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Brook Road Youth Centre. I Think This Was The Same One We Had Backin The 50's

We used to have regular dance nights but these were conducted with a record player playing 78's. I took a few of my records and one of the favourites was of Piano Red a boogie ...Read more

A memory of Loughton by royg

Dewhurst Butchers

Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I left ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Donald Jay

My Childhood.

I was born in 1961. I moved away in 1986. Looking back at the pictures reminds me of the fun I had as a child. We used to play at a place we called 'the splash', down by kennel Lane. I spent hours down there, you could look at the farm ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by hughgoodden1

Cheshunt

Yes Valerie - I too have a similar memory of the day I walked home from Cheshunt Secondary School on my last ever day. The sun was always high over Grundy Park during the summer months, and shone down directly onto your neck and head as you ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt by Russ Boys

The Greengrocers In Sale Moor

Does anybody remember the name of the greengrocers in the centre of Sale Moor,I worked there for a short time .They supplied you with one of those bikes which had a basket on the front which didn't turn and on the first day ...Read more

A memory of Sale in 1964 by Mike Keaveney

Childhood Cannock

I started school at The Croft in High Green next to WG Smiths. This was near to the Danilo - Queen of Cinemas of the time and fascinating to visit. Later from Walhouse School we spent lunchtimes playing cowboys and Lone Ranger ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1951

Hyde In The Late 60's

I attended Greenfield Street Boys School from 1965-6, until I moved to another school. Shops around that time included, Woolworths. Hyde Sports Centre on the corner of Newton Street and Manchester road. Garbutts shoes, ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1969 by Alan Hesketh

St Bede's School

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died in ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

The Original F.Frith & Co

My first job after leaving school in 1968 was at the original Frith & Co. in Raglan Road, Reigate. The company was based in a large Victorian mansion and in many ways the working methods probably hadn't changed much since ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1968 by Stephn Gale

Danbury Village School C.1950

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

Captions

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Caption For Chatham, New Road C1955

New in 1772, the road was built to bypass congested town centres from Star Hill, Rochester to the bottom of Chatham Hill.

Caption For Stapleford, Parish Church C1960

In 1988 a tile maze was created from the centre of the west wall to the font, and a new organ was dedicated.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1955

Two vehicles from the United Bus Company pick up passengers, the nearer one (centre right) serving the Great Ayton to Redcar route. Behind it, the tall stone building was the Midland Bank.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, High Street C1965

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Caption For Seaton Carew, The Promenade C1955

In the centre, in line with the Marine Hotel, a hut carries the sign 'Lost Children' - always a possibility at the seaside!

Caption For Headingley, 1894

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

Caption For Newquay, Towan Head 1907

The lifeboat house in the distance (centre) was built in 1899 to replace an earlier station. It was closed in 1934, but it had a brief reprieve during the Second World War.

Caption For Hayle, Towans And The Paddling Pool 1925

Holiday bungalows and chalets line the skyline, and the Cove Café is perched on a shelf halfway down the cliff (centre).

Caption For Mudeford, The Sand Hills 1934

Looking out onto Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of the fishing industry in the area.

Caption For Charmouth, The River Char C1960

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

Caption For London, Broadcasting House C1950

The white Portland stone building was painted grey with the coming of war, but a bomb fell in the centre in 1940 killing seven people during the 9.00 pm news - which continued uninterrupted.

Caption For London, Piccadilly Circus C1960

Shaftesbury Avenue can be seen in the centre. There is new traffic fencing up against Eros, which today has been moved a little to the left as part of a wide pedestrian area.

Caption For Frome, Cheap Street 1907

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

Caption For Lincoln, Pottergate And Cathedral 1890

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Caption For Lincoln, Broadgate C1960

Closer to the city centre, Broadgate is nowadays a frantically busy dual carriageway, and the site on the left a bus station.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1965

Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1965

Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre

Caption For Hawes, Market Day 1908

Granted a market charter by William III, Hawes later became a centre for textiles, quarrying and the production of Wensleydale cheese.

Caption For Salisbury, New Canal C1950

The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops. Today it is the Woolwich Building Society.

Caption For Waltham Cross, Foure Swannes Hotel 1921

Today, only the gallows pole across the street remains of its distinctive sign, while the building itself, along with Kemp's the bootmaker's, has been replaced by a massive new shopping centre.

Caption For Hertford, Fore Street 1933

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

Caption For Osmington, Post Office Stores C1955

The surrounding area, close to the sea, was a centre for smuggling during the 18th century. Especially remembered as a smuggler is Pierre Latour, or French Pete, as he was known.

Caption For Wells, Market Place C1950

The sign in the centre, pointing against the flow of traffic today, indicates the A369 to Bath and Bristol - the High Street used to have two-way traffic.

Caption For Bramshott, Tin Town 1917

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.