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Mascot Hotel

I can't help with a photo - but I can confirm that the Mascot Hotel was in York Street. I stayed there for a couple of nights in June 1958. As I recall, the hotel was about 1/3 way down York Street on the right coming from the direction of Baker street. John Cavill

A memory of London in 1958 by John Cavill

Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

Sainsburys And Hudsons

I also remember going into Sainsburys as a child in the 1960s when it was halfway up the High Street on the left, it had metal racks on the front of the counters to rest shopping bags on. The marble effect floors were a ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1974 by Richard Lee

School And Before

I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by John Mac Dougall

Growing Up In The War Years In Prees & Whitchurch

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

Evelyn Pratt

My mother was born at 13 High Street on 8 Feb 1909, just over a hundred years ago.

A memory of Henley-in-Arden in 1900 by Edward Williams

Memories Of War Years 1939 45 Newport

Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by John Beal

Those Were The Days 6

Continuing up the street on the right was a long parade of various shops and we come to Salisbury Ave on the corner was a large modernistic furniture shop later the shop nest door became a KFC and across the street next to ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1950 by Chrs

Memories Of Benson

My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the ...Read more

A memory of Benson in 1947 by John Webb

The Bottleneck

This view of Goerge Street was taken before the "bottleneck" was re-developed. The store in the right in the foreground was demolished and a new Tesco was built there in the early 1960s. The "bottleneck" was not wide enough for 2 ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1960 by Robin Morgan

Captions

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Caption For Warrington, Grammar School 1895

The Boteler Grammar School was built in Bag Lane, off Church Street, on the outskirts of the medieval village of Warrington.

Caption For Ilkley, The Grove 1921

We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Duke Street 1893

Note the handcarts parked at the side of the street on the right, and the advertising hoardings on the side of the shop on the left of the picture, advertising among other things 'Wheatleys Hop Bitters

Caption For London, Parliament Street 1910

Four-lane traffic thunders down the now wider Parliament Street. On the left is the Home Office, and to the right is the Red Lion pub, built in 1898 on the corner of Derby's Gate.

Caption For Diss, Market P Lace C1965

The delightful medley of building styles creates a harmonious prospect along the street. On

Caption For Reading, Friar Street 1924

Across the cobbled street only the building for the then Reading Gas Company survives, central Reading's only World War II bomb having hit the area beyond.

Caption For Castle Donington, High Street C1955

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1965

This photograph was taken midway down the High Street. On

Caption For Walton, High Street 1899

Here, in Walton High Street, only the occasional pony and trap disturbs the peace, although neighbouring Felixstowe was enjoying popularity as a seaside resort.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1936

The hotel far down the street on the right is the Beaufort Hotel today.

Caption For Leeds, Briggate 1951

Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

Caption For Leeds, Briggate 1951

Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

Caption For Helston, Coinage Hall Street 1922

At the bottom of the street on the left, hidden in this view behind the Methodist Chapel, is the famous Blue Anchor Inn.

Caption For Worcester, Laslett's Almshouses 1910

The almshouses stand at the junction of Friar Street and Union Street on a site previously occupied by the city gaol.

Caption For London, Parliament And Whitehall 1880

Serious building work is in progress in this normally sedate street. On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

Caption For Lilbourne, The Green C1955

The old black and white signpost points to nearby Watling Street, one of Britain's most famous Roman roads and now the A5.

Caption For Loftus, Arlington Street C1960

On entering Loftus from Easington, we see Arlington Street on the right. Next to the Arlington Hotel is the Methodist chapel, with the tower of the Catholic church beyond.

Caption For Banks, Hoole Lane C1955

Along the street on the left stand St Stephen's Institute and the village school; beyond, on Ralph's Wife's Lane, is the church of St Stephen in the Banks.

Caption For Newbury, Bartholomew Street C1965

Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street. This general view shows the street about 40 years ago.

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church 1890

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Caption For Chepstow, High Street 1906

Down the High Street on the left, Robt W Edgar`s Bristol Outfitting Stores was part of the block sacrificed for the road widening.

Caption For Sedbergh, Market Place 1894

Here the Market Place has a fair number of local people and tradesmen curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street. On

Caption For Ayr, Sandgate Street 1900

This view looks towards the New Brig and Main Street. On

Caption For Haverfordwest, Market Street 1906

Note the unmarked and unmade road, the baby high chairs on sale on the right, the coffee tavern beyond it and Olivers, the boot and shoe chain, further down the street on the right.