Maps

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Books

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Memories

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The Alley Beside The Tradesman's Arms In Cove

This alley had the vicarage on its other side. You had to go under or beside a no-cycling bar to get through - there was one at the other end too, and they were brilliant for hanging upside down on. The ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Christine Higgs

Danbury Village School C.1950

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

"Woolies"

In 1958 I was a pupil at Blackpool Grammar School on Raikes Parade. At lunchtime it wasn't unknown for some of us to leave the school premises and walk down to FW Woolworths store near to the Tower. Here, a virtual cornucopia of ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1958 by Martin Stewart

Presthaven Sands

Does anyone remember presthaven sands in the 60s and 70s,we would spend potters fortnight there every year,sometimes in the chalets in gronant,does anyone remember jobie's bingo in gronant by the bridge going over to presthaven,the ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by Paul Roberts

Early Days 1956

Wonderful Experience spent my sixteenth birthday at the school, Memories fade, I believe my house master was a Mr Morrell? My badge was all blue, I had to go to his room for my assessment sat in front of a blazing log fire. We had a ...Read more

A memory of Whitby in 1956 by Philip Wells

Still Clear Memories Of My Birth Town

I notice many other contributors focus on the shops in the town centre and I will cover these in my next ramblings but start with my schools. I was born in March 1949 at Upney maternity hospital and my first school ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

Way Back Then.

lived in margate from approx. 1945 to 1952. There was a pier with a life boat station halfway up.Took a trip on the lifeboat, public once year, and was really seasick. There was also the Pavilion, close by was a 'pillbox' a wartime concrete ...Read more

A memory of Margate

Around The Corner & Far Away In Time Forster Drycleaning Co 33 Bower Way, Cippenham

Hi my Dad used to work with John Wallis Drycleaners as a Van Driver (John Wallis was based in Windsor, Datchet & other towns with the Factory in Hillside, Chalvey) who ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by michael

80 Years Turnchapel

Hi, my name is William John Maunder and I am 81 years old and my first memory of Turnchapel is the early years of the WW2 . At the time I was living at Crownhill at that time on the outskirts of Plymouth, today day near B&Q ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel

My First Memories Were Of Hemel Hempstead

I don’t know exactly how old I was when we moved to Hemel from Willesden London N.W.10.. My first memories were from about the age of 4.. We lived in a flat in Underacres Close near Mayland’s Wood.. I ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead by Keith Pocock

Captions

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Caption For Abergavenny, The Castle C1955

The remains of the 14th-century lodging tower are to the left. Ballon's motte to the right is topped by a 19th-century hunting lodge, which now houses the town's museum.

Caption For Eye, Town Hall C1960

The Town Hall, standing in the middle of the ancient market place, was designed in 1857 by Edward Lamb of Manchester, using an unusual combination of bricks and flints in the main building, the tower and

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

The keep (with the flagpole) was raised to three storeys and the outer walls and towers refaced in the 1820s; the walls still look remarkably fresh today.

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

The keep (with the flagpole) was raised to three storeys and the outer walls and towers refaced in the 1820s; the walls still look remarkably fresh today.

Caption For Knighton, Broad Street C1955

conceivable example of architecture is visible here in the gently rising street—including the stone and brick Norton Arms in the foreground, the half-timbered building beyond it, and the Gothic-style clock tower

Caption For Hunmanby, Church And White Swan Hotel C1950

On the right are the tower of All Saint's Church and the Admiral's Arch.

Caption For Lincoln, School Of Art 1890

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Caption For Basildon, Industrial Estate C1965

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

Caption For Edinburgh, Black Watch On The Castle Esplanade 1897

The small tower on the right with the angled roof is the Portcullis Gate, the upper part of which was added 1886-87.

Caption For Rochdale, Town Hall Square 1892

The Square is dominated by the 190ft-high Town Hall tower. Even in 1892 it was not the original; that had been so badly damaged by fire that it had to be demolished.

Caption For Lechlade, The Square C1955

Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented porch, Maple House beyond with its battlemented parapet and, of course, the superb St Lawrence's parish church's tower

Caption For Dolgellau, From The Station 1888

This view, taken from the station, shows the town and Cadair Idris, the River Wnion, the famous 17th-century bridge and tollhouse, and the tower of St Mary's church.

Caption For Caernarfon, The Square 1933

The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

Caption For London, Parliament Street 1897

The Union Jack flying on the Victoria Tower indicates that Parliament is sitting.

Caption For Castor, The Church Of St Kyneburgha 1890

The tower is decorated by window openings that are repeated as blind arcades; the spire was added in the 14th century.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Lansdowne Private Hotel C1955

Lansdowne Terrace, a long Italianate terrace facing the Wish Tower, was built in the 1860s with its centre spanned by a wide triangular pediment; it was soon mostly colonised by the Lansdowne Private

Caption For Newmarket, The Jubilee Clock Tower C1955

The red brick clock tower of 1890 commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. On the left is Moon's cycle depot, connected with the garage in Bury Road.

Caption For Wickham Market, The Mill C1960

The tower of the steam engine house has now been demolished. The water mill is 18th-century, with three pairs of wheels driven by a cast iron breast-shot wheel.

Caption For Skegness, Sands 1899

The two wood and pantile shelters on either side of what was to become Tower Esplanade were useful refuges when it began to rain.

Caption For Lynmouth, The Harbour 1899

The pier was 18th-century, and the Rhenish tower added early in the 1800s by a General Rawdon.

Caption For Branston, Branston Hall Hospital C1965

The round turret by the side of the main entrance with its ogee cap looks very much like a windmill tower.

Caption For Fowey, Market Street 1888

Here we have a glimpse of the church tower between the houses of Market Street in the old heart of the waterside town. Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway.

Caption For Newton Valence, St Mary's Church 1907

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.

Caption For Marlborough, St Peter's Church, High Street 1907

It has a magnificent 120ft tower. The Sun Hotel on the right is still trading today.