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The Haunted School

One of Northampton’s now-lost buildings is seen on the right of this photograph, the old Notre Dame High School which was built in 1871 as a school and convent run by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A former teacher at ...Read more

A memory of Northampton by Julia Skinner

Learning By The Book!

There has been a public library in Cannock for many decades. As a child I remember the library being housed in a set of green painted, wooden buildings which stood on High Green next to the Council Offices. These grandiose huts ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

Harlesden Memories

I was born in central middlesex hospital in 1949 and grew up in harlesden,my first memory is living above john collier's the tailor at 103a harlesden high street, we lived right up at the top and we used the flat roof at the back ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by pamfoster59

Happy Days

I was supposed to have been born at the Green.. ended up being at Tynemouth... So I missed out on a commemorative silver spoon given to kids born in wallsend on the day the Queen Mother visited Wallsend.. 1.10.1954.. My family lived at ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by e.cotcher99

What A Place To Start A Career!

On the 2nd of September 1969, I walked through the main entrance of Bruntwood Hall for the first time, and was immediately in awe of its grandeur. My introduction to this, my new place of work, was inspiring, ...Read more

A memory of Bruntwood Hall by Rob Owen

Belmont Road

Hi, my name is Maryanne, myself and my brother Christopher spent most of our childhood in Belmont road, during the sixties, and early seventies we stayed with my Grandmother who lived at no. 2 Belmont rd, Olive Woods was my grandmother, ...Read more

A memory of Belmont by Maryanne Edney

Growing Up In Rumford

I wasn't born there but the years I spent in Rumford were some of my happiest. We moved there in 1960, my parents bought a house in the very centre of the village which also had a grocery shop attached. It turned out ...Read more

A memory of Rumford by Barbara Fisher

Growing Up At 77 Yarmouth Road, Thorpe St Andrew

The house on the right of this picture was owned by the Parker family who lived there and ran a Post Office, drapery and grocery store next to the house from 1902 until the 1950s. Members of ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe St Andrew

Growing Up In Mount

We moved to Mount 1962, I started school at Darran Las Infant School. Then moved on to the Comprehensive. How big it looked and the kids where so grown up. The grounds where just beautiful and the old house was incredible. The ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by uksteveandsue

Gala Hairdressers Jeans John Barton

My Mum Jean worked in Watling Ave for many years - Hairdressing. She started work in The Don around 1956. This used to be opp the station. She left and worked at Gala and then had the shop in he name for a while ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by tinasown61540632

Captions

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Caption For Staines, High Street 1895

Just by the lamp standard (centre right), and with its own premises decorated with two lanterns, are the Staines Iron Works.

Caption For Ludford, The Village C1955

There are also two seats donated by the squadron survivors.

Caption For Swynnerton, The Village 1900

At this time Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the

Caption For Coolham, Post Office And Stores C1950

Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.

Caption For Altrincham, Old Bank 1897

If required to wait and then bring the clients back to Altrincham, it would be charged out by the hour.

Caption For Paignton, Park Hotel 1889

Steering was by the two small wheels on the right, linked by a system of rods, and drive was by a crank axle chain-geared to the large left-hand wheel.

Caption For Worbarrow, The Bay C1877

About 1,000 acres of land, extending five miles along the coast and five miles northwards, were taken over by the military during World War Two, and have yet to be returned to the public.

Caption For Seathwaite, Stockley Bridge 1889

The earliest tourists to the Lake District were overwhelmed by the 'horrid' and 'frightful' nature of the mountains and crags, which frowned down on them as they negotiated the passes.

Caption For Fareham, The Quay C1950

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Caption For Appledore, Quay 1923

Wicker baskets carried by the ladies (in the right-hand rowing boat) were very much a feature of life until quite recent times.

Caption For Launceston, From St Stephen's Hill 1893

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

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Caption For Gatehouse Of Fleet, High Street C1955

Its name derives from the 'Gait-House', which was built by the Murrays in the 17th century, the 'gait' being the road from Dumfries to Creetown.

Caption For Chichester, Canon Lane Archway, South Street 1890

The cathedral spire seen beyond collapsed in 1861 and was rebuilt by the great Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott.

Caption For Battle, Church 1890

The church of St Mary on the north side of the road opposite the Abbey has traces of its Norman origins; it is mostly Early English and Decorated Gothic, but was heavily restored by the Victorians.

Caption For Tonbridge, Barden Park, The Avenue 1890

During the First World War the house was occupied by the military authorities, and was used for the confinement of captured German officer prisoners.

Caption For Manchester, Victoria Building And Gateway C1890

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

Caption For Castle Ashby, The House C1955

Its construction was started in 1574 by the Comptons, who later became earls of Northampton, and the great courtyard house was completed in the earlier 17th century.

Caption For Geddington, The Square C1955

The tall cross, with its statues in their canopied niches, is the best surviving Eleanor Cross - one of a series erected by the distraught King Edward I wherever his wife Eleanor of Castile's coffin rested

Caption For East Grinstead, St Swithun's Church 1890

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

Caption For Bedford, Girls' School 1897

Opened in 1882, it was designed by the leading architect Basil Champneys in a Jacobethan style, with numerous shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows.

Caption For Bedford, High Street 1921

The bull on top of the bracket survives, although not in its original form - it is a replacement made by the local technical college.

Caption For Bedford, St Peter's Street 1921

The shop on the right was replaced in the 1930s by the neo-Georgian offices, Royal Chambers, and beyond the gabled building, now the Bedfordshire Probation Service, several buildings made way for the Granada

Caption For Tring, Park 1897

Immediately south-east of the town is Tring Park, its park now bisected by the A41.

Caption For Trentham, The Hall 1900

At this time Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however,