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Bowyers

Hello Mellissa How lovely to receive your message and memories of Country Riding stables. It would just be amazing to meet up with people who rode with us. I too have been back to visit the property and it broke my heart when I could ...Read more

A memory of Steep Marsh in 1965 by Rita Haylock

High Street As I Remember It

Three years after returning I was still getting used to Slough. Now in 2012, this road is closed to traffic and two big shopping centres have been built on left side halfway down.

A memory of Slough in 1961

Hall Place, Spalding.

When I was very young, around 1950, Hall Place was cobbled and the fountain which is now in Ayscoughfee stood there. On market days, when it was quite busy, there used to be a little roundabout for very small children. Later the ...Read more

A memory of Spalding in 1950

Memories Of Cannock

These photographs remind me of Cannock and how it was when I was a child, ten years old in 1965. It's an odd thing to remember and I wonder if anyone else remembers the public toilets that were downstairs beneath the grandstand, ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1965

Not Strictly Ashby : )

Willesley Close was the centre of the universe for the first twelve years of my life from 1959. The garden enclosed twenty yards of the old railway embankment and featured a natural spring, the source of much ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1971 by Bill Davey

St Marys Home

My memories of the home, which was run by the Southwark Catholic Rescue Society. The sisters of charity looked after us, I was taken there just before my 10th birthday in april 1947 along with brothers Bill 13 and Bob 4. My early ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1947 by James Duffy

Mixture

The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was from ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

The Eleanor Cross At Geddington

The two girls seen in this photo of the ford at Geddington in the mid 1950s aren’t me and my sister, but they easily could have been! We used to visit my grandmother at Geddington regularly around this time, and ...Read more

A memory of Geddington in 1955 by Julia Skinner

Mr George Baker, Wooburn Green

My Great Grandfather George Henry Baker (1880 -m1947) was the owner (following his father also George Henry) of the Blacksmith and Scrap Metal Dealer later known as Slades Scrap Yard In Wooburn Green. My Great ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green by dmdundjer

Woolwich Town Centre

I lived in Little Heath opp the Woodman Pub and spent most of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies in either Charlton, Woolwich and North Woolwich. I remember Powis St and Hare St very well, Great Shopping etc. miss the variety of shops.

A memory of Woolwich by Roy Alchin

Captions

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Caption For Maidstone, The Archbishop's Palace C1955

The tower of All Saints' is in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Chorley, Parish Church C1965

The centre aisle is the original church; the two side aisles were added in c1860.

Caption For Newbury, Bartholomew Street C1965

Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street.

Caption For Plymouth, Tavistock Road 1890

Sherwell Church (left) also belongs to the university and has been converted, and St Matthias, at the top of the hill, is still an active centre of worship.

Caption For Porthcurno, 1908

In the centre is the cable stationmaster's house, with its own vinery just behind the flagpole.

Caption For Pilton West, From Railway Bridge 1900

It was soon dwarfed by Barnstaple across the River Yeo, but it remained an important shipbuilding centre.

Caption For Falmouth, Arwenack Street C1950

We are looking towards the centre of town; traffic is barred from further progress by the old-fashioned No Entry signs.

Caption For Southport, Marine Lake 1902

In the centre background is a windmill, which was situated on the top of the boathouse.

Caption For York, The Minster From The City Walls C1955

Cars and a bus form a queue heading for the city centre.

Caption For Emery Down, 1904

This settlement was once a centre for smuggling, a flourishing local industry that continued until the turn of the century, just before this photograph was taken.

Caption For Bursledon, The Bridge C1955

Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.

Caption For Sheffield, Wesley College 1893

Considered to be somewhat over the top for a school building, this grand edifice with its pedimented centre and end pavilions supported by Corinthian columns was designed by William Flockton and built

Caption For Bournemouth, Gervis Arcade C1874

Shops and arcades were opened in the centre of town, such as the splendid example of Victorian architecture shown here.

Caption For Grasmere, The Church Of St Oswald 1926

The 13th-century parish church of St Oswald is now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system.

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street 1922

A Kettering resident remembers the town centre in the 1920s and 1930s when policemen, with arms outstretched, directed what little traffic there was, errand-boys cycled through the streets loaded with

Caption For Laindon, Wash Road C1955

It was rebuilt in a suitably gung-ho style in the 1930s (centre left).

Caption For Sambourne, The Green Dragon C1965

Sambourne was one of the earliest centres of the needle industry, but it never grew to any great size.

Caption For Exmouth, Beach Bungalows 1906

In the mid-19th century, Exmouth gained importance as a shipbuilding centre and fishing port - tons of herring were landed each month.

Caption For South Ulverston, Iron Works 1929

The railway runs along the embankment in the centre of the picture, and the Ulverston Canal passes in front of the ironworks on its way to the Leven Estuary beyond.

Caption For St Blazey, The Fountain 1904

A pony and trap (just visible, centre) pass behind a shady haven at the crossroads junction of St Blazey Road, St Andrews Road and Middleway.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Walney Bridge 1912

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flour- ished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Caption For Keswick, And Skiddaw C1873

The 19th-century parish church of St John is prominent in the centre of the picture, while the rest of the town spreads out beneath Skiddaw (right) and Dodd on the left.

Caption For Seatown, Anchor Inn 1930

Behind the Anchor Inn (left) are Seatown Farm and the black-painted coastguard cottages (centre), with veranda- fronted Seatown Cottage to the north (right).

Caption For Aberaeron, Market Street C1965

It is now home of the main county offices, replacing the ancient capital, Cardigan, and the more recent administrative centre, Aberystwyth.