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Achille Ratti Hostel

In 1953 I was a boy scout with St Patrick's 17th Widnes troop when we had our annual camp in The Lake District. I remember getting off the steam train at Windermere station where there was an old single decker bus waiting for ...Read more

A memory of Cockermouth in 1953 by Brian Balfe

Maternity Hospital

I had my son in Little Thorpe maternity hospital in Jan 1985. Does anyone out there have a photograph of this building or do you know where I could get one from? I am researching my family tree and would like a ...Read more

A memory of Littlethorpe in 1985 by Karen Surtees

Llwynypia General

I lived with my parents in two rooms in a house on Church Street near Partridge Square.  I had a small mongrel dog called Spot who used to go down to the bus shelter and wait for the bus to Porth, get on it and ride to Porth and ...Read more

A memory of Llwynypia in 1943

Part Of My Early Schooldays

I remember fragments about living at Hutton - I lived in Lilian Crescent, in a new bungalow, having moved from Hawskmoor Green. I learnt to ride a Fairy cycle - as little 2 wheelers were called then - by pushing myself ...Read more

A memory of Hutton by Chriss Tine Lay

Hawkhurst Today

It's funny you should mention the Woods Butchers, I'm living in Hawkhurst now and am only 19 but I'm friends with the daughter who owns Wood Butchers, Emily Wood. I do enjoy living in Hawkhurst, it is interesting to look at the old ...Read more

A memory of Hawkhurst by Helen Cripps

Hook Hill

In 1960, when I was 6, we moved into Longhalves, a detached house on the left of Hook Hill going up, and just on the brow of the hill. The road then was narrow and dangerous, and in about 1964 they took 3 - 4 yards off our front garden to ...Read more

A memory of Freshwater in 1960 by Peter Adams

Rafcompton Bassett

I was stationed at Compton Bassett from 6/10/48 until 25/1/49. I was training as a T.P.O. / Tape Relay Operator. My memories of the camp are not all that good, the most vivid memory was being paraded with the rest of the ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1948 by Dennis Fickling

Silverhill Road

When I graduated from Paisley University, Scotland, in 1984, I moved to Castlederg for a period of about 8 months. It was a very special time in my life. I met so many really nice people, and the memories will live with me for the ...Read more

A memory of Castlederg in 1985 by Robert Kyle

Blissful Days On The Amusements!

This picture takes me back! It was around 1962 and I was 11 years old. We travelled down to Clacton from South Harrow on a Valiant Cronshaw coach which we caught outside a pub in Northolt - The Plough, I think it ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea by Paul Starck

Twentieth Century Club And Memories Of Bygone Times

I was born in Northampton in 1940, and lived there until December 1953. Both my dad and mum were Northampton born and bred, but while my mum's family go way back in time in the area, my dad's ...Read more

A memory of Northampton in 1953 by Sydney Claydon

Captions

5,054 captions found. Showing results 4,225 to 4,248.

Caption For Brixton, St John's Church C1965

St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1955

A positive cats-cradle of wires weaves above the roadway, with telephone cables, suspended street lighting and the power cables for the silent-running electric trolley buses contesting the airspace.

Caption For Corby, Forest Gate Road C1965

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.

Caption For Desborough, Rothwell Road C1955

Taken from the corner of Pioneer Avenue and the Rothwell Road (A6), and looking towards the town, the photograph shows the five-storey Co-operative Wholesale Corset Factory on the left

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Shopping Parade, Warners End C1965

Stoneycroft was part of the new town development, and work started in 1952.

Caption For Morecambe, The Promenade 1899

A Victorian guidebook, published in 1895, described Morecambe thus: 'Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant

Caption For Barnsley, Town Hall C1948

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

Garth Dawson's Camera Cabin, located behind the clock (centre, behind the bus), has had several locations around the centre of Accrington, and is now sited round the corner on Blackburn

Caption For Marlborough, The Parade C1950

The Cross Keys Hotel was known as the Cross Keys and Unicorn from 1768. The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened.

Caption For Bedford, St Paul's Square C1955

Murkett Bros has long moved on, and the growth in traffic is exemplified by an equal increase in 'Keep Left' signs. The small market on the left is a relic of the town's original Royal Charter.

Caption For Stroud, Cainscross 1925

The DD registration tells us that the car chugging its way into town from the direction of Nailsworth was local, registered in Gloucestershire.

Caption For Tetbury, View From Cutwell C1955

This Cotswold market town possesses one of the greatest concentrations of protected buildings in the country. Among them is the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

Caption For Whitchurch, White Hart Corner 1939

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

Caption For Richmond, Frenchgate 1913

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

Caption For Eastbourne, Meads Road 1890

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

Caption For Gravesend, The Clock Tower C1950

John Johnson's imposing Gothic clock tower, built in 1887 of white stone with sporadic red bands and gabled clock faces, was originally intended to form the centrepiece of a new building development, some

Caption For Barnwood, Barnwood Road C1955

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Caption For Crewe, Rolls Royce Works C1955

Although it was undoubtedly the railways that first brought heavy industry to the region (indeed, they were for a long time the major employers in the town), it was not long before other

Caption For Cromer, The East Beach 1901

Once Cromer and Sheringham became popular as holiday destinations, the Runtons (the villages between the towns) enjoyed the benefits of the overflowing holiday trade.

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

Once Cromer and Sheringham became popular as holiday destinations, the Runtons (the villages between the towns) enjoyed the benefits of the overflowing holiday trade.

Caption For Kendal, Stramongate Bridge 1891

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

Caption For Heswall, Telegraph Road C1955

For most people, the village of Heswall is centred on this road, the A540, linking Chester with all the towns along the western side of the Wirral.

Caption For Melksham, The Hospital C1950

Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town. It was opened by the Marquis of Bath on 23 July 1938.

Caption For Newport, Commercial Street C1955

Commercial Street was pedestrianised in 1986, but here we can see it bustling with traffic and pedestrians.