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Memories
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Working At The Coop Store.
This used to be a very busy street, with the Coop Store, butchers and the office at the back of the butchers, also the coal yard at the back. I worked at the Coop 1957 to 1963, very happy times. In the winter, the manager, ...Read more
A memory of Moulton in 1957 by
Games We Played
Kick the can, blocky, true dare, will, force, cant tell,or promise, I think it went something like that. I can't remember the game but we used a word 'skinch' that meant you where neutural or something like that. I was talking to my old ...Read more
A memory of Crook
Visiting Friendly Germans
Who still alive remembers the several small bombs dropped on the right side of the mountain looking down the valley. The 2 larger ones dropped on the left side and the three bombs dropped in the village itself that ...Read more
A memory of Cwmfelinfach in 1940 by
A Message From Someone I Don't Know, And My Reply....
Although I want to come back and add more odds and ends (and I will do), I had a message from someone I don't know, and in my reply rambled a little. It might be of interest..... The message was: ...Read more
A memory of Maesteg in 1965 by
Holidays In Salford.
Used to love going on holiday to Salford, yes, Salford as far I was concerned it was the greatest place ever when I was a nipper. My dad was a Salford lad born and bred, my gran stayed at number 6 Derby Street, first house on the ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1960 by
East View And Munich
I lived at East View, Number 31 with Edgar and Myfannwy Howells from 1955 onwards. They were my aunt and Uncle. They looked after me when my parents died when I was 5 years of age. East View was a great street to be brought up ...Read more
A memory of Bargoed by
My First School
My very first memory is in 1934 when my parents, sister and I came to live in rooms over a private school in The Mount (from memory) near to a new Fire Station that had just been built. I was four years old and my mother was ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1930 by
Egg And Chips???
I have a strange but lovely memory of Forest Coal Pit. Mum and Dad worked shifts when we were kids so dad would often take the four of us out and about on his own, but being a 70's dad wasn't so good at cooking or organising a ...Read more
A memory of Forest Coal Pit in 1973
Old Bank House, High Street, Cranleigh
My father was part of the family business, H Freemantle and Sons, who were coal merchants for many years in Cranleigh. During the 1950's and 60's we had our office in the Old Bank House at the entrance to the ...Read more
A memory of Cranleigh in 1960 by
Captions
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This view, taken in the same year as 41713, looks northwards from beside the north bank of the pond.
The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along
All the men in this photograph are wearing suits, so it is no wonder that the Fifty Shilling Tailor did a lot of business, It was the accepted mode of dress, particularly for work.
This view shows one of Salter's pleaseure steamers, the 'Henley', having just passed through Burford Bridge heading upstream towards Oxford.
The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by
This is Loves Lane leading off the Main Street and heading for Horn Mill. There is a mixture of housing from thatched and tiled to prefabricated postwar styles.
The old town of Strood, on the west bank of the River Medway, was incorporated into Rochester in 1835.
The High Street approaches the Market Place from the south, slightly downhill beyond the crossroads in the middle distance. The west side of the Market Place is in the distance.
The old town of Strood, on the west bank of the River Medway, was incorporated into Rochester in 1835.
Twenty years later, the scene is much the same, although the street has now been sealed with a tarmacadam surface.
This view of the Wokingham Road entrance is nowadays remarkably unchanged, apart from the loss of the lamps atop the gate piers and of the lodge cupola in the distance.
Taken close to Junction station, this photograph shows the North Devon Infirmary, the white building below the church tower.
A lady pushes a pram towards the shops, while the man beside the Morris Minor (centre left) calls over the road to his wife. The second shop on the left is Lloyds Bank.
We can just see the Market Cross on the right in the distance. Two vehicles from the United Bus Company pick up passengers, the nearer one (centre right) serving the Great Ayton to Redcar route.
Looking at a tranquil summer scene like this, it is difficult to imagine the furious weather to which Torcross is sometimes exposed.
Gazing up the street past Wilks Teenage Fashions (left) with the Elkes Cafe above, we can see Barclays Bank. This was built in 1921 on the site of Huggins & Chambers, an ironmonger's.
Located on the western bank of Southampton Water, in the shadow of an oil refinery and heavy industry, Hythe is unexpectedly pretty in places.
Banks Road and The Crescent (W170049) form the heart of the original village. There is a wide-ranging array of shops, many of them tucked away beneath the arcades.
As well as its three main arches, the bridge also has six smaller flood arches across the fields on the south bank. A
These riverside houses have been replaced by the Albert Embankment, which was built between 1866 and 1870. To the left are the Lambeth potteries, which had operated since Elizabeth I's reign.
Now known as the Shillingford Bridge Hotel, and with a large and rather poor extension replacing the clapboarded building to the right, this Georgian inn is situated on the south bank by the elegant bridge
Two mothers with contrasting baby transport pass the market place. Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
The sign 'Luncheons and Teas' on the right, just beyond the White Hart, advertises the Two Sisters Café, which from 1939 to 1949 was also a guest house.
Upright staves are inserted at the water's edge. These reinforce the efforts we saw in photograph 18208 to diminish the sea's force and to protect the cramped houses and banks.
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