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Former Pupil 1957 1963

My maiden name is Lynda Roworth, and I have fond memories of attending Rotherham High School for Girls. I played hockey (right wing) for the school team - Christine Cutts was the first captain I remember. We rarely had school ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham by Lynda Roworth Parziale

Carnival Day 1932

Southend carnivals were always a wonderful attraction and Mrs Olley, then 22 years old, remembers boarding HMS HOOD on it's visit to the town in 1932.

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Jennifer Read

Upper Day House

The women of my father's family decided to go to Shropshire to get away from the bombs in London. There were about 7 women, mostly Harts, who went & rented Upper Day House with their children, about 10/11 children. The farm ...Read more

A memory of Church Preen in 1941 by Patricia Bunce

Twickenham In The 60's

I lived and worked in Twickenham from 1962 and 1969. I lived at 125, Staines Road and worked for the Metropolitan Water Board, based at a small depot in Nelson Road, close to the fish and chip shop. I was what was called ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by Alfred Winkworth

Memories Of Cannock

These photographs remind me of Cannock and how it was when I was a child, ten years old in 1965. It's an odd thing to remember and I wonder if anyone else remembers the public toilets that were downstairs beneath the grandstand, ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1965

Memories Of St Peters And Broadstairs

I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Ronald Taylor

The Village Policeman 1979 To 1989

I remember well pushing my police bicycle around Kempston, covering Spring Road across to St Johns Avenue and over to the chantry factory estate. I was the last of the resident beat officers living and working my ...Read more

A memory of Kempston in 1979 by Donald Underwood

The Building Of The M1 Motorway

Living on Tongwell farm was for me a great deal of fun and we always had plenty of things to occupy our time. We attended school in Newport Pagnell and usually got there on the bike and went to our grandmother's house ...Read more

A memory of Tongwell in 1959 by Bob Anderson

Ackworth

My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Scorah) used to live in Town End Avenue, Low Ackworth. I remember visiting them with my mother, while my dad was at war. We used to catch the bus from Scunthorpe to Waterdale, Doncaster. Then we would dash ...Read more

A memory of Ackworth in 1940 by Tony Crawshaw

A Wonderful Time In Copper Street

My name is Carole McCarthy (nee MALONE) I was born in December 1951 in a maternity unit on Rochdale Road near to the Embassy Club. I lived in Copper Street in Collyhurst which had Barney's at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Carole Mc Carthy

Captions

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Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1898

This was completed in 1899, and opened on 9 May by the Duchess of Kent. A popular promenade, it was also used as a low water landing stage for excursions and paddle steamers.

Caption For Abingdon, Abbey Mill 1890

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates. However, nothing remains of its great monastic church.

Caption For Leicester, The Town Hall C1955

Thirty years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped

Caption For Nuneaton, C1960

Once famous for the manufacture of ribbons, Nuneaton's industrial base diversified to include ironworks, worsted factories, cotton and silk goods.

Caption For St Austell, Market Street C1960

This photograph was taken around lunchtime, and parked cars are beginning to congest the scene.

Caption For Bromsgrove, Aerial View C1955

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Caption For Bromsgrove, Aerial View C1955

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Caption For Ludlow, Lecturer's House 1923

Its assets were transferred to the town by charter in 1551. The appointment of a public preacher was paid from these funds, and this house was built in 1611 to house the town's Preacher.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

Caption For Liskeard, Barras Street Parade 1893

This distinguished market town lies at the head of a valley.

Caption For Wellingborough, The Hind Hotel C1950

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

Caption For Halifax, Town Hall 1900

Set in the foothills of the Pennines, Halifax is one of the great cloth towns of England and has been a producer of cloth since the 13th century.

Caption For Retford, Trinity Hospital C1955

The village of West Retford, with its own medieval parish church, St Michael's, lies on the west bank of the River Idle, and has long been absorbed into the town.

Caption For Halifax, Town Hall 1900

Set in the foothills of the Pennines, Halifax is one of the great cloth towns of England and has been a producer of cloth since the 13th century.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1900

Tenterden is a beautiful old Kentish town close to the Rother Levels. It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town.

Caption For Buxton, Spring Gardens 1923

With increases in both population and numbers of visitors to the town, provision had to be made for their shopping requirements.

Caption For Brixham, The Harbour 1925

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

Caption For Llandrindod Wells, Station Crescent 1962

The prominence of brick buildings here demonstrates a late flourish in the development of this town: the railway brought both bricks and visitors to the town.

Caption For Pontefract, Ropergate C1965

Looking down Ropergate towards the Market Place, on the left we see the old Crescent Cinema (1926-1993), one of five picture palaces once in the town.

Caption For Lincoln, Stonebow C1955

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar’s.

Caption For Wetherby, Market Place 1909

This scene is a contrast with the one seven years earlier, when the town packed into the Market Place to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

Caption For Swindon, Regents Circus C1955

The View North from the Town Hall This view, taken from the Town Hall, shows the layout of Regent Circus leading to Regent Street in the 1950s.

Caption For Stroud, Town Centre C1965

The camera is looking towards Russell Street and George Street, with Sims clock at their junction. Before the clock was built in the early 1920s, this was the main taxi rank in the town centre.

Caption For Minchinhampton, Market Square C1955

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.