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Memories

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Where Do I Begin

Where do I begin? I have titled this memory thus and placed it in about 1960, because that's the most accurate I can make it. Ida (my mum) pushing me in a pram up the 'Cliff' to the wood yard, that used to be up by the ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1960

Cowper Road Gillingham

My nan, Lucy Williams lived in Cowper Road, Gillingham - she was a lovely friendly lady and my sisters often stayed with her (one at a time!). They remember Gillingham Park nearby, where they would go to play. My nan used ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1953 by Linda Edginton

Changing Times

I was a Chiddingfold child. My father was from Milford (Cozens) and his mother and father owned the little newsagents/grocery shop on Manor Road. My mum was from Shackleford (Reffold) and I didn't move far away - Godalming, ...Read more

A memory of Chiddingfold in 1970 by Nicola Cozens

Gaumont Cinema

I got my first kiss from a boy called Peter Marshall at Saturday morning pictures here, we were playing kiss chase there. When I was about 6 or 7 there was a pig bin in the street where the neighbours used to put their food waste, to ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1958 by Sandra Barnes Nee Griffiths

Edenfield 1930

I was born at 117 Bury Road in 1930. Soon after we moved a liitle further along the road to 388 Whalley Road just past the Duckworth Arms. Our neighbours were Mrs Bretherton and children Nellie, Jim and Clifford?. On the other ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield by Derek Holt

I Was Here In 1973 & 1974

Like the other contributors I was a patient at this fabulous rehab centre, in my case it was twice (1973 and 1974) in restoring a mangled left leg following a motorcycle accident (yet another "sorry mate, didn't see ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Royal by Bob Unsworth

My Life

I lived at Railway Cottages in Carlin How with my grandparents and mum and dad, for a few years, after that went down to Rolingson Street where we stayed until I was 11. We used to go to the club close to the school. We left the house ...Read more

A memory of Carlin How in 1949 by Valerie Kamperis

Rawmarsh In The 1950s

I was born and lived the first ten years of my life in Pottery Street. '2 up 2 down' terraced houses with outside toilet. Across the road lived Horace Murfin, a bookie who could always be seen around on his bike collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1953 by Bernard Dudill

The Barber Shop

This photo was taken around 1960 as my father (who can be seen in the photo, cleaning the bedroom window) bought number 11, St Paul's Street in 1958 and did not open the barber shop for over a year. I was 5 years old when we moved ...Read more

A memory of Stamford in 1960 by Suzanna Sawyer

School Days

I also went to the County High! My teacher was Miss Hewson, the music teacher was Miss Harris and Miss Bubbers, I can see her now storming down the corridor, she made me stand in front of her one day and talk without using my hands, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1952 by Patricia Kucukarslan

Captions

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Caption For Egham, Procession C1901

This procession through Egham is, sadly, a funeral procession for Percy Giles, a member of the Egham Town Band.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street C1955

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

Caption For Reigate, The Pageant 1913

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Caption For Malmesbury, Abbey Row From The Abbey Roof C1955

The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.

Caption For Sheringham, West Cliff And Golf Links 1906

Their more knowledgable caddies have not been so foolhardy, and are well out of range. The Grand Hotel overlooks every amenity that the town has to offer.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, Station Road 1904

Pallister Road is the impressive Bank Building built in 1899 to house the London & County Bank as well as a number of shops, including the Home and Colonial Stores.

Caption For Ashford, The Parish Church C1965

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

Caption For Cley, Windmill 1933

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

Caption For Irthlingborough, High Street 1969

This is not one of Northamptonshire's most attractive boot and shoe towns - and what old buildings remain are now isolated by new buildings, some visible in this view.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Square C1955

Here we see the Square outside the old town hall and part of Market Street. We can see the bus shelters on the left.

Caption For Rickmansworth, High Street C1955

Fletchers and Woolworth's (left) have been built on the site of the Queen's Arms public house and the old Fotherley Almshouses, which had been erected in 1682 to provide for five poor widows of the town

Caption For Romford, The Brewery 1908

In 1799 Edward Ind bought the Star Inn which had a reputation for brewing fine ale. He developed a prosperous brewing business and in 1845 Octavius and Edward Coope joined the firm.

Caption For Lymington, High Street C1955

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port, and there was shipbuilding here between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Caption For Salisbury, Old House In High Street 1928

The largest of the waterways was known as Town Ditch and was filled in 1875. At the time of this photograph, the traffic is still horse- drawn and trees still grow in the street.

Caption For Crediton, High Street 1904

Like nearby Tiverton, Crediton did well out of the cloth trade, but when that declined the town stagnated.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, Britannia Pier 1894

The town rose swiftly to the challenge of the new tourism in the Victorian era. Piers were constructed and seaside attractions of all kinds soon sprang up.

Caption For Moulton, West Street C1950

Moulton is only a stone's throw from the centre of Northampton; when the town thrived on shoe manufacture, many men and women walked from this village to work in the shoe factories.

Caption For Southsea, Hovercraft C1965

The Old Mill C1955 The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

Caption For Hickling, The Pleasure Boat Inn C1955

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Caption For Brynmawr, The Bus Station C1965

Brynmawr was once the largest town in the rural county of Breconshire, but in 1974 it became part of industrial Gwent. The Red and White bus is probably a Bristol make.

Caption For Hartley Wintney, High Street C1965

It retains a distinctly rural character, yet also has the attributes of a small town with shops on either sideof the road.

Caption For Storrington, West Street C1960

Storrington never appears to have been very large, and far from being a centre of wealth, was probably no more prosperous than its neighbouring downland villages.

Caption For Burton In Lonsdale, General View C1960

This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times. Coal mining and quarrying also sustained the population.