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Memories

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Back In The 70s

From 1975 we lived in one of the council maisonettes, Baden Powell House, which are still opposite the parade of shops in Lower Belvedere. I remember it was such a great place to grow up, knowing all the neighbours by name and being ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere

75 Years Later

I was born in 1948 in the house then called 'Melita' a thatched house divided into three, it is the house at the very top of the holloway up on the bank, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas lived one side, Mr. and Mrs. Bezant the other, my parents were ...Read more

A memory of Whiteleaf by Brian Bainbridge

Edgecoombe, Selsdon 1957 61

I remember Selsdon well as my family lived at 68 Edgecoombe, the long road on the opposite side of the wood at Selsdon not to be confused with Selsdon Woods. We had two ways to get to Selsdon shops. Through the woods opposite ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Brookes

The Gents'' Barbers In Pinner High Street

This 1955 view of Pinner High Street brings back my memories of haircuts after school. About half way "up" the High Street on the right is a gents' barbers. During my schooldays at Pinner Grammar School from 1956 ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

Dads Shop

This was my Dad's shop where he started his butchering business in the 1930's till, he closed in 1973. Both my brother Tom and I worked there. Tom from 1955 till it closed and I began in 1962 and left in 1966, for Australia. In those ...Read more

A memory of Guisborough by Robert Pallister

Moat Tea Room

My parents Angela and Leslie Jecks-Wright bought the house in the picture, on the right, and made a successful business called the Moat Tea Room of it!  Our house was at 64 Fore Street. We used to get coaches visiting the castle, and ...Read more

A memory of Framlingham in 1970 by Virginia Jecks Wright

It Was Different Then!

I lived in the house at the back of the picture in the 1950s. The small upstairs window at the front was my bedroom. In the winter my mum sent me across to Mr. Davey the greengrocer (next to the post office) for wooden orange boxes I ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Raymond Fisher

Clements Hall

I must have been about six when I stayed at Clements Hall with my brothers Edwin and Terry in the 1950s. Christine story brought back memories. I also remember the geese, the matron often made me sit on the step to shell the peas. The ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1956 by Gillian Mower

The Market Square

I went through the Market Square going and coming home from the Grammar School. I also went on to work in a Bank which faced onto the Market Square. One memory I have is when The Queen and Prince Philip came to open the new Shopping ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Moira Jones

Sarc Florence Road And More

Woolston seems to have played quite a big part in the history of our family, so it's appropriate I guess that as an adult I have ended up living here with my Husband!! It started as far back as my great great great ...Read more

A memory of Woolston by Tracy Thurman

Captions

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Caption For Rochdale, The Town Centre C1955

The bank in the centre had become Martin`s, with the building still largely the same as when it was built.

Caption For Kettlewell, 1926

Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden.

Caption For Abingdon, The River C1960

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

Caption For Haywards Heath, The Broadway C1950

The site is now an office complex for Lloyds Bank.

Caption For Bridport, West Street 1913

In the centre is the Royal Oak Hotel and the Wilts and Dorset Bank.

Caption For Ampthill, Woburn Road C1955

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restricts the householder to replacing the thatched roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration

Caption For Biggleswade, Market Square C1955

The roof of the Market House, to the left of the picture, dates back to the 16th century and was preserved when road-widening operations took place in 1937.

Caption For Boston, Doughty Quay 1890

The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been, like so many of its companions, demolished

Caption For Middle Wallop, The Cross Roads C1955

This dates back to 1927, replacing an older inn demolished as part of a road widening scheme.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, Ropner Park C1965

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

Caption For Bourton On The Water, The River C1955

They lend a timeless charm, though few of the buildings date back further than the 17th century.

Caption For Crewe, Market Street C1960

The main change that immediately strikes the visitor today is that the lovely old Victorian Barclays Bank building (right) has gone, to be replaced by yet another typical 1960s monstrosity.

Caption For Seaford, Church Street 1900

Tragically for Church Street, the left-hand buildings were demol- ished and rebuilt much further back.

Caption For Twyford, 1000 Year Old Yew Tree C1955

Behind the yew is Mildmay House; it dates back to about 1700, and was once the rectory.

Caption For Ellington, Village 1906

Ellington's church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the oldest surviving part dates back to the 13th century.

Caption For York, The Railway Station 1909

The old station it replaced lay just within the city walls; its site and layout were such that trains had either to back in or out of it.

Caption For Newquay, Bank Street 1931

Bank Street is set back from the front and meets Fore Street at the town square.

Caption For Bebington, Brackenwood Gardens 1936

Brackenwood House, shown here covered in Virginia creeper, dates back to the 1880s.

Caption For Thetford, Market Place 1929

It is market day, and the bystanders are waiting for transport to carry them back to their villages.

Caption For Southampton, The Civic Centre C1955

At the heart of Southampton lies the Civic Centre, with its council offices, law courts and art gallery.The building dates back to the 1930s; soaring above it is the distinctive 182-ft high tower

Caption For Chatham, Dock Road And St Mary's Church C1955

The two soldiers passing the Fort Amherst site are probably Royal Engineers on their way back to the School of Military Engineering.

Caption For Bakewell, Holme Hall 1923

Close to the banks of the Wye above the town, Holme Hall was built in the 17th century as a private residence, a function it performs to this day.

Caption For Aberdeen, Brig O' Balgownie C1890

Its charters date back to c1179, although St Machar is said to have founded a church here in AD 580.

Caption For Cheshunt, Turners Hill C1965

On the far side is the modern brick branch of the Midland Bank, while on the immediate right are the Post Office, chemists and opticians.