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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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Wonderful Times
My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between 9 ...Read more
A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by
Born And Bred
Born in Ablington just after the war we moved to Avon Banks, where I lived until married in 1970. My mother's father, mother and brothers (Fenners) all lived in Figheldean. Having read other peoples memories it brought back probably the most enjoyable part of my youth.
A memory of Figheldean in 1951 by
Schools
Does anyone remember when the school in Wheatley was called the Wheatley Secondary Modern, all I hear about now is Holton Park. I can remember Mrs Jones the PE teacher, Mr Hanson was Headmaster. Seeing the pictures on this site really bought ...Read more
A memory of Wheatley in 1952 by
Colindale The Early Years
I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a V2 ...Read more
A memory of Colindale in 1958 by
Horney Common As A Child
I was born in London in 1938. When war broke out the following year my father sent my mother and myself down to Devon but soon after that he, and many of his regimental colleagues in the Army, rented a large country ...Read more
A memory of Horney Common in 1940 by
Fun Times
I was born in Lower Aire Street in 1944, my brother was born in 1942. I left when I was 8 years old but can still remember the street. We lived next door to Mr and Mrs Wiley on one side and Mrs Hargreaves on the other ...Read more
A memory of Windhill in 1944 by
Dorset Dairies
Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@me.com Would your great grandfather be a Harry Hann? He was the owner of Dorset Dairies next to my birthplace in Factory Road, Eastleigh. I went to school in ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke by
Manchester Road
Born in Ryan Street. I remember walking all the way down Manchester Road to St Joseph's Infant School, which at that time was on Grafton Street and part of the Girls School, it seemed to take ages, we walked past all the pubs and ...Read more
A memory of Bradford in 1955
Helmshore 1950 1968
I was born in Musbury Road at the bottom of Tor Hill and spent 5 years with Tor as my back yard; my name is still chiselled in the rocks at the top. Anyone remember the Tor Mile race? In 1955 we moved up to 3, Lancaster Avenue, ...Read more
A memory of Helmshore by
Mother's Brother And Sisters
Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch ...Read more
A memory of Andover in 1940 by
Captions
2,501 captions found. Showing results 721 to 744.
Three children, who have possibly been out gathering some of the autumnal hedgerow harvest in this bountiful part of the country, stand at one side of the sunken lane.
This boat-hire yard was alongside the upstream side of Battersea Bridge.
The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs - on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.
On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's
This 1893 view of the Catherine Wheel, an inn by 1499, shows it just before it took over the two Georgian brick houses beyond.
Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside
Lloyds bank, on the left, provides a datum from which the quality of Loughborough's architecture can be measured. Apart from a few earlier buildings in the shot, all is rather mediocre.
Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre. It is thought to have been built between 1000BC–2000BC.
Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre. It is thought to have been built between 1000BC-2000BC.
Forty years after number 79442 was taken, Kerridge's Garage had been demolished, and thes shops (Currys, Meyers, Foster Brothers, Haig Carpets and Piggotts) and flats had been built in its place.
The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.
Great Western Railway motor buses like the one struggling up the hill past the Cornish Bank were introduced in 1903, but it was many years before the horse disappeared from the streets.
The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.
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
This view is also from the Islip bank, but further upstream. The houses in the distance have been demolished.
This is a beautifully proportioned Lincolnshire ogee-capped windmill, which is located on the A1104 road to Mablethorpe.
At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.
On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.
Already falling into disrepair in Victorian times, thatched cottages on the east side of South Street, beside South Bridge, would soon succumb to the front-line of urbanisation.
These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.
The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).
This slightly later view looks across what has become the motor launch area of the Bowness boat station.
The peace and tranquillity of Botley all changed in 1964 when major development took place. Today, the village is a thriving suburb of Oxford, with many shops, banks and offices.
The village Post Office on the right has a small sign attached to the wall which reads 'Post Office for money orders, savings bank, parcel post, telegraph, insurance and annuity business'.
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