Books

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Memories

8,147 memories found. Showing results 231 to 240.

Island Cottage

My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the first ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1955 by Christine Ruskin

Doon The Brae In 1950

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with no ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

Happy Days

In 1959 I became a pupil at St Michaels School (The Old Vicarage Residential Home) where I stayed for 3 happy years, until I was told it closed after the head disappeared with the school funds. Whether or not this is true I don’t ...Read more

A memory of Stockland Bristol by Chris Sheridan

Marshall's Airport

I lived at 14 The Homing, Meadowlands, Cambridge which was close to the airport. I was 8 years old in 1955. Often on sunny weekends, my Mum would takes us on a walk over to the airport. It was a quiet relaxed place in those days. ...Read more

A memory of Cambridge in 1955 by Chris Birkbeck

Happy Hours Of Reading But Also Destruction.

So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome title ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Chris Scott

Post Office

Post Office and shop on the left. Mrs. Cornwall was the Postmistress. On the right is a lovely tree next to the Blacksmith's cottage, which was cut down for a new house later on. Lovely empty street here. Wonder who the child is?

A memory of Wilburton by Sandra Shaw

Andrew Duncan Home For Boys

At the age of 13 I suffered a nervous breakdown due to problems at home. It was decided by my doctor to send me away from home to give me a break. My mother took me to a mainline station in London where I was handed over ...Read more

A memory of Shiplake by Wi Taylor

Oakhanger, Hampshire

Grew up in Oakhanger and enjoyed the freedom of exploring the common in the centre of the village. Some good times were had sledging down a hill on the common in the snow. Also, finding and catching tadpoles in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Oakhanger

School Holidays

I remember long hot summers back then 1960’s playing in Crago’s barn just outside of village and picking primroses down the hill at Treburgy Water with my sister .. we had to fill a basket and then when we got home we had to ...Read more

A memory of Dobwalls by Janice Webb

Captions

2,258 captions found. Showing results 553 to 576.

Caption For Great Bookham, Church Road 1904

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

Caption For Battle, High Street 1921

The motor car is well provided for in this picture, which looks down the High Street to the Abbey gateway. On the right are the Ford Service Depot and Pratt's Petrol.

Caption For Linton, Clappers Stile C1955

Simply push the three rails down, and step over! This one is the only example of a clapper stile in Cambridgeshire.

Caption For Batheaston, Main Road And River C1965

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

Caption For Westbourne, The Beach 1918

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Caption For Wainfleet, High Street C1955

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

Caption For Haslemere, Kings Road 1909

A view looking west down King's Road from near the station towards Shottermill. Note the traction engine and trailer on the left of the picture, up Longdene Road.

Caption For Great Meols, The Railway Inn C1955

Pandering to the needs of motorists, the first Railway Inn was pulled down in the 1930s to make way for a larger establishment.

Caption For Maiden Newton, Dorchester Road 1906

Maiden Newton makes a good centre for exploring the Dorset downs. Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon.

Caption For Colchester, The Park Lodge C1960

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

Caption For Beccles, From The Marshes 1894

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles was a thriving port.

Caption For Wainfleet, High Street C1955

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

Caption For Tiverton, Collipriest Avenue 1890

This charming area is down the river from Little Silver, close to the confluence of the river Lowman. Today, the trees have grown appreciably, forming an almost impenetrable barrier.

Caption For Bickleigh, Bridge And River Exe 1930

Our photographer seems to have left his carrying bag in shot, down in the bottom left corner.

Caption For Liphook, New Town 1911

Further down is Plums Cycle Depot.

Caption For Salisbury, New Canal C1950

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the left is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

Caption For Bluntisham, Colne Road C1955

Two new housing developments have appeared further down the road.

Caption For Hemingford Grey, The Village C1955

Further down on the left is the Society of the Resurrection's retreat, St Francis House.

Caption For St Austell, Crinnis Bay C1955

Tennis courts, a café and beach huts are situated on the sands reclaimed from the sea beneath the cliffs; down them the steep access lane descends to the Riviera Club.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Street C1950

The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street. The Post Office and the King's Arms Hotel on the right are still there today.

Caption For Dursley, Long Street C1947

This view looks down the hill towards The Priory and Lister's factory. The 18th-century shopfronts of Long Street have been largely retained.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Haven Bridge 1896

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

Caption For New Brighton, General View 1892

The town is already heading down market and away from James Atherton's ideals.

Caption For Dolgarrog, Village C1955

Sixteen people lost their lives amidst the debris and boulders that were washed down with the flood water.