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Telephoning

The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used ...Read more

A memory of Risca in 1955 by Cedric Mumford

My Banbury Grans Village

My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. ...Read more

A memory of Warmington in 1940 by Michael Bennett

Calling All Who Lived In Meadowside Between 1970 And 1980

Hiya all, This is Tracey Vincent (Harland). My family moved to Nuneaton around 1971 and we lived at 99 Meadowside for 9 years we had many friends. Denise and Fred Saxton along with their ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1972 by Tracey Vincent

Memories Of Ambleside And The Lakes

We as a family first stayed at Rothay Manor in Ambleside in 1953 and it was then that I had my first experiences in fell walking, trout fishing and negotiating the nearby "Stepping Stones" across the river ...Read more

A memory of Ambleside by ducatee

The 40/50s

It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Paul Croxson

Ike Smith''s Hardware And Bicycle Store

My grandfather, Isaac Smith, had a hardware and bicycle shop on these premises, known universally as the 'Tudor Cottages', from some time towards the close of WW1 to the late 1930s. The premises were owned ...Read more

A memory of Warrington in 1920 by Stan Smith

My Early Years In Longton 1870s To 1940s

I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Barbara Johnson

Heswall Children's Hospital 1933 1934

I was 4 years old when I was taken from Liverpool to this Hospital. It was a very frightening experience because I was the first child in the family and they say I was there for 6 weeks. I have never found out why ...Read more

A memory of Heswall

Life In Cadley In The 1950s

No electricity, outside toilet, built in copper in the kitchen. All cooking was done on a coal fired oven that also heated the kitchen. The kitchen was the main room in the house, parlour (lounge) was ...Read more

A memory of Cadley by Anthony Goodson

Berwick Road C Of E School

I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton.  There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by Kathleen Green

Captions

1,668 captions found. Showing results 217 to 240.

Caption For Froxfield Green, Thatched Cottage C1960

Although little changed from this 1960s view, there has since been an alteration to the right-hand chimney bringing it out to the end wall.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1907

Tile-hung walls are a feature of this town, and several examples can be seen here.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square 1904

The old tramlines were eventually torn up and used to reinforce the concrete of the sea wall.

Caption For Bingley, River Aire 1923

Over on the far side of the river, behind the brick wall, is part of the gasworks.

Caption For Bingley, River Aire 1923

Over on the far side of the river, behind the brick wall, is part of the gasworks.

Caption For Staithes, Seaton Garth 1927

Note the high sea defence wall.

Caption For St Ives, New Wharf Road 1922

The broken walls midway along the line of buildings were ruins left after a fire of 1915.

Caption For Melbourn, High Street C1965

The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls.

Caption For Potton, King Street C1955

The doorway nearest to the camera appears to have a forged bootscraper built into the wall.

Caption For York, Lendal Bridge 1909

Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

Caption For Netley, St.Edward's Church C1955

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Caption For York, The View From The City Walls 1897

The road at the right leads to the original railway station, whilst the road cutting under the city wall leads to the new station built in the 1870s.

Caption For Teignmouth, The Terrace Walk 1911

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

Caption For Colchester, Castle Gardens 1904

Much of this avenue survives the outer bailey, although it is now bounded by 1920s low walling, and the ornate benches have been replaced by more utilitarian ones.

Caption For Beckenham, Cottage Hospital 1899

The creeper has been removed, and the chimneys have been cut down, but behind a new low wall the building remains an important local landmark.

Caption For Totnes, Guildhall Council Chamber 1896

The wall on the left now has two boards bearing the names of all the Mayors of Totnes back to 1359.

Caption For Chatham, Town Hall Gardens C1960

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

Caption For Teignmouth, The Terrace Walk 1911

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Woodhead 1894

The long wall is now broken for entrances to later housing.

Caption For Fonmon, The Castle 1899

Founded in c1200, Fonmon is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square tower or keep and a curtain wall.

Caption For South Weald, Queen Mary's Chapel 1906

This 16th-century lodge, set in what was the walled kitchen- garden of Weald Hall, has unsubstantiated associations with (pre- Bloody) Queen Mary.

Caption For Aylesbury, High Street 1921

The wall on the right belongs to the Congregational Church of 1874, demolished apart from the tower for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1980.

Caption For Salisbury, Harnham Gate 1906

At the southern end of the Close is Harnham Gate, one of the three gates that served the cathedral; it is contemporary with the original 14th-century cathedral wall.

Caption For Billingshurst, East Street 1923

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the