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Memories

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Lead Works

1965. Wes and me got back from the Smoke wi nought and needed a job, he got started at the leather works on Scotchy Road and I got started at the Lead Works which is now the site of the Arena. There were two sides to this place, the lead ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

Skinner Stonemasons

I was born in Barnet, but lived in Hatfield, 9 miles away. My grandfather was a stonemason and his father Walter Skinner had a Stonemasony business in East Barnet Road. Walter's father came from Wakerley, Northants, where ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1900 by Christine Newman

Frightening Times

In 1997 I worked for a company calles SES security where I was a security officer at Parkside. Over my time there I became fascinated with the layout of the site and spent many many months walking the length and breadth of ...Read more

A memory of Macclesfield in 1997 by Gaz Ridley

Dean Road Lower Penn

My grandmother (Edith Craig/Peach) used to live in Dean Road (number 2). My mum, Pat also grew up there with her brother, Graham. I lived with my nan for a couple of years (around 1982) when I was 9 years old. The house was ...Read more

A memory of Lower Penn in 1982 by Lisa Gilbert

Childhood In Waltham Cross

I was born in Waltham Cross in 1941, right in the middle of an air raid.  My dad was yelling up at the planes saying "Not tonight Adolf, not tonight!" Waltham Cross back then was a wonderful village to grow up in. ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Cross in 1950 by Madeline Rees

Morden

I lived in Morden after my parents moved there after the war until 1961 first St Helier Ave then Easby Cres, where my 93 yr old parents still live, and went to Canterbury Primary then Willow High School from 1954,I used to attend the jazz club ...Read more

A memory of Morden by Irene Mc Farlane

Lavender Hill

As a family we moved to 10 Lavender Hill in 1948, dad managed the butcher shop, Dewhursts, before that it was Chalks. One side was the fish shop Hitchcocks and the other side Maplesden the funeral parlour. Our back 'yard' opened on to ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1948 by Richard Watson

Midhopestones Born And Bred

The day I was born was 11th march 1974 and I'm a Midoper born and bred. We lived at the old cottages just at the entrance to the village at the side of the Dam. I have some lovely memories of the people which have ...Read more

A memory of Midhopestones in 1974 by Kerry Thornley

Bohemia Caravan Site

This was the year my Grandma & Grandad bought a Bluebird Caravan, which they sited on the Bohemia Caravan Site. Just over from the sea top this caravan was the beginning of many happy holidays to be spent at ...Read more

A memory of Sutton on Sea in 1959 by Carole Heyes

Oh Happy Days

I was born in Kilburn in Plympton Road on 2nd May 1928 and went to school at Christ Church School and then Salisbury Road School. What a lovely place Kilburn was in those days with the iron railings and gates on every ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1920 by William Bowling

Captions

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Caption For Sutton, Worcester Road 1913

As is the case with Mulgrave Road, a few modern blocks of flats replace the earlier houses.

Caption For Sutton, Grange Vale 1904

Since the photograph was taken, houses have been built to the right, and a block of flats to the left.

Caption For Penarth, The Roundabout C1940

The south side of Windsor Road lay undeveloped until c1880 with the construction of the block seen here beyond the roundabout.

Caption For Ottershaw, The Otter Corner C1955

The Otter pub, a 1930s Surrey vernacular- style road-house, has now been transformed into a farmyard complex: the upper floor of the main block has been white clap-boarded and given a tiled lean-to

Caption For Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road C1965

The sloping site was successfully incorporated into the design of the blocks of flats, allowing for garages to be unobtrusively accessible.

Caption For Worthing, Western Esplanade And The Beach 1906

The 1870s terrace on the left now houses Paiges Bar in the left-hand part, while the 1850s block beyond has been demolished.

Caption For Groby, Old Hall C1960

The photograph shows two parallel late 16th-century gabled blocks with large mullion and transom windows.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

offering morning coffee, luncheons, teas and dinners, and architecturally no great shakes; it has since been heavily modernised, and is now Heathside, a family restaurant, with a large block

Caption For Wheathampstead, Brewhouse Hill C1960

The almost new Vauxhall Wyvern E model is parked nearly opposite Collins, the antique dealer, and adjacent to the rather modern houses behind the slag-block wall.

Caption For Bedford, De Parys Avenue 1921

Only at the far end, at the Tavistock Street junction, have any Victorian houses been lost - they were replaced by a four-storey block of flats in the 1970s.

Caption For Aylesbury, Kingsbury Square 1901

The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1921

Beyond is now 'Fred's Folly', the 1960s County Council office tower block, a landmark for miles around.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

Caption For Nottingham, Upper Parliament Street C1950

On the left, the old Turkish Baths (the 1890s building with the columns to the top floor) and the florid News Theatre beyond were demolished in 1962 to make way for an eight-storey office block.

Caption For Penrith, Aerial View C1953

Angel Lane is seen on the far right; at the top of the block flanking it once stood the Fleece Inn, and at the lower corner was situated the Angel Inn.

Caption For New Haw, Woodham Lane C1965

On the right is Grange Parade; the right block was built in 1934, the left in 1935.

Caption For Sutton, Woodside House School 1898

Some of the larger trees in the gardens survived, although most are now in the grounds of the blocks of flats that replaced many of the Victorian villas.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1950

The building to the left is K Block; it housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

Caption For Frinton On Sea, Beach And Huts 1921

A group of children pose around a rock pool, with varying degrees of stiffness.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

You can see Norman evidence here with the blocked arch into the long-demolished south transept from the tower, and also the doorway arch.

Caption For Sutton, Mulgrave Road 1913

At this end of the road the houses have been spared demolition by developers, and have not been replaced by blocks of flats.

Caption For Smeeton Westerby, Christ Church, Saddington Road C1955

In fact, its west end, seen in the photograph, gives the false impression that the grand nave arch has been blocked following the demolition of more elaborate fabric.

Caption For Horsham, St Mary's Church 1907

The tower and spire survive today, but are dwarfed by 1980s and 1990s office blocks.

Caption For Whitby, From Spring Hill 1885

The topmost block of seven houses is appropriately named Elbow Yard.