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Memories

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My First Memory

I was sitting in a tall pram outside my grandfather's pie shop (Pyburns') and men were herding cattle down the High Street to some abattoir, I put my hand out and felt the side of one the cows and to this day can feel the scratchie ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1947 by Jacky (Jacqueline) Smith Nee Pyburn

Memories Of A War Time Evacuee

I spent 3 years at Dumbrell's Farm, Milton Street, Sussex. I was a little Birmingham evacuee (aged 9 years). I went to school at Alfriston, my 'Uncle John' took me fishing in the River Cuckmere and we went ...Read more

A memory of Milton Street in 1940 by Gordon Cooper

American Student And Muswell Hill Memories

I was so lucky to have landed in Muswell Hill to take up residence with a family of three headed by their matriarch, Cecelia in 1980. She regularly took in students of all kinds to live in the house ...Read more

A memory of Muswell Hill by Sharon Van Buskirk

Youth Conferences And Holiday Work

I first got to know Hollybrook in November 1961 at a Methodist Youth Weekend. I attended, eventually leading, such weekends until the house closed. I also worked as a member of staff during summer holidays and at ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1962 by Robert Davies

The Shops At Cove Around 1965 Remembered During Childhood Over A Few Years

Next to Mundays (sweets, stationery and newspapers) was a butcher with sawdust on the floor, a separate paydesk in a kiosk (much more hygienic than today) and tubes which swept ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1965 by Christine Higgs

Cox Family

My dad tell with fond memories of growing up at Hindon, he lived in the high street and had five brothers and one sister , his father was a farm worker . We visit when we can and he has shown us his old school and lots of pranks they used ...Read more

A memory of Hindon by Linda Harwood

Northolt

We were living in 97dabbs hill lane. My dad won the pools(274.oo) at the time a lot of money .He bought probably the first car in the street! I had two brothers john .a bit of a baddie! And Dennis who was gay. Both of them dead now as are ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1950 by Gina (Gloria) Allam (Carpentier)

The Crammer Devizes

As a small child I would stay with my Gr Gr Aunts and Uncle in their three storey house with a door just like No.10 Downing Street the house was in Southbroom Road near the not far from the roundabout that is there today. Gr ...Read more

A memory of Devizes by Anne Parsons

Wanted Post Ww1 Photos Of Gorton

Hi, I am asking this from Australia. My mother and two of her siblings were born at No 4 Wellesly Street, Gorton and moved later to No 12 Friendship Ave. Gorton, before migrating to Australia in 1922. Does anybody know ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1910 by Geoff Clark

Small Town Outlook In Shipley.

Grew up in Moorhead Shipley and what even struck me then was the snobby and small town attitude of some of the residents! I had a Jewish father and a socialist non-believer mother who were both brought up in the area. I ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1960 by Jane Smith

Captions

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Caption For Torpoint, Fore Street And Ferry Queue C1950

The ferry queue no longer blocks Fore Street - it takes the road on the right down to a large waiting area by the river.

Caption For St Ives, Bailey's Lane 1906

A charming older name for the lane was the fascinating 'Street-petite'.

Caption For St Ives, Tregenna Place C1955

Tregenna Place and its continuation of the High Street are still the main thoroughfares into the harbour area of St Ives.

Caption For Lower Bentham, The Village C1955

The main street is deserted. Lower Bentham stands 15 miles east of Lancaster on the slopes of the Pennines.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Cross C1955

Viewed from North Load Street, Glastonbury's Market Cross was built in 1846 on the site of a medieval covered cross and fountain.

Caption For Liphook, New Town 1911

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

Caption For Taunton, Parade And Market House 1935

The Kinglake Monument has gone, and the streets around have created a traffic junction here, with obvious parking restrictions. Greater changes were still to come.

Caption For Norwich, Elm Hill 1929

This winding cobbled street, edged with handsome medieval timber-framed houses with flint-faced ground floors, was anciently known as Houndgate. A fire destroyed many of its buildings in 1507.

Caption For Bingley, Main Street 1949

The Hippodrome Cinema on Main Street replaced an old smithy, which was demolished in 1913.

Caption For Farnham, The Borough 1913

The Victorian old town hall is on the corner of Castle Street, and in the right foreground is the Spinning Wheel, which still stands and dates from about 1600.

Caption For Northleach, Market Place C1960

Until the by-pass opened in the 1990s, Northleach High Street was chock-a-block with heavy traffic. Today the scene is more reminiscent of this peaceful scene from the past.

Caption For Woodchester, The Village C1960

Beyond the terraced streets of the village is Woodchester Mansion, set in a remote valley and keeping its secrets within an unfinished masterpiece of Victorian architecture; mysteries and

Caption For Boscombe, Christchurch Road 1892

Christchurch Road, seen here as it enters Boscombe, must be one of the longest streets in England, as it runs the full distance between Bournemouth and Christchurch.

Caption For Hawkshead, Market Square 1929

Local children play unconcerned by traffic in the middle of the street.

Caption For Llanfairfechan, The Sands 1890

This photograph shows the narrow twisting Main Street constrained beneath the mountain.

Caption For Ramsey, The Great Whyte C1955

Up until just over a hundred years ago, a watercourse, or lode, ran down the centre of this street.

Caption For Great Ayton, High Street C1965

The High Street runs alongside the River Leven, where the young Cook must have played as a youth.

Caption For Somersham, Church Street C1955

The Millennium Stone, a natural stone boulder underneath which lie two time capsules from the local school and the Baptist chapel, was placed on the left-hand side of the street to mark both the millennium

Caption For Ross On Wye, Gloucester Road C1960

This view looks along Gloucester Road from its junction with the High Street beside the Market Hall.

Caption For Launceston, High Street C1960

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

Caption For Sheringham, High Street 1921

The street is dominated by its distinctive town clock. It is hard to believe that this scene was almost lost some 30 years later in plans to 'reconstruct' the heart of the town.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church C1960

From Sheep Street the driveway to a tier of wide steps approaches the church.

Caption For Rockingham, Village C1960

Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street. The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, Old Town 1903

This view looks down Bexhill's original High Street. In the distance is Barrack Hall, occupied by a garrison of troops during the Napoleonic Wars.