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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 431 to 440.

Powis Place

It used to be all fields around Dawley Bank before thay started building houses and Telford town centre. When we were kids, we could play out all over the place without any threat to us, we could build camps in the woods and Tarzan ...Read more

A memory of Dawley Bank in 1970 by Carl Wood

Trevor

I have many many fond memories of Trevor. I grew up there as a child but was moved away from there at the age of 11. I lived across the road from the community centre, No 45,  Julie Roberts used to live next door and my best mate Vincent ...Read more

A memory of Trevor by Gary Williams

Tooting And The Movies

I lived by Figges Marsh in Mitcham, just over the border with Tooting from 1948 until 1967. In fact I was born in the house I lived all those years in. I early on discovered the movies and I remember with great pleasure going ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1960 by Paul Trevor Bale

Trevor Living There Practically All My Life

Further to Gary's memory I was the Julie that he lived next door to but my surname was Evans. For practically all of my life I have lived in Trevor and still see many of the people that I grew up with. ...Read more

A memory of Trevor in 2009 by Julie Cooper

Living On Elmer Road Middleton On Sea 1962 1974

I lived there as a young child from about the ages of 2-14 years old (1960-early 1970s). As a young child Elmer Road seemed to be at the end of the world. The main road heading east hit a ...Read more

A memory of Middleton-on-Sea in 1969 by Barney Cotton

Pea Shooter And Buses

It was about 1953 when we discovered pluffers and ca caws. The pluffer was a device we used for a pea-shooter. This was a straight stem from a weed and it was about an inch or so in diameter, hollow through the centre and ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

College Days

I was at the college for 2 years, maiden name Stone. I have wonderful memories of my time there. School practice in the school next door and outlying village schools.The people in the town were so friendly and we took part in a ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden in 1952 by Mary Mills

Chilhood And Family

My family connection with LLandudno starts with my grandmother. She moved with her widowed mother, brother and sister from Sutton Coalfield sometime in 1900s. The family name was Ford, it comprised my great-grandmother Emma and ...Read more

A memory of Llandudno by Cheryl Thornthwaite

The Tithe Barn

This picture is of the Tithe Barn at Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre. It is one of four listed buildings at the site and is part of the former medieval Headstone Manor estate. Harrow Museum can be contacted on 020 8861 2626

A memory of North Harrow by L C

Birth Place

My birthday, a very cold day 10th December 1944.  My mother had been in a horse and cart delivering milk to the area around Wincanton when the cart turned over into a ditch, this started premature labour and she was taken to ...Read more

A memory of Templecombe in 1944 by Andrew Cruickshank

Captions

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Caption For Settrington, The Village C1955

The ford and footbridge are in the centre of the estate village of Settrington, three miles east of Malton.

Caption For Devizes, The View From St John's Church 1898

Note the attractive, almost Flemish gabling of the building in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Aveley, High Street C1952

The Magistrates' Court (centre left) was built in 1930 as a police station.

Caption For Pentewan, 1904

The Bible Christian Chapel (centre) with the schoolroom beneath it was built in 1889 and bombed in August 1942.

Caption For Pitsea, View From Church C1955

The northward view is slightly less romantic: Pitsea High Road crosses the centre of the picture, with the Northlands estate behind it.

Caption For Skegness, Miners Welfare Holiday Centre C1955

The Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Holiday Centre, off Winthorpe Avenue, opened in May 1939, a few months before war broke out.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

Caption For Hendon, The Circus C1960

Hendon did not develop as a major shopping centre until well into the 20th century, when the rapid increase in the population made it necessary to provide better facilities for residents

Caption For Andover, 1899

Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade.

Caption For Newick, The Green C1955

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship - Canterbury and Winchester - so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

Caption For Barmouth, The Harbour 1913

The town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings.

Caption For Askrigg, Post Office 1911

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

Caption For Plymouth, Hoe And Mount Edgcumbe 1904

The bandstand (centre) has gone, and the steamers have been replaced by modern frigates and ferries, but a sunny day still sees Plymothians out taking a stroll on the Promenade.

Caption For Keighley, Low Street C1910

Still, though, the centre for shopping remained on Cavendish Street.

Caption For Dewsbury, Town Hall C1960

Dewsbury was the centre of the 'shoddy' woollen industry, which re-used old woollen items to make heavy woollens such as blankets and military uniforms.

Caption For Ripponden, Village 1962

This view shows the centre of the village near the junction of the Elland Road.

Caption For Salisbury, New Street C1955

features such as red brick decorations, first floor bay windows and jettied overhangs.The left hand side of the street, in contrast, has been redeveloped as part of the Old George Mall shopping centre

Caption For Weymouth, The Parade And Clock Tower 2003

Inevitably, the major change has come from traffic and its management, with an extra lane of carriageway (centre) having been purloined from the beach.

Caption For Knutsford, Miss Matty's Tea Shop C1955

Situated in Princess Street, Miss Matty's teashop could once be found above Cecil Harrison's, the chemist in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Bath, Milsom Street C1965

Down the street on the left is the Octagon: originally a Georgian chapel, it was restored in 1951 as an exhibition centre and is now a photography gallery.

Caption For Eastbourne, Terminus Road 1925

The right-hand terraces with their shop blinds were bombed in 1943, and were replaced by the less interesting Arndale Shopping Centre of 1981.

Caption For Chideock, Horse And Cart 1922

Chideock remains an agricultural centre, in spite of its newer dependence on tourism.

Caption For Heptonstall, Waterloo House From Slack Top C1965

Waterloo House (centre) was a popular refreshment house for many years, but has now been converted into a private house.

Caption For Whatstandwell, Hillside C1960

This view looks down on the A6 trunk road, which passes across the centre of the picture, at Whatstandwell, seven miles west of Matlock.