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A Child As An Inpatient In Penyfai & Glanrhyd

Hello I was a patient at Penyfai back in 1973 and I was only twelve years of age. I regularly went over to Glanrhyd as that is where the social centre was, and would sometimes take the back exit towards ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1973

Bells Close And Lemington As A Boy In The 70s

I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block that ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1977 by Michael March

A Frightening Incident

In 1969 we visited St Ives in Cornwall for our annual summer holidays but on this occasion due to it being a last minute decision we had not booked our accommodation. Travelling from Bedfordshire in those days was considered by ...Read more

A memory of St Ives by ducatee

Mega Groups Playing In A Market Town

Firstly let be be clear I've never visited Whitchurch Shropshire. I was party to a phenomenon which took place there in the 1960s/70s. As a young journalist on several Popular Music Magazines, I became aware of ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch

Memories Of Hounslow

We used to have French students stay with us and at the end of their visit there would be a banquet at the old Town Council Centre in Treaty Road. I have happy memories of the boating lake at Inwood Park. We lived at Hounslow ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1965 by Michael Daly

Some History

I used to catch the school bus to Castleford at the White Swan on the left; this was re-built in the early 1900s. The Royal Oak on the far right was originally opposite the Swan where the fish shop is. The "new" Royal Oak (now closed) was ...Read more

A memory of Kippax in 1964 by Robert Clayton

Memories Of School

I was a boarder at WGS from 1957 to 1964 and it doesn't live in my mind as the happiest place in the world - but there were plenty of girls who did love it, I remember. I was only thinking of it yesterday, ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1962 by Annie Marks

Barrack Hill School

I think the school was demolished in 2007 as I seem to remember there was a foundation stone built into the brick that said the school was built in 1908 and I thought it was a pity it didn't make its centenary. I agree, it was a ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury in 1962 by Alan Grimshaw

The Arcade

Does anyone remember the arcade just past the Savoy cinema after Vine Street. It had a cafe in the centre, a model shop, pet shop, wool shop and music shop. Just opposite was the old National Provincial Bank; renamed when the ...Read more

A memory of Hillingdon in 1960 by Tony Rose

Mardy Corner

During the early sixties I was friendly with the daughter at the Mardy, which was the big house left of the the picture, now I believe a hotel. She knew the old couple who lived at The Court very well. They were a Mr and Mrs Evans, always ...Read more

A memory of Pencoed

Captions

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Caption For Crickhowell, The Bridge 1893

In the centre the long white building is the 16th-century Bridge End Inn, at the junc- tion of New Road and Bridge Street.

Caption For Redruth, West End 1902

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, From Beaufort Hill C1960

Before this date there were three separate industrial settlements, Beaufort in the north, Ebbw Vale in the centre, and Victoria in the south.

Caption For Buckfastleigh, The Bridge Over The River Dart C1955

The A38 is now carried by a modern concrete bridge 200 yards downstream, and the tea shack (centre) has gone, to be replaced by a Little Chef which occupies the area just out of the picture

Caption For Eastleigh, The Airport C1960

Hampshire's only commercial airport was once at the centre of a major controversy.

Caption For Laugharne, The Boat House C1965

The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life, and it is now a heritage centre devoted to him.

Caption For Andover, The Newbury Street From The Angel Inn C1950

In its heyday, the Angel Inn's frontage stretched 30 metres north from the Chantry Centre's upper High Street entrance.

Caption For Hanley, Town Centre C1965

It is now the principal shopping centre for the surrounding area, enhanced by recent one-way traffic systems and pedestrian schemes.

Caption For London, Westminster Hospital C1915

Afterwards the site remained vacant for thirty years until work started on the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, which has a wide, open frontage.

Caption For Little Haven, Black Rocks 1898

On the left are steps leading down to the beach, the Castle Hotel is centre right and a trumpet player is practising front right!

Caption For Blackburn, The Town Hall C1955

This is how local historian W A Abram described the Town Hall: 'The west front, 120 feet wide, with an elevation of 63 feet, presents the main entrance in the centre, by three massive arched doorways

Caption For Bisley, Century Range C1955

It remains an important centre for the sport, and it has some charming Colonial- style buildings that hark back to the days of the Raj.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Galleon C1955

Apart from the rooftops of Burgh Heath Parade all these buildings have been demolished, as has the tree in the centre.

Caption For Goostrey, The Church C1965

St Luke's Church is pictured in the centre. The white building beside it is The Red Lion Inn; there is a sign on the tree in front of the church which says 'No Coaches'.

Caption For Caversham, From Caversham Heights 1908

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Caption For Cardiff, Was County Hall Now Part Of The University 2004

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

Caption For Cardiff, Welsh Institue Of Sport 2004

Following a two-year building programme, the £670,000 National Sports Centre opened in 1971 on a site near the Pavilion - the culmination of a ten-year effort to create a central home for

Caption For Flookburgh, Church Of St John The Baptist 1901

This church opened in 1900, replacing St Mary's Church, which formerly stood in the centre of Flookburgh.

Caption For Billingshurst, Ye Olde Six Bells 1923

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Caption For Frome, The Market Place 1952

Before the river was re-aligned, flooding was a problem; water used to come up as far as the Crown Inn (centre left). The future Edward VII put up here in 1858.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

Caption For Tring, Pendley Manor C1955

This architecturally busy Tudorbethan house, built after 1871, is now (in 2000) a hotel and conference centre set in tranquil parkland; that parkland came into being through the 1440s destruction of a

Caption For Ashford, The Churchyard C1965

Next to this now stands the Tourist Information Centre.

Caption For Leicester, Belvoir Street C1949

In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as 'of no architectural value', perhaps an over-critical view.