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Training To Be A Bricklayer

During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1951 by Frank Mowforth

Trefriw My Home In The 40's And 50's.

This picture was taken a year after I left Trefriw for Canada. I was married at St. Mary's Church and lived at Tan Dderwen near Crafnant Lake, later at Glanrafon in the village. My parents were the Proprietors ...Read more

A memory of Trefriw in 1951 by Nancy Young

In Line And Two By Two

Miss Cary was short and stout with grey hair in a bun. She always wore a cameo brooch on a white silk blouse, grey skirt and sensible shoes. She was kind and patient, she was also my first teacher. One day as the mothers picked up ...Read more

A memory of Kew in 1951 by Barry Hawgood

Childhood Days

Being born in Sowerby Bridge as a family we would often visit Ladstone Rock. I had numerous happy hours there as a young lad, picnics and gathering Bilberries' for mum to bake pies. Why did the summer days then never seem to ...Read more

A memory of Sowerby Bridge in 1951 by Barry M. Whisler

Lost And Found In Bristol

Our family had returned to England at the very end of 1948 from a short overseas BOAC posting in Montreal. My father, a BOAC pilot, was due to begin training to fly Boeing Stratocruisers at Filton in 1949, and along with ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1951 by John Liles

Times Past

I was born in 1951 and lived for the first 2 years of my life at 241 the Blocks with my parents and Grandparents. This was a 2 up 2 down + attic house in a block of 3 situated on the bottom row of the blocks, now demolished. ...Read more

A memory of Barrow Hill in 1951 by Paul Gibbons

Faygate Station

My Grandfather was station master at Faygate station for quite a number of years.  He and my grandma lived in the house right on the platform and they had a garden opposite where he grew vegetables and kept chickens.  His name was ...Read more

A memory of Faygate in 1951 by carol.uren

Childhood Memories

How lovely to read all these memories and what a lot I had forgotten over the years! I too, was born in Thornton House (1951) in Warwick Toad, I never realised that it used to be a school. In later years it was turned into flats ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1951 by Anthea Post

Childhood Memories

My Nan lived in Church Path (renamed Lillie Walk), they were all mainly Irish families living there, Nan's family all stayed in Fulham around North End Road. In the 1950s me and my sister were taken there to buy new shoes and stop ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1951 by Carole Harrington

Coal Wagon

Remember that there was a coal yard near the bridge over the Browney just opposite the old road. Was that the yard where the coal wagon loaded. Remember roaming the streets looking for loads of coal that had been delivered so that ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1951 by Derek Foster

Captions

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Caption For Studland, Ferry C1960

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

Caption For Melsonby, Bridge And Church Of St James The Great C1960

Quarrying for limestone and copper brought new people to this quiet agricultural village - mines were still operating in the 1920s. Now Melsonby is a well-kept residential village.

Caption For Godmanchester, Bridge 1901

The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

Caption For Warrington, Latchford Locks 1894

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

Caption For Newark, Great North Road And Castle C1955

This seems a quiet day, for my childhood memories of passing through Newark are of nose-to-tail crawls and relief on crossing the bridge.

Caption For Chelford, Macclesfield Road C1955

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

Caption For Molesey Lock, The Lock C1955

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

Caption For Downham, The Village 1894

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Caption For Cardigan, The Bridge C1965

An earth and timber castle was established here by the Normans in 1110. After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

Caption For Pevensey, Castle 1894

In Roman and medieval times the castle was on the sea, but this has retreated half a mile away.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Caption For Cardigan, The Bridge C1965

An earth and timber castle was established here by the Normans in 1110. After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

Caption For Crowland, North Street C1955

This photograph must have been taken from the Trinity Bridge. On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.

Caption For Hoveton, The Village 1921

The capital of the Broads is Wroxham which is just across the bridge. It is a popular starting point for boating holidays which grew rapidly in the early years of this century.

Caption For Worcester, The River Severn From The Cathedral Tower C1960

We are looking upstream, towards the Abberley Hills in the distance, with the tower and spire of the otherwise demolished St Andrew's Church prominent on the right.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1935

Cars replace horses on the taxi rank, traffic lights control movement over the bridge, Prideaux's have expanded hugely, adding Morris and Austin to their dealerships, and the gazebo has gone, demolished

Caption For Shefford, North Bridge Street 1951

Here we look south down North Bridge Street towards that junction with High Street.

Caption For Lancaster, The Canal 1918

This picture of peace and tranquillity, though it was taken in 1918, could really have been taken in 1998 or even yesterday. Note the boathouse on the far bank.

Caption For Dunsop Bridge, Entrance To Brennand Valley 1921

Brennand Valley is just one of many beauty spots threading the fells near Dunsop Bridge.

Caption For Paignton, Park Hotel 1889

Victorian engineering may have had its successes with its railways, bridges and steamships, but not every invention made it into the handbook of classic designs.

Caption For Keswick, Bridge And Greta Hall 1889

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Caption For Ilkley, Brook Street 1911

The first stage of the Otley to Skipton Railway reached Ilkley on 1 August 1865 - the town was decorated with bunting, and merrymaking continued day and night.

Caption For Swanage, The Shore C1950

Rockleigh (top left) was demolished in 1986 and replaced by a Spanish-style marine village.

Caption For Abingdon, The River C1960

We are looking onto Nag's Head Island from the river bridge. Until the 1960s there were two boat building and hiring businesses occupying the west part of the island.