The northward view is slightly less romantic: Pitsea High Road crosses the centre of the picture, with the Northlands estate behind it.

Caption For Porthcawl, Marine Terrace 1901

Note the ladies and children in the centre of the photograph, the former with long skirts and boaters and the children sporting knee-length dresses for the girls and knickerbocker trousers for the boy.

Caption For Cousley Wood, The Village 1899

W J Ballard's forge is in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Sevenoaks, High Street C1955

Livestock was still being bought and sold in the Market Place, on the centre left of the picture, until only a few years before this picture was taken.

Caption For Ormesby, Church Hall And Roundabout C1965

Ormesby still boasts some attractive buildings, and these include the church hall on the right and the Victorian villas in the centre.

Caption For Taunton, Park Street And County Hall C1960

Corporation Street linked this with the former municipal buildings in the town centre, hence the name.