Maps

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Memories

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The Memories

I was brought up in Ecclefechan and my mother has lived there all her life. I started Hoddom Primary School in 1970. I can't remember who my P1 teacher was - it may have been Mrs Dodds. I do remember having Mrs McEwan in P2, Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Ecclefechan by Jane Mc Gillion

Earliest Workplaces

This picture was taken from the now demolished Circular and then quite unique Car park overlooking the Lake in front of Lord Alexander House on the right hand side of picture . This office was built in 1959/60 and the ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead in 1961

Chattin And Horton

I remember Chattins. They had a machine powered by AIR to take the money to the office and then return the change and receipts to the customer, it went up the wall and across the ceiling and then disappeared into the back and ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1945 by Mary Myers

Lost Love

I met my late wife Angela in Walkford in 1960 when we were both very young. I was on holiday on my motorbike with three of my pals, and she was on a bicycle. It was a hot August bank holiday. She lived in Heath Road and was very girlish for ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1960 by Peter Mccormack

From 1950 To 1955 At Riversleigh Staith St Bubwith

When I was five years old , Mum Dad and me moved to Bubwith in to a house by the Derwent called Riversleigh. My memories are many and varied from the five years I lived there. The house opposite used ...Read more

A memory of Bubwith in 1950 by Judith St John

The Perfect Holiday

In the late 1950s we had a couple of holidays in Bracklesham bay, which was then a tiny, but growing village. I had never seen shops which were the equivalent of wooden shacks mounted on bricks. There were some modern bits; ...Read more

A memory of Bracklesham Bay in 1959 by Tony Steadman

Childhood Memories

I remember this scene very well, my two sisters and I spent many freezing hours (even in the summer) in the cold water of Valence swimming pool. We could buy a ticket in the morning and get a pass to go home for some lunch and then ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1970 by Debbie Metcalfe

The Ransons Move To Castle Hedingham

We arrived in Castle Hedingham around the turn of the year 1964/5, Mum, Dad, my three little brothers and myself. Our newly built house was just out of shot to the left of this photo of Pye Corner. Mum ...Read more

A memory of Castle Hedingham in 1965 by Louise Muirhead

The Bon Marche

My grandparents lived here. My grandmother ran the shop and my grandfather was a carpenter in Hythe. I have very happy memories of sitting behind the big glass fronted cabinet on a stool, taking the customers' money and giving them ...Read more

A memory of Saltwood by Jacquie Harrison

My Best Years

I was born in Tunbridge Wells, but my parents had a flat in Riverhead and we moved to London Road, Riverhead when I was a baby. My grandparents lived at the Heights, next to the church. I remember the steps the way they are in the ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead in 1960 by Angela Smith

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Captions

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Caption For Chesham, Red Lion Street C1950

The original Red Lion, after which the street was named, stood at the junction with Germain Street and, due to road improvements, was replaced by a 1930s neo-Georgian road house style pub.

Caption For Penn, Old Cottages C1955

Nos 1, 2 and 3 Church Cottages on the right were once a single 17th century timber-framed house whose original brick stack with three chimney shafts can be seen on the gable.

Caption For Ampthill, Dunstable Street C1955

Dunstable Street housed most of the 'household' shops in 1955 - the situation has considerably altered since then as the town has expanded its boundaries.

Caption For Warboys, The Church C1955

Here we see Warboys church, with the 17th-century Dutch-influenced manor house next door.

Caption For Wymondham, The Market Place And Cross C1965

The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.

Caption For Davington, The Priory 1892

Since then the Priory has undergone extensive restoration and modernisation, and is now a private house.

Caption For Marden, High Street C1955

The white Unicorn public house shows in the distance with a tractor and trailer parked outside.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

In the picture we see large houses with garden walls of flint. Children wait on the pavement and road edge to be included in the photograph.

Caption For Bedford, High Street From Town Bridge 1921

Moving northwards, we cross the Ouse bridge, with the High Street ahead.

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury 1921

By this time, one of the houses has become a shop. The Red Lion on the left is now the Hobgoblin.

Caption For Brompton, Cockpit Hill C1960

This one, with the beck running through it, was built up in the 19th century to house workers at the nearby mill, where for a hundred years John Wilford & Sons produced linen, flax and wool.

Caption For Sprotbrough, The Village C1955

Modern housing now covers most of the old estate and nursery, and only the name remains in street signs.

Caption For Chilham, The Square 1903

of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages, houses

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury Square 1901

The houses on the left, by 1901 shops but retaining front gardens, were replaced in the 1960s by mediocre offices over a shop.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, High Street C1965

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

Caption For Chelmondiston, The Red Lion C1955

The 1880s red brick house beyond with veranda under the gable was part of the Berners' estate at Woolverton Hall. Set back out of view is the Methodist chapel of 1879.

Caption For Barnby Moor, The Wiseton Room, Ye Olde Bell Hotel C1955

Ye Olde Bell was described in the 18th century as a 'gentleman-like, comfortable house'; it has some fine rooms, including this one with panelling and a Jacobean-style plaster ceiling, all Victorian.

Caption For Gedling, Main Road C1960

The post office on the left is now a house; the post office has moved across the road into Read the tobacconist's next to the Gedling Wine Stores on the corner of Waverley Avenue – this shop is now

Caption For Newstead Abbey, Byron Tea Rooms C1955

No longer tea rooms, they are now private houses partly screened by hedges.

Caption For Nottingham, Trent Bridge C1950

This brief tour ignores the Georgian houses of High Pavement, the castle and the famous Lace Market area to descend to the River Trent.

Caption For Oldcotes, Main Street C1965

The house on the left, South Royd, with its attached barn, has now had the paint removed from the stonework.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1950

The building with the lady leaning out of the window (six buildings from the right) is still standing; it housed the post office until 1963, when the present post office opened.

Caption For Copthorne, Franciscan Convent School C1960

The Prince Albert public house is at the end of the road, hidden by trees.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Terraces extend down Mallams, and houses have reached Modbury Mead (centre).