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Cargo Fleet

When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet in 1968 by Alison Jones

Fish Strand Quay

Yes, I 'grew up' on Fish Strand and still use it to this day. My father kept various boats off the quay and we always had a dinghy moored there, and we still do, my father is now in his 90s and I have 2 grandaughters. I ...Read more

A memory of Falmouth in 1958 by Steve Turvey

Personal Memories Of A Child

I was born in 1942 and by the time I was five years old I has a brother and two sisters. My mum and dad used to send me up to Longriggend for weekends and holidays, probably because my mum was so busy with the ...Read more

A memory of Longriggend in 1940 by Joe Mc Laughlin

Railway Station Yard

My parent's business on Whitefield Road backed onto the sidings of the rail station. The coal wagons were shunted onto a track alongside the public pathway. The Coal Merchants had their office shacks on the entrance way to ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1950 by Edward Williams

Grand Parents

I never knew my dad's parents, as they had both died by the time i was a baby. I enjoyed my time there as i often had friends calling in. I also had friends in the neighbouring streets [Wardle st, Muriel St & Oswald Terrace.] ...Read more

A memory of Old Cassop by David Darwood

The Cafe School

We moved to Alton from Somerset in November 1958. The primary school was closed for refurbishment. Mr. and Mrs. Carnwell who owned the garage and cafe played host to the village school, it all seemed quite strange to ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1958 by Elizabeth Green

History Of Netherthong

I am currently researching and writing a history of Netherthong and I have well over 200 photos and other ephemera. I have started numerous chapters relating to such subjects as schools, parish council, churches, sport, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong in 2010 by Michael Meitiner

Overstrand, The Beach From The Clifffs C1955

The image shown in this picture is so familiar to me. I lived for 13 years of my early days (3-16 years of age), about 150 yards from where this picture was taken. During very high tides we would, as ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand by Phil Dunning

Where I Was Born

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

Air Raids

These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Captions

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Caption For Hemswell, Dawnhill Lane C1955

Opposite the houses is a very busy horse-training yard - well over twenty horses go for walks down the local country lanes.

Caption For Doncaster, Baxtergate 1903

At Hatfield it took five years to reach the Barnsley bed at 852 yards below the surface.

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 Leeds, Briggate C1965

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

Caption For Selby, Old Toll Bridge 1918

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

Caption For Gravesend, The Ferry 1902

Reached via a cobbled yard in front of The Three Daws pub, and visually obstructed by the high sea wall, the pier is somewhat run down, unlike the Royal Terrace Pier.

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 Brimscombe, The Valley 1900

The Chalford Valley, with former woollen cloth mills every few hundred yards along its length, extends through Brimscombe into the distance.

Caption For Jarrow, Grange Road West C1955

The entire town was dependent on the yard, and when it went into liquidation in 1933 it left Jarrow with the highest unemployment rate in the country.

Caption For Gnosall, The Wharf And Tunnel C1955

In the end, the tunnel, which can be seen in the distance, was reduced in length to just over eighty yards.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Gardens 1935

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

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 Bangor, Pier 1897

The quay here was 300 yards long.

Caption For Wherwell, Village 1901

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Knees Corner 1900

The building was demolished to make an entrance to Lamb Yard.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Town Hall 1914

The building was demolished to make an entrance to Lamb Yard.

Caption For Launceston, Castle Gardens 1935

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

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax 1898

The bandstand, now relocated some yards away during recent pedestrianisation, was opened amid civic pomp in 1892.

Caption For Nottingham, Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Inn 1949

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

Caption For Borth, St Matthew's Church C1950

St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.

Caption For Swanwick, River Hamble C1955

HMS Elephant, Nelson's 74-gun flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen, was built here by George Parsons and launched at his yard in 1786.

Caption For Penrith, From Elm Terrace 1893

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

Caption For Old Hunstanton, The Neptune Hotel C1960

Monuments to the brave officers who attempted to stem the trade in contraband still stand in the church yard: these are William Green, a customs officer, and Light Dragoon William Webb, who

Caption For Aylesbury, The Old King's Head Hotel 1921

This view looks through the entrance towards the inn yard, all of which survives to this day.