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I was born right across the road from this row of shops ,at no. 491 they were every old cottages ,the end one being the old police station, complete with dungeon, the elderly lady who lived there still had the front as it was as a ...Read more

A memory of Heaton Mersey by peterdale40

This development included a Coop Department store and a bookshop that I frequented in my teenage years. The Coop skirted around the corner into Stafford Street and two of the original terraced houses on that street were occupied by the ...Read more

A memory of Stafford

Griffiths House Hotel was the home of Mary Ann Evans,(George Eliot) She based inher writings on life in Nuneaton. If you know the area well and then read her books you can relate to Nuneaton quite easily. The Work House ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton by Patricia Byrne

Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by ribblehead

I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left in ...Read more

A memory of Dunmurry by carole.chambers19

When I was a child in the 1940s, this sports field belonged to the Post Office. Occasionally there would be a horse in residence and this is where I had my first and only ride on such an animal. The stadium on the left caught ...Read more

A memory of Beddington by Norman Langridge

The photograph shows the entry to Hell Mill Lane (sometimes called Riley Road) which runs along the valley of the Little Avon towards Ozleworth; to the right behind the trees is Wortley Farm, occupied in the 1940's by the ...Read more

A memory of Wortley by rontavender

I was born in 1943 and lived at Ely Cottage, Rock Street. The house was built by my Grandfather around 1920, I have a page from a 1926 telephone directory stating that the house was a business address of the Adams ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by wiclad

we lived in northfleet high street my father owned fleet autos (car sale) and his father before him Also owned the green grocers on the corner of rose street and fronting on to high street, opposite There was knolls the ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet by cehead

My fourth set of memories carries on with shops in Barking. Previously I had recalled those along from Fanshawe Avenue to the station. Over the other side past Cambridge Road was Lloyds bank on the corner, my wife ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy