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Blyth Boyhood

I went to St Wilfrid's Junior in Blyth. Great times, great memories. Rafts on the river at Cowpen, summer days up Humford and the hapenny woods. Days out at the Spanish City. Pit galas, the waltzer on the market place, ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1955 by Anthony Tolhurst

Sunny Days At Market Drayton Swimming Pool.

I lived in Market Drayton from 1960 to 1963. I was at Market Drayton Grammar school and I lived on Buntingsdale estate. I remember going to the swimming pool. It was always sunny when I went. I would ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1961 by Audrey Edwards

Early Childhood In Romford

I was born in 1953 and lived for the first 3 years in an old house in Junction Road (Number 8) with my parents and Mum's mum (Granny). The back garden of the house seemed to be a jungle and had its end boundary with ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Roger Harley

Shops And Shopping

I remember spending my pocket money in Adcocks and Percivals, at the top of Duke Street. He had a terrific range of toys for a small town shop, from toy soldiers to model railways. He had a working model railway set up ...Read more

A memory of Princes Risborough

The Cattle Market

The wooden railings to be seen in this photo is the old Epping cattle market where the animals were sold on market days. There is a memorial/water fountain still standing which would have originally been in the middle of the cattle market at the church end of Epping High Street.

A memory of Epping

Childhood

I was born in Colliers Wood but moved to Tooting soon after and lived in Fishponds Rd throughoutthe Second World War, I attended Broadwater Road School and Ensham Central in Fransiscan Road. I must admit I don't remember the war very much ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Constance Freeman

Living In Corby

I attended Rowlett Road Infants and Studfall Junior School and Corby Grammar School. I lived in Irving Grove. I enjoyed growing up in Corby and I remember going to the dances at the Catholic School run by a lady named Nellie? The ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Lily Redmond

Fond Memories Of Brecks Lane

I have fond memories of living down Brecks Lane for the first 7 years of my life. I remember walking down the lane past Brecks farm down to the Billy woods with my mother and our pet corgi..Bunty we called her. My dad was ...Read more

A memory of Kippax by Nigel Schofield

The Simpsons

My relatives in Eastwood were called Simpson. They kept the wet fish shop on Nottingham Road. There were Benjamin, Sally, Ada, Maud. Maud was married to Arthur Hartwell who kept the Machin and Hartwells shop next door. I used to stay ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1946 by Gordon Mokes

Family From Wickham

Hi, I have pictures of the cottages in Bridge Street ,I think it is 9 BS, where my father's grandmother Emily Pratt lived, she was born in 1856 and died 1914. We have a lot of family ties to this area as most of my father's side ...Read more

A memory of Wickham in 1953 by Marsha Leathley

Captions

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Caption For Minehead, The Plume Of Feathers Hotel 1892

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

Caption For Penryn, Street 1890

This ancient borough and market town is most famous for its fine-grained granite, which was used in the construction of Waterloo Bridge.

Caption For Launceston, Square And War Memorial C1922

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

Caption For Launceston, Square And War Memorial C1922

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

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Caption For Tetbury, C1955

Tetbury retains all the charms of a market town from the time of the Stuarts.

Caption For London, Covent Garden Porters 1885

The flower market was no less frenetic.

Caption For Melton Mowbray, Market Place 1932

Crowds gather under tented canopies and around trestle-tabled market stalls to snatch up bargains, just as they have done for 500 years. Good 18th-century buildings dominate the scene.

Caption For Aylesbury, Temple Square C1955

Temple Square was probably a principal crossroads in the 10th-century Anglo-Sacon burh, with Kingsbury the market place at the south-east corner of the early town.

Caption For Plymouth, The Barbican C1955

The open building on the left, now occupied by Dartington Glass, was until the 1990s the old fish market, built in 1892.

Caption For Pickering, Potter Hill C1932

Now known as the 'Gateway to the Moors', Pickering is a small market town still served by the steam trains of the North York Moors Railway.

Caption For Hereford, St Peter's Square C1950

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

Caption For Aldeburgh, High Street 1896

A similar view to 33362, looking towards the old market square two years later, highlights the range of architecture in this fine ancient thoroughfare.

Caption For Wisbech, High Street 1929

This photograph looks away from the Market Place, along Wisbech's High Street.

Caption For Lechlade, Burford Street C1955

Lechlade's function as a market town was overshadowed by its near neighbour Fairford.

Caption For Chippenham, The Old Town Hall C1955

Records show that there were butchers here back into the 19th century, linking the area with its designation as the shambles on the edge of the market.

Caption For Ipswich, Buttermarket 1921

Up until 1810, Ipswich's Butter Market was indeed the scene for the sale of butter and other products. At this time, it is one of the main shopping streets in the town.

Caption For Menheniot, Village 1912

A few miles outside the market town of Liskeard, but away from main roads, the village has largely escaped modern developments.

Caption For Ashburton, East Street And Bull Ring 1922

In the Victorian era there was a bustling market near the Bullring, and four annual fairs.

Caption For Newton Abbot, The Market 1925

The original Charter for this busy market was given around 1250 at the time the town became a borough.

Caption For Kendal, Highgate, Sandes Hospital Gatehouse 1914

During the 17th century, Kendal expanded rapidly as a market town serving the southern part of the Lake District, and this gateway was one of many which served the yards where the woollen merchants plied

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1965

We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place. The two tailors and outfitters businesses, John Collier and J E Hall, sit side-by-side, next to the Home & Colonial Tea Store.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1965

We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place. The two tailors and outfitters businesses, John Collier and J E Hall, sit side-by-side, next to the Home & Colonial Tea Store.

Caption For Winster, Market House C1955

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired, in 1906, in the Peak District by the National Trust.

Caption For Evesham, Bell Tower From The Avon 1892

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.