Maps

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Memories

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The Assender Or Leyshon Family!

My mum was born in Gilfach Goch (Red Nook) in 1930. Her mother was born Catherine Ann Leyshon and her father Reginald Bernard Assinder, which changed over the years to Assender. My grandmother passed away in 1943 ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1930 by Catherine Capener

My Father's Story

The gentleman talking to the policeman in the photograph is my father Geoffrey Matthews. He told me, that he was asking the bobby what had happened? The policeman said, "a little girl had had a serious accident there". She sadly lost ...Read more

A memory of Thorne by David Matthews

They Were The Days

I grew up in eccles between 1963 and 1985. For those that check these memories or who have already contributed to them, i have attatched a link ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by John Settle

Jennie Field

Taking the bus from Westward Ho! and walking up the high street to Woolworths to buy a record of Roy Orbison singing 'Only the lonely'. That was when you could buy anything you wanted on a 'proper high street' where all the best shops ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 1959 by Jennie Smeath

Wonderful Town

Growing up in Ebbw Vale there was the best four Picture Houses and three dances a week, great youth club r t b and had great time in school. Yea, it was special, used to love to have a pint in Tamplins in James Street or going to ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale by Roland Lewis

My Memories Of Coatbridge

I was born in Marshall St, Old Monklands. I remember playing in the Glen and having to cross a very busy road to get there.West End park was one of my favorite haunts. Iwent to St Josephs Primary school (I think it was ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1953 by Eleanor Carlin

Cws

My Uncle Derrick worked at the CWS. We lived in West Ashton Street where I was born in 1948. I went to Stowell Memorial Infants School then Trafford Road Junior Girls School then Ordsall Secondary Modern School for Girls. I was there on the opening day until I left in the fifth year.

A memory of Salford by Marion Madden

Patons Of Greenock

My mother Jean was born in Greenock in 1916. She married an Englishman and I was born in England in 1941 but spent my holidays with my grandparents, aunts and cousins in Greenock. My grandparents lived in an old tenement in Weir ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1940 by Judy Macdonald

My Chldhood Times

Hi, I was born and brought up in Dipton, I lived in Annfield Street with my dad, Tom Bell, and my nanna, Maria Bell. I went to St Patricks RC School and have good memories of my time there with a few of the teachers being nuns. My ...Read more

A memory of Dipton in 1956 by Alice Bell

After My Time

The 'new' primary school in Cook's Lea (a respected headteacher in Sandwich) was built in the early sixties and is well-located next to the Gunpark to the left. The old C of E Primary School was a solid building and this new school has ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1962 by Michael Mitchell

Captions

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Caption For Abingdon, Market Place 1924

We are looking across the Market Place from the corner of Bridge Street, past the Town Hall.

Caption For Marcham, View From Church Tower C1965

To the right behind the line of lime trees is the east arm of Church Street, which runs along the south side of the churchyard.

Caption For Lacock, The High Street C1955

The High Street was transformed by the BBC in October 1994 into Meryton, the fictional village in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Caption For Holt, High Street C1955

There are excellent parking facilities for vehicles in this part of the High Street.

Caption For Allendale, Main Road C1955

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

Caption For Borden, The Village C1950

We see a view of the main street here; this was probably as busy as it got in those days! The name Borden means 'woodland pasture by the hill'.

Caption For Tywyn, High Street, From The Station 1895

We are looking eastwards into the Welsh mountains along the high street from the railway bridge.

Caption For Langport, Bow Street C1955

This view looks out of the market place into Bow Street, which leads down to the river.

Caption For Guisborough, Priory, The Rose Garden 1906

In the years before the Second World War, the Priory Gardens were entered by a picturesque gateway in Bow Street.

Caption For Calne, Lansdowne Arms Hotel C1960

The road sweeps past the Lansdowne Arms Hotel and, before the A4 road widening, it curved gently up the High Street past imposing shops and banks.

Caption For Manchester, Victoria Buildings 1889

St Mary's Gate is to the left, and the now lost Victoria Street is away to the right, leading to Exchange Station; Cromwell's Statue can just be seen on the far right.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

This railway bridge over Brook Street was taken down a year after the last train to Skipton left Ilkley on 20 March 1965.

Caption For Bedford, High Street From Town Bridge 1921

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

Caption For Wendover, High Street 1901

This view looks down the High Street towards the clock tower. This was built as a market hall and lock up, or temporary prison, in 1842, but in 1870 the clocktower, belfry and spire were added.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street 1925

The adjacent tobacconist's premises bears numerous advertisements for assorted products, while on the opposite side of the street, the hardware store displays some of its stock, including a roll

Caption For Grindleton, Stone Hill And Post Office C1960

The fells sheltering this village, most of which lies at the foot of this steep main street, rise to 1,000ft. The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.

Caption For Barrow Upon Soar, High Street C1965

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

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 Rockingham, The Village C1960

The large gabled house on the left of the street, with the telephone box outside, is the village shop and post office, both of which have since closed.

Caption For Copthorne, Franciscan Convent School C1960

picture shows local shops with a proliferation of signs of all types outside; vending machines are attached to the shopfront.An obtrusive clutter of tall poles lines the road, and a modern concrete street

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

Fortune's Well, the main street (centre right), leads to the tower of the church of St John the Baptist and gives its name to Fortuneswell village.

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 Brecon, Ship Street 1910

This street is a short one, running up into the town after crossing the Usk. The motor car is not yet a common sight, hence the horse-drawn carts going about their business.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road C1955

In the early 1950s, the street lamps were being converted from gas to electricity; these in Lumley Road are the last gas lamps in use just before the changeover.