Places

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Maps

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1921, Swan Street Ref. POP843439
1945, Swan Street Ref. NPO843439
1898-1899, Swan Street Ref. RNC843439
1895, Swan Street Ref. RNE843439

Books

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Memories

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London,Piccadilly Circus 1951 1955

I was a young Constable in the year 1951, and fresh from Peel House, Westminster was assigned tio the Savile Row station known as CD. I lived at the Section House on Broadwick Street, Soho named after Lord Trenchard. ...Read more

A memory of London in 1951 by Nelson Jones

My Early Years In Rothwell

I was born in Rothwell in 1949 and have lived there all my life and remember when it was a picturesque village where everyone knew each other.    What changes have taken place over the years.   I remember going to ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1955 by June Holstead

Grimsby Bull Ring

I was a teenager at the time of the photo. I remember cycling through the Bull Ring at a heck of a pace having picked up speed coming down Deansgate Bridge, then having to brake hard to negotiate the chicane into Victoria Street. ...Read more

A memory of Grimsby in 1965 by David Sykes

Town Hall Roundabout

Living in Watford from the early 1950's, I well remember the Town Hall roundabout before they moved it. Can't recollect whether it was nearer or further away. I can recollect, not far from a pub called the OBH, or almost opposite ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1952 by Jacqueline Hathaway

Better Times

Great Britain is in disarray, I've never seen the likes. Worse than when Thatcher telt us Geordies, to get on wa bikes. They closed the yards and factories, we had them by the score, These places now just memories, of better ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1985 by James Bridgewood

Swan Hill And The Swan & Mitre

My family moved to Shortlands, between Bromley and Beckenham, in 1945 when I was a three-year-old. I lived in Shortlands, in Recreation Road, until 1968 when I moved abroad to work. Now, over 40 years later, back in the ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Terry Heard

Gloria Cassons' Memories Of Collyhurst

Hi, I'm Gloria Casson, born in Crumsull Hospital. I went to St James School and St James Church. My mother's name was Mary Casson, I lived in Collyhurst Flats, Southern Drive - the eldest of 10 children. I ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by Gloria Casson

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

Old Southall Remembered

I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more

A memory of Southall

Then & Now

I remember during my teens to early twenties there always seemed to be gigs on. From The Green Man (where it must be said, I really shouldn't have been, not then being 18), where it was very bluesy music, plus of course the mighty ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1973 by Dylan Mears

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Captions

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Caption For Alton, High Street 1897

Forty years before picture No 79440 was taken in 1927, The Swan Hotel looked like this.

Caption For Bicester, Church Street C1955

Here we are looking along Church Street towards the 13th-century tower of St Eadburg's Church.

Caption For Harleston, The Thoroughfare C1955

The Georgian coaching-inn, the Swan Hotel, dominates the street.

Caption For Wellington, High Street C1960

Wellington's East Street was widened to become the High Street in the 19th century.

Caption For Bedford, High Street From Town Bridge 1921

Moving northwards, we cross the Ouse bridge, with the High Street ahead.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

Caption For London, St Giles, Fish Stall 1885

A bustling street scene at the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road.We think of advertising as a modern phenomenon.

Caption For London, St Giles Circus 1910

A bustling street scene at the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road.We think of advertising as a modern phenomenon.

Caption For London, St Giles Circus 1910

A bustling street scene at the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road.We think of advertising as a modern phenomenon.

Caption For Buckingham, Bridge Street C1950

This view looks towards the Market Square from the junction with Well Street. The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall.

Caption For Rickmansworth, High Street C1955

Photographed before its conversion to a one-way system, the High Street appears a quiet market town thoroughfare.

Caption For Braintree, Bocking End C1955

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

Caption For Lechlade, Burford Street C1950

This view looks north out of the Market Place, past the corner of St John Street, with the Old Vicarage on the right.

Caption For Accrington, New Jerusalem Church 1899

Situated on Abbey Street next to the Swan Hotel, the New Jerusalem Church was one of the most striking buildings in the town.

Caption For Abergavenny, 1898

This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Caption For Earls Barton, The Village C1955

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

Caption For Abergavenny, 1898

This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Caption For Clitheroe, The View From The Castle 1921

Castle Street is in the foreground; it changes to Church Street at the Library (the triangular building with the clock), which was built in 1905.

Caption For Crawley, The Sun Inn 1905

The Swan Inn, built in 1874, was one of the many new Victorian properties built on the western side of the High Street.

Caption For Bedford, High Street 1929

At the top of the High Street, the photographer looks south. The Lime Street/Lurke Street junction is beyond the Swan Hotel's handcart.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1907

Three years later Joseph Blakeman has his name displayed on The Swan: .

Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Horning, The Village C1965

Horning main street runs parallel with the river. On the left is the rear of the Swan Inn; a car park has replaced the buildings ahead.

Caption For Merriott, Lower Street C1955

Lower Street is the part of the square of Merriott's main streets nearest the Parrett. It has many old Ham stone cottages, some thatched, and some with stone mullioned windows.