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Early Days.
I was born in1942 at a maternity home in Honeypot Lane and came home to Heber Road in Cricklewood. My parents worked at the big Smiths factory at the top of Temple Road. I went Mora Road school , one of the teachers called Miss Gibbs also ...Read more
A memory of Cricklewood by
Schooldays In Dearne
It's incredible how one can recall memories from a remarkably long time ago. In fact, I still remember that on my fourth birthday, I received two identical birthday cards from different people. I can even remember the ...Read more
A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by
Newbury Way And Rayners Gardens
I'm Steve and the earliest memories are of Newbury Way, a lower half of a 2 bedroom maisonette with an open coal fire and larder including a concrete slab to keep stuff cold. I recall riding my three wheeled bike around ...Read more
A memory of Northolt by
School Days
As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more
A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by
Hawkinge, My Birthplace
I was born at Corner House, at the bottom of Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge on 31st August 1936. My parents were the local newsagents in Canterbury Rd, backing onto the famous airfield. I have vivid childhood memories of the war ...Read more
A memory of Folkestone in 1940 by
The Teachers.
The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed ...Read more
A memory of Luton
Fishing
This is the Fish Pond at Holden Corner, Southborough. This was one of the two accessible and popular places for boys to go fishing in Southborough - the other was the Great Bounds Lake, near Bidborough. As a boy in the 1940s and early 50s ...Read more
A memory of Southborough in 1940 by
Wartime In Ickburgh Fields
I was evacuated with my mother to a back to back semi-detached flint cottage situated in a clearing in the pine forests. There was no sanitation or running water or electricity. There was a tiny kitchen with a black ...Read more
A memory of Ickburgh Fields by
Broxhill Secondary Modern School
I lived in Heaton Avenue from when I was 2 to when I was 14. I had the good luck to be part of the first pupils to go to Broxhill in the 60's when it was first built, we were at Harrowfield's huts at the start of the ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill
Summers Holidays Were Invented For Fishing
I remember as a small kid growing up in England I couldn't wait for the summer holidays to arrive. As the days drew closer I could hardly sleep at night knowing that any day now we would be packing our ...Read more
A memory of Pickmere in 1972 by
Captions
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Notice the woman, right, with the umbrella near the bollard at the top of Saunder Bank. In the middle of the road two young men, one with a bike, chat together.
Gatward's is still there, but John Jackson's business has gone: replaced by the Midland Bank.
An open-topped bus trundles along the Ewell Road towards the crossroads of the village, passing the petrol pump of the small garage near the entrance to Park Lane, and with the trees on the edge of Nonsuch
This view looks from the top of King Street down towards Cross Street. We can see that the street narrows towards the bottom.
From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river.
Both Back Lane and the High Street were well supplied with inns: the Blue Bell, the White Hart, the Talbot, the Three Arrows, the Dolphin, the Rose.
The borough is next to the M6, allegedly Europe's busiest motorway, and it has used its location to attract famous store chains and commuting customers.
During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.
Back at the river, this view shows the crowds watching the Procession of College Boats, held every year on 4 June to commemorate George III's birthday.
In 1757 a weir and a lock were built to accommodate the river traffic.
Back on the river, this view looks north-east from the Crowmarsh Gifford bank to Bridge House, with the remarkable spire of St Peter's Church beyond.
We can see the Midland (HSBC) Bank to the front right and the National Provincial (NatWest) to the far left.
It is said that this point on the River Bure has seen various means of crossing from one bank to the other for the last thousand years.
In this view the photographer is looking north from the 'mainland' bank to the bridge, Boatslide Weir Bridge, which links Mill Meadows Island with Longholme.
This view looks north-westwards from the south bank to the 1927-built South Bridge (left) which replaced a graceful five- arch Norman bridge.
Frith's photographer has moved beyond Boatslide Weir Bridge to the bank to look at the weir itself. The chains on posts are still here to protect rowers from the hazards of the weir.
The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.
The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.
Pownall Bridge over the River Bollin carries the public footpath that runs from Wilmslow along the river bank to Styal.
Frith's photographer swivelled his camera, while crossing the little River Pang which reaches the Thames here, and walked a few yards along the bank to capture this view back upstream towards the recently
In the 1960s this New Forest village was home to a white witch who roamed around with a crow. A man is hunched over his parked car (right), no doubt tinkering with the engine.
We can see the Midland (HSBC) Bank to the front right and the National Provincial (NatWest) to the far left.
On the far bank, to the left, lie Fleetwood's docks. The large building is the North Euston Hotel, and to its right is the lower of Fleetwood's two lighthouses.
On the left is the corner of Lloyds Bank; then comes Siddal and Kirby's shoe shop, the Wool Shop, now Nationwide with a new shop front, and the Midland Bank. To
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