Maps

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Memories

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Happy Memories

When I lived in standon my mum was a teacher at the school I can remember May Day dancing in the street ,I have many memory's of swimming in the ford and helping to push cars that got stuck in the water .calling at westwoods on my way home ...Read more

A memory of Standon by andyandlinda

A Child Was Born In Bargoed

Born on the 15th April 1950 in my grandparents front room in Bristol Terrace I didn't realize until now what we had in those " good old days". I am a self made millionaire but I would trade all what I have now for those ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by rthomas

Lander Road/Beechwood Road

My Mum was born in Lawler Street one of 12 children. My Dad was from Beechwood Road and they lived there after they married until 1948 when they moved to the new housing estate Cumpsty Road. My grandparents Joseph and Margaret Parker had moved from Lawler Street to Moss Lane then Daley Road.

A memory of Litherland by farann

Waterloo Chapel Bath Street Liverpool

Hi I was born in Westkirby the Wirral but have been living in Denmark since Iwas 18. The other day I came across an old box at a car boot sale in Denmark with the letters Waterloo Chapel Liverpool across ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo

Memories Of Fenny Stratford

My mother, Florrie Rollings, was born on April 23rd 1891 in one of a small row of cottages, now demolished at the A5 end of Victoria Road. I had many aunts and uncles both in Fenny and in Bletchley. My mother's ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Douglas Tunbridge

Peel Street School

My grandmother and her brothers and sisters attended this school as did my mother and moi. I have many memories of the school. Endless games of football in the yard, rain or shine. Two frightening headmistress Lord and Riley. ...Read more

A memory of Cloughfold by risingsun456

Happy Days

I was borne in 1956 in a house on Broadlea Grove Bramley and lived there until I got married in 1975 had really happy times and Iv lots of happy memories playing on the streets or in Bramley Fallwoods and at the canal I still live in Bramley but on the Swinnow

A memory of Bramley by maryhanley58

Harts Hill, Brierley Hill, West Midlands

Before Gordon Crescent and Terrace Street estate was built my Great Grandfather owned a cottage at the end of Terrace Street. It was called Harts Hill Cottage and was quite substantial and was double fronted ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill

John Ruskin Grammar, Tamworth Rd.

Lived in Norbury, got a scholarship in 1946. French teacher Miss Hickmott, and Math teacher Mr. Smith. Raided Old Palace girls school with snowballs in winter. I was in Gamma class (yellow). I remember the Tuck Shop across the street where I would buy penny fizzes, and sherbet dabs.

A memory of Croydon by ericd

Shortmead Street School

I was born in Biggleswade in 1947 and left for Suffolk in 1957. I remember going to the infants school and then shortmead street. We did maypole dancing and got hit over the knuckles regularly by horrible teachers! Pretty ...Read more

A memory of Biggleswade

Captions

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Caption For Taunton, Market Place 1902

Industrial disputes and rural rebellions brought conflicts and riots to its streets.

Caption For Bagshot, High Street 1925

There is little motorised traffic, but several bicycles can be seen in this picture of the High Street in busy Bagshot.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

The buildings of the High Street can be seen through the central arch.

Caption For Hemswell, All Saints Church C1955

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.

Caption For Hathersage, The George 1919

In this photograph, an early automobile chugs down the street, past a white-coated delivery boy pushing a handcart outside the inn.

Caption For Hythe, High Street 1899

The long, narrow High Street, with the Rose & Crown Inn on the right, is at the foot of a steep hill overlooking the sea.

Caption For Littlehampton, South Terrace 1890

Much later it became a fashionable seaside resort, its seafront and neighbouring streets lined with handsome Georgian and Victorian villas.

Caption For Crawley, Old House 1903

The timber-framed cottages seen here were part of Mitchell's Farm, which survived until the 1920s and was the last working farm in Crawley High Street.

Caption For Snodland, Holborough Road C1965

The camera looks towards The Bull (right) on the corner of the High Street where it separates Malling Road from Holborough Road, and The Bricklayers' Arms is on the left just past the shops.

Caption For Bideford, The Quay 1919

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, 1901

Immediately to its left is the Victoria Hall on Main Street.

Caption For London, Marble Arch C1915

To the left is Oxford Street, where Selfridge's had just opened.

Caption For Plymouth, Old Town Street 1889

The modern Old Town Street runs more or less on the path of the old one.

Caption For Ashford, High Street C1950

Its central High Street, though still recognisably Georgian in character above ground level, was seeing the introduction of modern shopfronts and advertising signs.

Caption For Wisbech, High Street C1953

The most striking change comes with the pedestrianisation of this area and the erection of a wrought iron archway, proclaiming the High Street.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1965

The most striking change comes with the pedestrianisation of this area and the erection of a wrought iron archway, proclaiming the High Street.

Caption For Luxulyan, The Village 1907

The cottages in the winding street are solidly built of local granite.

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

The lack of traffic in the main street is in sharp contrast with the scene today in this busy little village in the south-west Lakes.

Caption For Wollaston, High Street C1955

On the right of the street, on the upper storey, is a sign for Wollaston Band Club. The village still has many pubs and clubs today.

Caption For Oxford, High Street 1922

Soaring above the High Street is the spire of St Mary the Virgin Church, dating back to the 14th century. The even older tower is 13th-century.

Caption For Hemswell, All Saints Church C1955

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints' Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.

Caption For Melton Mowbray, South Prade C1960

In this predominately 19th-century street, it is the once-familiar that takes the eye: the delivery boy with his white coat and bicycle basket, and the unattended pram outside Mason's shop - in today's

Caption For Staines, Boating 1907

Staines's High Street leads down towards this bridge over the Thames. The three-arched structure was designed by George Rennie and opened by King William IV in the 1830s.

Caption For Chester, Lower Bridge Street 1903

The Falcon Inn at the corner of Grosvenor Street was once the town house of the Grosvenor family.