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Good Childhood In Willesden/Neasden

I was born in Park Royal hospital in Feb 1952 then taken home to 70 Craven Park Road spitting distance from Harlesden police station. Just across the road from our family doctor, (Dr Curtis) not much bedside manor, ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by pjspence18

Even More "Ramblings" From A Barking Boy.

My fourth set of memories carries on with shops in Barking. Previously I had recalled those along from Fanshawe Avenue to the station. Over the other side past Cambridge Road was Lloyds bank on the corner, my wife ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Days Gone By

Stumbled across this site and have enjoyed the memories of old barking and the shops it had, thought that I should add my recollections and fill in a few blanks from the sixties and seventies, so starting from the Bull Pub and Heading ...Read more

A memory of Barking by andycairns

William H Johnson's Memories Of New Waltham Primary School In The 1930's

I lived in Station Road from 1932 to 1943 and attended the Primary School until 1935. I walked to school and remember often having to wait for trains at the level crossing. ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by whj

Crescent Road School

I was at Crescent road school in 1947 and had Mrs Payne headmistress and mr chinery, I also remember Mr Davies,I lived in south road, at the back of us was the fairfield, which we had great fun playing in,when I first went to crescent ...Read more

A memory of Erith

Wood Green In The Sixties

I was born in Newnham Road N 22 in 1940. I want to wood green junior school at the bottom of our road and then on to Tottenham Sec Mod (near the great Cambridge road). When I left school I was a locomotive fireman at Kentish ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green by e.saunders07

Looking For Family And Friends From 'old' Birkenhead

Hi, I have just found this great site - thank you! I am trying to write some family history, especially about our life in Birkenhead, for my two daughters - who have grown up in Scotland - where my ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by gorillagoodall

Happy Childhood Late 50s Early 60s

I live in Watford but I was born at 55 South Crescent in 1953, my mother's maiden name was Christlow, they moved to 16 Reginald Street. I remember visiting one time and my cousin Joe Lee used to play the ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery by Brian Rees

Doddlebugs And V2s Plus!

I moved to Lymington Road, Dagenham, in 1939, across the road from the school. At first I attended Green Lane School - same as Dudley Moor. I even had the same piano teacher. Miss Hoggard. But she gave up on me. In the early ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Joan Fitzgerald

Hounslow Welsh Society

Does anyone remember the Hounslow Welsh Society which used to meet in a room in the grounds of Hounslow Hospital? My surname was Richards then & my Dad was a producer of the amateur dramatics & we also had a choir...I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1952 by Peggy Roberts

Captions

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Caption For Quernmore, The Crossroads C1955

Quernmore Park Hall lies just over a mile north of the village. A quern was a Roman hand-mill, and the moor behind the village had the ideal material to make these small mill-stones.

Caption For Runcorn, Runcorn Bridge And The Transporter Bridge C1961

To the right is the transporter bridge, which was dismantled in 1961 -2 months after the new single-span road bridge opened on Saturday, 22 July 1961 by HRH Princess Alexandra.

Caption For Elstow, Village 1897

We are north of the junction with West End.

Caption For Bourne, North Street 1952

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Caption For Bourne, North Street 1952

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Mill End Church 1897

The hamlet of Mill End, about a mile west of the centre of Rickmansworth, grew up along the main road to Uxbridge to serve a watermill and factories.

Caption For South Luffenham, St Mary's Church C1955

The curving footpath was probably on the original road line from Pilton to Barrowden. The setting of the 14th-century battlemented tower and its crocketed recessed steeple is ideal.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

This road was a great success, but the old Grammar School (a conversion of the medieval Hospital of St John) formed a serious bottleneck.

Caption For Glasgow, The Grand Hotel, Charing Cross 1897

A similar development ran northwards along Woodlands Road.

Caption For Ware, Ware Park Sanatorium 1925

Ware Park, rebuilt in the 1880s by William Parker, is located about three-quarters of a mile north-west of Bengeo on the outskirts of Hertford.

Caption For Swindon, Town Station 1961

The station, opened in 1881, was situated off Newport Street near the junction with Devizes Road.

Caption For Southsea, The Promenade 1892

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Southsea, Dagmar Terrace 1890

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Southsea, South Parade Pier 1892

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Southsea, Grosvenor Hotel 1890

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

Caption For Fareham, St Peter And St Paul, Parish Church 2005

The show of horses and horned cattle was exceedingly great. Cattle sold quick and at liberal prices.