Maps

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Memories

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New Farm

I attended Edmondthorpe village school from 1947 to 1953. I live at New Farm with my grandparent Harry and Ethel Gresham. My mother Betty Bratby, nee Gresham, my two brothers Jim and Tim Bratby, uncles John, Harry and Paul. A lodger ...Read more

A memory of Edmondthorpe in 1942 by Josephine Shaw Nee Bratby

Fond Memories

I remember St Faith's hospital very well. I was the Head Porter there for a number of years until it was closed down. I met my wife there. She was a catering assistant. We were engaged with two other couples in the social club.That ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1985 by John Dale

Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

Childhood In Wreckenton

I started school at St Oswald's RC in 1944. We lived on Tanfield Road. I remember the head teacher was called Miss Wilfred, and later we had a headmaster called Mr Clancy. I remember when the war finished and we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wrekenton in 1940 by Erni Middleton

Wonderful Memories Growing Up In Bassaleg

I lived in Bassaleg from the age of 3, (1955), when Church Crescent and surrounding area was being developed. I lived in Church Crescent with my family until I left for Manchester in 1976. I went to the ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1966 by Linda Sullivan

Memories Of My Childhood

I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next ...Read more

A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by Rene Rees

Childhood Memories

I have lived in Mitcham all my life. I was born at St Helier Hospital in 1955 and we lived in the nissan huts opposite what was then Pollards Hill High School in Wide Way, we lived next to a family called the Butlers and I went ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1955 by Vivian Woodjetts Nee Bond

Collyhurst

I was born at 528 Collyhurst Road, in 1961. I remember there was a shop at the end of the road and a croft facing our house. My dad worked on the railway and my mum stayed home to look after us. I went to Albert Memorial Nursery ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1860 by Jo Dykes

Marshes Pies

Does anyone remember Marshes pie and confectionary shop, corner of Old Whint Road, opposite no 1 Labour Club? They were the best pies ever made at the back of the shop.

A memory of Earlestown in 1960 by Phil Cunliffe

Fish And Ice Cream!

Hello. I used to live in Thornhill from 1958 to 1968/9 (aged 1 -11) and I always seem to remember it being sunny even though the area is one of the wettest in the UK! Fish and Ice Cream....not together. I remember my mother ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1965 by George Middleton

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Captions

5,036 captions found. Showing results 2,473 to 2,496.

Caption For Menai Bridge, Suspension Bridge 1891

The elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

Caption For Maiden Newton, High West Street 1906

Maiden Newton stands on the high road between Dorchester and Crewkerne, probably on a very old route between Dorset and Somerset.

Caption For Macclesfield, Parish Church And Central Station C1955

Its reopening was timed to coincide with the closure of the town's other station at Hibel Road.

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 Southend On Sea, Westcliff Parade C1955

The elegant street lamps were a feature of this road.

Caption For York, Station And Hotel 1909

One example was that Thieves Lane became Station Road.

Caption For Alford, Five Sail Mill C1960

This is a beautifully proportioned Lincolnshire ogee-capped windmill, which is located on the A1104 road to Mablethorpe.

Caption For Stoke St Michael, The Square C1955

Straggling along Oakhill Road, Stoke St Michael is now subject to traffic from surrounding quarries. The post office and stores survives.

Caption For Meopham, The Green C1960

The black-painted smock windmill, set back from the road, and the prominent Cricketers pub facing the local cricket pavilion, are both local landmarks.

Caption For Cheam, Upper Mulgrave Road C1950

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's

Caption For St Neots, Roper's Shop, Cambridge Street C1965

A child's paradise in the 1960s, this shop still stands just over the crossroads on the Huntingdon Road out of St Neots.

Caption For Grangetown, Golf Course And Cleveland Hills C1960

This peaceful scene was taken just off the Middlesbrough to Redcar trunk road, with the buildings of the former Stapylton School in the background on the right.

Caption For Chepstow, The Racecourse C1950

The Roman road from the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow ran through what is now the racecourse, which stands on land formerly belonging to the Clay family of Piercefield House.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl with its colourful decorations is seen from the opposite side of a narrow- looking Brighton Road.

Caption For Ramsbury, Moon's Mill 1907

Today the main road (the A342) is thronged with traffic travelling between Devizes and Chippenham.

Caption For Frimley, The Village 1906

Today Frimley is very much absorbed into the town of Camberley, while this particular corner is a busy road junction.

Caption For Richmond, Castle Walk 1929

Since 1893 there have been improvements to Riverside Road leading to the Falls, and a new sewage outfall has been made from the Green into the River Swale.

Caption For Linwood, The Village C1965

Linwood is situated high on the heathlands of the western edge of the New Forest, overlooking the broad valley of the Avon.

Caption For Mousehole, Harbour 1893

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters. At its back it is fringed by hills.

Caption For Helston, Meneage Street 1924

The water channels between pavement and road, so characteristic of Helston's streets, are known as kennels, probably derived from the Cornish word 'gannel'; this in turn is a corruption of

Caption For Ivybridge, Old Church And Village 1890

Ivybridge was built astride the main road from Plymouth to Exeter.

Caption For Exeter, Stepcote Hill 1911

At the bottom is 'The House that Moved': this historic local building was in the path of a road scheme, and was carefully excavated and rolled some 400 yards to a new position.

Caption For Dorchester, The Grove 1922

This road is the A357 to Yeovil and Bristol.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street, Old Houses 1912

This part of Fore Street is now a pedestrian precinct with trees, flower beds and benches lining the side of the road where the Frith photographer would have stood to take this picture.