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The Hill 1951 To 1965

Moved from the East End to Wigton Road in 1951. First memories; going to Romford market seeing the livestock by Laurie Hall. Playing in the woods behind Quarles, all types of street games. My best was book and skate belting ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Tom Watson

Ice Cream

Does anyone remember the old ice cream vans that served Plato Road, Solon Road areas off the Acre Lane, Brixton? I have an uncanny and I'm sure not a healthy memory of remembering registration numbers from vehicles from years ago. We ...Read more

A memory of Brixton by Bob Mandale

First Love

Not so much Prestwich, but Heaton Park, the year was approx 1982, and while out with friends in the Park I met my first love, it may be a soppy thing to write, but I don't really care about things like that! Her name was Sandra Bernice ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich

Radlett Prep

I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove was ...Read more

A memory of Radlett by Hamish Adam

Wycliffe Road

I lived in 31 Wycliffe Road just down from where the chimney sweep kept his soot. A number of films were shot in the "courts" between the streets Beaufoy Road and Bassnett Road. I moved in 1965 aged 11 not long after the area was ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Lynn Wassall (Nee Barney)

Whythenshawe House

My grandmother was in service in a house in Saltwood. I have been trying for years to locate it but to no avail. All I know is the address is: Whythenshaw, Saltwood, Kent. I am assuming it was a house but it may not have been. If anyone can help solve the puzzle it would be very much appreciated.

A memory of Saltwood by Susan Wall

Growing Up In The Old Marchwood

I moved to Marchwood in the mid 1960s, I was not very old. We lived in an old house on the edge of the village, called Glengarriff. The old house was pulled down many years ago. I attended Marchwood Primary ...Read more

A memory of Marchwood

Troedy The Place Of My Birth

Firstly, Troedy was in Glamorgan not Gwent or Monmouthshire as it was then known. However, the postal address was New Tredegar, Monmouthshire. I was born at 1 Chapel Road in my grandfather's house. Sam and Sarah ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch

East End

I was born in Sunderland in 1948 and Christened in Holy Trinity Church, Church Walk, where all of my mother's side of the family had been hatched, matched, and dispatched. I was raised in Wear Garth till the age of twelve years old when my ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by Sheila James

Downes Family

Does anyone recall any of the Downes family who lived in Dodds Road? My grandad was Tommy Downes and his siblings were Isabel (Bella), Flo, Olive, Syd, Maud, Jim and Kate (possibly others). My great-grandparents were Albert and ...Read more

A memory of Attleborough by Lynn Reeve

Captions

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Caption For Shrewsbury, The Old Mint 1891

Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

Opposite is a pair of brick cottages with doors and windows in a pretty segmental arch, and on the pavement outside are some children's tricycles.

Caption For Abersoch, The Village C1955

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

Caption For Launceston, Southgate Street 1906

The south gate with its twin arches is a remnant of the walls which once enclosed the town.

Caption For Mortehoe, The Church Of St Mary Magdalene, Interior 1935

The enormous mosaic above the chancel arch was created in 1905 in memory of the churchwarden's wife.

Caption For Cardiff, From Penarth 1893

With their ground floor bay windows, they could be from a much later period, and would not look out of place in the 1930s.

Caption For Bollington, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

There are any number of pictures of the mills in the archive, but not a single one of the twenty-three arched railway viaduct straddling the valley of the Bollin.

Caption For Matlock, Bank Road From Crown Square C1949

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

Caption For Tideswell, Church Nave 1896

The nave of Tideswell church dates from the 14th century, and its size and standing give the building the air of a much larger church or even a cathedral.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.

Caption For Seahouses, The Harbour C1936

After the trade finished in the 1860s some pre-1825 kiln arches on the quayside saw service as fishermen's stores.

Caption For Aysgarth, The Village 1908

The upper falls can still be viewed from a 16th century single-arch bridge over the Ure.

Caption For Canterbury, St Peter's Street C1955

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

Caption For Shillingford, Swan Hotel 1890

The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river. The road was turnpiked in 1764.

Caption For Leatherhead, Bridge Street 1899

Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782.

Caption For Whitby, The Viaduct 1884

The first brick was laid in 1882 and the first locomotive crossed the thirteen-arched viaduct in 1884.

Caption For Ironbridge, The Bridge 1904

It is a single-arched structure weighing 380 tons, with a span of 100 ft and an overall length of 196 ft. Today the bridge is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Caption For Lostwithiel, The Parade 1906

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

Caption For Burnsall, The Bridge 1926

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

Caption For London, Waterloo Bridge 1895

Canova considered the old Waterloo Bridge, with its nine elliptical arches, to be one of the most magnificent in Europe.

Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen And Apsley House C1908

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

Caption For Staines, The Bridge 1907

The graceful three-arched bridge over the Thames was rebuilt in 1832 by John and George Rennie, close to the site of the many bridges that have crossed the Thames since the Romans first spanned it.

Caption For Sonning, Bridge 1904

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

Caption For Accrington, Christ Church 2004

Without the finials and pinnacles seen in earlier photographs of Christ Church it looks a much plainer building.