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A Million Miles From A Game Of Football.

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

Happy Weekends

For some time back in the late '70's/early '80's I used to ride my motorbike from Worcester to visit my then girlfriend, Judith, at Sawtry. She had a post as a teacher at the village school. Used to love the ride over there on a ...Read more

A memory of Sawtry by bru.enzer

Bits I Recall

Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill by Malcolm Geary

Chainhurst In The Early 1960's

We moved from London to Chainhurst in 1961 into a small cottage two doors away from the Royal Oak Public House. I remember they let us use an upstairs room once a week so we could play records and I suppose keep us ...Read more

A memory of Chainhurst by Dawn Brady

Methodist School

I was at the Methodist school at Burgh Heath from 1950 to 1957, my maiden name was Hopper. I was born and lived in Burgh Heath until 1965 when I married and went abroad. When I returned in 1971 I moved locally to Epsom Downs. ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1950 by Evelyn Killick

Born In Lincoln

I was born in Lincoln Army Barracks on 7th November 1951. I do not remember my days there apart from leaving in 1955 when we moved abroad. I did pay a visit back there in 1977 but the barracks were being taken down, I am unsure ...Read more

A memory of Lincoln in 1951 by Maurice Mc Lean

Leytonstone

I was born in a road which was a turning of Whipps Cross Road in 1957. Most of my childhood was playing on the hollow ponds and swimming at the open air Lido in the summer months. My parents took me to see the Batman film at the ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone

River Lune

Green Ayre railway station on the left, with the Greyhound Bridge curving across the river. The bridge is now a road bridge. Most of the station is Sainsbury's supermarket, car park, and a riverside park "heritage centre".

A memory of Lancaster in 1958

Working In Pelham Rd South

In 1955 I worked in Brands bakery as a shop assistant. We were allowed to eat any cakes that were damaged. Gee an awful lot got damaged! I then moved along the road to a paper shop/tobacconists for 2/6d more. From ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1955 by Katie Butcher (Nee Mc Carthy)

Music

We moved to Burghfield Common when my father started work as an MOD policeman at Burghfield. We moved into Bannister Road when the estate was still being built and I remember my mother saying that one day she opened the back door ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1956 by Nancy Mc Giveron

Captions

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Caption For Brundall, On The Yare C1960

Under Henry VII it was given to the Hobarts for several generations.

Caption For Norwich, Market Place And St Peter Mancroft Church 1891

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Market 1891

The expansive market place has long been the commercial hub of the town. On market days it echoes Yarmouth's seafaring traditions, the colourful awnings stretching out like waves to the horizon.

Caption For Lenham, The Limes C1960

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

Caption For Broadstone, The Broadway C1960

Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream. One is outside the Stepping Stones pub.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1909

The three-storey Royal Lion Hotel (left) incorporates a Tudor building. King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, spent a night here during a teenage walking tour in September 1856.

Caption For Lulworth, 1894

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, View From Adeyfield Road C1960

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church, The Interior 1899

It became quickly clear that St Mary's Church was too small for the parish. In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899

It became quickly clear that St Mary's Church was too small for the parish. In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

Caption For Stafford, Remains Of The Town Walls 2005

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

Caption For Haworth, Main Street 1958

The old cobbled street still remains, and views of the brooding Yorkshire moors are still enchanting visitors from around the world.

Caption For Ludlow, Lower Broad Street 1892

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls. Originally there were seven town gates (four main and three postern). This is the southern gate, and the only one surviving today.

Caption For Coventry, Butcher 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

Caption For Coventry, Butcher 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

Caption For Coventry, High Street And Broadgate C1955

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

Caption For Somersham, The Cross C1955

This view was taken standing against the old Butter Cross looking down the St Ives road.

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

Caption For Coventry, High Street And Broadgate C1955

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

Caption For Worston, The Village 1921

Though parts of Pendle Hill reach over 1,900ft, it never quite makes it to 2,000 feet—the height when a hill becomes a mountain.

Caption For Lepe, The Beach C1955

Lepe remains an attractive hamlet offering safe bathing in the waters of the Solent. In Roman times a road ran west from here across the present ground of the New Forest to Ringwood.

Caption For Lythe, The Village C1965

Situated on a steep hill on a road that comes from Sandsend, the village has a Saxon church; here are buried the bodies of seven unidentified sailors that were washed up on the tides.

Caption For Ashburton, North Street 1922

Some of the kerbstones which line Ashburton's narrow streets are made from fine pink marble, quarried locally.

Caption For Leicester, Clock Tower, City Centre C1955

This photograph shows Churchgate and Belgrave Gate viewed from Gallowtree Gate - 'gate' is derived from the Scandinavian, meaning 'a road to'.