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Maps

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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 901 to 910.

Building

My father worked on the site building Westbury Shopping Centre. I remember there being a full size model of a dalek in the dry cleaners that used to be on one end of block. Used to be able to get inside it and pretend to be a dalek, which was great fun for an 8 year old.

A memory of Westbury by Michael Moore

Croydon, Shirley & New Addington

I was born in Croydon in 1943, moved to Addington, then Birchington (Kent) before returning to New Addington in 1953 where I attended Wolsey Junior School & Fairchildes Secondary School. Shirley Secondary, Lanfranc ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Jonathan Le Vine

Frank Bott Avenue

Living toward the end of Frank Bott Avenue, just before the circle where the road bends round into Rigby Avenue. With mum, Doreen, Dad, Cyril (he adopted Cyril as his first name because he didn't like the thought of his christian name ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Kevin Waine

Image Of Youth

I lived in Dunston from 1946-1964. This area of Dunston was a place I knew quite well. The lamp post on the left was almost outside a dental surgery. I well remember the experience of having a tooth extracted here, and the ...Read more

A memory of Dunston in 1950 by Malcolm Cowley

Just Memories Of My Childhood

My family moved to Rochester during the war ( a naval family). We lived in Union Street until it was demolished for the new police station. We had a small gang, four strong and we roamed far and wide during the long ...Read more

A memory of Rochester in 1946 by Colin Walsh

Cheltenham In Late 40's

My father was killed in 1941, and my mother re-married in 1945 a gentleman who owned a nursing home in Cheltenham. It was in Victoria Walk along from the Town Hall and had huge cellars that stretched to under the Town hall. ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1947 by First Name Last Name

Post Office

Lived on the High Street at the Post Office. Then moved in 1955(?) to new Post Office on Stanley Road, almost opposite the old Garndiffaith Junior School (now Community Centre). Well recall getting a 'basin' haircut at Dai Gurney's. ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith in 1957 by Robert Bath

Wars Years And Afterwards

I was born in Thorpe Coombe Hospital in 1941 and grew up in Erskine Road Walthamstow which led on to Walthamstow Market. My brother Barry and I would be given a threepenny bit piece by our granddad who lived with our nan ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1940 by Maureen Shanks

Looking For King Charles On The Market Cross

When I was little and we went shopping in Chichester, I always liked looking for King Charles on the medieval Market Cross in the city centre. One of the niches on the Market Cross holds a bronze bust ...Read more

A memory of Chichester in 1955 by Julia Skinner

Walsall, The George Hotel C1973

My friend and I, still best buddies to this day, used to go to The Mayfair every Saturday night. We loved Motown and Northern soul and still do. Then we progressed to The Femina, at the back of The George. The name ...Read more

A memory of Walsall in 1973

Captions

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Caption For Newquay, Towan Head 1907

The lifeboat house in the distance (centre) was built in 1899 to replace an earlier station.

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.

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 Bridport, From Allington Hill C1960

Here there is a sliver of sea (right of centre) and the plateau of the Golf Links on East Cliff.

Caption For Gilwern, The Canal C1955

Above the trees and below the houses in the centre, the busy Heads of the Valleys road passes very close to the canal.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The River 1890

The castle can be seen in the centre of the picture.

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Caption For Leyburn, The Market Place C1960

There was not much of an audience to watch the troops as they marched past the Black Swan Hotel in the centre of the picture, although there were a few curious bystanders.

Caption For Devizes, St James' Church, Interior 1898

The four-centred arches cover a short chancel.

Caption For Bramber, The Village 1890

Once as important as Arundel or Lewes, Bramber is now merely a village, the market centre having migrated to nearby Steyning.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

The 20th century has added modern shopping centres and a leisure complex.

Caption For Gloucester, Westgate Street 1891

Only the distinctive three-stage Perpendicular tower of St Nicholas Church, in the centre of the picture, serves as a major landmark in this street - it has been radically changed during the past half-century

Caption For Eastleigh, Market Street C1965

The Wilts & Dorset Bank building is in the distant centre, towering over the roof of the parish church at the far end.

Caption For Rothwell, Market House C1965

It is a curious Tudor 'alien' in the Georgian and Victorian town centre.

Caption For Totnes, High Street 1896

Totnes had a medieval wall around the centre, much of it still intact.

Caption For Kewstoke, The Village 1896

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

Caption For Rochford, Market Square C1955

An attractive street lamp can be seen in the centre of the picture.

Caption For Bradford, Kirkgate, Market Buildings 1897

Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.