Photos

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Maps

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Memories

3,712 memories found. Showing results 601 to 610.

Mayoral Treats...

When my father, Cllr John Wood, was Mayor of Ealing in 1976 I enjoyed the treats that I got! Every weekend in the summer we would go to fetes, fayres etc and dad would open the events and my sister and I would be given some cash from ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Dave Wood

East View And Munich

I lived at East View, Number 31 with Edgar and Myfannwy Howells from 1955 onwards. They were my aunt and Uncle. They looked after me when my parents died when I was 5 years of age. East View was a great street to be brought up ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by dave

Balidon Fond Memories

I was born on 15th August 1954 at Balidon. I am sure my father told me they had a fishpond as you came into the driveway at the front of the building. When he first came to see me, he went to open the door of a car he must have ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1954 by Julie Frost

Ode To Wallsend

ODE TO WALLSEND I was born at Wallsend Village green in the heart of Wallsend Town, I spent my childhood in an era great to be around, We all grew up together and played in our back lanes, My cousins and my neighbours in the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1976 by James Bridgewood

Better Times

Great Britain is in disarray, I've never seen the likes. Worse than when Thatcher telt us Geordies, to get on wa bikes. They closed the yards and factories, we had them by the score, These places now just memories, of better ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1985 by James Bridgewood

What An Education!

It's pity that there are no images of Cannock's schools on this archive. Cannock actually had a number of schools long before many other towns. Primary education for all didn't come into effect until the Education Act of 1870 made it ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

Filmdirector Frederick Zelnik In Harrow

Unfortunately, I have never stayed at the beautiful Harrow. But I'm very interested in Harrow because I'm looking for a house where the German filmdirector and producer Frederick (Friedrich) Zelnik and his wife, the ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by erol.hesse

May And Baker (Dagenham East)

The May and Baker factory, close to the railway station at Dagenham East was once one of the largest factories in the area. The company was best known for developing the drug quinine to combat malaria, often simply referred ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by alandvi.187

Croydon Advertiser

I worked on the Croydon Advertiser from about 1959 to 1963 and met my wife Frances Dowsett, who was also a reporter there at the office in High Street. We used to lunch most days at Batty's Bar, upstairs in a pub on the corner of ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by barber.david01

Old Lewisham Central Library

In the early 1950s I worked at the Central Library, near St Mary's Church. My most vivid memories are the long working hours (difficult for the social life of a young girl) and having to manually count the 'issue' before we ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by rita

Captions

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Caption For Boroughbridge, High Street 1907

The Norman plan for settlements made Boroughbridge the 44th of the 400 new towns.

Caption For Crowland, Abbey Street C1965

The remains became the small town's parish church.

Caption For Bedford, Town Bridge C1955

The significance of Town Bridge is that of an enduring physical presence.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1940

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

The town's original swimming pool was built in Mereway in 1896, and used for many years before closing due to pollution of the water.

Caption For Brackley, Town Hall C1955

The largest town in south-west Northamptonshire, Brackley had a market charter since before 1217, its wealth having come from wool.

Caption For Winchelsea, The Armoury 1906

Winchelsea is an 'ancient' town, like Rye, equal in status to the Cinque Ports and having to provide a quota of ships for the English fleet.

Caption For Thaxted, The Guildhall 1906

Allegedly built around the start of the 15th century, this was the headquarters of the Cutlers` Guild, and later the meeting-place of the town`s burgesses.

Caption For Ruthin, Clwyd Street C1955

The mock-Tudor building seen here gives little indication of the real timber-framed buildings that remain in the town, although most would have been destroyed when Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince

Caption For Dorking, The Watermill Restaurant C1965

At the cross-roads is the entrance to the town.

Caption For Luton, Chapel Street 2005

Geoff Cox said: 'I think the negative image goes back to Lorraine Chase and the Luton Airport advertisement (for Campari); it led to the naff town idea.

Caption For St Helens, The Town Hall C1955

Coal mining had been a major industry regionally since the 16th century; the coal had traditionally been transported by packhorse into neighbouring Cheshire and to Liverpool.

Caption For Bawtry, High Street And Market Place C1965

This town on the old Great North Road was specifically created to trade on its location by the local landowner Idonea de Viponts as early as the 12th century, when the existing Roman road was diverted

Caption For Haverfordwest, Prendergast Church 1898

St David's, Prendergast, occupies a commanding position, over­looking the Cleddau River and the town of Haverfordwest.

Caption For Douglas, The Sands 1907

On the south side are the handsome stone piers, and a deep harbour cutting off most of the town from the cliffs of Douglas Head.

Caption For Horsham, East Street 1891

This excellent view captures the eastward expansion of the town in the late 19th century very well.

Caption For Abingdon, Town Hall 1890

Frith's Victorian photographer was in the lane leading to the abbey gateway, and looking across the Market Place to what is now undoubtedly the finest building in Abingdon: the Town Hall.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1919

Originally called Cambridge Town, in honour of the Duke of Cambridge who founded the Army Staff College here, its name had to be changed to avoid confusion within the postal service with its university

Caption For Boston, Market Place 1899

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

Caption For Loftus, Town Hall C1955

The distinctive town hall of Loftus was built by Lord Zetland in 1879 and described as 'Free-Neo-Tudor' with a polygon angled tower.

Caption For Broadwater, Village 1906

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.

Caption For East Dereham, Market Place 1893

This is the most central town in Norfolk.

Caption For Worksop, Gateford Road C1965

Beyond Victoria Square the town expanded along Gateford Road and Carlton Road towards the railway station, which opened in 1850; it is stone-built in a Jacobean style.

Caption For Loftus, General View C1960

An interesting view of Loftus, again showing the towers of the Catholic church and the town hall.