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My Stay At Collaton Cross

I lived in Collaton Cross for a short while when my Husband was in the R.A.F. My surname then was TURTLE. My son Nicholas was born in the house in Collaton Cross. He was ill at birth and taken to Freedom Fields Hospital in ...Read more

A memory of Collaton in 1961 by Shelagh Strom

Happy Memories

The High Street is where I was born in 1955.  In the street was the Working Mans Club, the Cinema and 'Jeffrey's' (the sweet shop where my brother and I used to go and spend out pocket money on a Saturday).  Once a year all the ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach in 1961 by Julia Nation

Florries Chip Shop, The Square, Sandbach

Florries Chip Shop - what memories - greasy, white chips, but they were the best!  Florrie was always dressed in black - like a Victorian (which she probably was).  The shop was situated on the corner of the ...Read more

A memory of Sandbach in 1963 by Sue Tilley

Local Bakery

Hello. My name is Sheila and I often search the webb for things in reference to Torquay, Devon. My mother lived there for a short while in 1946 where she met my father, his name was John and he was in the navy. He was helping out at a ...Read more

A memory of Torquay in 1946 by S Smith

Hilton Village

My father, Dennis Jepson, lived in Hilton, at the time the Manor was still in operation. He remembered having to doff your hat to the Lord of the Manor, if he were seen in the streets of Hilton. My father was about 8 at ...Read more

A memory of Hilton by Evelyn Jepson

My Father Worked At This Shop

My father Ron Burchell worked at the shop seen in this photograph.  The Burchell family had lived in the village for generations.  The owner of the shop was Edward Grinstead and his wife Millie who was my godmother. ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Wendy Carey

The Memories

I was brought up in Ecclefechan and my mother has lived there all her life. I started Hoddom Primary School in 1970. I can't remember who my P1 teacher was - it may have been Mrs Dodds. I do remember having Mrs McEwan in P2, Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Ecclefechan by Jane Mc Gillion

Mimi And Grandad's Sweet Shop

My grandparents owned the sweet shop at the end of this parade. They were Harry and Gladys Godwin. My mother grew up there, as did my Uncle Paul. My brother and I have hundreds of fantastic memories from the 1970s. I ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1971 by Jonathon Cooke

Lost Love

I met my late wife Angela in Walkford in 1960 when we were both very young. I was on holiday on my motorbike with three of my pals, and she was on a bicycle. It was a hot August bank holiday. She lived in Heath Road and was very girlish for ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1960 by Peter Mccormack

The Perfect Holiday

In the late 1950s we had a couple of holidays in Bracklesham bay, which was then a tiny, but growing village. I had never seen shops which were the equivalent of wooden shacks mounted on bricks. There were some modern bits; ...Read more

A memory of Bracklesham Bay in 1959 by Tony Steadman

Captions

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Caption For Wakefield, The Grammar School C1955

This was originally the West Riding Proprietary School, built at a cost of £15,000 and opened by its President, Earl Fitzwilliam on 6 August 1834.

Caption For Henbury, Blaise Castle C1955

The government intended to use the provisions of the Act to make the American colonies pay for their own defence and to contribute towards the costs of the Seven Years War.

Caption For Hatfield, St Etheldreda's Church C1960

It dates from the 13th century and contains the Salisbury Chapel, built in 1618 to hold the tomb of Robert Cecil, first earl of Salisbury, at a cost of £460.

Caption For Preston, The Parish Church 1893

There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

Caption For Preston, St Walburge's Church 1897

There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

Caption For Measham, Car Auctions Ltd C1965

His bricks were his reply to Government proposals to tax bricks after the costly War of American Independence in 1782.

Caption For Hamble, The Harbourside C1955

In the 1970s a 5-bedroom property near Hamble River cost £40,000.

Caption For Porthmadog, Harbour 1908

If the date of the picture is correct, 1908 is quite late for a paddle-tug to be serving at other than a major coal port such as Cardiff, Sunderland or Seaham.

Caption For Basingstoke, Market Place And Town Hall C1955

When the Spencer Davies Group performed here, tickets cost 7s 6d. Other performers were the Troggs from Andover and David Bowie. The Town Hall is now the Willis Museum.

Caption For Keighley, From Parish Church C1900

Broth with dumplings cost one penny a bowl. We are looking across Cook Lane towards Townfield Gate. All of this was cleared for the new shopping centre and bus station.

Caption For Hayling Island, Mengham Road C1965

In 1933 nine Hayling coastguard cottages plus a building plot were sold for £3,280, and in 1965 a 4-bedroom house with garden and garage in Hayling cost £10,500.

Caption For Lytham, Lowther Gardens 1895

By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks. By 1880 water was being piped from Grizedale reservoir, and a new railway station was ready in the same year.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Cannington Viaduct 1903

Despite the scale of the engineering, the cost of building the line, including land acquisition, was a reasonable £67,000.

Caption For Padstow, Harbour 1901

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

Caption For Manchester, Old Trafford 1897

The stand we see here was built in 1884 of red brick at a cost of £9,033 (£2,000 more than the estimate).

Caption For Haywards Heath, Oaklands 2005

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess

Caption For Ormskirk, The Catholic Church 1895

Fundraising started in earnest, and by 7 August 1850 the Church of St Anne was completed at a cost of £4,000.

Caption For Worthing, South Street 1899

A Town Hall with a clock was built at a cost of £1,215 8s 10d on land at the northern end of South Street and opened without ceremony in 1835.

Caption For Goudhurst, The Village And St Mary's Church 1901

The large squat tower of St Mary's was built between 1638-40 at a cost of £750.

Caption For East Dereham, 1893

It has a Norman south doorway and a celebrated panelled font of 1468 which cost £12 13s 9d.

Caption For Portland, Chesil Beach 1890

It took 23 years to build, using mainly convict labour from the Verne Prison on the island, cost £1m, and was formally opened in 1872. It remains one of the largest naval harbours in the world.

Caption For New Brighton, The Beach 1887

Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.

Caption For Wetherby, Market Place 1909

Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300. Little here has changed today, except that the Town Hall chimneys have been shortened.

Caption For Abbots Langley, The Ovaltine Dairies C1960

the product had dropped and parts of the farm had fallen into disrepair; in 1975, the 185ft Ovaltine chimney, which had been built using a quarter of million bricks for £7000, was demolished at a cost