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Fishing Under The Arches

I was born Marilynne Thompson at 17, The Lynch, Polesworth in January 1952. My mam and dad, Peg and Geoff Thompson both worked at Ensor's brickyard. When I was about two or three years old we moved to a cottage belonging ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1961 by Marilynne Connolly

Fields

I was born at home in Hartley St in 1944. In our childhood we had fields and a bit of countryside to play in. Everywhere one looked there were textile mill chimneys. At one pm each working day, the workers were called back to work from thier ...Read more

A memory of Morley by Albert Mitchell

Evacuee

I was sent by my mother as an evacuee to stay with her sister Lilian to get away from the bombs dropping over Wimbledon during the war. My Uncle Wilf and Aunt Lill lived above the Tylers Shoe Shop in Langold. Uncle Wilf (Scotney) was the ...Read more

A memory of Langold in 1942 by Jacqueline Hindley

Evacuated Fro Newcastle To Camp In1940

Mr Scott was Head Master. Very much run on Military lines, but have good memoriies of that time. I was in Beeches house, my younger brother was there too. Anyone from that era out there and want to share the good old days with Chilton?

A memory of Hexham in 1940

Durham Buildings York Road

My name was cook and we lived in durham building. I remember schooling bakery in plough road next to St Peters church, across the road was len's secondhand shop where my mum used to buy some of our clothes, also there was a ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by hazeljarrett55

Coundon

I remember living in george st west on the new rows I can remembet the shops there were lots ; the co-op walter wilsons where my aunt worked there was a tv shop post office; sparks shop tben another I cant remember the name then bottom ...Read more

A memory of Coundon by johndobe01

Building The Bridge

I was sat in my classroom at the parish school in church street and I had just put away my plastic counters after a hard maths lesson ,I was only 5 ( and 1+1 was very hard)my teachers name was mrs oats she was lovely and as I sat ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1961 by Carol Cooke

Birdcage Club

Hi Pete, we still have, in our family, a much loved painting of Dunstanburgh Castle which we bought from you for 7 pounds one night in the Birdcage ! You won't remember me but I married David from the Nags Head! Found this site when ...Read more

A memory of Alnwick in 1967 by Sue Pattinson

Bensham Memories Early 1960s

I attended Victoria Rd school and then redheugh junior school, my Gran Jane Turner lived on Derwentwater road and her family percy, Doreen, Elsie, Jenny and Florrie , my mam all attended lady Vernon school, sadly they are ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by colin.mitchell

Asylum Road Arlesey

Alma Allen was born at home in Asylum Road, Arlesey, now called Hospital Road. They later moved in with Herbert's dad, Big Jim, who lived in the Gothic Farm House that was at the bottom of the yet to be built Lynton Avenue. One ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1930 by Clive Lombari

Captions

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Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen 1900

Decimus Burton’s impressive arch is topped by a decorative frieze depicting horsemen, the design imitated from the Elgin Marbles which were on display in the British Museum.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Abbots Bridge C1955

The arches once had portcullises into the water, and there is a walkway on the inside of the wall.

Caption For Brighton, The Beach 1902

From Palace Pier looking east, beyond the terminus of Magnus Volks' 1883 Electric Railway, we can see the late 1890s arches of Madeira Terrace, halfway up the sea wall in front of Marine Parade, with Kemp

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Great Haywood, Essex Bridge C1955

The original bridge consisted of 42 arches and stretched some way back from the river in order to clear wet ground.

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War, business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Fareham, Union Street 2005

The bricks that were used to build many of the houses in the High Street were the same kind, the magnificent Fareham Reds, that built the spectacular railway viaduct, whose seventeen arches loom

Caption For Walberswick, Bridge 1919

Horsedrawn carriages and motorised vehicles had to take a much longer route, about nine miles, via Blythburgh.

Caption For Hadleigh, Toppesfield Bridge 1922

This is the three-arched red brick medieval bridge over the River Brett at Hadleigh.

Caption For Eastbourne, Belle Vue Hotel C1965

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

Caption For Huntingdon, The Old Bridge 1898

The medieval bridge over the River Ouse was started in 1332 to connect Huntingdon with Godmanchester, and the respective authorities paid for three arches - note the different styles - with the builders

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

On the right is a heavily-rusticated arch leading through to the rear of the hotel, a reminder of the town's coaching days.

Caption For Northwich, Anderton Boat Lift C1960

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges. The Anderton Lift created a much faster passage for boats and increased the tonnage of river traffic to 226,000 in 1913.

Caption For Lee, Old Maid's Cottage C1950

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

Caption For Chelwood Gate, The Village C1930

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

Though it sits heavily on the Embankment, its broad facades and massed arches in the Piranesi style bring it a monumental dignity.'

Caption For Witchampton, Mill 1904

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.

Caption For Brompton, The Gordon Memorial And R E Institute 1894

The General died in 1885 and this statue, erected in 1890, faces the memorial arch.

Caption For Uppingham, School Quadrangle 1927

The air of a monastic undercroft, with its heavy circular columns and chamfered pointed arches, pervades the photograph.

Caption For Staines, Boating 1907

Guiding a punt - and its 'fair inhabitants' - towards the graceful arches of Staines Bridge.

Caption For Broadstairs, York Gate 1887

Leading from the old village to the harbour beyond, this 16th-century arch, originally fitted with a portcullis and gates, was built to protect the settlement against pirates and smugglers.

Caption For South Shields, Marsden Bay C1955

Nearby is Marsden Rock, an arched sandstone rock inhabited by thousands of seabirds.

Caption For Boston Spa, Thorp Arch Hall 1908

Thorp Arch Hall is now divided into three separate houses, and has been tastefully restored in recent years.

Caption For Reigate, Ricebridge On The Mole 1886

A group, thought to be part of a 'walking party', pose rather self-consciously on the two-arched bridge over the River Mole. This stands across the fields some two miles to the south west of Reigate.