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Lives Saved

In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of ...Read more

A memory of Heath End

Bennett&Sayers Nuns Street Derby

I served my apprenticeship at Bennett&Sayers from 1964 to 1972, the scrap yard opposite was always called Frank Radfords, further up Nuns street [over the bridge] this was the original Samways for the highways,[now ...Read more

A memory of Derby by geoff.barker

Royal Hotel

Lived at the royal hotel in 1973 my parents first free house dickinson . Memories as a child going up coupes playing all day in barns and sheds good days

A memory of Waterfoot by info

Wartime Lincoln

I was born in Gibbeson Terrace off the High street in early 1941. My first memory is hearing air raid sirens going off early in the morning, I think they were just practising. We were a poor family although my dad was doing special war ...Read more

A memory of Lincoln by hksimpson

Shops On The High Street

I was born in chapel street number 14wich was the back of a shop next to gittens it was owned by mrs price who also lived there at the back of the house my grandmother dolly perry had 2 shops along the high street and a ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill by ex123moor

The Former Post Office (Later Rivers Dale House) The Street, Eversley, 1970's

As I have outlined on this site before, I lived in The Street, Eversley from 1971 - 83. The house in which we lived, built in 1952 by a Mr & Mrs Leversuch, no longer exists as ...Read more

A memory of Eversley by Giles Myhill

1953 To 1973 Harold Hill Was Home

I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my trike ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by eejayb

Swinging 60s And 70s In Luton

I was born in Luton at the St Marys Grove Road Maternity home in 1959. My parents had moved to Luton in 1949 following my paternal grandmother who had been bombed out of the East End. We lived on Humberstone Road, me and my ...Read more

A memory of Luton

Buckland / Mile End

I was born in portsmouth in 1962, many parts of the city have completely changed from when I grew up there. The part of portsmouth I was born in (born at home malins road) was demolished in the 70s, I remember the bulldozers and ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by peteenglish62

Home Sweet Home

At the time this photograph of the High Street was taken I was 15 years old. Not knowing then, I would be walking down this road some years later with my first girlfriend and now my wife of 51 years. Where the ...Read more

A memory of Teddington by mikeandbren

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Captions

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Caption For Banbury, High Street C1955

The twin-gabled Old Wine House, near right, is dated 1537. Many of the other buildings have either been replaced or renovated.

Caption For Henley On Thames, Hart Street C1955

Henley is renowned for its annual regatta, which takes place in July; notice that the Forge House Studio, on the left, is displaying a banner advertising Regatta Photos.

Caption For Market Deeping, Church Street C1955

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

Caption For Bedale, Emgate C1960

This view of a virtually deserted Emgate shows a street of sturdy 18th- and 19th-century houses leading up to the Royal Hotel at the top of the hill.

Caption For Rodborough, The Fort 1890

On the slopes below the Fort, known in Edwardian times as Fort St George and run as a guest house and tearoom, the depressions in the hillside are largely the result of surface quarrying.

Caption For Grantchester, The Rose And Crown C1965

The nearby Grantchester Tea Rooms houses an excellent collection of photographs and exhibits about the poet and his contemporaries.

Caption For Marton In Cleveland, Stokesley Road C1965

On the left is the end of a long and attractive terrace of Victorian brick houses, which still survives.

Caption For Warrington, The War Memorial C1960

To the memorial's right is the half-timbered group of buildings housing the New Bridge Cafe and Marsh's Commercial College.

Caption For Catterick, The Village 1913

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House. The stepping stones themselves look less serviceable now, but there is also a footbridge today.

Caption For Alfriston, High Street And The Star And George Inns 1921

Off the street are numerous narrow alleys between the houses, in Sussex known as Twittens, and probably useful to smugglers.

Caption For Stourpaine, Manor Road C1955

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

Caption For Bath, Great Pulteney Street 1887

At its junction with Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public

Caption For Bath, York House Hotel 1907

Designed by the younger Wood in the 1760s, York House Hotel has descended to a Slug and Lettuce theme pub and Travelodge.

Caption For Bath, Cleveland Place And Bridge 1929

Splendidly guarded by four toll houses or lodges in Greek temple style with Doric columned porticos, the cast-iron bridge was designed by Henry Goodrich and opened in 1827.

Caption For St Ives, Market Square 1898

A great fire in 1689 destroyed over a hundred houses.

Caption For Oxwich, The Castle 1910

In 1541 a large manor house was constructed within the remnants of the old castle. It even incorporated a part of the curtain wall, gatehouse and great tower.

Caption For Scone, Palace North West And Queen Mary's Tree 1899

He and his descendants extended the house built by the Earl of Gowrie, but at the turn of the century the decision was taken to build a new palace.

Caption For Windsor, Town Bridge And Sir Christopher Wren's House C1900

The large house with rooftop windows is where Sir Christopher Wren once lived. It is now a hotel.

Caption For Bedford, River Ouse C1955

The building on the extreme left is the Bedford Swan Hotel, wherein may be found the staircase extracted from Houghton House in the 18th century.

Caption For Toddington, The Green C1965

Georgian houses, thatched roofs, the war memorial and a village pub make a pleasurable combination.

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 Perranporth, Boscawen Park 1938

By this date the open spaces have been infilled with housing, and the Perranporth Hotel can be recognised on the far side of the pond immediately behind the right-hand tree.

Caption For Great Dunmow, New Street C1965

Tucked behind the White House, New Street has always been a residential quarter. It already had its name in 1419.

Caption For St Austell, Duporth Beach 1912

There are now houses and the Duporth Holiday Village along the slopes behind.