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The George Ph, Wanstead

Facing the viewer is the George Public House, which I believe still exists; behind is Wanstead underground station and an open area of grassland leading to Redbridge Lane and my then school, Wanstead County High. The High Street ...Read more

A memory of Wanstead in 1969

My First Glimpse Of Gravesend.

I arrived in Gravesend in 1958 on the back of my boyfriend's motorbike, we had travelled from Colchester in Essex. My father, who was in the army, had been posted to Gravesend so we all had to move. We crossed the river ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1958 by Mary Back

View On West Street

The second shop on the left was Jury Cramp's jewellers, now occupied by H Samuel. Mr Cramp was a well-known figure around Horsham and operated an alcohol-free hotel in Market Square. The giant spectacles just visible in the photo ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by M

Vivian Avenue...

Suzanne and I used to play truant from Sunday School... This is the exact spot where we got caught by my mother (What are YOU doing here??!)...There was Goldstein's deli, where we used to buy the most delcious sweet & ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1957 by Jean Philip

Croglin 1958

When my husband and I married in March 1958, he bought the cottage nearest the camera on the left; no electricity, no bathroom......it cost the  princely sum of £300! The building at the end of the street is the pub, and behind the trees ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Kate Walker

When I Was A Child

My father was born in Great Bedwyn, his name Arthur Maurice Hatter. When I was young in 1952 we were invited to stay with a member of his family in 47 High Street, I remember they had a wonderful garden, layered with full flower ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn in 1952 by Arthur Hatter

Childhood

Having just stumbled across this website and viewed the photographs, I immediately went into nostalgia mode. I was born in Alrewas in 1938 in one of the small cottages in Main Street just down from Mansell's bridge, and then moved to The Old ...Read more

A memory of Alrewas in 1940 by Anthony Venables

Woodlea Drive

I used to come down and up this road from the bus stop every day to and from school. One of the boys who grew up in this street (a house on the right as I remember) started playing for a very influential rock band called the herd. It ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1967 by Martin Jones

Wolf And Hollander

There were a few sizeable department stores in Bromley, including Harrison Gibson and Wolf and Hollander (whose flag you can see waving on the left).  I am pretty sure it was Wolf and Hollander that suffered an extraordinary fire in ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1961 by Martin Jones

Teenage Memories

Cove was a special place, a place where I was born, at 11 Sydney Smith Close...now stands Beverly Crec.... My grandad Matthew Smith lived at 39 Holly Rd, and worked on the railway as a plate layer. Growing up we lived in Hazel Avenue, ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1958 by Peter Smith

Captions

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Caption For Manningtree, High Street C1955

In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

Caption For Rochester, College Gate C1955

This is the College Yard side of the gate, looking through to the High Street and Northgate (formerly Pump Lane).

Caption For Ramsgate, Granville Hotel, Victoria Parade 1901

Edmund Davis, who lived in Sowell Street, St Peter's, bought the building; he added a concert hall and baths and landscaped Victoria Gardens.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Church Street C1960

Church Street was always liable to flooding, and in March 1947 the water flowed into the lower floor of the Feathers (right).

Caption For Quorn, High Street C1965

In this photograph the main road looks quiet, but traffic between Leicester and Loughborough would, in a few short years, build to a crescendo through the narrow streets.

Caption For Wotton Under Edge, Long Street 1897

At the top of the street stands an elegant 18th-century building housing the police station; on the near left, an outfitter's shop displays lengths of cloth.

Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph No 71178. The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.

Caption For Manchester, Victoria Building And Gateway C1890

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

Caption For Bedford, High Street 1921

We now northwards into the High Street. The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Street 1921

We are looking east along St Peter's Street, where much on the south side has changed.

Caption For Brotton, Skelton Lane C1955

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place 1901

At the east end of the Market Place is Bray's showroom, for the household furniture that was manufactured in their works in Agenoria Street near the canal.

Caption For Wisbech, The Clarkson Memorial 1923

The tailor's shop to the left was shortly taken over by Fells, Cycle & Wireless dealers (see W115023 on page 38-39), who also had premises in Norfolk Street, and until recently was Belfast's linen store

Caption For Chichester, Canon Lane Archway, South Street 1890

Here in South Street we see the late 15th-century Canon Gate which leads into the cathedral precincts.

Caption For Looe, Hotel 1908

The size of the Looe Hotel in Fore Street reflects the growing tourist industry, which was stimulated at Looe by a railway branch that had been connected to the main line system just seven years before

Caption For Eamont Bridge, 1893

The proprietress of Taylforth's Hotel (left), in the main street of Eamont Bridge, stands outside to bid farewell to a guest departing in a pony and trap.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

In the highly stratified society of Alderley Edge village, the Liberal Unionist Club in Stephen Street was for the village`s tradesmen.

Caption For Malmesbury, High Street 1924

At the north end of the High Street stands the 15th-century market cross, with Malmesbury Cottage Hospital and the abbey in the background.

Caption For Camberley, High Street C1955

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

Caption For Hale, Victoria Street 1907

Try standing in the middle of the main street nowadays! Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

Caption For Frome, Christ Church Street West 1952

This street was named after the church, which was erected in 1818 on Packhorse field. The church lies behind the trees on the left.

Caption For Chipping Norton, High Street C1945

The Town Hall, on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used

Caption For Birmingham, New Street 1890

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

Caption For Bridport, South Street 1897

This looks Southwards along South Street to St Mary`s parish church (centre).