Maps

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Books

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Memories

672 memories found. Showing results 141 to 150.

Those Were The Days!

I attended Redditch County High School from 1962-69. This is a picture of the senior block and one of the quadrangles. All the corridors connecting the classrooms were open to the elements, even in winter, so the rain, snow and hail came in ...Read more

A memory of Redditch by lesleymiller3451

Happy Days

I was born in Headless Cross and attended Headless Cross Infants and 1st Schools from 1943. In 1949 I passed the 11+_ exam and went on to the County High School until 1954. I remember some of the teachers, eg Jimmy Morrall, but few of my ...Read more

A memory of Redditch by bw592964

Summerfield Hall School

My grandmother, Nesta Thomas, was a boarder at this private school, after her father died in 1901. The Head Mistress was one Pollie, who was the sister-in-law of Nesta's father, David Sadwrn Thomas, who had been the Head of ...Read more

A memory of Maesycwmmer by Tim Sedgwick Jell

Good Old Battersea

I was born and bred in Battersea, Firstly we lived in Yelverton road with my Grandparents and I attended Falconbrook School. Then my parents got a Maisonette in Culvert road I then attended Chesterton School. in 1969 I attended ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by lgladwin99

Battersea Girl

I lived in Birley street with my parents and brother Colin. I have very happy memories of shaftesbury park school and later on Clapham county grammar school. Many days were spent on Clapham Common and at battersea park, where the funfair ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

Kingsbury In The 1950's

I'm 70 now and still have great memories of Kingsbury where i lived from 1950 until 1960 with my parents Dick & Joyce and brother & sister Steve and Lynda. We lived in a Prefab just 5 doors down from Kingsbury swimming ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by Barry Draper

Aldershot Manor Park School And Girl Guides 1960's

Christine Williams We were best friends at Manor Park County Secondary School for girls, Aldershot 1962 – 1968. We were also in the Girl Guides together at 2nd Aldershot Girl Guides. Photos to ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by teenmorris

Belgians In Birtley.

Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more

A memory of Birtley by ranorwood

Bexley County Technical School For Girls

I attended this school from 1952 -1954 when Miss Collins OBE was Head Mistress. she was very strict but very fair and kind to me having just lost my mother. I seem to remember Miss Odel as the Geography ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by David Cawley

Mitcham County Grammar School For Boys

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

Captions

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Caption For Lowestoft, Wellington Gardens 1921

In 1925 the area was described as 'lined with houses of a superior character, many of which are retained by county families for summer occupation'.

Caption For Beyton, The White Horse Inn C1955

The former agency for the County Fire Office is Rous's cycle shop (right). This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.

Caption For Fleet, The Village 1903

The expanding commuter village of Fleet has the largest pond in the county - three quarters of a mile long, it covers about 130 acres. The name 'Fleet' means 'place at the pool.'

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1965

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Bracebridge Pool, Sutton Park C1960

With 2,500 acres of heathland, ancient woodland and wetland, Sutton Park constitutes the finest countryside in the county.

Caption For Leominster, Corn Square C1965

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

Caption For Redditch, County High School C1955

Like the later County High, it was on Easemore Road. Much extended, it now serves as a college.

Caption For Worthing, South Street 1895

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

Caption For Oakham, The County Offices C1950

In 1936 it became the offices of the County Council, having changed hands for £2,600. Since 1880 there have been many changes to the building.

Caption For Reading, Berkshire County Council Buildings 1912

The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.

Caption For Easby, Easby Hall 1913

Here in the far north of the county, 2 miles south of Great Ayton, stands this 'Gentleman's Residence', built in Georgian times for the Emerson family.

Caption For Hertford, Fore Street 1933

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

Caption For Stourbridge, The Broadway Stores C1965

Broadway Stores is in Norton, where a large housing estate extends right to the county border. The stores is Broadway Service Station now, with a modern forecourt.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

This is a strangely remote part of the county, whose beauty is guarded and reserved, although surrounded by the richness of the Weald.

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

Caption For Easington Colliery, The Colliery C1960

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Caption For Gainford, The Corner Shop C1955

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

Caption For Madley, The Old Cross And Town House C1955

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dubricius (sometimes also known as Dyfrig) was present at King Arthur's coronation and was the founder of a monastery near Ross-on-Wye and several churches in the county

Caption For Wimborne, Canford Bridge C1955

.` Inside the downstream parapet, an 1827 plaque threatens transportation for life to `anyone wilfully injuring the county bridge`.

Caption For Lincoln, School Of Art 1890

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Caption For Dormansland, The Schools 1910

The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.

Caption For Maidstone, High Street 1898

It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A prison that has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals is nearby.

Caption For Eaton Bray, The Church C1955

These are attributed to an ironworker from the county, one Thomas of Leighton, who also made the grille for Queen Eleanor's tomb in Westminster Abbey.

Caption For Matlock Moor, 1892

The Hydro buildings are now the offices of Derbyshire County Council.