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Vague Memories
I lived in Tetney for about the first 5 years of my life. I vaguely remember going to school and walking a long way home. I can't remember the name of the road, but the house I lived in was called 'Mistletoe Cottage'. As far as I ...Read more
A memory of Tetney in 1940 by
Broad Parade Shops
My parents bought a house in Willow Walk, which is on the right of the photographer, in August 1954. At that time there were no shops, no pavements, just muddy concrete roads. We were the first to occupy a house in the road, and ...Read more
A memory of Hockley in 1955 by
1962/63 Best Time Of My Childhood
I can't believe this, amazing even if the names are coincidence, I was at Warnham Court 1962-63, I can remember lots of names: Roy Riggs, with his 'German' dictionary. June Palmer. John Thorp, we ...Read more
A memory of Warnham Court School in 1962 by
The Shop In The Picture.
My father, Peter Mansfield, owned this shop from c1955. He was an electrician and refrigeration engineer. I can remember filling cans with paraffin for my father to deliver. My future husband says he only married me because my ...Read more
A memory of Felsted in 1955 by
Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Tales Of College Green
This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more
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Bristol Blitz
The High Street - the scene of many stirring events in Bristol's history and the heart of the city - was destroyed and lost forever during the Second World War. As a city with docks and industry at its heart, Bristol was a natural ...Read more
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The Mount In The Early 1970s
I went to see 'The Jungle Book' in the Odeon and remember the restaurant opposite - dead posh. I worked in the tiny TESCO supermarket which was opposite Rossis. In the 1970s Rossis was a mecca for teenagers as it ...Read more
A memory of South Harefield by
'up The Baths'
I remember being 'taught to swim' here, by the teachers at the board school. We were stood at the poolside, only up to the black line, then summarily being to "Jump!". If that failed, we were helped in by the boot of 'Danny' Davis or ...Read more
A memory of Brynmawr in 1965 by
Village People
I remember the people with shops in village. There was Charlie Chants grocers, Hardings stores, real old characters were Jack & Charle Hawkes with their grocery and corn shop. Good old Edger Stagg and his sweet shop. Jack ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Sub Hamdon by
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Behind us is the long established Woolworth's store, and the shop buildings on the right are also long-standing, with only cosmetic changes - like the removal of the chimneys and dormers from the central
The White Horse public house (centre) at the corner of Zion Lane has been replaced by the new building at the entrance to the new shopping precinct, Phelps Parade.
By the date of this photograph, much of the town's main streets were established, and they display the characteristic detail of the period: projecting shop fronts proudly display their goods (including
The corner block on the right is Samuel Webb's drapery shop at No 27 and 28 High Street. It has an unusual hipped roof which neatly turns the corner to The Close.
The gable to the left now proclaims that the building is a tea room, bed and breakfast and shop. Milk churns are - of course - consigned to the history books.
The adjoining Smith's Library has long been a stationer's shop - it originally belonged to the local historian George Sweetman.
By the mid 1920s the Midland Bank building, beyond Lewis and Godfrey's drapery store, had replaced Sidney Park's shop. The Royal George Hotel had by now ceased business.
The Magpie and the Swan Hotel are old coaching inns which are prominent amongst a mix of family-owned shops and businesses.
A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream. The parasol outside advertises Martini. On the left of the picture are the familiar red telephone box and post-box.
The small brick extension was a shop. Several other farmhouses and cottages in the village have medieval origins.
One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!
At the right Smalls of Spilsby, a clothing shop, remains to this day.
Take away the trees, update the shop frontages and turn the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on
In the fifties and sixties many shops and other commercial users clearly felt they needed to advertise their presence more aggressively to passers-by.
The Roundabout c1960 This is part of modern Cheshunt, with its brash new shopping parade and roundabout with its ornamental fountain, which would not be out of place in one of Hertfordshire's
Rowing boats offering trips around the bay, boat shops drawn up on the beach and donkey rides were some of the attractions on offer at the Island.
Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice, perhaps in a shop like that on the right of this photograph, before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.
A rarity today would be the pork butchers' shop, on the right with the pram outside.
It was described as having 'mean cottages, a few poor shops, an inn and a shabby railway viaduct ... and over all whitewash and coaldust struggling for mastery'.
A view of one of the city's best narrow medieval streets, lined with tall, overhanging shops and houses.
London Road acts as a dividing line between Camberley the town and the military area - the town, with its line of shops, is to the right of this picture and the grounds of the Royal Military Academy are
The shops have been considerably smartened up. New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.
Harrogate had become a fashionable town noted for its fine shops and rich teas.
of the employment in Victorian Cheltenham had been directly related to the activities of a spa town, with a large proportion of the working population being domestic servants or employed in hotels, shops
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