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So Far Away Yet So Near

Such a familiar sight - the High Street with what looks like a number 47 RT AEC bus approaching. I actually lived in Coney Hall, but Bromley was only a 5d ride away (or 6d to the North if going to the Odeon or Pullman ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Peter Leach

Faint Remembered Memories

I was born in 70 Thornlaw North in 1945, my parents were Herbert and Josephine Mary Cumming and my sister was Joan. I believe that the people next door were the Dunnets (Salvation Army). I used to play with Eileen Toy who ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Dennis Cumming

Princess Margarets Visit

I too am from Six Bells, and lived in Richmond Road and also Princess Street before that. If anyone remembers the picture in the papers next day of her visit, I was the little girl playing with her ducks in the cast iron ...Read more

A memory of Six Bells in 1950 by Sharon Mc Cullough

Memories Ofpalmers Buildings

We used to live in Gateshead but because father was away in the RAF he thought we should live closer to his brother who lived at 116 High Street East, Wallsend, so we managed somehow to get a house at 16 Third Street, ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1942 by Allen Flynn

Trams, Markets And Bright Yellow Trolly Buses

With big hugs from waiting family on one of the many platforms that was Central Station, we hurried though the noise and clouds of steam towards the station exit and into the sunlight...my eyes ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Raymond Hay

Down Street

How many people remember the Lall Elf, on King Street, all of it and Nelson Street were partly demolished or empty, we would catch pigeons or look for the nests, there was hundreds of pigeons, people moved out and pigeons moved in. The ...Read more

A memory of Maryport in 1960

Horden Memories

Hi, my name is Lorraine, my surname was Humphreys at the time I spent my early childhood in Horden with my nana and grandad, both sadly gone now. I lived at 90 Seventh Street, I went to school on the top road we used to call 'the tin ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1971 by Lorraine Irle

Biddulph,Early 1960s,Fondest Memories.

My father was transferred from a North East Mining Community,to a beautiful place called Biddulph.While he worked hard in the pits,we enjoyed many long days playing in some of the most wonderful places of ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1962 by Elizabeth Graham

The Real Heart Of Dagenham

We moved to Dagenham from Plaistow in East London when I was two years old. We moved to Leys Avenue, on the Rookery Farm estate. It was out in the sticks then with the remainder of Rookery Farm still in business with cows ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Tom Baker

Swimming At Flag Bottom

I remember as a little kid in the 50's going through Borsdane Wood with my mam n' Aunty Liza - we'd take egg n' tomato butties with us and always head for the Flag Bottom. This was our cheap holiday / Wigan week, I think it ...Read more

A memory of Hindley in 1951 by Ray Mac

Captions

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Caption For Oldcotes, Main Street C1965

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

Caption For Hoylake, Market Street C1965

This photograph was taken in the other direction to H277056 (page 35), looking east along Market Street.

Caption For Egham, High Street C1950

This view is at the east end of the High Street at the roundabout where it joins the A30, in effect the northern by-pass.

Caption For Abingdon, Wesleyan Church And Schools 1893

Conduit Road runs north from Ock Street on the east side of the Albert Park estate, and the earliest buildings on it are this church group.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1921

We are looking from Market Square south-east into Walton Street. The Bell had been reworked in 1919, and is still much the same.

Caption For Broughton Astley, The Stream C1967

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Caption For Burton Joyce, Meadow Lane C1965

The village has grown rapidly in the 20th century east and west along and parallel to the main road and northwards along the valley of a small stream.

Caption For Leicester, Gallowtree Gate C1950

Gallowtree Gate runs out of Granby Street and London Road as it drops down to the Clock Tower.

Caption For Braunston, High Street C1955

The Grand Union Canal emerges from the Braunston Tunnel east of Braunston village and descends past the village on a flight of six locks. This view looks west along the High Street.

Caption For Chichester, The Market Cross 1890

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre

Caption For Abingdon, The War Memorial C1950

war memorial replaced an earlier obelisk with gas lamps attached; this had stood in the middle of what was a sheep market until 1885, the livestock market then moving to a new site in Bury Street

Caption For Uppingham, School And Rectory C1965

Beyond the lovely garden there is an exquisite view of the east window and turret of the school chapel built by G E Street in 1865.

Caption For Little Bookham, Little Bookham Street C1955

North of this east-west road, Little Bookham Street has some older buildings amid the suburbia and wide grassy verges.

Caption For Swindon, The Goddard Arms, High Street C1950

Looking East from Wood Street An inn has stood on this site for 400 years.

Caption For Broadwater, The Village 1906

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

Caption For Ockley, Stane Street C1955

Ockley is a very fine village along the course of the Roman road from London to Chichester, which has been known from Anglo-Saxon times as Stane Street.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Castle Mound And Castle House, Priory Avenue 2005

The early period of its history has left a great deal of physical evidence in the street pattern as well as some buildings, while documentary references further flesh out the picture.

Caption For Wells, Sadler Street C1960

Until about 1970, one-way traffic passed under this gate-house into Sadler Street, the main road from London and Bath to Exeter.

Caption For Selby, The Cross And Finkle Street 1903

The name 'Finkle' comes from a Viking word meaning 'angle' or 'corner', and this less than straight street has not changed its line since those times.

Caption For Kegworth, High Street C1960

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

Caption For South Luffenham, The Village C1955

South Luffenham on the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and

Caption For Wolverton, Church Street C1955

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

Caption For Kegworth, High Street C1960

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

Caption For Byworth, The Village 1906

Byworth is a very pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.