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Memories

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Bristol's Cabot's Tower

Bristol's Cabot's Tower, and the penny pinching Council. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a disastrous fire, a confidence trick and some ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1890 by Paul Townsend

Happy Childhood In Crouch End

This is how I remember the Broadway from the eyes of a very small child walking around with my mum's gloved hand securely holding mine and my nan and my sister walking along with our dog Pepi. We would either be ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End in 1965 by Andrew Parsons

Le Fevers And Coo Op Denson 'winkle Pickers'

I went to Gillingham Technical School in Green Street and at the end of the school day ran down Gardiner Street, making a left turn into Gillingham High Street. This picture shows my homeward view with ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1960 by Dan Pieters Ericksonn

The Old Bakery

The building in the distance is the old bakery. When I was a child/teenager (in the 1960s) my grandparents (Bert and Annie Hurd) lived in a cottage just behind where this picture was taken, and whenever we visited them we would go ...Read more

A memory of Byworth by Ian Richardson

Childhood Memories

Hello, I was born in Builth Wells hospital in 1957, we were living in the village of Tirabad at the time. My uncle and auntie, Ellis and Dot Topliss, plus my cousins also lived here. My father and uncle worked for the forestry and ...Read more

A memory of Tirabad in 1957 by Ian Topliss

My Great Great Grandparents

My great-great-grandfather George (or could be James) Jackson lived in Star Lane Cottages. Apparently the Jacksons had been Hooley people for many years. He kept sheep for a butcher on Farthing Down, Croydon - I can ...Read more

A memory of Hooley in 1890 by Jean St Clair Nee Jackson

Childhood In The 1950s In Caerau

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house in ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

My Childhood Garden Part I

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for all ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

My Childhood Garden Part V

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then stored ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

18 Happy Years

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

Captions

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Caption For Charminster, The Village 1913

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1895

Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

Caption For Hoo, The Village C1955

In this picture, the camera is looking down Church Street from High Street (renamed Stoke Road in 1959).

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1955

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

Caption For Fairhaven, Congregational Church 1923

A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's. Before the sand dunes were levelled, sand blown on the tram tracks caused trouble.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1930

Opposite are signs for a 'Day and Night Telephone' and the star-sign of the Star Tea Company (centre left), with the Royal Lion Hotel further down the street.

Caption For Mobberley, Mill Lane C1955

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

Caption For Wilmington, The Long Man C1960

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Caption For Abergavenny, Frogmore Street 1914

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

Caption For Bude, On The Canal 1920

These were horse-drawn; but instead of using locks, the tub boats were hauled up and down inclined planes by engine to reach the different water levels.

Caption For Eccles, Monton Green C1955

Like the other areas of Eccles and Salford, Monton likes to keep its own identity.

Caption For Stroud, High Street 1910

The steep, winding and narrow High Street (down which flaming tar barrels were rolled to the terror of the populace until the practice was banned in 1824) gives an excellent impression of

Caption For Helston, Penrose From The Park 1890

Helston Penrose Walk 1913 Penrose Walk runs from the bottom end of Coronation Park down to the Loe and follows its shore to Penrose.

Caption For Egremont, From The Sands 1895

It was pulled down in the 1970s, but they say that there is gold buried somewhere round here, and Old Mother Redcap's ghost still haunts the area.

Caption For Runcorn, The Docks C1900

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

Caption For Irby, The Village C1955

The thatch of the old post office has given way to slate (left), and the business itself - with its attendant telephone kiosk - has moved just a few doors down.

Caption For Abergavenny, Frogmore Street 1914

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street. Thoughts of war seem far away in this peaceful, unhurried scene.

Caption For Holmbury St Mary, Post Office C1965

Instead, he took his camera down Pitland Street to the south.

Caption For Lindfield, Post Office Corner C1955

The large black poplar tree in the centre of the photograph was cut down in 1962, as it had become a hazard.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Further down on the right a bus passes Bradley's Corner and turns into Rylands Street.

Caption For Warrington, Wilderspool Causeway C1960

A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

Caption For Paignton, Gardens And Wesleyan Church 1896

Further down is the Post Office, erected in 1889.

Caption For Launceston, The River Kensey At St Thomas C1960

The gaps in the wooden weir were stopped with slats which enabled more water to be directed down the leat.

Caption For Launceston, The River Kensey At St Thomas C1960

The gaps in the wooden weir were stopped with slats which enabled more water to be directed down the leat.