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Hemsworth Library 1955 1975

I am looking for any images or information about Hemsworth Library between 1955 and 1975. I am doing research on W.A. Ismay who was branch librarian during that time and would really appreciate any help.

A memory of Hemsworth

Woodville Road, Ham, Prefabs

My Family moved into the newly built Prefabs in Woodville Road when they were first opened up for occupancy. I can't remember what year it was. Does anybody know what the date was? The Prefabs were kitted out with a Fridge which ...Read more

A memory of Ham by philip.lintern23

Summers At The Warren

My mum and dad and I spent many summers at the Talacre Warren. My father was a Co-op branch manager in Woodley, Cheshire and knew a couple, Mr & Mrs Taylor who had a wooden chalet on the Warren. In addition to the Chalet there ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by terencegraham275

Haven Green Trainspotting In The Fifties

I remember seeing CITY OF TRURO come through one evening. It had been taken out of Swindon museum and restored. I also remember seeing the BROWN BOVERI GAS TURBINE on several occassions. It had been ordered by THE ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Nick Beard

O J Brown & Son Butcher

I have no memories of Blackwood as such. My interest started when I retired and took on my Genealogy! Anyway, I knew about Ossie Brown and the family butcher's shop in High St but especially his father, Arthur J Brown, my ...Read more

A memory of Blackwood by Cherryl Wharton

Bognor Childhoo Holidays

I came down to Bognor with my family for a three week holiday every summer in the late 50s early 60s, first from Redhill and then from Godalming, Surrey It was mostly on the train, and the last time we came it was in our ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis by Canon David Frost

Those Were The Days

I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated concrete ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge by Robert Morris

Purley Parade

We moved into the spacious four-bedroomed maisonette over Purley Radio in Purley Parade in 1955 and I attended Christ Church primary school, just over the other side of High Street (sadly demolished in 1967). A policeman used to see us ...Read more

A memory of Purley

"Bre's Tree" Linslade Bedfordshire

I lost my wife on new years eve 2021 following three years of her illness with vascular dementia. No one really told me how things would progress with this dreadful illness and so I just tried my hardest to cram ...Read more

A memory of Linslade by ducatee

Nursing In Angus 1923 1958

This is what I know about my late aunt, Miss Margaret J.A. Urquhart,( 1898 -1977). Miss Urquhart spent 39 years nursing. When she retired, Miss Urquhart was Superintendent in the Domiciliary Service of the National ...Read more

A memory of Carnoustie by R Urquhart

Captions

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Caption For Headingley, St Michael's Church And The Shire Oak 1897

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

Caption For Wollaston, Bridgnorth Road 1968

The High Street branches left at the junction. It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

Caption For Headingley, St Michael's Church And The Shire Oak 1897

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

Caption For Kettering, Market 1922

The building closed some years ago, and is now a branch of Ladbrokes, among other shops.

Caption For Yelverton, Green Bank 1910

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

Caption For Pembroke Dock, Dimond Street C1960

A branch of Barclays Bank is on the left and WH Smith is on the right of the picture.

Caption For Broadstone, Station Approach C1955

Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton

Caption For Kettering, Sheep Street C1955

During one year there would be other changes; a zebra crossing was later removed, and the older lamp posts with wrought iron branches would be discarded in favour of tall concrete poles.

Caption For Bramhall, Bramhall Lane South C1965

Hooley's private school, Bramhall Grammar School, the consulting rooms of two physicians and surgeons, a post office, fishmonger and fruiterers, a confectioner, a grocers, a boot maker and cycle dealer, and a branch

Caption For Staithes, The Bridge C1885

These are fairly small lines for use by local fishermen; trawlers, however, would tow a line perhaps half a mile or more in length, which with branches could have as many as 15,000 hooks.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1892

The branch railway from Taunton spurred the resort's growth; the station is now the terminus of the West Somerset Railway, closed in 1971 but reopened in 1976 as a preserved line.

Caption For Sheffield, Fargate C1955

The Sheffield branch of Thomas Cook & Son is dwarfed by its neighbour,Woodhouses.

Caption For St Neots, High Street C1960

the north side of the High Street, behind the Mini Traveller stands the Westminster Bank, previously Ellwoods; next door is R & O Hall, newsagents, who later became Buxton`s paper shop and is now a branch

Caption For Penarth, The Roundabout C1940

Originally a mere sub-branch of Cardiff's Bute Street, the growing stature of the town is evidenced by the bank's gaining of both 'full' status (c1886) and Bute Street's erstwhile manager, Mr H W Rice!

Caption For Sutton, Grange Vale 1904

The Epsom Downs railway line was opened in 1865, and branched south from Sutton station to its first stop, which was Belmont.

Caption For Thirlmere, From Hell How 1892

Conifers, recently planted in the interest of water purity, now cloak the artificial lake with a dense canopy of branches.

Caption For Cheam, The Broadway 1932

Next to it is the large building occupied for many years by Messrs Sainsbury's Cheam branch.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1955

Thornber's the chemist's, to be seen on the left under the 'H' sign, had branches throughout the area. The shop was later known as Espley's.

Caption For Whitemans Green, The Village C1965

The village sign shown on the right of the photograph depicts a cuckoo, a rebus for Cuckfield, whilst the village stores (left) were a branch of Spar and also housed the local post office

Caption For Walton On The Hill, Post Office 1931

The estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private

Caption For Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Stores C1955

Welwyn Stores had branches in many towns in Hertfordshire, and formed an important part of the Garden City Company. In 1947, Welwyn Stores contributed £1,560,000 to the company's gross income.

Caption For Snodland, High Street C1965

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

Caption For Dyserth, Waterfall 1891

It is also rightly famous for being on the new (1905) branch line from Prestatyn, which was the first in North Wales to use the new motor train.

Caption For Ledbury, The Park C1955

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.