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Memories

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1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel

On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by Jim Smith

Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting

Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1944 by George Ritson

Early Days

I was born and brought up in Pembroke terrace and with number of lads of like age wandered the mountains through theSaucy ap and over to overlook the Rhondda . We would climb up an run down hills,run through rivers and ply cowboys and ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale by Derek Barnard

Glades End, Surf Crescent

Eastchurch cliffs My parents bought a plot of land on the Eastchurch cliffs in the 1940s and my father designed and had built our bungalow called Glades End in Surf Crescent. At this time, there were very few buildings on ...Read more

A memory of Eastchurch in 1953 by Susan Copeman

V2 Rocket Dropped On Hatley Avenue

Late in Feb 1945 (I think it was the 25th) I was at Geary's school when during the dinner break a neighbour of my own age Sheila Solomon told me that my house had been bombed. At the time I lived at 39 ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1945 by John Zammit

Waiting For The Bus

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

Wonderful Memories Of Kessingland

My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1953 by Sue Robertson Danells

My Youth In Thornley

I was born at 128 Thornlaw, North Thornley. I am one of 8 children. My perants where Mr & Mrs Coles, Mary Ellen & Eric. My brother's names, Eric, Charles, Lawrance and Joseph. Sisters are Margaret, Mary, Pauline and ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1963 by Pauline Bagnall

Kennards, Grants And Allders

I was born in 1950, and only left when I married in 1973. I remember the donkey rides in Kennard Arcade in the 50's - they had little bells on their harnesses and for sixpence you could have a ride which seemed like for ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1955 by Rosie Lee

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Captions

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Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

Caption For Ibstock, Main Street C1965

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

Caption For Thetford, The Grammar School 1921

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

Caption For Boston, Hussey Tower 1893

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.

Caption For Sudbury, Wesleyan Church 1904

Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.

Caption For Portsmouth, The Floating Bridge, Crossing To Gosport 1898

HMS' St Vincent' (120 guns) was completed in 1815, but too late to take an active part in the Napoleonic Wars.

Caption For Boston, The Windmill C1965

This tall Lincolnshire-style brick tower mill, seven storeys high, was built in 1819; it was powered by five patent sails and winded by a fantail.

Caption For Milborne Port, The Village 1953

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Hitchin, Priory Park 1901

Bounded by Gosmoor and Charlton Roads, Priory Park was a favourite spot for picnics and Sunday afternoon strolls down to the banks of the River Hiz close to Brick Kiln Lane, Charlton, which runs behind

Caption For Sutton On Trent, The Wesleyan Chapel 1909

This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground.

Caption For Sharpness, The Training Ship Vindicatrix C1955

Tens of thousands of new entrants into the Merchant Navy received their basic training at 'Vindicatrix'.

Caption For Bewdley, Severn Side (North) C1940

At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss City Of Paris 1890

By the late 1870s, the line was facing tough competition from Cunard, White Star, Dominion, and the Guion Line; Inman's problems were further compounded in 1881 with the loss of the 'City of Brussels

Caption For Buckden, The Gatehouse And The Palace 1906

The gatehouse has distinctive diaper brick patterning and the arms of Bishop John Russel (1480-94).

Caption For Hampstead, Old Bull And Bush, North End Road C1955

The earlier pub on the site, made famous by the music hall star Florrie Ford, was demolished in the early 1920s, and rebuilt to a vaguely similar design.

Caption For Sileby, Barrow Road C1965

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

Caption For East Burton, Village C1955

With the building of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, which opened in June 1847, East Burton was on the wrong side of the tracks from Wool and its village facilities.

Caption For Lechlade, The Old Market Place C1950

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

Caption For Barkway, High Street C1965

Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Southchurch Hall, The Lake C1950

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

Caption For Byfield, The Village C1960

Bell Lane descends to the west of the A361 and gives us a good idea of the variety of building styles that make up this little industrial village.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Village C1955

One of the first buildings that the visitor will meet is the picturesque 15th-century thatched Axe and Compasses public house (centre).

Caption For Smallhythe, The Village 1900

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.