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Look Out For The Policeman!
This photograph of Southport shows a member of the local constabulary on point duty in Lord Street in the mid 1950s. The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War, and gave policemen ...Read more
A memory of Southport in 1955 by
Coal Shortage
During the war we lived at 4 Sunnyside Terrace. At one point during 1942 Mr Chaffey, the coalman, could not deliver coal because his horse and cart could not get up the hill because of ice and snow. We were rapidly running out of ...Read more
A memory of West Lulworth in 1942 by
Only A Year!
My name is Elena Zoerman. We were the American family that lived in the cottage right the across the street from the church. I loved that cottage. I remember one winter being snowed in and my sister and me playing in the snow. My father ...Read more
A memory of Mixbury in 1986 by
Moston
My grandparents, Horald and Edith Hughes, lived in Moston Cottage, Booley. Also living in the cottage were 3 of their sons; John, Douglas and Tony. My father, Basil, was no longer living at home. John and Douglas worked on the farm ...Read more
A memory of Moston in 1957 by
When We Were Kids: Part 2
My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left in ...Read more
A memory of Fishcross in 1950 by
Memories Of Council Estate And Football
My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named Greens ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 1967 by
Aston Terrace
I was born in Aston Terrace in 1954 and remember running to the bridge to see the steam trains and also the big slag heap that my brothers used to slide down. I also remember the gas man that used to light the street gas lamps outside our ...Read more
A memory of Aston in 1954
Memories Of Covenham As A Child
I was born in Covenham in Zeplin Row in 1950. I remember going to bed with candles as that was the only form of lighting we had. If it was cold in the winter I can remember my mum wraping up the warm oven ...Read more
A memory of Covenham St Mary in 1950 by
Greenford Station, Greenford Middlesex
I was also born at Perivale Maternity but in 1942. We lived for many years in Oldfield Lane three doors away from the Station which I remember the P.O.Ws working on. I finished my school years at Costons Sec. ...Read more
A memory of Greenford in 1942
Photos Of The House I Grew Up In On Crown Road
My brother Don Quarterman sent me to this web site. What an amazing collection of photographs! So I have to talk about two that show the house we grew up in, Mulberry Cottage. The earlier one shows ...Read more
A memory of Wheatley in 1953 by
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Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.
We can see the tiny River Brennand running down to join the Whitendale River to make the River Dunsop, which gives the town its name.
This lovely view was taken just a few miles north of Dunsop Bridge.We can see the tiny River Brennand running down to join the Whitendale River to make the River Dunsop, which gives the town its
The man on the left is about to enter the shop of Cyril Amey, hairdresser and shopkeeper. There are then two 16th-century houses with jetties, but the grocer's shop is no longer on the corner.
The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too. The road at the centre of the picture leads to the ruins of Creake Abbey, which lies in a beautiful setting beside the stream.
It was the scene of the upbringing and education of Captain James Cook, the famous 18th-century round-the-world explorer.
Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.
The poster at the entrance advertises a military band concert, for which the bandstand on the pier was popular.
On the right is the Haymarket Theatre facing down Charles II Street, where His Majesty's Theatre stands on the corner; in 1952, with the accession of Elizzabeth II, the theatre became Her Majesty's.
Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs
The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.
The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.
There is not much traffic - a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger - in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.
The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.
There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.
There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.
Bilsborrow lies between Lancaster and Preston on the traffic-laden A6 road. The White Bull inn dates from the 18th century, and still believes in a roaring coal or log fire in winter.
There is a somewhat run-down look in this view.
The High Street, running south to north, was wide enough for two carriages to pass in times gone by.
After the death of Frederick Crowley, Ashdell House was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.
The Victorian Town Hall in the centre of the Market Place was built by the Watts-Russell family; today it is occupied by local businesses.
Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.
This little store and village post office is well remembered for being run for many years by the Moody family. Although the shop area is a little smaller, it is still going today.
This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.
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