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Central Stores
The large 3-storey building to the right of centre, was the village grocery store at 91 Lane Head Road. My father purchased it in 1961 from Frank Armitage. He sold it in 1984 when he retired. At the rear were stables, groceries used ...Read more
A memory of Shepley in 1963 by
2 Years In The Village
Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing ...Read more
A memory of Iford in 1956 by
On Our Way To Longleat.....
After walking the footpath from Rodden Farm we would end up on the main Frome /Warminster road, not far from the start of Friggle Street. This was our route to Longleat we often took on foot during our school holidays. ...Read more
A memory of Elliots Green in 1980 by
I Was Nearly Killed Here!
Greetings from Canada! O how this picture brings back memories. I was raised on nearby Argyll Street in the late 50's and 60's, and the area shown in this picture encompasses virtually all of my childhood... But also within ...Read more
A memory of Corby by
Back In The 50s
In the late 50's I moved to Rochford Road, just a few hundred yards from the airport. My dad, had learned to fly in Canada during the war and was now back working as a booking clerk for British Rail at Prittlewell. As a ...Read more
A memory of Southend Airport in 1958 by
My Childhood In Gorton
I was born Judith Payne in 1946 and lived in a two bed terraced house with outside toilet and no hot water or bathroom, on Victoria Road. Gorton, Manchester. This ran off Hyde Road next to the junction with Cross Street, ...Read more
A memory of Gorton in 1950 by
Gates Corner Memories.
This is such a memorable photograph for me. This very garage delivered a new company car to my father in 1932. It was a Model B Ford with V8 engine. He drove that car for 17 years during the time he worked for W&C ...Read more
A memory of South Woodford in 1940 by
Last Public Hanging
I think it took place in 1818 opposite the church and what is now the Phillips Memorial, on the other side of the river . ( Llamas Lands?) The depression made in a horse shoe shape was where the crowd stood to watch the event! ...Read more
A memory of Godalming by
Speed
In relation to Reform Street and the city square on Friday/Saturday nights. We boys and our latest girlfriends (only if you had a car) used to meet and have a drag race either up Reform Street and back or a race from city square out under the ...Read more
A memory of Dundee in 1966 by
St Paulinus School In The Late 40's
I have very fond memories of Crayford particularly going to St Paulinus School down Iron Mill Lane. I was just a little boy but my father's work took us all over England at the time, and unfortunately we only ...Read more
A memory of Crayford in 1949 by
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The village sign was erected in 1922 and depicts St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, and a small child, traditionally, the infant Jesus, crossing a ford.
It is also worth noting that all the cars seen here in Fountain Street - an Austin A40, a P4 Rover, a Morris 1000 Traveller, an Austin 1100, two Minis and a Ford Anglia approaching - are British-built.
Outside there is a fine array of contemporary cars, including a Morris Minor and a Ford Consul.
This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford
This village's name means 'a ford only available in summer'; the church stands above the Bristol Avon.
Originally sited on a ford over Firgreen Beck, Clifford was at one time the manor that included all of nearby Boston Spa.
Leaving town by the line of the present existing Old Bedford Road, it crossed the river by a ford on the town side of Little Moor.
This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford
A Mini, a Wolseley, a Ford Capri and Cortina, a Morris Traveller and others all suggest the age of the motor car is finally with us; this street is dominated by the motor vehicle.
A church was recorded as being on this site in the Domesday Book, when a 'ford' was built over the River Cray.
The neat white pickup truck belongs to G Ford, Builder Contractor, of Ightham.
It was a ford which fixed the site of Belfast, but not long after the town was begun, a bridge crossed the river.
Originally sited on a ford over Firgreen Beck, Clifford was at one time the manor that included all of nearby Boston Spa.
This photograph has been taken from the left bank of the River Itchen, and the photographer appears to have been standing on a spot where there was once a ford - children played there even after the bridge
Bedford grew up at a ford over the River Ouse before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the mid to late 5th century AD.
A Ford Zodiac is the closest parked car (left).
The writer bought a Ford V8 Pilot here, and ran it for a number of years using second-hand parts extracted, with some difficulty and hazard, from the mounds of abandoned vehicles.
A Ford Consul heads out of Fareham.
westwards up West Street to the Town Hall (left of centre), a Ford Model T passes the shops of Best, Warren and Spiller (right).
To save time, and money, Hugh de Cressingham, Edward I's Treasurer, had stopped Surrey exploiting a ford that would have allowed him to bring his heavy horse across the river and hit Wallace in the flank
Everything for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of
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