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The Queen's Visit

I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time. On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop.  On the ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1956 by Kathleen Green

Buffell Family

I am researching my late grandmother (Molly Bufell)'s family history and wonder if anyone can help. I know a lot of her sisters performed on the stage in Workington and her mother owned a guest house where a lot of the actors ...Read more

A memory of Workington by Sandra Taplin

Helmshore 1950 1968

I was born in Musbury Road at the bottom of Tor Hill and spent 5 years with Tor as my back yard; my name is still chiselled in the rocks at the top. Anyone remember the Tor Mile race? In 1955 we moved up to 3, Lancaster ...Read more

A memory of Helmshore by Ian Seville

699 Green Lanes

Does anyone recall the name of the Timber Yard near to the Police Station before it became Travis Perkins?

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1960 by Bob Bell

My Early Days

I was born in Abercych and lived there until I was 10 in 1947. I returned every year in the summer for over 20 years. My grandfather and his brother used to make coracles and did a lot of salmon fishing, and frequented the Nags Head ...Read more

A memory of Abercych in 1947

Lightning Strikes

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Childhood Memories From 1949

I was born in Hubert Terrace which ran off Bank Street and along to Cuthbert Street. Further down was School Street and Marian Street which ran along to Derwentwater Road, and on Derwentwater Road was Lady Vernon ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Betty Harris

The Rone Clarke Family Rose Cottage Bristol Road Bournbrook Birmingham

My great-great-grandfather was CHARLES RONE CLARKE born 6 March 1837 at 13 Court, Smallbrook Street, Birmingham. He was a master woodturner and sixth great-grandson of Henry ...Read more

A memory of Bournbrook in 1860 by Sue Coates

Dukeshouse Wood Camp School (Part Two)

My recollection of  a dance that was arranged in the sports hall made me and another lad George Bishop decide to abstain from the proceedings as I think at the time, in fact I am sure about myself that I was ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1940 by Les May

Cock Tavern East Ham High Street

I used to go out with the daughter of the landlord of the Cock Tavern in the High Street, we would spend hours looking over the back yard from her bedroom. I wonder what ever happened to her?

A memory of East Ham in 1973 by Mark Wells

Captions

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Caption For Leeds, Briggate C1965

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

Caption For London, London Bridge 1890

The old bridge had been a few yards downstream, with a pavement running under St Magnus's tower.

Caption For Jaywick, The Sands C1955

In 1953 the sea had smashed a thirty-yard gap in the concrete sea wall.

Caption For London, Clock Tower And Westminster Bridge C1890

To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

Caption For Selborne, The Bostal 1928

Gilbert White wrote in his diary, in September 1780, 'finished a Bostal or sloping path up the hanger from the foot of the zig-zag to the corner of the Wadden, in length 414 yards.'

Caption For Trowbridge, Fore Street And Town Hall 1900

The Market Tavern, far left, now forms the entrance to the White Hart Yard.

Caption For Whalley, The Viaduct From The Nab 1901

Construction was finally completed in the early 1850s and, at over 600 yards, it is the longest railway viaduct in the country.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1922

Beyond it is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses -the livestock market was held in its yard.

Caption For Grantham, The Angel And Royal Hotel 1893

The central archway with its oriel window above led into the inn yard, where there is a long brick range dated 1776.

Caption For Leicester, The Tudor Gatehouse, Castle Street C1955

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Caption For Plymouth, Drake's Island 1890

The folly was constructed using stone from the tower of St Lawrence's church, which used to stand on the site now occupied by Royal William Yard in Stonehouse.

Caption For Godalming, Church Street 1906

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

Caption For Stafford, St Mary's Church C1965

The church- yard was levelled and laid out as a garden of remembrance in 1956.

Caption For Haverfordwest, The Castle From The River 1890

The watch-tower in the roof of the new prison was built so the guards could observe all activity in the exercise yards.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Gardens 1935

The pump in the foreground, dating from 1796, is in what was the prison yard.

Caption For Forth Bridge, 1897

It has an overall length of 2,700 yards including approach viaducts.

Caption For Amroth, The Beach C1960

Nearby Amroth Castle is a grand 18th-century house that sits on the site of Amroth's original Norman fortress, just yards from Amroth beach.

Caption For Lower Slaughter, The Village C1960

In 1939 an RAF bomber en route for the airfield at nearby Windrush from Andover narrowly missed Lower Slaughter and crash-landed near Upper Slaughter in a field 50 yards from the church.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

Below the second window of the building marked 'Restaurant' (the fifth building from the left) is the opening to Bank Yard, named after the Old Bank which occupied the building in 1792

Caption For Andover, London Street 1904

Their yard was in Adelaide Road, beside the swimming baths that they built in 1885.

Caption For Yalding, The Bridge C1960

Yalding boasts the longest bridge in?

Caption For Swindon, Men Leaving G.W.R. 1913

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which at one time employed 12,000 people.

Caption For Kirk Hammerton, The Crown Inn C1960

Some of the vats are still kept in the yard.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1896

The distance between the building lines on Lord Street is 88 yards, which makes it much wider than either Union Street, Aberdeen, or the Headrow, Leeds.