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Boarding School, Harcombe House.

In 1956 I went to Harcombe House as a boarder. Mrs Jowett was in charge of us - 52 girls. Crocket did the gardens and lived in a cottage on the lane, as did cook. Matron and the housemistress, Miss Haytor, lived in. ...Read more

A memory of Uplyme in 1956 by Inez Dight

Parkstone Girls' Grammar School

This was the entrance to Parkstone Girls' Grammar school where I went from 1956, with Miss Allen as headmistress, until we moved to the present site in Sopers Lane in, I think, 1960 or 61, when these buildings were ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1956 by Marion Brown

1966 69 Happiest Year Of My Childhood

Reading all the memories, mostly happy, and recollections from both staff and pupils at Warnham Court has opened the floodgates to my own happy, carefree school days. Gosh, so many people and ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School by Susanne Baylis

My Holidays In The 50's At Court Hall

I spent most of my school holidays, together with my brother Ronny, at Court Hall from July 1952 to approximately May 1955 - if my memory still serves. From those days. I have retained or rediscovered ...Read more

A memory of North Molton by Cedric Carton

Hatch End 50/60/70s Memories

As I’ve only just stumbled on this web page so offer excuses if it’s past its sell by date. I lived in Sylvia Ave Hatch End from 1951 (as a babe in arms) until I married and moved away in 1976. My recollections may now ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Martin Harris

Living In Headley Down

My dad and uncle Peter, owned the garage; Wilson and Pickett Ltd. I went to the Grove school and Bramshott Court School. I llved in the bungalow next door, I was called Fran Wilson. We lived there from when I was 3 until I was 12 - we then moved to North Yorks, where we remain.

A memory of Headley Down in 1956 by Frances Oliver

Park Road North

We moved to 192 Park Road north in 1967, next door to the shop. We used to visit our nan and aunties at No.160 and always called in to the shop for sweets, the old couple who ran the shop were really nice, they sold great ice ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1967 by Tony Davenport

Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s

I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left ...Read more

A memory of Dunmurry by carole.chambers19

Memories Of An 'outsider'

I was born in Colindale in 1937. My memories of Twickenham are of a piscatorial nature. I took up angling aged 10 or 11, a friend and I decided to have a go on 'The River', we had fished the Grand Union Canal and river Gade ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by Jack Luxon

Reading University In The 1950s

Great memories of my years as a student at Reading University in the 1950's. At that time there was only one campus, and on entering through the covered London Road entrance (on the left of the photo) the ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1954 by Milton Freeman

Captions

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Caption For Bedford, The Promenade 1897

In this view, looking north-east from the bridge on the south bank of the Ouse, the Swan Hotel is seen without ivy.

Caption For Hartlepool, Memorial Gardens C1965

It was built in 1899 for the London and North Eastern Railway Company. The open space behind the trees on the left was known as the Bull Field.

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1960

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

Caption For Wetherby, Market Place 1909

The magistrates court was held in the Town Hall from its opening in 1845 up to 1982. Prisoners were led to the upper court room through a discreet side door. A day school was held in the lower rooms.

Caption For Hailsham, Wesleyan Church 1902

At the opposite end of the High Street, past the North Street junction, stands the Wesleyan church; its foundation stone was laid by the splendidly named Williamson Lamplouch in September 1868

Caption For Woking, Chertsey Road C1960

This view looks north-east along Chertsey Road (now one-way and traffic-calmed) away from the station, which fuelled the commuter-based growth of the town.

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, Market Place C1955

Up the hill towards one of Chalfont St Peter's commons, Gold Hill, Tudor-style shops and flats were built on the north side of the road in 1922, called Market Place and decked out with fake

Caption For Glastonbury, High Street 1909

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Caption For Bridport, West Allington 1912

Opposite, on the corner with North Allington, the principle towns on the cast-iron road sign are Exeter (straight ahead) and Chard (right). West Court is behind the trees.

Caption For Bicknoller, The Village 1940

In the park to its north is Crowcombe Court, a Georgian country house built in the 1720s and 1730s for Thomas Carew.

Caption For Liverpool, Lime Street 1890

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Caption For Corsham, St Bartholomew's Church C1955

The Methuen Chapel on the north side was added in 1874- 78 when the chancel was restored by C F Hansom. Nearby is Corsham Court, a large manor house built in Elizabethan style.

Caption For Henley On Thames, The Bridge 1899

All three views taken by the Frith photographer in 1899 are south of the Regatta course, which from 1886 had its finishing line near Phyllis Court.

Caption For Keighley, North Street C1910

New buildings along North Street included the Court House (1831) and the Mechanics' Institute (1834). The Post Office of 1839 was superseded by a new one in Bow Street (1891).

Caption For Glasgow, Crookston Castle 1897

with forts at two-mile intervals, served as the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire for barely half a century before it was abandoned and Roman Britain withdrew to Hadrian's Wall across the north

Caption For Minehead, The Plume Of Feathers Hotel 1892

Today, all that remains of the Plume of Feathers is the stableyard, now used as garages, which can be seen from Tythings Court.

Caption For Llandudno, S.S. Alexandra 1891

Within months the LB&SCR were in court, found guilty, and heavily fined. They were now in a catch-22 situation.

Caption For Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery C1965

accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north

Caption For Dorking, Punch Bowl Inn 1907

The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook. The owner of the lands was Walter atte Pyppe with his wife Aloucia.

Caption For Dorking, The Dorking Halls 1936

The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook. The owner of the lands was Walter atte Pyppe with his wife Aloucia.

Caption For Churt, The Crossways C1955

One of my earliest memories is of an early 1950s caravan holiday at Churt.

Caption For Churt, The Village C1965

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.