Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Rock And Roll Years

I lived in South Harrow from birth in 1945 in 125 Roxeth Green Avenue. I attended Roxeth Hill primary school until failing the eleven plus and then went to Lascelles Secondary Modern. Not the best of pupils although I was in ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1959 by Christopher West

Tricorn And Charlotte St

I worked at Fine Fare and the Landport Drapery Bazaar in 1970/71 and was a member of the Tricorn Club on top of the Tricorn. My favourite locals were the Coxs Hotel and the Casbah Pub both in Charlotte St. The landlord of ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1971 by Chris Evans

Earliest Memory

I was born 5 Monica Street in 1943, my earliest memory is of a huge hound leaning over me - for some reason I wasn't frightened. In my twenties looking through some photos with my mum I found my hound, a very small terrier which ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1943 by Janice Rose Nee Mordecai

The Old Odeon.

If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Kenneth Little

Ye Original Pharmacy

My dad was Eddie Cattell who ran Ye Original Pharmacy at 104 Leicester Road opposite Sandhurst Street School. We lived at the shop before moving to 41 Fairstone Hill when the houses there were built. I went to Sandhurst Street, ...Read more

A memory of Oadby by Steve Cattell

A Wartime Symbol Of Defiance A Giant Meat Pie!

One of Bradford’s famous literary sons was the author and playwright J B Priestley, who was born in Mannheim Road, Bradford, on 13 September 1894. J B Priestley provided Britain with a rather strange ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1940 by Julia Skinner

Happy Days In Bakersfields

I was born in Nottingham in 1939 and we lived on Parkdale Road, Bakersfields. Have many happy memories of Parkdale Junior School - Parkdale Cow Sheds! Mrs Stubbins taught the 5-year olds, then Miss Walmsley, Miss ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1949 by Kathleen East

A Watchet Boy

I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by Noel Taylor

Dancing In The Afternoon Matinee

I remember dancing after school in Horsell town hall on Horsell main street in the 50s. I was at Goldsworth School, Woking in those years. My friend David and I were always dancing there, on Wednesdays I think. Two ...Read more

A memory of Horsell in 1952 by William Patten

The Coronation

I was only 3 years old and we lived in Elthorne Rd just across the street from The Militia Canteen on the corner of Villier St. I do remember the flags and bunting draped across the front of the buildingl and the coronation childrens ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1952 by Philip Cousins

Captions

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Caption For Edgware, Station Road C1950

Visit today, and see that the pub has gone, and that offices and shops of little architectural merit have come to dominate the street scene.

Caption For Shrewsbury, High Street 1931

High street shoppers in 1931 were finding that prices were continuing to fall back to their pre-Great War levels.

Caption For Glentham, Moncks Arms Hotel, Caenby Corner 1953

The A15 is in fact a Roman road – Ermine Street.

Caption For Andover, East Street 1904

East Street used to lead from the Common Acre past a number of big houses. On the right, three dormers mark the roof of the Manse to the Congregational Church, built in 1780.

Caption For Eynsford, 1905

Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace. W Pocock, on the right, is a butcher's shop.

Caption For Henfield, Golden Square C1955

There are two old coaching inns in the High Street: the 14th-century George and the White Hart. In the picture an old-style touring caravan hitched up to its towing car waits at the roadside.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Academy 1897

The first School building was constructed not too far from the church in what was to become Academy Street.

Caption For Cheam, High Street 1927

Above the third vehicle, making its way down the High Street towards the junction, is the sign of the original Harrow Inn, which was demolished in 1934 and replaced by the present building.

Caption For Nottingham, University, Hugh Stewart Hall C1955

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

Caption For Castle Donington, Borough Street C1955

The photographer stood with his back to the impressive medieval castle motte to look across The Hollow into Borough Street and the town, with its excellent array of mainly 18th-century

Caption For Kilby, Main Street C1965

The unprepossessing church of St Mary Magdalen by Henry Goddard (1813-99 - see St Andrew's, Countesthorpe) sits on the south side of the main street.

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

It is interesting to contrast the fine street light on the left with the vision of things to come on the right. Behind it is an appalling flat-roofed modern intrusion.

Caption For Grantham, Angel And Royal Hotel C1955

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1960

residence of successive members of one family: James Brooks came to Odiham in 1818 to join an attorney's partnership, and his descendants continued as solicitors in a purpose-built office in Church Street

Caption For Fenstanton, Chequer Street C1955

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

Caption For Uttoxeter, Market Place C1965

The High Street served as the main thoroughfare until the bypass, first mooted before the war, was eventually built.

Caption For Shaw, Market Street C1950

Most local needs could be found on Market Street, with its stone-fronted shops. Many of Shaw`s sturdy stone terraced houses had no bathrooms, and a tin bath is on sale on the left.

Caption For Alderley Edge, London Road 1896

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

Caption For Castle Donington, Borough Street C1955

The photographer stood with his back to the impressive medieval castle motte to look across The Hollow into Borough Street and the town, with its excellent array of mainly 18th-century

Caption For Quorn, Cross C1965

It is interesting to contrast the fine street light on the left with the vision of things to come on the right. Behind it is an appalling flat-roofed modern intrusion.

Caption For Sandwich, Town Hall 1924

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets. The Elizabethan town hall is now the museum.

Caption For Blackburn, Market 1894

Our photograph shows the open market in New Market Street. Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and we can also see the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1886

This is the top of Market Street, adjacent to Piccadilly.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

Market Street was notorious for traffic congestion even in the 1880s.