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Young Styles Clothes/Fashion

I remember a shop called Young Styles.... near the iron bridge. Was the ‘in’ place to be seen in the mid 80s.... two tone skirts, y cardigans, tonics, stay press, ‘arringtons. Loved spending my paper round money in there!

A memory of Staines by trishajohnson2000

St. Neot's, 1956 1961.

St. Neot's changed my life! Beginning an apprenticeship at a long gone Huntingdon firm I was obliged to attend the then new St. Neot's Technical College one day a week. The head was the late Louie Mountford. We 'part time' ...Read more

A memory of St Neots by Stuart Sims

Happy Days Of Youth.

My first memories of Motherwell was living down the Daisy Park at 18 Braidhurst Street and watching the new housing scene being built opposite my house ,the old mill used provide a perfect brae for our bogies which consisted an old ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by Alexander Mc Bride

Grew Up In Northwood

I was born there in 1957 and lived there until 1975. Rhodes had those lovely handmade sweets. There was a Delicatessen next door..always had a lovely smell of roasting coffee - and fabulous wheels of Brie.. The reindeer pub always ...Read more

A memory of Northwood

Personal Memories

Memories from many years ago. My father David Dickson was the dentist who built the house at 9 Newcastle Street which is where I spent my early years.. After the war we moved to Birkland Villa which we entered from a laneway just ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by chrisdeboer36

Wonderful Days

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go crabbing. I ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1

Nan& Grandad

Although I am 75 I can still remember as clear as yesterday coming up from Headley Surrey with my parents and sister to visit my grandparents who worked for Mizzen Bros. I remember getting off the bus at the Fair Green and walking up past ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by petersraymond2

Brown Trout Between Milton & Deddington

Many times I have caught wild Brown Trout between 1999 and 2012 on float fished worm in the Swere, running light leger or small lures under bushes and trees, between 1/2 lb to 1.5 lb. One time a minnow caught was ...Read more

A memory of River Swere

Tanktops And Bellbottoms

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

The Mystery Bridge Across The Mill Brook In Baguley.

The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms and ...Read more

A memory of Wythenshawe by christopher.bowden

Captions

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Caption For Newark, Town Lock C1965

The castle is framed by an inelegant pipe- carrying bridge, now gone, but it frames the castle well. The weir it by-passes is out of view to the left.

Caption For St Michaels, Garstang Road C1965

New bungalows pronounce the village's popularity as a place to retire or commute from, but the tolls charged by Shard Bridge Company to cross the river were a sore point.

Caption For Barnstaple, Rock Park 1890

Given to the town, it is above the bridge on the town side. Note the collection of perambulators and baby carriages under the tree. One lady sports a nanny's outfit.

Caption For Nunburnholme, Village C1955

Lady Nunburnholme, who lived here until 1929, decreed that the Devonshire Arms pub, opposite this bridge, was to be closed.

Caption For Alderholt, The Mill C1960

We are looking northwards to the junction of lanes leading to Bullhill (left) and Alderholt Bridge in the other direction.

Caption For Hitchin, Bridge Street C1955

Bridge Street, looking east. Sweet jars are clearly visible in Furr's window. Three doors up is J B Crone, a furniture dealer; next door, W H Walker sells cycles.

Caption For Worthing, The Park 1906

However, since this view was taken the pond has entirely gone, along with the rustic bridge. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Caption For Stamford, St Mary's Hill From George Hotel C1955

Between the sign and St Mary's Church is the Town Bridge over the river Welland. Even the steps and the handrail are still in situ, but the shop window on the right has gone.

Caption For Sandsend, The Beach 1925

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

Caption For Bedford, The River And Town Bridge C1960

The Swan Hotel acquired a multi-level car park to its rear (its first concession to the age of the motor car) and the erstwhile car showrooms at the northern end of Town Bridge were demolished and replaced

Caption For Boroughbridge, The Devil's Arrows 1895

The fourth pillar was cut up and used as foundations for Penny Bridge over the River Tut, which runs through the town.

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

Caption For Eynsford, 1905

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

Caption For Runcorn, Transporter Bridge C1920

The height of the bridge was required so that ships could pass underneath. In this photograph, however, we see a rather small ship - it's one of the 'Mersey Flats'.

Caption For Barton Turf, The River 1902

The height of the mast can clearly be seen on the moored wherry on the right of the picture; it would have to be laid flat to negotiate the many low road bridges on the Broads.

Caption For Chesham, Town Bridge 1897

He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.

Caption For Brecon, The Bridge And The Beacons 1899

In the foreground is the multi-arched bridge across the River Honddu, which lends its name to Brecon's Welsh designation – Aberhonddu.

Caption For Exeter, In The Port 1896

The Exeter Ship Canal, five miles long, reaches the sea at Topsham, and was built in 1564-6 after the building of a bridge at Countess Wear stopped the use of the river for trade.

Caption For Andover, Bridge Street C1960

A man leans on the bridge rail beside the Methodist Church. Next door, Frank May, Auctioneer and Estate Agent, is now Redwoods.

Caption For Bristol, St Augustine's Bridge 1901

Car No 118 of the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co heads for St Augustine's Bridge.

Caption For Bedford, Suspension Bridge And Embankment Gardens C1960

This display and the repetition of the motto on the side of the bridge was obviously in celebration of a local event in the early 1960s.

Caption For Newby Bridge, The Swan Hotel 1914

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Canbury Gardens 1906

Two soldiers relax on a bench next to the bandstand in the sunlight at Canbury Gardens, downstream of Kingston railway bridge.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1911

Built on the east side of the bridge in 1930, this was a Neo-Adam confection of shops with flats above.