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Sprinch Yard

i was born in 1946 off Latham avenue I can remember the big pond as we called it being drained at the bottom Latham avenue, and old wooden boats exposed and burnt...to build spur road ? My dad worked at old quay offices in Mersey road and ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by edwardsg

Wargrave In Berkshire About 1966.

I used to work for a company called David Greig, they had provisions shops in many towns with the flagship shop at that time (mid sixties) being the one at Reading. I worked mainly in the Orpington shop and was asked to ...Read more

A memory of Wargrave

George Eliot's Childhood Home

Griffiths House Hotel was the home of Mary Ann Evans,(George Eliot) She based inher writings on life in Nuneaton. If you know the area well and then read her books you can relate to Nuneaton quite easily. The Work House ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton by Patricia Byrne

Park Lane Junction With Wembley High Road

Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by ribblehead

Saturday Mornings.

My cousin and I lived at the top of the Oldpark Road, near Ballysillan, in the mid-1950's and every Saturday morning during our tenth and eleventh years, we would catch the bus into town, walk around the City Hall and down to ...Read more

A memory of Belfast by lawrenceclarke

Moulds My Dad's Old Shop

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Middlesbrough Boys High School

I went to MBHS in 1960/64 when it was up at Prissick Base, just moved up from the town adjacent to the Gazette Office and Teesside Poly or Constantine College as it was then. They have knocked down the schools at ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough by ian.cromack296

Hythe Ferry And The Liners

From 1954-60 I travelled from Blackfield to the Gregg School in Winn Road. It was a 'long and winding' road by bus, so it became an adventure to travel by the Hythe Ferry. A walk or run up the pier, or a fun ride in the ...Read more

A memory of Hythe by Clifford Clifford

Third Issue Of My " Barking Ramblings".

Living in the prefabs in Ilford Lane I could walk into town up Fanshawe Avenue, or go via Tanner Street and then Glenny Road or, and my memory may be playing tricks on me but I think it was Harpur Road and then up by ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950

It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Eric Brass

Captions

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Caption For Bath, The Abbey, West Front 1887

Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade.

Caption For Liskeard, Wesleyan Church 1907

This fine chapel in Barn Street was erected in 1846 and enlarged in 1862 during the period when the town was experiencing the effects of the mining boom around Caradon just to the north

Caption For Abergavenny, Cross Street 1893

Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, book- seller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, From The Air C1955

In the centre of this aerial photograph is an area known as Harvey town after a previous owner of the land. In the late 1950s all this area was cleared to build a multi-storey car park.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Victoria Pier And Duchess Of Devonshire 1912

This low tide view from the Outer Breakwater looks northwards to Victoria Pier and the town as the Weymouth paddle- steamer 'Duchess of Devonshire' reverses away from the Cobb.

Caption For Builth Wells, The Bridge C1955

This finely proportioned bridge was constructed in 1779 and widened in 1820. Builth grew up under the shadow of the castle, which was rebuilt by Edward I in 1277.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, Central Promenade C1947

Although Great Clacton was long-established as a medieval market village, the seaside town did not really develop until late in the 19th century.

Caption For Berkeley, High Street 1956

The arched entrance to The White Hart (centre) reminds us that this inn, along with others in the town such as The Berkeley Arms, rang to the clatter of hooves in the days of horse- drawn coaches.

Caption For Morley, Queens Street C1965

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

Caption For Diss, Mere Street 1925

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Town Hall C1955

One of the highest towns in Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton gets the 'Chipping' in its name from the Saxon word for market.

Caption For St Annes, St Anne's Square C1955

The Midland Bank is on the left, with Stead & Simpson's shoe shop next door. Wide streets denote a planned town.

Caption For Holyhead, Market Street C1955

Holyhead has seen a decline in recent years, although Swift was able to write in 1727 that it was 'scurvy, ill-provided and comfortless', so recent trends may have followed a pattern.

Caption For Hailsham, High Street 1902

Hailsham was a small market town before the railway arrived, after which there was considerable expansion.

Caption For Burton On Trent, C1960

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Caption For Burton On Trent, C1960

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall 1894

The architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, was also responsible for other buildings, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866) and shops on

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, Fair Green C1965

Fair Green lies past the junction of Bell Street and Knight Street and of the site of the town pump. It has an air of quiet elegance in the centre of this bustling town. A

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, High Street 1906

The town of Kingston was awarded County Town status in 1893, which it retained even after becoming a London Borough in 1964.

Caption For Earlestown, Market Street C1960

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

Caption For Tenby, Old Town Wall C1925

The arrow slits are rounded at the bottom to accommodate early firearms and crossbows.

Caption For Sunderland, Fawcett Street 1890

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

The building on the left of this picture is the Institute and Social Club, which was opened in 1937.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1955

This lath and plaster cottage with rust-coloured locally-made roof tiles is typical of the cottages which have been in this part of the town since the 15th century.