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Maps

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Memories

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Mevagissey Museum

I have many childhood memories of Mevagissey. My parents bought a cottage in Cliff Street, Mevagissey during the late 1950s. We used it as a holiday home until 1965 when my father retired from designing Colt Houses (all timber ...Read more

A memory of Mevagissey in 1969 by John Hilder

Old Hatfield

I was employed as an electrician, by a company known as J.Hodge and spent 18 months in Hatfield House re-wiring the East Wing. I knew Old Hatfield intimately as I lived in Hatfield for 20 years. When I went back there in 1995 I was ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield in 1947 by Cyril Askew

Life In Wellingborough After The War

My family moved to 121 Midland Road during the winter of 1946 as my father worked in a local paint factory till 1948. There was a huge monkey puzzle tree in the front garden. I was 7 and my sister was 10. ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1947 by Angela Diamond

Working As A Conductor

I remember in 1960 working as a conductor on the 'Western Welsh. My driver was Dai Williams, and my uncle, Danny Evans, was a driver, along with Ernie Sharrott. We had the best Solo card school in town, and I can say now at ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1960 by Terry Evans

My Beginning

I returned to Andover in August 2010 and was as excited as the day we left in November 1956 when my family decided we were going to Australia. 54 years is a long time and I think that my wife was surprised at how much I remembered ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1956 by John Abbess

Young Corby, Once Called Corbie.

This photo must have been taken early in the morning because that play area was always packed with wee yins in the 1960s. I know because I was one of them. There were lots of what I used to call swing parks in Corby in ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Kenneth Little

Ernest Roy Spencer

My dad often told me about Shifnal, his dad had two pubs there, and his sisters Norma and Winnie lived there. I can remember going to my cousin Mavis's wedding in the beautiful church there and spending time looking round the ...Read more

A memory of Shifnal by Sue Spencer Lewis

Wartime In Ivybridge 1939

I was one of ten little girls, plus our teacher, who arrived in Ivybridge as evacuees from Acton, London, at the outbreak of the Second World War. We were taken to a hall (probably at the school) where we were ...Read more

A memory of Ivybridge in 1940 by Geraldine Gasparelli

An Ashbourne Childhood

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne in 1943

Redditch Town Centre.

I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine shop, ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

Captions

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Caption For Reading, Kings Road 1924

This photograph shows Kings Road at the point where it meets Cemetery Junction, to the east of the town.

Caption For Dewsbury, Northgate C1965

King George V and Queen Mary visited the town in July 1912, but they spent only fifteen minutes here for a reception at the Town Hall.

Caption For Knighton, The View From Kinersley C1960

In 1230 Knighton was granted a charter to hold markets, and the tradition continues today.

Caption For Bridgwater, The Bridge 1903

Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could – and did – trade up-river as far as Langport.

Caption For Hythe, School Of Musketry 1903

Its training ranges are situated on the desolate shingle banks west of the town.

Caption For Budleigh Salterton, High Street 1898

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Caption For Honiton, High Street C1960

The High Street again, and a much busier scene is shown.

Caption For Basingstoke, Church Street 1904

Church Street is busy with shoppers and shopkeepers.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

The village became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs.

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Blorenge C1960

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

Caption For Tavistock, 1893

Tavistock, one of Devon's three original Stannary Towns, lies on the banks of the Tavy, which rises high on the moors near Cut Hill and flows into the Tamar upstream of Tamerton.

Caption For Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham Road C1960

Originally known simply as Cleeve, this village gained its prefix at the time when it was owned by the Bishop of Worcester.

Caption For Montgomery, From Castle Grounds C1940

Perhaps the climb is worth it for another reason: the view over handsome Georgian streets and the vast green bowl of hills around the town.

Caption For Basildon, Market Place C1960

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, Grosvenor Road 1961

We are looking along Grosvenor Road towards the A26 to Tonbridge and London from the town centre at Five Ways, with Mount Ephraim Road on the left.

Caption For West Lulworth, Castle Inn 1904

Leland, that great traveller of the 16th century, described a visit to Lulworth thus: 'I saw on the shore a little fishar towne caullid Lilleworth, where is a gut or creke out of the se into the land,

Caption For Callington, Church Hill 1908

Entering the town from Kelly Bray and the north, the road climbs towards the early 15th-century St Mary's church.

Caption For Sandy, The Mill C1960

Never a very large town, Sandy owes its continued existence to the strength of the produce market in Victorian England.

Caption For Brixham, Bolton Cross 1922

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

Caption For Ashburton, East Street And Bull Ring 1922

The branch railway arrived in Ashburton in 1872, but did little to revive the town's fortunes.

Caption For Tetbury, Bath Road C1955

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath.

Caption For Laindon, Martindale Avenue C1955

Martindale Avenue predates the New Town.

Caption For Rockingham, The Village C1960

The earliest residence in Rockingham dates from 1670; much of the village was modernised and improved in the 19th century, and then again in the 1950s.

Caption For Laindon, Martindale Avenue C1955

Martindale Avenue predates the New Town.