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Memories

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Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978

I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Rose Moloney

Faraway Castles

As a child playing on the allotments behind the Fire station in Trowbridge I used to see the white buildings gleaming in the sun of the Manor on the far hills. It was always so beautiful sitting majestically in the distance I ...Read more

A memory of Trowbridge by Barbara Thompson

Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There

I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by James Bonser

Railway Info.

This view shows the junction line which linked the GWR Victoria station with the Junction station - running from left to right and opened in 1887. It must have been almost new when the photo was taken and the earthworks are still bare.

A memory of Barnstaple in 1890

My First Look

The first time my father took me under the Hengoed viaduct I remember looking up and said to my dad that one day I would like to walk across it and wondered how long it would take us. When I got a bit older and a bit more interested in ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed in 1980 by Kristian Burrows

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Railway

I used to catch the train every week to visit my grandmother in Countesthoe. From where I lived in Six Acres it was about a mile walk to the station. The station was often staffed by Paddy a cheerful Irish man. If not him a lady ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley by james.b.howes

Tottenham Lane 1957 65

I was born in Muswell Hill Cottage Hospital in 1957. We lived at the off licence in Tottenham lane opposite the police station....Victoria wine. I went to Rolkesly Infant and Junior and had best friend Robert in the infant ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by Jo Oliphant Hope

Camberley...Where Do I Start ?!

Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by tobypaws2002

Perhaps A Year Or Two Early

I'm not absolutely sure the garden was as spick and span as this at the turn of the sixties, but it wasn't that long before it became this way. It had been a ruin until the early fifties when a brutalist electricity sub ...Read more

A memory of Timperley by jsbrennan.125

Captions

1,403 captions found. Showing results 409 to 432.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

Later the police station was added on the left; it was demolished to accommodate the new Horsforth library.

Caption For Nottingham, Lower Parliament Street C1950

A mixture of architectural styles are on the left, including two old houses, the entrance archway to the old St Stephen's church and the south entrance to the Victoria Railway Station.

Caption For Tavistock, The Town Hall And The Guildhall 1893

As well as filling the usual civic functions, it was also the Police Station and the home of the fire engine.

Caption For Aughton, Town Green C1950

Stone sets pave Town Green, as it leads through the village towards the railway bridge and station.

Caption For Odiham, The Stocks And Whipping Post 2004

The stocks and whipping post were moved from their previous position against the Bridewell wall to protect them from the 'increase in traffic' generated by the newly- built Fire Station. A

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Crown Hotel From The Sands 1934

There is no promenade yet, only the railway embankment; access to the beach was generally from a point near the station out of sight to the right.

Caption For Staverton, Daventry Road C1955

Having perhaps purchased some eggs, the photographer is now looking in the Southam direction along the road past the filling station.

Caption For Mells, From The River 1907

On the riverbank there is now a small pumping station.

Caption For Mablethorpe, High Street C1955

Note the many people walking towards the front: it looks as though they have just got off the train (there is no longer a station here) or are walking from the bus station (no longer there), which was

Caption For St Ives, From Coastguard 1890

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

Caption For Windermere, Waterhead Hotel 1887

This view of Waterhead shows the Waterhead Hotel, built to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were arriving by train at the lakeside station at Bowness, and catching a steamer up

Caption For Wisbech, The Clarkson Memorial, Bridge Street C1965

Both the stationers, Poysers, and the shop of the noted Wisbech footballer, Jesse Pye, now form part of Robert Goddard's clothing outlet.

Caption For Paddock Wood, Loading The Hops C1950

of the village High Street give some indication of the constantly-flowing stream of traffic which passes the small, half-timbered Black Horse pub with its adjacent wine merchant and the large petrol station

Caption For Rhuddlan, Lower High Street 1951

On what is now Station Road, on the outskirts of the town, Marsh Hotel plied its trade in a position somewhat distant from the town.

Caption For Calstock, Station 1908

A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar.

Caption For Ash, The Village C1965

One wonders how busy this petrol station would have been in those days, just 40 years ago!

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Caption For Laxey, 1894

Dumbell's Row still stands, as do other links with Laxey's mining past; the Station Hotel was once the Mine Captain's house.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1906

We are now seeing a view looking towards the railway station, with many of these shops still in existence today, but with more modern shop fronts.

Caption For Rochdale, Town Centre 1966

Their termini remained in the centre until the Bus Station was opened on 16 May 1978.

Caption For New Sawley, Marina C1967

In the background can be seen the cooling towers and chimneys of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power stations.

Caption For New Malden, Malden Road C1960

The police station (right) on the corner of Malden Road and Burlington Road was opened in 1892.

Caption For Honiton, New Street 1904

The station is to the right, on the old London and South Western Railway line from Waterloo to Exeter.

Caption For Ravenscar, Station Square C1960

Mention of a Roman signal station in the Domesday Book in 1086 dates the history of this area back as far as the fourth century.

Caption For London, Bank Of England C1900

On the right is a large notice announcing the new Central Line station, which opened in 1900.