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Memories

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The Bus To School Stop!!

This is one of the bus stops that used to have lots of kids awaiting the Bus to take them up the Southend Road to Beauchamps School - although there were also a couple of 'elite' who mounted this bus to take them to Rayleigh ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Lnda Golding

Morning Service At St Mary's In The 1960s

Like many young folks of the 1960s who grew up in Cheshunt churchgate area, when the time came to marry you almost always chose St Mary's as the place to have your wedding. It is a lovely old church. I also ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1965 by Dave Spooner

Memories Of A Nurse

I came to work in Sulgrave in the 1980s. I worked for Major George Coombs who lives at Stonecourt on the Hedom Road. My first thoughts of the village were that it was very quiet and that the people were all very ...Read more

A memory of Sulgrave in 1981 by Linda Fearis

Shopping With My Mum In Heathfield...

I remember in the 1960s going to Heathfield with Mum on the bus (we lived at Corner Farm, Swife Lane). We would go shopping and often would go into the Bluebird. Seeing that name in this picture brought all ...Read more

A memory of Heathfield in 1965 by Sally Semple

Aspull Born And Bred

I was born in Bolton Road, Aspull. I started at St Elizabeth's School when I was four and a half. Didn't have far to travel - just cross the road (no cars then) and walk 10 yards and I was there. First day was with my gas-mask ...Read more

A memory of Aspull

Lyndhurst Road

I Was born in a house down Winchester Road in 1934. Then my parents moved when I was 3 years old to Lyndhurst Road and except for the war years did not move from there until I married at the age of 21 years. I would like to contact ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park by Linda Gatward

Home

I was born 1941. My mum was Pearl Renowden, daughter of John Renowden my grandad, Auntie Elsie, Uncle Leslie, & my brother David. We lived at 132 Landreath Place, St Blazey. Uncle Tom & Auntie Hilda lived at the top of our road. I have ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1941 by Mary Jackson

The War Years In Leytonstone

I have lived the past 43 years in Arizona, USA. Seeing the photo of St John's Church brings back many memories of my childhood in the Leytonstone area. During the blitz on London, going down the unfinished underground ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1940 by Pete Dolder

Childhood On Osborne Terrace

In 1949 the houses on Osborne Terrace were just being built, as soon as they were coming available the council were moving people in, our family moved into no 21. I was 4 years old. It was a lovely place then, nice and ...Read more

A memory of Stacksteads in 1950 by Renee Comer

Aftermath Of The Great War

Born in Felsham Road, off the High Street, in 1927, I of course have many memories of the area in this photograph. One in particular, has stuck with me for the last 75 years or so. It is of terribly wounded and maimed men, ...Read more

A memory of Putney in 1930 by Eddie Gould

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Captions

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Caption For Loftus, High Town Lane C1960

A pedestrian footbridge known as Haugh Bridge on the left offers some protection on the sharp bend, and a strongly flowing stream runs under the road at this point.

Caption For Dolgellau, Regent Café And Filling Station 1956

This filling station was situated on a narrow road that twisted into the town of Dolgellau.

Caption For Sutton, Cheam Road C1955

The convergent flying buttresses of the 1907 Trinity Methodist Church spire soar above the mock-Tudor frontages over the parade of shops at the start of Cheam Road, with the Edwardian cupola of the Curzon

Caption For Stowmarket, Tavern Street C1950

We are looking west towards Station Road and the church - the delicate spire was added to the tower in 1712.

Caption For Stockton On Tees, Ropner Park C1965

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

Caption For Glemsford, Tye Green C1960

This was occupied by the Rev Harpur, who was here from 1937 to 1950, and after whom the nearby road was named.

Caption For Longhope, The Village C1955

The main road (A4136) skirts Longhope, and consequently the village remains a peaceful backwater.

Caption For West Lulworth, The Village 1904

Fred Stockley, the baker, lived across the road from the Castle.

Caption For Stoborough, Near Ridge Village C1960

Trucks of clay arrived in Ridge, crossing this road, on a tramway from Furzebrook.

Caption For Banbury, Old Houses, Market Place 1922

Robins Brothers, not content with filling their windows to bursting, have extended out on to the pavement and into the road.

Caption For Desborough, Corset Factory C1960

The road in this view is now a lay-by on the A6.

Caption For Wellingore, The Church C1960

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Caption For Dinas Powys, The Square C1955

From further up the road here we can still make out the Esso station we saw in photograph No D31071, dwarfed beyond the Star public house owned by Brains' brewery.

Caption For Filey, The Promenade C1960

No road signs or parking restrictions here. The tea stall and the small Walls ice cream stall are doing a roaring trade. There are swing boats and roundabouts for the little ones.

Caption For Devizes, Sidmouth Street C1960

At the end of the street across the road is Rose's the ironmongers, a family-run business since 1947.

Caption For Ashton Keynes, High Road C1955

This view looks along High Road with Church Walk on the left past the cross shaft, and the young Thames just out of picture on the left.

Caption For Stevenage, High Street 1903

Even in 1903, the un-made-up road surface bears mute witness to the substantial amount of horse-drawn traffic it carried daily.

Caption For Poole, Longfleet Road 1908

Slightly more visible is the toll house at the beginning of Wimborne Road to the left. Newspapers were sold there on Sundays when the newsagents were closed.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Opposite the well-known Miller of Mansfield hotel and pub, mainly Georgian with older parts, is the Goring Free Church, dated 1893, on the corner of Manor Road, still looking pretty fresh in this view

Caption For Fairford, The Market Place C1960

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

Caption For Horsey, The Village C1955

The small area of ground in the fork in the road was donated to the village by Major Anthony Buxton DSO, JP of Horsey Hall.

Caption For Brimington, Ringwood Road And Church C1965

The name of Ringwood Road refers to the early 19th-century mansion of Ringwood House, home of the Markham family, which stands to the north east.

Caption For Lea, Blackpool Road C1955

Before the M55 motorway opened, Blackpool Road, which passes through Lea on the outskirts of Preston, was busy with traffic to and from the holiday resort.

Caption For Rothwell, Squires Hill C1960

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.