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Maps
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Books
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Memories
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Boyhood Memories
I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by
Old Manor Cafe
My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In the ...Read more
A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by
Things I Remember
Greenford market, that's where the buses terminated. If you were quick you could jump off the back of a bus at the corner when it turned into Windmill Lane, that way if the bus was going further than the market it saved you ...Read more
A memory of Greenford in 1975 by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1943 by
Cooksons Leadworks Part 2
1965. During my time working here I carried out a number of different jobs, one was to make Zinc ingots, my shift would start with my furnace fired up and there next to it would be my "charge" this would be a pile of old ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1965 by
Higher Bebington Road
I grew up in Higher Bebington Road, my mum lived there from 1957 up until she died in 2008. I have seen so many changes. When we were kids we would pond-dip in the ponds on the fields at the back of the Oval now football ...Read more
A memory of Bebington by
Huntly
I went to the Gordon Schools until I moved to England in 1972, they were the best days of my life. My uncle George Robertson owned the painting and decorating shop in Castle Street. I remember the picnics down by the Deveron in the summer. There ...Read more
A memory of Keith by
Doseley
When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad lived ...Read more
A memory of Doseley in 1944 by
Childhood In Moodiesburn
I remember staying in Beechgrove just at the begining of the electric scheme, we had some very happy memories of the glen, Bedlay Castle, and going for walks down the luggie for a swim. Mr and Mrs Brown stayed in number ...Read more
A memory of Moodiesburn by
Grandmother Born1876
My grandmother used to tell me stories of Gateshead days when I was a kid, for example Tommy-on-the Bridge, area Bottle Bank, apparently was a permanent fixture in those days, he stood on the Swing Bridge, might have been ...Read more
A memory of Gateshead in 1890 by
Captions
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Martins Bank (right) was acquired by Barclays in 1969. The elms on the left of Chapel Lane were removed in 1975 because of the ravages of Dutch elm disease.
The photographer stood with his back to the site of the White Horse, which burnt down in the 1860s.
It effectively divided the street into two - the High Street and Back Lane (or Tindal Street, as we now call it). Middle Row, of course, still exists today.
It effectively divided the street into two - the High Street and Back Lane (or Tindal Street, as we now call it). Middle Row, of course, still exists today.
The Bell and Crown (left) is a very old inn dating back to 1675, and it stands on the old coaching road from London to Barnstaple.
It is difficult to imagine a devastated village when we look back at this tranquil High Street.
He was convicted and was 'whipped until his back was bloody' in Angel Inn Yard, Hertford.
The stall backs are fine pedimented panels dating from the 17th century, and came from Oxford Cathedral.
Exeter City Basin opened in 1830 as the final stage of a canal development going back to 1563.
The road from Sawley to Waddington crossed the back road from Clitheroe to Slaidburn here, so the cloth produced from local wool could be taken to the markets and fairs on packhorses.
Some of the cottages go back to the 1500s. The local lords were the Lister family, many of whom lie in the small village church.
Next to it towards the camera is the District Bank, later the site of Nat West House, and now up for sale.
He was inspired by cathedral carvings of a lion, an elephant on the back of a turtle and the curious creatures carved on the misericords in the choir.
An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork
Next to the Cock is Barclays Bank, built by Sharples, Exton and Lucas in 1841. Next-door-but-one to Barclays is the establishment of William Payne, an agricultural, veterinary and dispensing chemist.
Even the visit of Cliff Richard and his original backing group, the Drifters, in the 1960s could not save the Astoria, and it became one of the first victims of the surge towards bingo.
St Cuthbert's, Churchtown is reputed to date back to pre-Conquest times, but there is no evidence to support this.
The church is unbuttressed, with a west tower and Perpendicular bell-stage and a very fine chancel all dating back to the 13th century.
This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church. There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.
This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church. There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.
The medieval fair was held at the upper end of the High Street (Townhead), but as the town began to spread southward, the fair moved to the north bank of the Clyde, near the Stockwell.
The last one was recorded in 1908, and the curate of St James's Church in Blake Street, HIndpool (pictured here), with the backing of some local businessmen, provided a much-needed soup kitchen to alleviate
This park was the third in Belfast. It opened in 1885, with ten more acres being added later.
The home of George Bernard Shaw has remained unchanged since his death: his hat still hangs in the hall, whilst his typewriter stands on his study desk where he wrote 'Pygmalion', 'Back to Methuselah'
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