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William Evans born 1843 in Llanelli, Camarthen Wales moved to Bedlington Northumberland in 1861 and married Mabel Bell, in 1863. They first lived at the Barrington Colliery with their young ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Delaval in 1860 by Jemilla Russell Clough

Brentford

What wonderful memories of Brentford. My name was Dorothy Pearce I lived in Netley Road with sisters Beryl and Hazel and brothers Richard and Philip. My Nan lived in Potteery Road next door to Edie Joyce. The Shepherds lived opposite ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1943 by Dorothy Hill

Return To Aveley With Glenda

Hello Glenda, my dear. I remember that name - Lighten. Where is Eastern Ave? Is it the road where Trevor Johnson and David Warren lived? Michael Cox there too. Remember him? Now I remember our dads - good mates - working ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Colin Newberry

Memories Of Wellfield Road Streatham

I was born at 114 Wellfield Road, the home of my Nan and Grandad, Dorothy and George Osborne. My Mum and Dad, Phyllis and Bert Davis moved over the road to 173 Wellfield Road with my 3 brothers, Terry (Nobby), ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1954 by June Pipkin

Heeley

I am trying to find Photographs, Drawings, or Paintings of the houses and if possible the Old Farm Cottages opposite the Heeley Parish Church on Gleadless Rd. Heeley. They consisted of a block of 4 bay windowed terraced houses, numbered from ...Read more

A memory of Heeley in 1956 by Leonard Young

Farndon Ferry

the ferry was run by Charles Edward Saxby until his death in 1959. It was then taken over by Sidney Clarke until approx. 1968. In the floods of 1963/4 we couldn't cross the river and had to row across the fields to Rolleston to ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent

Cement Works Holborough Road

I too went to Holmesdale secondary, it was called Snodland Secondary when I first went there. My Dad and Grandfather, Peter and Henry Buss both worked as lorry drivers at the cement works and we lived in a factory house ...Read more

A memory of Snodland in 1964 by Carole Hooper

Matinee Mayhem

Aged seven I would join the queue outside the cinema each Saturday morning for the children's matinee accompanied by an older cousin. Once the doors were opened we were ushered in by a man with a voice like a sergeant major,he needed ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1951 by Lawrence Michael Whitfield

Boating On This Lake Seemed Quite Dangerous....

I well remember the rowing boats on the lake in Beddington Park. One end of the lake seemed quite dark and sinister, whilst the other was open and safe. I remember creaky oar locks and wooden hulls, and ...Read more

A memory of Beddington by mandyinoz

Memories Of Fenny Stratford

My mother, Florrie Rollings, was born on April 23rd 1891 in one of a small row of cottages, now demolished at the A5 end of Victoria Road. I had many aunts and uncles both in Fenny and in Bletchley. My mother's ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Douglas Tunbridge

Captions

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Caption For Minehead, The Plume Of Feathers Hotel 1892

Today, all that remains of the Plume of Feathers is the stableyard, now used as garages, which can be seen from Tythings Court.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

A few offices would have telephones - but all would need their fireplaces, as the rows of chimney-pots show.

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row.

Caption For Hutton, The Village 1891

This similar view of the village gives a closer impression of the mission house and the row of managers' houses (right).

Caption For Chelmsford, Children, High Street 1898

Their headquarters, ironically, were in the same Middle Row house where the first cholera victims had died.

Caption For Dunchurch, Tudor Cafe C1955

In The Square in front of the church there is a row of almshouses founded in 1693 by Thomas Newcombe, printer to Charles II, James II and William III. These were rebuilt in 1818.

Caption For Twickenham, The George Inn, King Street 2005

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane

Caption For Maidstone, All Saints' Church C1862

in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.

Caption For Margate, Sands 1906

Until 'mixed bathing' was allowed by the Council around 1906/8, the separate rows of bathing machines for the sexes had to be kept apart by a space of 50 yards.

Caption For Twickenham, Heath Road & Cross Deep Junction 2005

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane

Caption For Carlisle, Shaddon Mill From The Victoria Viaduct 2005

Today, it is hard to understand why people would choose to work such long hours in often terrible conditions, but with the national population growing, unskilled factory work seemed to offer the

Caption For Henley On Thames, Temple Island 1899

These are now the Century and Wyfold Galleries, but for years they were the premises of Shepherd and Dee, boat builders.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Little Market House, Cornmarket 2005

Few of these burgage plots survived the 20th century, but until 1900 on the south side of Paul's Row, the High Street, and Easton Street the burgage plots ran down to the banks of the River Wye

Caption For Coulsdon, The Recreation Ground C1960

…Cornfields were seen where the Fairdene Estate now rises whilst High Street, Coulsdon [Brighton Road] did not exist.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

This view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Ferry Boat 1896

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.

Caption For Lincoln, Guildhall 1890

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street 1923

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Caption For Durham, St Mary Le Bow 1918

St Mary-le-Bow is thought to occupy the site of the first Saxon church to be built on the peninsula - this is where St Cuthbert's remains were housed when they were first brought to Durham.

Caption For Winster, The Post Office C1960

There have since been a few comparatively minor changes to the structure, most notably the conversion of the garage doors into a double bow window.

Caption For Lewes, High Street 1898

Hardy Tobacconists are now Caburn secondhand books, while the buildings on the left - now divested of hung tiles - are the secondhand and antiquarian booksellers Bow Windows Bookshop.

Caption For Ashford, High Street 1906

The double bow-fronted house has acquired an awning.

Caption For Buckingham, Bridge Street C1950

The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall. The gilded swan now faces to the left.