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Swindon Play Watford For The Division 3 Championship

As a Watford football fan this was the most important league game I saw up to 1969. We were in the old Division 3 and towards the end of the season there were three clubs, Swindon, Luton and ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1969 by John Howard Norfolk

The First Holiday At Potter Heigham

We hired a riverside chalet called 'La Dak' on the Martham side of the river, there were two families sharing. I remember there was no car access to the chalet so we had to park the cars next to the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Potter Heigham in 1968 by Mike Atherley

I Used To Come From South Manchester To St Oswald's Church With My Mum &Dad 1967ish

I remember coming from the other side of Manchester because my Mum and Dad (Betty & Dennis Turner - Dad was lay reader in the church for that time). I was for ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1967 by Heather Turner

Visiting The Corner House

I visited Weobley in the late 60s as a child with my Mother to visit our Herefordshire cousins. We stayed with Mum's Great Uncle Fred (Frederick Hope) and his daughter, Mabel Hope. They lived at the Corner House and I think ...Read more

A memory of Weobley in 1966 by Jane Dick

Battersea Town Hall

The impressive entrance on Lavender Hill actually led into the Council Offices, where I started work when I left school in 1966. At that time they had changed very little since their Victorian origins; there was a grand staircase ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1966

Ashby's

I remember there being an Ashby's in Tonbridge Road down the road from the old trolley bus depot. My grandfather worked there as a cashier.

A memory of Maidstone in 1965 by Kim Hatton

Wonderful Bucks!

My mum first came across Bucks Mills when we went for a bodyboarding holiday in Westward Ho! before the march of the mobile homes..! Next year we stayed in Driftwood in Bucks itself and did so for the next 7/8 years until my ...Read more

A memory of Buck's Mills in 1965 by Nick Neter

18castle Street

I was living in Castle Street at number 18 when this photo was taken. I remember the hunt gathering in the car park opposite on Boxing Day and the bakers on the road down to Tungstate where mum would get me and my sister an iced bun, and playing in the castle grounds on my scooter.

A memory of Guildford in 1965 by Bob Whitehead

Aveley Secondary School

Omg, I remember so many of you. I started at Love Lane in 1965 and left in 1970. I was friends with Susan Harvey, Carol Head, Jackie Kirk, Karen Harman, Barbara Cox, Lesley Davidson, Libby Campbell, June Tyler, Liz Knapp, ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1965 by Christine Brown

Hart Road Service Station

I used to be the foreman in the garage, I am Maltese, so anybody about my age (67) will probably remember me repairing cars there. The service station was owned by Mr Willetts who lived on the corner of Kenneth Road with ...Read more

A memory of Thundersley in 1965 by Alfred Grech

Captions

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Caption For Wroxham, On The Bure 1921

A mile from Wroxham Broad and spanning the Bure is this lovely old single-span bridge, partially hidden by a passing sail.

Caption For Horsey, The Mere C1955

This tiny settlement is set in a remote area of the Broads, where willows and reed beds thrust out into the waters narrowing the passage.

Caption For Southwold, From The Pier 1906

With its broad greens, its sandy beach, the lighthouse on North Green, and its picturesque buildings, Southwold has long been popular.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Old Walls 1922

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

Caption For Ramsgate, Victoria Parade 1901

This broad parade, named after Queen Victoria, runs along the East Cliff in front of Wellington Crescent and the lawns.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Street 1921

St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.

Caption For Lenham, The Limes C1960

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1909

As with Whistler's other major Broad Street portrait, it was bought by the Boston Museum.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church, The Interior 1899

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front

Caption For Clacton On Sea, Pier Gap 1912

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling

Caption For London, Park Lane 1890

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

Caption For Mells, Little Green C1950

These cottages lie on the road down from the school, one of the first church schools in Somerset.

Caption For Grantchester, Byron's Pool C1946

This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.

Caption For Somersham, The Cross C1955

This view was taken standing against the old Butter Cross looking down the St Ives road.

Caption For Sutton, Banstead Downs, Golf Links 1903

This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station.

Caption For Bolton Le Sands, The Shore C1965

This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm).

Caption For Bonchurch, Village And Post Office 1934

Bonchurch stands on the steep slopes of St Boniface Down.

Caption For Penmaenmawr, 1892

The majestic sweep of the fertile fields down to the coast is also marked by the workings and spoils of man's need for the stone that is quarried from the mountain on this stretch of the coast.

Caption For New Brighton, Pier And Parade 1892

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.