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Open Air Swimming Pool Colchester

Many a happy day was spent at the open air swimming pool in the late 1950s - early 1960s. The changing rooms, under the road bridge, were not nice and always covered in water. I had swimming lessons with Mr Smith ...Read more

A memory of Colchester in 1957

Jtbells

This is the year I started on the building sites in 1963, I got a job on J. T. Bell's site in Whickam, the site hadn't been running long then as it was in the first stage. All the lads were mainly from Newburn, Lemington, and Throckley. If ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1963 by Jimmy Burrows

Will It Be Open?

My family moved from Bermondsey, where we shared my grandad's house, to Enfield, where Mum and Dad had managed to buy their own house (for £2,000) in 1960. It was some years before Dad could afford driving lessons and then a car. We ...Read more

A memory of London in 1966 by Carol Fisher

Pound Street

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half an ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

Happy Days

Born in Paxton in 1948, I have many happy memories as a child in the country. I never tired of messing about in the local rivers, the Whiteadder and the Tweed. Best described as messing about because at times I didn't catch very ...Read more

A memory of Paxton by Dave Carr

The River

The River Avon dominated most of the kids' lives in the village! I remember swimming 'down the mill' and at Gunville where my Great Grandmother (Sarah Marks) lived. We used to scrounge used inner tyre tubes from Mr Stansfield (who ...Read more

A memory of Figheldean in 1957 by Denise Hope Nee Morgan

The Shakey Bridge

My mother left Yorkshire with me in 1945 when I was four years old. She worked for a Mrs Curzon at Arrochar house in Rothiemay as a cook and general help. I think the owners were titled people. I remember collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rothiemay Crossroads in 1945 by Lucie Nee; Roberts

Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington Village. ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

Early Years

I was born in 1953 in the front room bedroom at 103 Chamber Road, Hollinwood, Oldham. My Dad Denis Murray was from Oldham, son of Simeon and Margaret Murray from Talbot Street. I remember walking to Corpus Christi School on Old Lane with ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1953

Steamtrains, Servicemen And Central Station.

The journey up to and across London to King's Cross Station in 1944 for a 4-year old boy was exciting enough, but our adventure had only just begun. Holding my mother's hand tightly, we searched ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Raymond Hay

Captions

1,770 captions found. Showing results 745 to 768.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Bridge 1899

In the first view (right) we are looking towards the bridge from south Riverside and the second (bottom right) was taken from the bridge itself.

Caption For Kettering, Wicksteed Park C1955

The 'jungle' bridges were to divert youngsters away from the formal flower gardens - and to give the adults a rest.

Caption For Bakewell, The River Wye C1955

The trees and vegetation on the far bank make this an archetypal English setting. This view is taken to the south of the bridge in Bakewell.

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For Berriew, The Village C1950

A narrow bridge crosses the River Rhiw and leads the eye to a group of genuine black and white Tudor houses.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1955

This is all pedestrianised now, and no double decker bus is to be seen in this part of the High Street. The High Street is in fact the Roman Ermine Street, and it goes all the way through the city.

Caption For Hodder River, Lower Hodder Bridges 1858

It is a Celtic name, and it describes the river well. Rising on Lamb Hill Fell, the river now runs into the Stock Reservoir and then resumes its wandering in North Lancashire.

Caption For Sutton, The Ford C1955

This packhorse bridge was originally built in the 10th century as a wooden structure and progressed to this design 200 years later.

Caption For Dolwyddelan, The Bridge And Lledr C1940

The photographer must have felt far from the rumblings of war, and even more so with subjects as beautiful as this fine old stone bridge that spans the Lledr River.

Caption For Preston, Old Tram Bridge 1893

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants; they saw a canal as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and getting other goods out to the towns in the heart of Lancashire, and to the growing

Caption For Launceston, The Chain Bridge 1906

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren't allowed to.

Caption For Hayling Island, Mengham Road C1965

Hayling is linked to the mainland by a concrete road bridge that opened in 1956, replacing the wooden toll bridge.

Caption For Bridge Of Allan, Henderson Street 1899

Robert Louis Stevenson was a frequent visitor to Bridge of Allan when the town was a popular Victorian spa complete with pump room and baths.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

In this view the pub, the river, and both bridges can all be seen. Note the pole sign for the pub standing in the river.

Caption For Pangbourne, The Bridge And The Old George 1899

Here a carter waits patiently while his horse rests and drinks from the river under the bridge. In the background is the Old George.

Caption For Gumfreston, Ruins And Mill 1890

Note the stone bridge, tumbledown building and the solitary boy in the foreground.

Caption For Lincoln, High Street C1955

This is all pedestrianised now, and no double decker bus is to be seen in this part of the High Street. The High Street is in fact the Roman Ermine Street, and it goes all the way through the city.

Caption For Christchurch, Blackwater Ferry 1900

In Saxon times, before many bridges were built, rivers formed real obstacles to travel, and ferries thrived.

Caption For Stratford Upon Avon, Boathouse 1922

Boats can be hired at the Swan's Nest Boathouse and at Clopton Bridge.

Caption For March, High Street C1955

This view looks up towards the market place and the bridge. The photographer was probably standing outside the old school, now the home of the March & District Museum.

Caption For Kirkstall Abbey, From The Weir 1891

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

In this view the pub, the river, and both bridges can all be seen. Note the pole sign for the pub standing in the river.

Caption For Chester, The Bandstand 1914

Children fish for minnows, adults relax and enjoy the waterside scene. Behind the Edwardian bandstand is the suspension bridge across the river to Queen's Park.

Caption For London, The Tower Of London And Tower Bridge C1920

This stunning panorama looks south-east over the battlements and roofs of London's most celebrated building and towards the river and Tower Bridge.