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Memories

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Childhood Adventure

I'm not prepared to reveal my real name online, however I was a child during the 70's the duration of which was spent in Warnham. This house belonged to some old dear I met only a couple of times, she was housebound ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1977 by Canis Fortunatus

Edenhurst Preparatory School

Does anybody remember Edenhurst Preparatory School in Crowther Road? It was a private infants and primary school and I, Paul Evans, was there from the age of about 5 to 8 years. This was back in the early 1950s. ...Read more

A memory of Tettenhall by paulevbel2

Fond Memories Rosalind Arnold

I also went to the Saturday Matinee at the Odeon when I was a child I just loved it. I also went ballroom dancing upstairs and it was fun but not when my feet got trodden on. My school was Bulstrode Secondary Modern I ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by twilight.rosa

Monks And Sons

Hi I used to work for Monks and Sons in the 1970's, it was a very nice place to work. There was Dennis Monk and Jack Monk who used to run the business. They repaired Fords steel pallets and made 14ft dia by 400ft long steel chimney ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by Andrew Donald

After The War

I do not know the exact year that Doncaster had its first Royal visit after the Second World War had ended but all the school children in the parish were required to put on their best bibs and tuckers for school ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1946 by Frank Mowforth

I Remember This Coronation, 2nd June 1953.

The biggest reason I remember the 1953 Coronation was because it was the first time I had ever seen a television. I was only very young in 1953 but I was privileged to be able to watch Queen Elizabeth's ...Read more

A memory of Lincoln by David Campbell

Edgecoombe, Selsdon 1957 61

I remember Selsdon well as my family lived at 68 Edgecoombe, the long road on the opposite side of the wood at Selsdon not to be confused with Selsdon Woods. We had two ways to get to Selsdon shops. Through the woods ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Brookes

Just A Memory Thanks

Just wanted to say that I love your website. I moved to Canada last year from Windsor, Berkshire but my grandfather Fred Tutt lived in Eltham for many years (owned a fishmongers). He was there along with his sister Barbara and ...Read more

A memory of Eltham by Peter Tutt

I Remember This Photo Being Taken!

I am the boy in the foreground on a bike and in the background on a bike is my friend Tony. We were worried about the man staring at us, he had a big box and I guess a tripod. When we got home we said about it ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by Tom Kempster

Clements Hall

I must have been about six when I stayed at Clements Hall with my brothers Edwin and Terry in the 1950s. Christine story brought back memories. I also remember the geese, the matron often made me sit on the step to shell the peas. ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1956 by Gillian Mower

Captions

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Caption For Belfast, Chichester Place 1897

The massive linen warehouse nearer the camera was one of the first big buildings to take over the square; it marks what linen meant to Belfast.

Caption For Rugby, The School Quadrangle 1922

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Caption For Stafford, Law Courts, Victoria Square 2005

It is not big enough to contain 'inner city areas', and there are many places of similar size or smaller, including some much more picturesque, with far worse social problems.

Caption For Whitby, West Cliff C1955

The big building by the harbour is Slaters, who exported many cargoes of lime at that time.

Caption For Rugby, The School And Close C1965

This view shows Rugby School's First XV Rugby pitch, known as Old Big Side.

Caption For Manchester, Town Hall 1895

Princess Street is running away to the left, with the big bay window on the corner of the building.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906

Certainly the aldermen of Wycombe played a big role in securing and building the road; the trustees held their first meeting at the Red Lion in the High Street.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Avenue 1897

The windows of the Unionist Association can be seen; there were also at least six trade union tenants along the way, and two of the big English railway companies had ticket offices.

Caption For Gravesend, Hms Gleaner 1902

The idea that small and relatively inexpensive, highly manoeuvrable, fast attack craft had the potential to wreak havoc amid a squadron of very big, very slow and very expensive ironclads, called

Caption For Blackburn, Sudell Cross 1895

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

Caption For Falkirk, Callendar House 2005

Holyrood again plays a big part in the life of Falkirk, but this time it is neither the abbey nor the palace, but the re-convened Scottish parliament.

Caption For Luton, George Street C1950

Debenhams would become the big clothes shop for increasingly fashion-conscious women.

Caption For Luton, George Street C1965

Debenhams would become the big clothes shop for increasingly fashion-conscious women.

Caption For Epsom, Ashley Centre 2005

But it is still possible for local firms to stand alongside the big names.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Nash Mills 2005

The departure of several big-name businesses including Dickinson's, Kodak, Dexion and Dupont is sad but already several new firms, such as Isa, are arriving and many new factories are under construction

Caption For Epsom, Horton Manor 1890

Life came back to the big house in 1790, when it was bought by John Trotter, an army contractor from Soho, who had a new manor house built on the site.

Caption For Chelmsford, The Cathedral, The Interior 1919

The church cannot have been particularly big if a group of shopkeepers were able to punt a football over it.