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Stuchbery

I certainly remember Stuchbery's and went there once a year for the new school uniform with its felt hat and navy knickers. A great institution. Then I married the son of the owner and we called our second child Robin Stuchbery Turner. ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1860 by Rita Tait

Beck Road South Now Waterside Road

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill with ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

My Ancestors Lived In Borth Y Gest

My Great Great Grandfather had a shipyard in Borth-y-Gest. I believe there were four shipbuilders there and he was one of these. His name was William Griffith and he lived in Glyn Terrace, Borth y Gest. That ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1860 by Barbara Smith

Dent School

In 1946-7 I lived at Peggleside. I can remember the German POWs (who were billeted at Sedbergh Workhouse) clearing the snow off the road to Dent with shovels. Not sure how often the school taxi got us to school but I can remember sitting ...Read more

A memory of Dent in 1947 by Ron Howard

Stanford 1955 1965

Hello George I lived in Stanford 1947-1971. The house opposite the church was where Dr. Morris lived, I believe. The surgery was round the corner in what felt like old stables. It was a fine house but was later ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Colin Ablitt

The Convent.........Fondest Memories

I went to the convent from around 1963 t0 1971 and I was very happy there as a little "German girl". We went on the mini bus from Swindon with a few pupils we picked up on the way and already had a jolly time ...Read more

A memory of Lechlade on Thames by Sabina Wörner

Garfield Road Rec

Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

Heaven

This is simply my most favourite place in the whole world! No words can describe the peace and tranquility I feel when I walk along The Avenue with my family and dogs. The autumn months are my favourite! The range of colours in the trees, the ...Read more

A memory of Stevenage by Sharon Dudley

400 Green Lane

It is with found memories of growing up in the war years that I look back on my time in Palmers Green.   We had moved from Tottenham in 1940 when I was 6 years old into the shop and house opposite the Fox Lane Almshouses. My ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1941

Earliest Workplaces

This picture was taken from the now demolished Circular and then quite unique Car park overlooking the Lake in front of Lord Alexander House on the right hand side of picture . This office was built in 1959/60 and the ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead in 1961

Captions

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Caption For Ledbury, High Street C1965

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.

Caption For Chippenham, C1955

In the 1970s the Ramsbury Building Society opened a branch office here.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1960

Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes

Caption For Sutton, Cheam Road C1955

On the right the branch of Teekoff Ltd, with its coffee-roasting machine prominent in the near window, would entice customers from the bus stop on the opposite pavement with its fragrant aromas.

Caption For Cleobury Mortimer, High Street C1955

A line of trees (left) has had to be pollarded; they were planted long before motorised traffic was thought of, and their branches were a threat to safety.

Caption For Barnet, High Street 1950

By mid-summer the signpost on the lamp standard would have been removed under new war-time emergency regulations and, in the face of increasing food rationing, the branch of United Dairies on the left

Caption For Par, The Station From Scobell 1904

The station buildings and goods sheds are at the junction between the main line and the Newquay branch.

Caption For Kettering, High Street 1922

The building to the left of it is now a branch of Nat West.

Caption For Portrush, The Railway Station 1897

The railway reached Portrush with the construction of a short branch line from Coleraine on the Belfast to Londonderry line.

Caption For Horley, Station Road 1905

Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds.We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop.

Caption For Bishopstoke, Montague Terrace C1955

There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right

Caption For Banstead, The Station C1965

Banstead station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs station, opened in 1865.

Caption For Bordon, The Village C1905

Over the years Bordon expanded as a civilian community and developed as a training ground used by military units and other branches of the Armed Forces.

Caption For Bordon, The Village C1905

Over the years Bordon expanded as a civilian community and developed as a training ground used by military units and other branches of the Armed Forces.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 2004

As retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales

Caption For Carbis Bay, General View 1901

Cornwall's most westerly branch line, just 4 miles long, was opened from St Erth to St Ives in 1877.

Caption For Braunston, The Green C1955

After the new school was built in 1967, part of this building was used as a branch library for Braunston.

Caption For New Mill, The Canal C1955

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

Caption For Northampton, Mercers Row C1955

The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

Caption For Amble, The Beach C1965

Amble became a centre for coal exports, and was served by a branch line of the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Hothfield, On The Common 1921

Hothfield lies close to a branch of the River?stour. Here we see a peaceful drive through a beautiful landscape of green commons and mature pines.

Caption For Talaton, The Village 1906

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, Pier Avenue 1891

In the early 1920s the premises were converted into a restaurant, the Garrick, and then rebuilt to become a branch of the National Provincial Bank and later Lloyds Bank.

Caption For Newton Valence, St Mary's Church 1907

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.