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Police Station

I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by Brian Staines

Army Life As A Child

I lived in Larkhill as a small child in the very late fifities. In those days you could walk to Stonehenge and there were no barriers to stop you going right up to the stones. In the local primary school most of the children ...Read more

A memory of Larkhill by Dianne Hughes

481 Thackley Road

We own the balloon and party supply shop in Thackley, Ideaz at 481 Leeds Road. It would be really interesting to learn what other uses the shop had prior to us.

A memory of Thackley by Ideaz Thackley

Before The Semis

shops more independent no yellow lines

A memory of Ewell in 1920

Dancing

Hi does anyone remember the Balham Court Ballroom I use to go there a lot with my friends back in the 50s P.s The ballroom was over top of shops

A memory of Balham by Beryl Clark

The Clock Tower

I lived in Corby between the ages of 2 and 4. We lived in the brand new flats opposite the shops. There was a large car park and I have memories of the communal washing lines and going with mum to hang the washing. From the kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1965 by Selina Kerindi

Memories Of Council Estate And Football

My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named ...Read more

A memory of Elstree in 1967 by Geoff Gwillym

Drapers Shop Connaught Avenue

My great great grandmother, Eliza Hone, ran a Drapers Shop in Station Rd (later Connaught Avenue), after she was widowed from the late 1800's and she was included on 1901 & 1911Census's. My grandmother, ...Read more

A memory of Frinton-On-Sea in 1900 by Diane Duvale

Sutton High Street In The 60s And 70s

Sutton Station holds some great memories from the 60's, including childhood summer holidays. Before we had a car I remember catching the express 'corridor train' to the south coast...so exciting! I live in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton

Growing Up In Gildersome

I was born in 1952 and lived in Gildersome until I was 19 years old. My name until then was Lorraine Thompson. I have many happy memories of living in the village. Until I was 4 years old I lived in a terrace called ...Read more

A memory of Gildersome in 1952 by Lorraine Smith

Captions

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Caption For Cheam, The Crossways C1950

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

Caption For Hampstead, High Street 1898

The simple but somehow graceful shop fronts have gone, although the buildings remain, including the Old Fire Station of 1873, with its prominent tower.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1955

He had been pulled out of the sea after the ship had been torpedoed off Start Point with the loss of 600 men. Charles Atkins was the landlord.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Market Place 1890

A close inspection of the shops to either side of the Market Hall reveals their late medieval origins.

Caption For Dolgellau, Upper Smithfield Street 1908

Here, shopkeepers, their families and employees pose for the photographer; note Dick's display of shoes on the right.

Caption For Stroud, Russell Street C1955

Walter Wells (left) sold clocks - one of which survives in the Union Street Schoolroom - and jewellery, hence the ring sign above his shop front.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street C1905

The view down the town's busiest trading place begins with grocer and wine merchant Sarah Chapman's shop front (left) facing the Volunteer Inn (far right), where the landlord was Tom Searle.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, High Street 1906

a remarkable number of hotels and hostelries; on the right is the Griffin Hotel, established in the 16th century, an important posting house that closed in 1986 and was converted into shops

Caption For Biggleswade, Hitchin Street 1925

And the piled tins in the shop window? Just imagine what a 21st-century toddler could do with those.

Caption For North Cheam, London Road C1955

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

Caption For Southborough, The Common C1955

On the left is the grocerís shop of H Tranter.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1897

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

Caption For Wolverton, Stratford Road 2005

(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped

Caption For Rickmansworth, High Street 1921

The shops on the near left, housing Browns, Percy's the confectioners and Rennie's opticians, are in a new building, but three doors along the bay- fronted upper storeys visible in the earlier photograph

Caption For Poole, Parkstone Park 1898

The end shop is a chemist's, J A Haynes, which soon moved a few doors to the left. Although now a restaurant, the words 'Mentone Pharmacy' in brass have been retained.

Caption For Sutton, Stonecot Hill C1955

In the parade of shops Frederick W Paine, the undertaker, is still in business, although his trademark showing an oversized lantern has gone, leaving just its bracket.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, The Pantiles C1890

To the left of the post office is the chemistís shop of Alfred Nicholson, who had these new premises built here in 1884.

Caption For Stafford, St Mary's Church C1950

Note the grave slabs and box tombs, and the rear of Brookfields shop behind the church.

Caption For Petersfield, From Tilmore 1906

The lady on the bridge would very likely be going to the shops - she is just about to pass over the second arch of the railway bridge which accommodated the branch line forking off to Midhurst

Caption For Redhill, High Street C1955

Fortunately the Wheatsheaf of 1900 on the right survives as an O'Neills pub, and so does the former Burton's on the opposite corner, but most of the right-hand buildings have gone for the Belfry Shopping

Caption For Lindfield, High Street 1965

The butcher`s shop on the extreme right is H J Box; the family owned grazing lands nearby, which enabled them to sell their high-quality meat locally.

Caption For Bridport, East Street 1930

Detail abounds in this more intimate shot of the row of shops immediately east from the Town Hall and the Greyhound Hotel. All the windows are full of offerings from floor to ceiling.

Caption For Downham, Post Office And Old Stocks 1921

One of his briefs was to include the local Post Office in his photographs, so that it could then be turned into a postcard to sell in the shop.

Caption For Kegworth, High Street C1960

In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.