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Memories

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Village Cricket, Rugby And The Mount

The Common, which is a delightful huge stretch of open ground from Cardiff Road to the Westra, was the sporting centre for the villagers. Here the cricket club played and the rugby club also held their ...Read more

A memory of Dinas Powis in 1966 by Gerald Davies

Pawnshop Passage

My paternal grandparents lived in Schoolhouse Cottages off Lee Street where we occasionally stayed on holidays, Christmas etc. There was an alleyway called "Pawnshop Passage", emerging onto Mercer Row by the bow window in the ...Read more

A memory of Louth in 1950 by Nigel Gladwin

Lanfranc Girl's Prize Giving

I too remember the Godrey Talbot talk at Prize Giving. I also remember we were given the afternoon off school to get ready, and given book tokens before the event to purchase a book that would be presented on the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Linda Lavin

Memories Of The 1930s

Sometimes in those early days we went on holiday to Mam’s mother and father in Brotton. This was a small village about two miles from Saltburn, a Victorian holiday resort on the North Yorkshire coast. I recall the pier ...Read more

A memory of Lingdale by Andrew Bebb

The Chippenham Folk Festival

Chippenham Folk Festival is about to celebrate its 40th year in 2011 and I have been attending as a musician with the Whitethorn Morris Band many times going back to my first visit around 1980. Although it has ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 1990 by John Howard Norfolk

Growing Up In Hatfield

I was born in Barnet, but we lived on Hatfield Garden Village estate from 1949. My mother still lived there until July last year where she died peacefully in her chair. Over the sixty years I have seen many changes, most of ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield in 1960 by Christine Newman

My Memory Of Herne Hill

My father Frank Clarke was the caretaker at Dorchester Court for many years, and we as a family lived in the bungalow which went with the job. In about 1957-1958 he was given the sack, and a friend of the owner was given ...Read more

A memory of Herne Hill in 1957 by Linda Norman

Heathcoat Community Centre

The Westexe Park sadly no longer has the beautiful flowerbeds featured in this 1955 view. I walked through this park today leading a party from the Tiverton Walk and Talk Group from the Heathcoat Community Centre. Even ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

Ightham 1960s

Interesting to see this picture though I don't think that by the 1960s Ightham was ever this free of traffic except early in the morning. The building in the centre of the picture was a petrol station and provider of all sorts of ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by Jonathan Green

South East Englands Best Airport Site!

As a small boy in the 1950s I would be taken to see the aircraft at Blackbushe, then London's second airport. Blackbushe was London Heathrow's main fog diversion as it always has been one of the most ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport by Peter Brown

Captions

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Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Street 1906

Fisherton Street was an important shopping street linking the railway station with the city centre.

Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Street 1928

Fisherton Street was an important shopping street linking the railway station with the city centre.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Golf Hotel C1965

Almost next door to this attractive hotel is the English National Golf Centre.

Caption For Angmering, The Village C1955

The old village centre is separated from the seaside expansion.

Caption For Tadcaster, The Mill 1906

Since the 18th century, the town has been a centre for the brewing of beer.

Caption For Aylesbury, County Hall 1897

There used to be a balcony across the centre at first floor level from which public hangings took place until 1845.

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1931

The pillars of Eastgate Market announce the entrance to this busy shopping centre.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Hazlewood Terrace

The plaque in the centre of Hazelwood Terrace bears the date 1889.

Caption For Salisbury, Fisherton Street 1906

Fisherton Street was an important shopping street linking the railway station with the city centre.

Caption For Chesterfield, The Royal Oak, Oldest Inn C1960

The fight against the wholesale demolition of the area lasted long enough for the Peacock to be saved and it is now the tourist information and heritage centre.

Caption For Richmond, Market Place C1965

Local businesses have now been joined by Fine Fare (centre) and, extreme right, Walter Willson's.

Caption For Cleobury Mortimer, High Street C1955

A double-decker bus, probably from Kidderminster, is across from the delivery wagon marked Sulzer (centre).

Caption For St Austell, Pondhu Road 1912

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

Caption For Metfield, The Green C1955

The cluster of adjacent buildings, the largest of which is the former Guildhall, are still there, and so is the pump (just visible, centre left).

Caption For Rochdale, The Town Centre C1955

The bank in the centre had become Martin`s, with the building still largely the same as when it was built.

Caption For Preston, The Bridge Over The Ribble 1903

Preston was the centre of a wheel of railway transport: spokes went off to Blackpool, Lancaster, Blackburn, Manchester, London, Liverpool and Southport.As we can see, the river was used for pleasure

Caption For Cliffe, High Street C1955

The Victorian Black Bull pub (centre) is now a renowned Thai restaurant.

Caption For Clapham, Henry Thornton School C1960

Around the corner in Elms Road (which retains many of its mid-Victorian villas) is the Henry Thornton School, within the same site as the Marianne Thornton (C327056) and also part of the Clapham Centre

Caption For Caton, The Village C1960

Willow Mill now provides offices and a craft centre.

Caption For Thwaite, The Village C1955

The Cathole Inn closed in 1954, just ahead of the motoring revolution, although this car driver (centre left), inspecting a puncture, is hoping for a passing bus.

Caption For South Benfleet, The High Street C1960

This was a centre for smuggling in the 19th century, with tunnels under what is now the car park.

Caption For Kelsale, The Village C1955

To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

Caption For Bonsall, Via Gellia, Pig Of Lead Inn 1892

photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their father in a straw boater in the centre