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Lovegreen Street

My paternal grandmother lived in Lovegreen Street and died when I was 11 years old. Her name was Hanley. She was 80+ when she died and had brought up 6 children in this tiny terraced cottage. I used to visit with my dad and do ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1949 by Marie Pratt

Tragedies

It was around 1952 when these tragic accidents happened to to two Millfield families. I remember the day as plain today as it was then. A little boy had fallen into the Dewley Burn and drowned, his mother was Edna Clues who lived at the end ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

Sunny Days In Crowhurst

I was having a trip down memory lane the other day and thinking of those summer days making camps up in 'the bunny fields' and fishing down at the marshes, in 1960-65. It seemed most of the village boys went, ...Read more

A memory of Crowhurst in 1964 by David Power

Childhood

I was the son of the cobbler at the Klondyke pit. All the kids at that time played in the streets or went up to the pit head baths for a shower, this was because there were no baths or showers in the miners' houses. Everybody in the ...Read more

A memory of Newcraighall in 1956 by David Thomson

Barnstaple Girlfriend Church And School 1939

As my fourteenth birthday hove into view and we entered the summer of 1939 it became clear that we could soon be at war with Germany. Bushey Heath was just fifteen miles north-west of central London. My ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1930 by Paul Wigmore

Gliderdrome

I used to go roller skating three times a week at the Gliderdrome, when I was in my late teens, also after my National Service. One particular night stands out. I was skating backwards when I fell over someone who was already on the ...Read more

A memory of Boston by Bob Marriott

St Aidens Church

We could get into the church by crawling under the main door, that's if you were thin enough. The church steps were well worn down, to think how many years it took to wear away is mind boggling. We used to play amongst the furniture ...Read more

A memory of Boston by Bob Marriott

Plane Crash

In 1951 a friend and I were keen on taking photos with our cheap cameras. We decided to go to the Air Show, at the Aero Club down the Board Sides. It was a lovely afternoon, but was on the breezy side. A large crowd was enjoying a plane ...Read more

A memory of Boston by Bob Marriott

Childhood In The 1930s

I was born in 1934 in a house next to Caldicotts (?) farm, where my mother would chat over the hedge to Mrs. Caldicott, who had three sons and a huge (to me) pond. It was exciting to be taken to their farm; the geese were ...Read more

A memory of Wythall in 1930 by Joan Hart (Nee Ward)

I Stayed There

Approx 1962 I had a weekend at Buckenhill Manor. I served with Ken Stewart at Boscombe Down when at week ends he was travelling around various book and agricultural fairs. As I remember it, his cousin and her husband founded Landsman ...Read more

A memory of Bromyard in 1962 by Morris Hedges

Captions

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Caption For Mildenhall, War Memorial 1925

This photograph shows Mildenhall's war memorial, honouring the town's dead from the First World War.

Caption For Birmingham, Town Hall 1896

The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

Caption For Royston, St Benedict's Priory And Melbourn Street 1929

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

Caption For Lechlade, Riverside Tea Gardens C1955

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment

Caption For Hunstanton, The Lighthouse 1891

Hunstanton's lighthouse was built in 1830, and crowns the chalk clifftop close by the ruins of St Edmund's chapel, where pilgrims offered their prayers and sought the healing powers of the town's efficacious

Caption For Stockton On Tees, High Street 1951

Stockton was granted its market charter by Bishop Bek in 1310, but until the 1840s it consisted of little more than the High Street, a few side streets, and a quayside railhead for Stockton & Darlington

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1925

The businesses on the left have all gone, but Barclays Bank, the impressive building on the right, and Lloyds Bank farther up the High Street remain in the town - although Lloyds has moved

Caption For Mitcham, Lower Green C1962

Mitcham is a town with two greens.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, The Marlowes C1965

Originally a tree lined thoroughfare, Marlowes when it was developed in the early 1950s became the main shopping centre for the new town.

Caption For Penrith, Aerial View C1953

Looking northwards we see hostelries, public houses and stores straddle the streets, highlighting Penrith's importance as a thoroughfare on the London to Carlisle and North East to North

Caption For Sheffield, Gleadless Valley 2005

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Caption For Deal, The Gardens C1960

A glorious array of colour greeted visitors to this part of the town, which had something for everyone.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1955

A bus to Pedders Lane and Ashton-on-Ribble plies down Fishergate, but so busy has Preston become, that drastic alterations in regulating traffic have had to be made.

Caption For Belfast, Ulster Bank, Waring Street 1897

Waring Street is very near and parallel to High Street, and is shown on very early maps.

Caption For Knighton, High Street C1955

This clock tower was erected in 1872, and dominates this small junction in the town.

Caption For Potter Street, The Junior School C1955

Potter Street Junior School and the infant school were on the same campus, and were typical of the many schools that had to be provided quickly for the very large percentage of school-age children in Harlow

Caption For Kings Lynn, The Town Hall 1891

This magnificent tour de force of flint and stone chequerwork was built in 1421 for the Guild of Holy Trinity, a wealthy group of merchants.

Caption For Leeds, Victoria Hall 1888

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Caption For Selsey, Lifeboat House 1930

Unlike Rye, the medieval town of Selsey lies below sea level owing to coastal erosion.

Caption For Southampton, On The Common 1908

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

Caption For Carmarthen, The Guildhall 1893

This large and imposing building complete with clock tower, built in something of a Victorian neo-Gothic style, was home to the Town Council and associated bodies.

Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1955

The Saracen's Head—on the right of this picture—was a famous coaching inn at Great Dunmow, a town associated since 1949 with the Dunmow Flitch ceremony.This had originated at Little Dunmow in 1140

Caption For Ilminster, Grammar School 1907

Beyond is the late 15th-century church of St Mary; its superb west tower owes its scale and magnificence to the town's medieval wool prosperity, and is something of a copy of Wells Cathedral's sublime

Caption For Buckland St Mary, The Post Office C1960

The town, now more peaceful since the A303 bypass was completed, is mostly built in the warm golden Ham stone with Georgian and 19th-century frontages.