Maps

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Memories

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Growing Up In Tottenham

I spent my first years in Mt Pleasant Rd and went to Bruce Grove School during the war and recall many lessons taken in the playground air-raid shelter. I used to run all the way home with the 'doodlebugs' overhead. I left ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1940 by Diana Groves

Broad Street School

I too, went to the Nursery School on Broad Street. I remember Miss Massey who slammed the desk down on my fingers squashing my signet ring, which resulted in my finger swelling and the ring having to be cut off! Such a nice lady to ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1956 by Lynn Bryan

The Tin School And Thurlow Family

I was a pupil at the Tin School in Gilesgate Moor staring in 1954, leaving in 1961. It was at the crossroads of the road that now leads to Tesco, but opposite was the Durham District Services garage where my dad was a ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1954 by James Coatham

Chillblains, Door Bells, Bethams And Costons

Born at 14 Greenford Gardens, my late parents Dr & Mrs Erskine founded Greenford Surgery at 297 Greenford Road. Earliest memories were of chilblains, no proper heating at home, and the door bell ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1956 by Robert Erskine

Sutton At Hone

My sister attended Sutton at Hone school, catching the bus from Hawley or walking through the fields with friends. Such a quiet village . I used to cycle from Hawley to the paper shop and collect my papers to do 'my round' in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1959 by Kathleen Pittock

Working At The Bowling Alley

Having returned from Australia, I got a job as controller 4 nights and Sundays, it was a great scene, what with the disco downstairs, the bar upstairs, a barber shop, restaurant, 24 lanes, and a juke box with great ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1966 by Bob Bell

Young Days In Bexley

Other peoples memories are bringing back some of my own. Walking from Bexley to the Regal for Saturday morning movies across the heath. Frog spawn from the river at the mill. Walking to school past the brewery to the little ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1945 by Michael Gorst

Boating On The Broads

Two years after our first visit we came again, bringing our own river cruisers towed by our own cars. We had located a slipway to launch at Martham boatyard prior to starting the holiday. The location at Martham was ...Read more

A memory of Potter Heigham in 1970 by Mike Atherley

War Time Wimbledon

During the war I was a pupil at St Mary's school in Russel Road, about 100 yards from the theatre. When there was an air raid during school time, the whole school would march up to the stage door of the theatre and all of us ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1940 by George White

Happy Days.

I was 16 yrs old when I moved to Deal with my parents; we moved into a lovely old house in Cowper Road. I soon made friends. I used to go into a coffee bar called The Good Intent, it was always busy, the duke box was always playing Buddy ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1958

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Captions

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Caption For Kettering, The Market 1922

The Albion Temperance Hotel is nearest the road. When this block was demolished it was replaced by a car park.

Caption For Anstey, Bradgate Road C1965

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

Caption For Castle Donington, High Street C1955

The leafy High Street rises away from the village to become the main road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Caption For South Luffenham, The Village C1955

South Luffenham on the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and

Caption For Batley, Commercial Street C1955

It was not improved until 1903, when wooden blocks were used on the roads to keep the noise down.

Caption For Wymondham, Market Place And Cross C1965

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims - it still has a fine Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.

Caption For Castle Donington, High Street C1955

The leafy High Street rises away from the village to become the main road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Caption For Swindon, Penhill Drive C1960

This photograph looks north, and shows what became the focal point for the estate, with the branch library to the right on the corner of Corsham Road, and the parade of shops, including Bollom, dry

Caption For Daventry, Grammar School C1965

That school on Ashby Road is now known as William Parker School. This building at present houses the County Library, but redevelopment plans are afoot!

Caption For Stroud, Butter Row, The Old Pike House 1925

He could frequently be heard standing in the road outside rendering snatches of Verdi! Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

Caption For Wymondham, The Abbey 1891

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

Caption For Sutton, Cheam Road C1955

Strangely devoid of motor traffic, this view of the Cheam Road captures a small group of adults and schoolboys waiting at the bus stop on the right for a 213, 408 or 470 bus to transport them westwards

Caption For Kempston, All Saints' Church C1955

The the building stands clear of the waters, but the roads leading to it can be immersed for several days at a time.

Caption For Leicester, St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Way C1955

Situated just outside the Inner Ring Road on the north side of the city, St Margaret's, one of Leicestershire's fin- est mainly 15th-century churches, can hardly be said to be enhanced by its factory

Caption For Watford, High Street C1955

A few roads had been added during the following three hundred years, but the main High Street is still very long and busy.

Caption For New Rossington, Queen Mary's Road C1950

A bus service came in 1922, and at the end of the road on the right, the Hippodrome Cinema entertained the town from 1929 until June 1962.

Caption For Fishguard, The Square 1959

There is no car parking today, but a busy road junction with a cannon in the centre.

Caption For Weybridge, Portmore Gateway 1903

When the roads on the Portmore estate were adopted by Weybridge UDC in the 1890s, following extensive house building, Mr Ward presented the pillars to the council on condition that they were preserved

Caption For Avebury, Silbury Hill 1902

It predates the Roman road, now the A4, whose early track can be seen in the photograph. In 1883 it was the first site in Britain to be classified as an ancient monument.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1899

This view is looking westwards towards Symondsbury and Exeter along what was generally called the London Road, with a variety of hand-carts and a couple of girls failing to stay still for Frith`s photographer

Caption For Bridport, East Road 1904

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1940

On the other side of the road, dispensing pharmacist N R Hilton is now trading as Hilton and Moss Chemists (right).

Caption For Charlwood, The Village 1906

This view shows the eastward Victorian expansion of the village, with a recreation ground laid out on the right beyond the junction with Ifield Road; the Rising Sun Inn is at the left, a hipped slate-roofed

Caption For Empingham, Crocket Lane C1960

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,