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All Saints Church, Perry Street

So many memories of attending church here throughout my childhood, of shopping in all the little shops and of cycling to and from school in my Secondary years. Youth Clubs. Meeting old friends and making new ones. For a while it was the centre of my world!

A memory of Northfleet in 1955 by Wendy Larmour

Living There

I was born in Rettendon  in 1938.  My father (Ernest James Hazell) and mother ( Ellen Wiseman)  were both born in the village as were my maternal grandmother and great grandmother. As a child I remember watching aircraft flying home ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon by Keith Hazell

Like It Was Yesterday.

Street still looks much the same today. Photo is from early 60's though. Ford Anglia (centre left) didn't come out 'til Sept 59. 63 - 65 I'd say. "Charlie Hills" bus in the Circle is also 60's as is, I believe, The "Red and White" Bus pulling out of the Circle

A memory of Tredegar by I An P Enny

Garretts Of Leiston

Aerial photo AFA77116TR: "Leiston from the Air 1959" Is a view taken looking toward the East and clearly showing the Garrett's "Bottom Works", which formed a large part of the town centre at that time. This very old facility, part ...Read more

A memory of Leiston in 1959 by Derek Stanbridge

My First Job

Working for Thomas Wallis seen here on the left, it was a large department store selling all household goods, from tea towels to carpets and furniture. Oh how I loved my job.  In those days the shops used to shut Wednesday afternoons ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Mrs Christine A Fellows

Village Centre

I moved to this village in 1967 aged 14. The main building in the centre of the picture is a bank, I think it was the National which later became the National and Westminster Bank. Beyond the bank and to the right on the corner was a ...Read more

A memory of Freckleton in 1967 by David Moore

Swimming Lessons

As a pupil at Launde School it was compulsory that we were taught to swim at Oadby Swimming baths, for those of you who know Oadby today it wasn't the newly built baths on Brabazon Road, the baths were in the centre of the village, it ...Read more

A memory of Oadby in 1968 by Karen Miller

Nineteen Years Pleasurable Living In Great Amell

My family of four childen, my husband and I, moved into part of a large country house known as 'Ravenscourt', standing in 3 acres of land: we named our semi "Little Ravenscourt'. Within our back ...Read more

A memory of Great Amwell in 1964 by Edith Wood Smith

Miniature Train Rides In The Park

Close to the Grand Union Canal which runs through Cassiobury Park is a splendid miniature railway. It loops through woodland, has level crossings over footpaths and criss-crosses several lines before returning to the ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 2002 by John Howard Norfolk

The Norfolk Family Move To Tiverton

Tiverton is an attractive market town in mid-Devon but I have to confess I had never heard of it until the first of the family moved here in 2005! Elizabeth and I were spending a weekend in Exeter with our son ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2005 by John Howard Norfolk

Captions

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Caption For Coventry, Butcher Row 1892

redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road that surrounds the old city centre

Caption For Charmouth, C1965

The Wayside Cafe (left) and the George Hotel (centre) face the Queen's Armes Hotrel and Gear's Garage (far right).

Caption For Reading, Kings Road 1924

This view looks back towards the town centre with London Road to the left by the Marquis of Granby and the tram leaving London Road.

Caption For Stubbington, The Parade C1965

South of Fareham, Stubbington has some attractive areas of modern housing, and the village shopping centre, the Parade, is built around a small green.

Caption For Basildon, Industrial Estate C1965

Built in the mid 1950s, it was followed into the town by the Ford Engineering Research Centre at Dunton.

Caption For Basildon, Market Pavement C1965

He was a well-known local figure, but unfortunately that did not help him when he found himself competing with the chain-stores that followed him into the town centre.

Caption For Abingdon, High Street C1965

The impressive building just right of centre was once Berkshire's old County Hall. Christopher Kempster, a master mason who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren, built it between 1678 and 1682.

Caption For Ruislip, High Street C1965

The camera looks away from the original village centre into the alternative Ruislip of the 1930s and towards the Metropolitan line station of 1904.

Caption For Holdenhurst, Throop Village C1945

The Black Bell public house lies at the centre of the village, though the roads are busier these days. The River Stour is one of southern England's beautiful rivers, though given to occasional floods.

Caption For Bath, Edgar Buildings 1935

The right-hand building, an Italianate palazzo at the corner of Milsom Street, built in 1865 as a bank, is now the Bath Environmental Centre.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, Lower Village C1955

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

Caption For Monkton Combe, The Mill C1955

The building on the left, the Old Mill, is a house with an added balcony, while that to the right is now the well known Morris Minor Centre.

Caption For Easby, Abbey 1893

This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

Caption For Wensley, The Village C1960

A workman (centre) scythes the grass on the village green at Wensley.

Caption For Wisbech, The Hope Inn C1955

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Caption For Aldeburgh, High Street C1955

The East Suffolk Hotel (the white building, centre right) is now the Aldeburgh Festival Office.

Caption For Wickham Market, The Hill C1960

The former Crown Inn is at the end of the row (centre), beneath the octagonal church tower with its wooden leaded spire. To the right, the building with a hipped roof is now three shops.

Caption For Harborne, The Duke Of York C1955

This spot has been the terminus and turning point for buses from Birmingham city centre since the very first motor buses to serve Harborne departed the city in 1903, travelling (as they

Caption For Brotton, High Street C1955

The cliffs of Skinningrove can be seen in the centre distance of this delightful view, looking from Brotton High Street in an easterly direction towards the coast.

Caption For Blackpool, From The Pier 1891

In the centre of the picture is the Prince of Wales Theatre, one of three in the town. One of the earliest was the Borough Theatre and Concert Hall, which later became Bannisters Arcade.

Caption For Dublin, The Four Courts 1897

This famous Dublin landmark is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, a little to the west of the centre. It was designed by James Gandon, and built between 1785-1802.

Caption For Simonsbath, The Village 1907

Here, looking across the valley to the northeast, we can see the 19th-century St Luke's Church; in the centre, at the bottom of the valley, is the Exmoor Forest Hotel.

Caption For Nottingham, Long Row East 1902

The Black Boy Hotel stands splendidly in the centre, with its astonishing wealth of architectural detail. The flags were flying to celebrate the end of the Boer War.

Caption For Weston Under Redcastle, Hawkstone Hall Monastery C1955

Today the hall is a centre and retreat for missionaries from around the world.