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Saturday Mornings

Saturday mornings was when my mother and I would join the family next door for our day out, down to the Tarpots Corner and a bus into Wescliff by the playing fields and then a dancing lesson at Mimi Greens School of Dancing ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1946 by Colin Mackenzie

My Youth In Stopsley And Luton Bedfordshire

When I was a very young man and I lived in Luton in Bedforshire. I remember my who my Godparents were but only by their surename of Ingham. My fathers name was E dward Shotten Stuart and my mother's was ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1960 by Brian Stuart

The Newsagent In Minster High Street

I have only just seen this site for the first time and was very surprised to see the photograph of the newsagent's shop in the High Street. My mother's sister Elsie Atwell, nee Keen was married to ...Read more

A memory of Minster by Patricia Docwra

Stockton Road

I was born in Flixton before moving with my parents to Stockton Road Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. At the time my dad was working at Metrovicks in Trafford Park before getting a job working for the MOD at The Royal Ordinance Factory - ...Read more

A memory of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1941

My Escolme Childhood And Later Years

My mother was Evelyn Escolme. She was married to Reuben Escolme of Laurel Bank...he was the son of Titus. My mother worked for Seriah Butler. She was put into service at the age of 13, left her home in ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1940 by Avril Grounds

4th Us Infantry Division In Tiverton

I live in Tiverton but only recently discovered that our town hosted the US 4th Infantry Division in the later stages of the 2nd World War. I have been helping the veterans of this Division (The Ivy Division) ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 1944 by John Howard Norfolk

Ightham Village

My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss Tomkins ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by Janet Le Saux

Farming From Horses To Electronics

My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he ...Read more

A memory of Edingley in 1930 by John Watts

Memories Of A 'war Kid'

See my memory under "What did you do in the war, Granddad?' This pic shows the point on the Wey navigation featured in my 'Giving up smoking' story. The barn where the heavy horses were housed is still there, opposite the 'oil mills'. It is now a visitor centre.

A memory of Weybridge in 1940 by Stephen Squires

Holidays In Lightwater

As a very young child coming from Berkshire, I with a brother have spent many years of enjoyment staying with relatives in Grassmere Road in the house where my mother along with other members grew up, The house seemed large ...Read more

A memory of Lightwater by Mark Clarke

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Caption For Heckington, High Street C1955

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Caption For Grosmont, Front Street C1965

Houses here date from the early 19th century, and for shopping the Co-op (left) opened in 1867. Motor cars in this scene are from the same period as TV's Heartbeat, also set in the mid 1960s.

Caption For Grindleton, The Village C1960

Some houses had ledges fitted near chimneys for a witch to rest upon and be appeased. It was always wise to keep on the right side of a witch - their malice was a real fear in Pendle country!

Caption For Maidstone, High Street C1953

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

Caption For Studland, Cottages 1899

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Street C1955

The store was greatly extended from its original size in the mid 1930s by taking over the site of the adjacent Artillery Arms public house.

Caption For Cobham, Leather Bottle 1894

It was the 'clean and commodious ale-house' where the love-lorn Mr Tracy Tupman stayed in Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers'.

Caption For Tenby, The North Bay 1950

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Splash, Bury Road C1955

One of the best-recognised beauty spots in Rickmansworth, the Splash (the town ditch), which is being crossed by the Austin A40, had originally been part of the drive to Bury Manor House, whose gates can

Caption For Brant Broughton, High Street C1955

There is some very attractive brickwork on the house facing the camera.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Avenue 1904

The house on the extreme left belonged to G J Crofts, who could look down the street and see customers entering his large drapery shop in Lumley Road; it later became the offices of the Skegness Standard

Caption For Launceston, Church And Castle And Dockacre House 1906

Built during the reign of Elizabeth I, Dockacre House is the oldest home in Launceston.

Caption For Crossmichael, The Village C1960

Houses and cottages, many single-storey and built of local stone with slate roofs, line the long, winding main street.

Caption For Rothesay, From Chapel Hill 1900

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

Caption For Boston Spa, High Street 1893

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place 1908

It now houses the regimental museum of The Green Howards.

Caption For Basildon, Development Corporation C1960

Their headquarters, Gifford House, were just outside the New Town boundaries, a fact that prompted accusations of stand-offishness.

Caption For Prestbury, High Street 1896

The village is renowned for its famous half-timbered Priest's House, which is thought to date from the 14th century.

Caption For Wingham, The Dog Inn C1955

it is currently a public house serving real ales and an imaginative menu.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, The Parade C1960

As in Eastleigh, the ground floors of houses have been converted. An unseen advantage is that they all have cellars, as the ground slopes away behind.

Caption For Cobham, Leather Bottle 1894

It was the 'clean and commodious ale-house' where the love-lorn Mr Tracy Tupman stayed in Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers'.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Welsh Row 1896

After this picture was taken a new wing was built on the far side, brick, but painted to match the rest of the house, and ornamented with the Stanley crest in the gable, a common feature

Caption For Halton, From The River C1955

The River Lune runs south of the village, which has Saxon and Roman remains under today's sprawling housing estates.

Caption For West Bay, The Harbour C1960

We are looking north-westwards from the Quay beside Pier Terrace to the old Salt House (centre), which is now the Harbour Museum.