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Kidderminster Year Of Being A Resident

Towards the end of 1968 my husband had to complete a year's site experience and his placement was at Kiddie.  We left our home in Kent and moved up. After searching for rented accommodation we were lucky ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968 by Geraldine Todd

Woodside

I was born in May 1945, in Green Street Green - Highfield Avenue, and moved to Woodside, Chelsfield in 1949. I lived there until I married in 1966, so I have clear memories of Crown Road. Two roads led off Warren Road up to Crown Road, ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1945 by Sandra Viner

Glansevern Lodge

My gran, Mrs Evans, used to live at Glansevern Lodge, a loveley old sandstone building with trees all around it, and big rhododenderon bushes. It was a long wallk from the pump we used to get water from up to the house. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Berriew in 1968 by Rodney Gough

Sheath Lane And Goldrings Road

My great-grandfather bought Heathway in Sheath Lane in 1925. We lived there from 1945 to 1953 when my father built Winterbourne in Goldrings Road on Crown Land with a 99-year lease. I went to Oxshott Primary School and ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott

Fond Memories 1940 1964

I also have fond memories of Erith, the Odeon and of Brook Street School - a fine school with fine men teaching, many just back from the war. The school motto was 'Integrity' and they set a good example (save for two miserable ...Read more

A memory of Erith by David Burns

A Cut Heel

My father was replacing a back door in my grandmother's house in Tynewydd.  He laid the old one down flat outside while he started to put the new one in. I decided it would be a good idea to walk on the old door and my foot went straight ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1974 by Meirion Hewitt

Wilson Of Braidwood

My brother and I were packed off to Scotland from London each summer to visit our ancestral homeland, whence we would visit our Aunt Daisy and Uncle Adam at their place next to the old Braidwood school near the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Braidwood in 1967 by kwilson_57

Snow In Moonlight

It was that cold, cold winter of 43/44 during the war that I remember so well. Please forgive me for I was not a Fair Oak boy but my memory is from there. I lived in Bishopstoke as a lad before, during and after ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1943 by Frederick Cannock

Green Fields

These houses were built as a private estate and took up most of the land which belonged to Tack farm. Houses went from here across to the "old wood", and into it at some points, they went down from here to the edge of the park and down ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley in 1965 by John Lampitt

My Childhood Memories Of New Quay

My memories of New Quay begin in the 1950s I suppose. I was born in Cnwc y Lily in my grandmother's smallholding and lived the first 3 years of my lfe in Gilfachrheda before moving a few miles to Cross Inn. Every ...Read more

A memory of New Quay in 1950 by Buddug Hollett

Captions

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Caption For Fordwich, Town Hall And Dipping Chair 1898

Built during the reign of Henry VIII, this tiny town hall is now a listed building.

Caption For Gravesend, New Road C1955

Here we see shoppers in the centre of town on what was obviously a warm summer's morning, and with a surprisingly low level of traffic.

Caption For Aldborough, The Village 1895

South of Boroughbridge is the old Roman town of Aldborough - Isurium Brigantum.

Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

The town's growth came from the nearby coal mines - they are now closed.

Caption For Coalville, High Street C1965

Coalville developed as a town from a railway station named Long Lane on the old Leicester-Swannington line (1832).

Caption For Farnham, The Borough C1955

Just out of view to the right is Castle Street, Farnham's best street architecturally, with the Town Hall, a 1930s neo-Georgian building, on the Castle Street corner opposite the Queen's

Caption For Abergele, Market Street 1890

By the date of this photograph, much of the town's main streets were established, and they display the characteristic detail of the period: projecting shop fronts proudly display their goods (including

Caption For Harleston, The Thoroughfare C1955

This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston.

Caption For Stapleford, The Roach C1955

Stapleford, now virtually a satellite of Nottingham, grew up from a village of lace factories and framework knitters' houses.

Caption For Twickenham, Festival, Church Street 2005

Although the old Island Hotel on Eel Pie Island has long gone, the musical traditions of the town remain strong with many local pubs and wine bars offering live music.

Caption For Consett, Middle Street C1965

In 1831 there were only 150 people living in and around Consett.

Caption For Hull, Holy Trinity Church 1903

Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall C1965

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225 ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime.

Caption For Corsham, Wesleyan Chapel 1904

Now called St Aldhelm's Methodist Reformed Church, this lovely little building stands alongside and open to a busy street near Corsham town centre.

Caption For Plymouth, George Street 1892

Much of old Plymouth town was destroyed, irreplaceable old buildings were lost, and street patterns were changed with the rebuilding.

Caption For Plymouth, George Street 1892

Much of old Plymouth town was destroyed, irreplaceable old buildings were lost, and street patterns were changed with the rebuilding.

Caption For Denton, Crown Point C1955

By the time this picture was taken, the tram routes through Denton had been converted to trolley and petrol bus operations.

Caption For Sheffield, The Town Hall 1896

The gabled Renaissance-style Town Hall, built on the corner of Pinstone Street and Surrey Street, was designed by E W Mountford and completed in 1896; its official opening by Queen Victoria took place

Caption For Whitby, Pannett Park Art Gallery 1932

The Town Council has its office here, and it also contains Whitby Museum, renowned for its collection of extant fossils, which is run by the Literary and Philosophy Society, colloquially

Caption For Wragby, Market Place C1965

East of Lincoln, Wragby is a market town on the Horncastle and Skegness road which is very busy at weekends and in summer.

Caption For Alderley Edge, West Mine 1896

Copper (and also, to a lesser degree, lead) have been mined here since Roman times, so that the whole area of hillside behind the town is said to have dozens of pits, caves and tunnels.

Caption For Tregaron, Market Day 1933

Although flocks of sheep and herds of cattle no longer congregated at Tregaron ready for the walk to England, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

Caption For Ringwood, The Millstream 1900

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods, and the market became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

Caption For Blackburn, The Market And Town Hall 1894

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting