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Maps

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Memories

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My Ottershaw Days

My first memory of Ottershaw was the big freeze in the early 50's when, with a friend's help, I built a snow wall across Bousley Rise near to the top of the hill just before our house "Lintons". My father James Daborn [Jim] was not ...Read more

A memory of Ottershaw by tvsafrica

Cabot Knewell, Family Butcher At Graham House, Boxford

Cabot Knewell, with wife Joan (nee Joan I Smith), was the master butcher at Graham House, 6 Broad Street, Boxford, from the mid 1940s to the 1970s. To the right is the Fleece. To the left, Riddlestons ...Read more

A memory of Boxford by clive

13 Park Lane, Wembley

Hello everyone Wow what a joy and pleasure to find this site. I didn't realise this existed until a short time ago. Anyway for some years I've been trying to locate (on Google maps streetview) the old house that was once owned ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Nick Jay

The Bear Pub & Stuff

I grew up in Noak Hill, living on the caravan site (Cummings Hall Lane) that was behind the Bear Pub on Noak Hill Road. There was a big long lane that ran up alongside the pub and I would sneak down there and through a gap in the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by dianebradley57

Memories

I remember all you have said and remember the whole area being drowned out with the motor racing, as I got older I use to go and watch. Then that all went for the sports centre, which I used to go swimming in with my school.

A memory of Crystal Palace in 1960 by Christine Harvey

Life In The Early Fifities

I was born in 1949 in a prefab in St Malo Ave just off Town Rd. Things were tough for Mum and Dad as he was invalid and unable to work. I really never noticed for a few years and just tried to explore and enjoy the world ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1951 by John Canham

London

I came to Bletchley in 1968 for an interview at the Meat and Livestock Commission. Got off the train and asked an elderly gentleman where "Queensway" was. He shook his head and said he did not know! I have fond memories of Bletchley (as it ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley by Rosemary Farr

Henry Pugh

My great grandfather was a servant and then a coachman. He worked for Anne Wheeley in Pentre House in the hamlet of Llwyn Du, Abergavenny. He married Emma Porter and had two children, but she sadly died. He was a widower in 1871, but ...Read more

A memory of Llwyn-du in 1870

Hounslow In The 60s

Although I was born in Isleworth I went to school in Hounslow, firstly to Hounslow Town School in Pears Road in 1960 and then onto Bulstrode Girls school in 1964. We were the first class in the new school but started our first ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Sheila Wright

Schooldays

A great little school to be educated in, I remember my first teacher her name was Miss Patterson. There were only about three to a class if you were lucky, with the first four years in one classroom. We used to get taken out in each ...Read more

A memory of Glendoick in 1960 by Sheila Knoll

Captions

3,594 captions found. Showing results 2,041 to 2,064.

Caption For Minehead, Esplanade Hotel 1923

It was converted into flats in the 1930s and more lately has been divided between a Baptist holiday centre and Foxes Hotel.

Caption For Cannington, The Village C1965

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1950

It throttles the town centre, and its construction involved the wholesale demolition of attractive buildings. Those on the right of this picture were lucky: they narrowly escaped demolition.

Caption For Wollaston, Bridgnorth Road 1968

It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

Caption For Yardley, Bakeman House C1965

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

Caption For Chipping Campden, Alms Houses And Church C1960

'Chipping' means 'market' in Old English, and it was as a market centre for the woollen industry that Chipping Campden rose to affluence.

Caption For Lancaster, The Town Hall 1912

At the centre of Dalton Square stands a bronze statue of Queen Victoria guarded by four lions, given to the city by Lord Ashton. He also donated the new Town Hall, which stands at the back.

Caption For Newton Aycliffe, Neville Parade C1955

Newton Aycliffe was projected to have five residential districts surrounding a civic and shopping centre, and industry had been attracted to the area - Bakelite had opened a factory as early as 1946.

Caption For Eastbourne, From The Wish Tower 1901

On the left is the old Sea View Hotel, which was replaced in the 1970s by the dismal tower of the Transport and General Workers Union Holiday and Conference Centre.

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Hill 1906

The three-gabled and jettied timber-framed building of 1543 on the right was restored in 1929 and is now a tourist information centre.

Caption For Selsey, The Beach 1930

In the 7th century, Selsey was the cultural centre of Sussex.

Caption For Darlington, Grammar School 1892

In the early 1870s, the Duke of Cleveland's estate near to the town centre was given over to development.

Caption For Saunton, Sands 1938

The white building right of centre is the Saunton Sands Hotel. Today, this is expanded into a prestigious establishment, still white and gloriously floodlit at night.

Caption For Ash, The Village C1965

We are close to the centre of the village. The Ship Inn can be seen on the left.

Caption For Ickleford, The Village 1903

The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.

Caption For Abingdon, The Boat House 1890

We are looking upstream from the centre of the 14th-century stone bridge across the Thames where it crosses Nag's Head Island.

Caption For Oxted, Station Road West 1908

A top-hatted coachman directs his trap along the centre of the highway towards a wagon at the roadside by the chandler's shop - its horse is busily engaged in investigating the contents of its nosebag.

Caption For Sedbergh, Main Street 1901

The Bull Hotel in the centre of the picture is still described as a 'Posting House'.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Arriving At The Nab C1955

Still a tiny hamlet, situated where the River Derwent meanders through water meadows to join Derwent Water to the north, it is a popular centre for fell walkers.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, The Parade C1965

A lady pushes a pram towards the shops, while the man beside the Morris Minor (centre left) calls over the road to his wife. The second shop on the left is Lloyds Bank.

Caption For Boroughbridge, St James Square C1965

This monumental fountain in the centre of St James Square was built in memory of the Lawson Tancred family, and stands on the site of the former parish church of St James, now moved to Church Lane.

Caption For Bristol, The Centre C1950

Here is a view over Colston Avenue to Colston Street, with Colston Hall theatre just hidden behind the General Insurance building (centre right).

Caption For Sheerness, The Broadway C1950

In the centre of this photograph is the Royal Hotel, a Victorian building that used to advertise itself as a 'Family and Commercial Hotel, fully licensed, premier position, garage'.

Caption For Colchester, Scheregate

Scheregate, the lane in the centre, sits astride Colchester's town wall. The house straddling Scheregate Steps replaces a Roman postern.