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Memories

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Albert Road

Born in 101 Albert Road moved to Charlton House and lived in flat No.38; the Whitby's, Streets, Watsons, Sullivans, Corrs, Reynolds, Ryans, Butchers, were all my neighbours. I went to St Marys School, Granville Road then ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1950 by Michael Hallahan

My Ancestors Lived And Worked Here!

In the 1881 Census, Elizabeth Mitchell is listed as the head of the household and a widow aged 54 as her husband John Mitchell had died in February of that year and so running the Six Bells Beer House along ...Read more

A memory of Billingshurst in 1920 by Sue Peggram

Fort Street (1950s)

Fort Street, in North Motherwell, was a very close-knit community in the 1950's, which is why I still remember the following names: Mr and Mrs Darroch lived at number 21 with their children John, Denise and Keith. Mr Bill Rae, ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell by John Cunningham

Stanwell Palace

Stanwell Palace - This was a stately residence which we as children always called Stanwell Palace. It was indeed owned by the Iraq Royal Family and was the Official residence of the Ambassador. I went to Staines Preparatory School ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell by Keith Waters

Bower Yard

We have many happy memories of the Bower Yard in 1962. We moved into our first marital cottage at 75 on the day we got married. The cottage was mid terrace overlooking the river and the wharfage on the opposite side. We paid the ...Read more

A memory of Ironbridge in 1962 by Ann Beddow

Beck Worth House Lindfield

I have a personal interest in Lindfield as my great grandparents lived in Beckworth Lodge on the Beckworth estate my great grandfather was the head game keeper and my Mother lived in Beckworth Lodge for the first six ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield in 1910 by Andrew Avenell

A Fine Summers Evening Shattered

Sunday 25th of June 1944. A lovely summers day but at 9 o'clock in the evening the air raid siren sounded and a few minutes later a V1 flying bomb came roaring over the housetops, apparently going to miss us - but ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1944 by John Grant

Glenmount Road

Does anyone remember Glenmount Roard at all? I live at Number 12. So far I have been told that the house I live in used to be a bottling plant for a dairy, and that the oldest house in the road is at the end...which used to be a ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett

Westbourne House

I was about five or six when we moved the Westbourne House, Mount Park, Harrow on the Hill. Mount Park use to be private an there was a couple called the Morrisons who were in charge of opening and closing the gate. Their ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill in 1948 by Valerie Collinson Bland

Kilburn Albert Road

Born in 101 Albert Road, moved to Charlton House and lived in flat No.38; the Whitby's, Streets, Watsons, Sullivans, Corrs, Reynolds, Ryans, Butchers, were all my neighbours. I went to St Marys School, Granville ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1950 by Michael Hallahan

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Captions

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Caption For Chipstead, High Road C1965

The shop on the right, built in 1885, is now a private house called Old Chipstead Stores. Merrythought Cottage is the protruding building on the left.

Caption For Hackness, The Park And Lake C1877

The house survived, and has recently been converted to a luxury

Caption For Shepton Mallet, High Street 1899

Most of the houses have Georgian and early 19th-century fronts of harmonious proportions and scale, although there is a grander later Victorian bank building at the crossroads.

Caption For Frome, Cheap Street 1907

On the right is a late Tudor jettied timber-framed house, and opposite Vincent the Fishmonger's building survives as The Settle Bakehouse, Restaurant and Tea Rooms..

Caption For London, Elephant And Castle 1885

The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a ‘ganglion of roads’ by Dickens in ‘Bleak House’.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is offering

Caption For London, Cheapside C1886

Because of its prestigious reputation and close proximity to the Bank, city financiers clamoured to live here, and annual rents from a single house could reach the incredible sum of three hundred

Caption For London, King William Street 1880

This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Lodge 1906

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

Caption For Boxford, Church Street C1955

The house beyond was the forge, run by the Stone family, who were also parish sextons. Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

Caption For Bangor, High Street 1908

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

Caption For Merthyr Mawr, Rethatching The Old School C1955

The Vale of Glamorgan used to grow a great deal of corn, ensuring ample straw for thatching, and the pretty village of Merthyr Mawr is entirely made up of whitewashed, thatched houses.

Caption For Kirkbymoorside, High Market Place 1951

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

Caption For Broadstairs, The Harbour 1887

described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and 'Barnaby Rudge' were all written by him in houses

Caption For Newark, Appleton Gate 1909

Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.

Caption For Acock's Green, Clifton House C1965

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

Caption For Old Swinford, The Castle, Church Road C1960

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

Caption For Wollaston, Kingsway House, The Farm Estate C1960

The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

Caption For Northampton, Market Square 1922

Waterloo House has also gone, to be replaced by an office building, though the church tower is still clearly visible.

Caption For Towcester, Market Place And Town Hall C1955

Towcester is a small old town on the Tove, with a number of Georgian houses and a pleasant market place.

Caption For Irchester, The War Memorial C1960

Beyond are 1890s houses, now unpleasantly re-windowed.

Caption For Irchester, Knuston Hall Education Centre C1960

A complex house architecturally with 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century elements, it has long been owned by Northamptonshire County Council and used for residential and day courses.

Caption For Stanion, Shop And Cardigan Arms, Cardigan Road C1965

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

Caption For Grantham, Avenue Road 1904

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.