Photos

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Maps

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Memories

1,250 memories found. Showing results 941 to 950.

Roundshaw

1975-1984 lived at 24 Vulcan Close remember the blue van and the football cards with the bubble gum very well! The 233 bus, swimming and Wilson's, knock down ginger, roller disco skates on the decks, moppit, the milk round with Brian, ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1975 by Roy Styles

Wartime Evacuation

The small private school I was attending in Westcliff on Sea was evacuated to Manuden in July 1940. We were established in Cleeve Hall,which became my home and centre of learning until around August 1941, when the school closed due ...Read more

A memory of Manuden in 1941 by Brian Mendes

The Early Years

I was born in Mundford in 1955 - when I was 18 months old my family moved to the nearby hamlet of West Tofts. We had a small wooden bungalow, one of a pair, that was directly opposite an army camp. My father worked for his father as ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1960 by Alan Walker

Horseshoe Corner

For many years a horseshoe lay in the centre here. It was rumoured to be where John O'Gaunt's horse cast a shoe!

A memory of Lancaster in 1958

Earning Extra Cash

I lived in Easington village in the 1950s and recall my brother and I would wait at the colliery gates for the trucks coming out to deliver coal to the miners' houses. There was a void up the centre of the back of the ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Michael Brown

Woolwich Town Centre

I remember very fondly Woolwich market & town centre in the 60's & 70's. Cuffs department store always seemed so imposing with polished wooden floors, we had to go there to get my school uniform for Notre Dame Convent in ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1964 by Deborah Marchese

Nurse Training

I started my SRN training in 1973. In those days the Nurses' Home still exsisted but the view was obscured by the more recent additional buildings to the Infirmary, which included the Education Centre. However the Home was still ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1973 by Susan Walsh

Cinderford Square

I was born in Cinderford in 1962 and lived there until the mid 1980s. Through my childhood the town centre around the Square (now called the Triangle!) was busy and prosperous with all sorts of shops, my favourites being Woolies ...Read more

A memory of Cinderford by Jeff Jones

My Love Of Brentford

Hi, I lived at Mount Pleasant were the first shopping centre was built, Then moved to York Road no 38.until 1970. I went Ealing road jnr School and then to Bush House open air School {hated it} I also hated moving with my parents ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by young-r4

Photo Location

This picture shows the beach and the Eastern Esplanade at the Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction. The elaborate shelter was built as the Thorpe Bay Terminus Waiting Room for the Southend Corporation Tramways before the Esplanade Line was linked ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Captions

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Caption For Lyme Regis, Sherborne Lane C1955

The north-eastern end of Sherborne Lane descends to Lym House and the Angel Inn (centre left).

Caption For Dudley, Castle Keep C1955

The windowed building in the centre was lodgings added to the castle around 1690, some of the last new construction on the site.

Caption For Warlingham, The Village 1903

The turning for Glebe Road is by the double-fronted house in the centre, and the National Provincial Bank was later built on the opposite corner.

Caption For Shepton Mallet, The Cross 1899

The fine market cross at the entrance to the Market Place has an elaborate medieval polygonal centre, with three storeys of arched niches; the crocketed pinnacle emerges from a plainer arched

Caption For North Curry, The Square C1955

Here in the centre of the village in the market place is a three-sided cross: three arches carry a spirelet, all in mellow golden limestone.

Caption For Lechlade, The Wharf C1955

The small boatyard on the right is surrounded with corrugated iron-clad buildings, whilst the stone building in the centre proclaims tea gardens on a gable sign, ready for business on this early spring

Caption For Drummond, The Castle Gardens 1904

The obelisk-type structure seen here in the centre of the garden pathway is in fact a multiple sundial, which in 1904 gave the time for what were then the major cities of Europe.

Caption For Burnley, Duke Bar 1906

The tip of a spire can be seen just off centre.

Caption For Knaresborough, River Nidd, The Rapids 1914

Nearby is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

Caption For Newby Bridge, Bridge Approach C1940

The roadside house (Newby Bridge House), the big tree and the cottages are virtually unchanged since 1940, but the motor bike and sidecar (centre) are very much of the 1930s.

Caption For Daventry, London Road C1955

The coaching trade caused Daventry to become a leading centre for the manufacture of whips.

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate C1955

Back in 1851 Sheffield was one of the towns at the centre of a price-cutting war between the Midland and the Great Northern railway companies for the lucrative passenger traffic associated with the

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

This view of The Parade, the centre of the new development, gives an idea of its austere late Victorian qualities, now much brightened by garish modern shopfronts.

Caption For Liverpool, Hms Hercules 1890

HMS 'Hercules' was a centre battery ironclad battleship.

Caption For Golders Green, The Bus Station And North End Road C1960

The least attractive part of the town centre is the forecourt to the underground station, which is also used as a bus station.

Caption For Witton Gilbert, The War Memorial From The Woods C1955

This important monument has now been relocated close to the centre of the village.

Caption For Hadleigh, The River Bret 1922

From this favourite picnic spot, we can see the parish church standing proudly in the centre of the picture with the trees to its right covering the new market and car parks.

Caption For Rochdale, Hollingworth Lake 1892

The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.

Caption For Dorking, South Street And Pump Corner 1906

The Bull's Head is centre left and the White Lion is centre right in view 55697 on the previous page.

Caption For Bridgwater, The Bridge 1903

The wrought and cast iron span shown here was opened in 1883 and still carries traffic into the town centre.

Caption For Puncknowle, Village 1906

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (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 Goudhurst, Village 1901

Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

Caption For Hothfield, On The Common 1921

Many villagers sought out the cool of the local school (centre) or the medieval church, which sits a mile from the common.