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My Early Chidhood

I was born at 32 Pisgah Road which was the bottom end cottage of a row of three opposite Pisgah Chapel. The cottages had no back entrances. There was a pathway running in front of the three cottages with an outside toilet opposite ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1945 by Brian Smith

Ellisons Yard Baxtergate Whitby

I have been looking for Ellisons Yard in Baxtergate, the birth place of my grandmother, Mary Jane Boyes. I have been left Whitby for some 45 years now and have started to do my family tree. Gran was born in 1889 along ...Read more

A memory of Whitby by Philip Kitson

Ye Olde High Lane

I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more

A memory of High Lane in 2000

Working Days Then Retirement

After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get there ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by Guy Jefferson

Wood End School

My parents had a ground floor flat in Wood End Lane, and my father worked in a reserved occupation at AEC in Southall. In late 1940, my mother was pregnant with me, and she went to stay with her brother in Durham, wher I was born. I was ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by williamfairney

Visitation Convent Bridport Contd

We soon got back into the routine and before long the summer holidays came along. The last day of school was a big event. That morning we got eggs for breakfast. That was so, when we got home and our parents asked ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1940 by Howard Johnson

Village Life

My first visit to the village of Llanferres was in the mid 1970s visiting relatives. Walking to 'Fairy Glen' and surrounding fields, hills, woods and farmland, I was in heaven and still am after 30+ years living in the beautiful little ...Read more

A memory of Llanferres in 1950 by Ian Robinson

Upper Boat Hutments.

I lived in Upper Boat from when the prefabs were originally built.I lived in Islwyn Rd.Rawlings was the local shop.Mr Ken Rawlings was also very involved with the community putting on local shows with the local children.It was a ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat

Upper Boat Hutments.

I lived in Upper Boat from when the prefabs were originally built.I lived in Islwyn Rd.Rawlings was the local shop.Mr Ken Rawlings was also very involved with the community putting on local shows with the local children.It was a ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat

Tithby Or Tythby

I used to live in the village of TYTHBY, spelled with a Y and not an I. I did not even know that there was another village close by with a similar name. But I have checked on the computer and there it is, not too far away in the ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1944 by Brian Williamson

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Caption For Walsall, The Skate Park On The Waterfront 2005

Most of the best shops in Walsall are either in the town centre or situated on the edge; between them they pull in thousands of shoppers.

Caption For Cambridge, Fenner's Cricket Ground 1921

Nearby Parker's Piece is where the local non-university clubs play, and where Jack Hobbs developed his skills before gaining fame in national and international cricket.

Caption For Cambridge, Fenner's Cricket Ground 1921

Nearby Parker's Piece is where the local non-university clubs play, and where Jack Hobbs developed his skills before gaining fame in national and international cricket.

Caption For Binbrook, C1965

A new village, Brookenby, is now located on the old airfield site.

Caption For Castle Donington, The Methodist Church C1955

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Caption For Preston, River Ribble From Miller Park C1935

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

Caption For Castle Donington, The Methodist Church C1955

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Caption For Walsingham, The Black Lion Hotel 1929

This town is often over-run by pilgrims and tourists, but the local inhabitants still require basic essentials, even coal (left) and petrol for their vehicles (right).

Caption For Tregaron, View From East 1933

Tregaron is a small nucleated town, probably based on a Welsh maerdref where the lord held court.

Caption For Warrington, Academy And Cromwell Statue 1901

It was the gift of a local non-conformist Frederick Monks.

Caption For St Ives, A Quaint Corner 1906

This photograph, taken from the harbour side, shows the old buildings that stood where the present amusement arcade is now located.

Caption For Binbrook, C1965

A new village, Brookenby, is now located on the old airfield site.

Caption For Leicester, The Newarke College Of Art And Technology C1965

This main building, which stands close to the Castle site and the early 15th-century Magazine Gateway, was designed by local architects Everard and Pick (later Pick, Everard, Keay and Gimson) around

Caption For Leatherhead, Post Office And Town Clock 1895

Most of the other buildings depicted here in North Street have also all gone, and no local farmer or carter would now ever contemplate bringing a horse-drawn conveyance into the heart of contemporary

Caption For Torpoint, Fore Street C1955

On the left is Wheeler's Hotel, and at the top of the street, just visible, is the hop leaf symbol of Simond's Brewery - once a common sight on local pubs.

Caption For Sheffield, Hunters Bar C1965

As Sheffield expanded, a number of turnpike toll bars which had once been in the country were now located within built-up areas.

Caption For Gloucester, The Docks 1912

Here we see the Gloucester and Sharpness steam packet office outside Warehouse Number 1 on the left.

Caption For Royston, The Stone C1955

Royston is a relatively modern town - it is not mentioned in the Domesday Book - which grew up at the crossing of Ermine Street and the Icknield Way; it was not officially recognised until the late 1800s

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Lifeboat Monument 1908

This impressive memorial commemorates the deaths of nine crewmen who lost their lives when the lifeboat 'Beauchamp' capsized on 14 November 1901.

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street 1922

Hitchman's, the chemist on the left, was on the corner of Silver Street and Gold Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Garston, Holmefield Road From Booker Avenue C1955

Located in the suburb of Allerton, this junction provides access to West Allerton train station and to the B5180 and A562 arterial roads.

Caption For Shanklin, Beach 1918

Stagecoaches, remnants of a bygone age even in 1913, take tourists on local excursions.