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Heathway Life

I grew up within a few minutes walk of this our local shopping centre.  The photo was taken outside the Fifty Shilling Tailors looking towards Dagenham Heathway Station.  Some of the shops I remember were Day's the newsagents, ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by Eileen Hammond

She Sent Us Primroses

In the centre of the picture, the smaller house I believe is 'Cosy Cot' where my aunt Phyllis and cousin Peter spent WW2 and experienced the death of my Uncle Alf in the RAF in 1940. I remember that fragrant parcels used to ...Read more

A memory of Pentewan in 1940 by Jennifer E Chalmers

Emery Down Swan Green

I have just read about a memory relating to Emery Down Church and it has made me think about my childhood again. My grandparents lived in Northerwood Avenue, Swan Green in Lyndhurst and we regulary stayed there as ...Read more

A memory of Emery Down in 1978 by Wendy King

Pinehurst Close

We lived in the flats called Pinehurst Close, wedged between the bottom of the RAE and the Queensmead shops. We moved (to Cove) just as Kingsmead Shopping Centre was being built (1966/7?). I went to St Patrick's School in ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough by Terry Loader

The Community Centre

The large building on the right is the Community Centre, built as an art school to improve the standards of design which in the 19th century was very poor, particularly in the glass industry. Opposite was a parade of shops, ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley in 1950 by Geoffrey Lowe

Blackhills Road Junior School

I attended this school in 1978 to 1982 later going onto Dene House Comprehensive School. I loved this school as it has such character and at the time seemed massive however looking at the very few and I mean very limited ...Read more

A memory of Horden by davidcargill1971

Tba

Worked in Control Centre for several years. Happy memories

A memory of Heathrow Airport London

All My Yesterdays.

This picture was taken outside the Bus Shelter and public toilets in the centre of old Corringham where the number 2A Eastern National Buses used to stop for a 15 min break on the journey from Southend to Grays. Directly opposite ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies

All My Yesterdays.

The footpath on the left of the picture used to be narrow with a hedgerow and trees running all the way along to the first lamp post on the left. There was a gap in the hedge on the left where a track used to lead to some farm ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by thestockies

Nightingale Row

I was born at 7, Nightingale Row, in the box room which was originally shared by my mother Mavis Warren and her sister Glennis Byard as they were to become. The daughters of George and Martha (Dot) Edwards. The house was rented from ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by howardwarren257

Captions

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Caption For Woolpit, Main Street C1955

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car.

Caption For Stoughton, The Barracks 1906

Prominent in the centre of the advancing detachment are the three members of the colour party, carrying the regimental colours encased in protective covers.

Caption For Rillington, School Corner C1955

The village school, centre, closed in 1973 and is now used as the village hall.

Caption For Ellesmere Port, Whitby Road C1955

The row of shops is still there, but Mellor's baker's shop (centre) is now a locksmiths; the shops with awnings outside are now a florist's and the offices of the TGWU.

Caption For Cranbrook, The Village C1955

In the 14th century, Cranbrook became the centre of cloth making in the county after Edward III lured Flemish weavers to settle here.

Caption For Dartford, High Street 1949

This photograph shows the centre of the busy High Street, with the road to Bexley and London ahead and the turning to Crayford visible on the right.

Caption For Richmond, The Channel 1929

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

Caption For Fountains, 1955

The former Cistercian monastery, with its great east window prominent on the left, still fills the grounds of Studley Royal, but is now served by an award-winning National Trust visitor centre on the hillside

Caption For Barley, Pendle Inn C1960

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

Caption For Redcar, Coatham Enclosure, The Boating Lake C1955

The indoor public baths in the centre background were opened in 1900, but they were eventually demolished in 1978, to be re-instated within a new building on the same site.

Caption For Weeke, Stoney Lane C1965

Next door is the Adult Continuing Education Centre, a division of Peter Symonds College, attended by the comedian Jack Dee when it was a grammar school.

Caption For Whitchurch, White Hart Hotel 1939

To the north-west of the centre is the church of All Hallows, where parish rooms were added in 1974.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

The view has changed little, although the shop beside the road junction, in the centre of the picture in front of the Town Hall, has been replaced.

Caption For Watford, High Street 1921

Just beyond the banner advertising the attractions of the new Shopping Centre was the local branch of J Sainsbury's, with its tiled walls and marble counters, suffused with the subtle and distinctive

Caption For Ombersley, The Village C1938

The large white building (centre) was known as the Crown Hotel then.

Caption For Ockley, Post Office 1914

The village centre with the Crown pub and the old church is a pleasant spot.

Caption For Skegness, The Park 1904

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel can be seen left of centre, and the old white-walled Ship Hotel us to the extreme right.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Maplewell Road C1955

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

Caption For East Grinstead, St. Michaels School 1923

About 1918 an extension (centre) was made to join the former St Margaret's College (left background).

Caption For Raglan, Castle Street 1914

Note the refreshment rooms (now a house) on the right, and the boy in shorts in the centre of the photograph.

Caption For Farningham, The Bridge And Lion Hotel C1955

Known at the time of Domesday as Ferlingeham, it was once a significant market centre, and in later centuries had important paper mills.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1903

The other exit - left of centre - is Lichdon Street.

Caption For Wendover, From The North East 1901

Beyond is the clocktower at the centre of the town.