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Memories

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Mid 1960s Mid 1980s

My parents David & Valerie, and younger brother Roger Angus lived at 'Rosevine' opposite the Rectory. The then vicar, Christopher Leach lived in the Rectory with his wife and children Godfrey and Hilary. Additionally, they ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne by Simon Angus

Wartime Years In Llanarmon Yn Ial

Shortly after the outbreak of war, my Father who had a pet shop in Wallasey, evacuated the family to Llanarmon.  We consisted of Dad, Mum, my brother Ray and myself. We moved into Rose Cottage in the ...Read more

A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1940 by Don Thurlow

Central Stores

The large 3-storey building to the right of centre, was the village grocery store at 91 Lane Head Road. My father purchased it in 1961 from Frank Armitage. He sold it in 1984 when he retired. At the rear were stables, groceries used ...Read more

A memory of Shepley in 1963 by Glen Cheney

School Road

I used to live at 5 School Road nearly 20 years ago.  My mum used to work at Dianes florists on Donny Road and my Dad managed the Corner Pocket snooker club.  I still visit there now as my stepmum lives on Donny Road and my Dad, I'm ...Read more

A memory of Langold in 1985 by Joanne Withell

North Road Looking North From Church Street, Fen Street Junction

Previous memories talk about The Talbot Inn and on the left hand corner (Church Street Corner) Marshall's the newsagents . Before the village was bypassed around 1956 the Newsagents ...Read more

A memory of Stilton in 1954 by Bruce Allen

Even Better Today

I still visit this church, although it is locked much of the time. It looks even better today than it did way back then. The village of 'Send' was supposed to have been built around this church (I am told), however it ended up a ...Read more

A memory of Send by John Jelly

Where I Grew Up

I lived most of my life in Sible Hedingham, as a family we moved there from London in 1962.  I was just 2 years old at the time. My father Robert Farren, "Bob" as he was best known and my mother Ivy, took over the licence of ...Read more

A memory of Sible Hedingham in 1962 by Anne Elder

Police House

I moved to Crawley Down in 1959 and for four years I lived in the police house in Hophurst Road with my Mum, Dad and sister Denise, Dad being the village policeman. For two years I attended the village school and remember Mrs Fry ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1959 by Shirley Onslow

Living In Wickford

I lived in Wickford until 1963. My sisters and I would walk down London Road to the high street, first stopping at the little sweet shop and then looking into the windows of Prentice. I got my first 2 wheeler there in 1954. We ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1954 by Kathleen Aguirre

Above Shop Flats

1963: We were so desperate for somewhere to live when we got married that we almost signed up for one of the upstairs flats above the shops. The flats were brand new and looked very attractive back then. The the reality set ...Read more

A memory of South Wigston by Richard Child

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Captions

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Caption For Witham, St Nicolas' Church 1900

As the town grew, its businesses drifted off to the main London-Colchester road. St Nicholas' was built c1330.

Caption For York, The Minster From The City Walls C1955

There have been many more changes to the buildings on the right, and now the tram lines have been removed; road markings, showing a one-way system, have taken their place.

Caption For Camberley, The Entrance To Sandhurst Military College 1906

At one time, the cadets pulled an old cannon, just inside the gate, across the London Road after their passing out parade.

Caption For Minehead, The Parade 1903

Fourteen years after this photograph was taken, the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke was born in nearby Blenheim Road.

Caption For Keighley, Skipton Road 1951

Panama-hatted Tom Roe, 'Dealer in Worn-out Horses' (perhaps a grand name for a rag and bone man), clip-clops his way down the Skipton Road through Keighley.

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Village C1955

Ferrybridge was a rendezvous point for the gentry travelling up the Great North Road. Ferrybridge had Yorkshire's largest pottery, which was founded in 1792 and was part-owned by Ralph Wedgwood.

Caption For Peterborough, Bridge Street C1955

The stately council offices reflect 1930s ideas of grandeur, and the pylon reminds us that the river and the power station are not far down the road.

Caption For Newark, Muskham Bridge 1923

In 1770 a bridge cum elevated road was constructed, which put paid to the ferry.

Caption For Kilkhampton, Village 1910

A single pony and trap contrasts with today's busy motor traffic that passes along this road - it is now the A39.

Caption For York, The War Monument 1909

The cannon is no longer there, and the monument, although still in almost the same place, now stands in the middle of a roundabout on a busy road.

Caption For Little Baddow, The Thatched Cottage, Riffhams Chase 1903

Riffhams Chase was, at this time, still a private road. It was barred from the outside world by a gate - seen here beside the Thatched Cottage.

Caption For Brook, Wye Agricultural College Museum And Oast House 1962

Elsewhere in the village a stream gurgles by the side of the road. The village church is a squat Norman building with a fine interior with ancient wall paintings.

Caption For London, Elephant And Castle 1885

The pub which gave the important road junction its name has existed since at least 1765, when a court sat there. The building in this picture was completed in 1816 and demolished in 1898.

Caption For Grasmere, Vale 1926

There is not much traffic - a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger - in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Caption For Maidenhead, King Street 1904

This once busy road led to the Great Western Railway station further south.

Caption For Halifax, General View C1955

Halifax is also where English toffee was invented, and it was here in 1934 that Percy Shaw produced the first cats' eyes, or to give them their proper name, reflecting road studs.

Caption For Kendal, Stramongate Bridge 1896

Stramongate is the main approach road into Kendal from the north-east, and means 'the street of the straw men'. St George's Church is in the background.

Caption For Grasmere, Vale 1926

There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Caption For Chepstow, Town Gate 1936

Note the unmarked roads, the shops on the left (D H Davies and M Woods) and the various forms of traffic (there are bicycles and motor cars, and a bus on the left).

Caption For Hitchin, Bancroft C1955

Moss's are still on the corner bearing their name, and now have a second shop on the opposite side of the road. Two buildings further down is the Brotherhood House. Next to Blindell's is the Croft.

Caption For Lilbourne, The Green C1955

The photographer here looks east towards Yelvertoft Road with Hillmorton Lane to the right. Just east of the village the peace is disrupted by Watling Street's successor, the busy M1 motorway.

Caption For Rushton, Manor Road C1955

Manor Road joins the High Street by the pyramid roofed mid-19th century house, The Forge, in the distance. To the right, is a small wing with the date 1852 over a Gothic-style stone window.

Caption For Horley, On The Mole 1906

The bridge carried the London to Brighton road for many years; it was rebuilt in the 1970s. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield

Caption For Coventry, Butcher's Row 1892

Coventry has undergone massive redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road