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Memories

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Moulds My Dad's Old Shop

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950

It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Eric Brass

The Hewer Alias Radbourn Of Northleach And Turkdean

Earlier this year I visited Northleach my husband's Ancesters hail from there. His great great Grandfather William Hewer alias Radbourn bought Leygore farm in 1832, a farm of 800 acres according ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Pam Hewer

Music

Was'nt in the WAAF, bit too young, but I was at Bletchley Park in 1950/51, with the Ministry of Aviation, training to be a Teleprinter Op before going to Birdlip Radio Station, and then Croydon Signals Centre. We went one evening to see a ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley

Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Looking Westwards, Towards Thorpe Hall Boulevard Junction With The Esplanade.

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

The Caddick Family

1946 was the year that our family life in Nancledra began. What a relief it must have been to our parents, Peggy and Arthur Caddick to move into Windswept Cottage. The war years in London were over and they both felt a huge ...Read more

A memory of Nancledra by di

Building The New Shopping Centre

I was born near COventry in 1948 and we move to Olton in 1952. After I left school in late 1965 I got a job as a labourer with C Bryant & Sons on the new Solihull shopping centre, and a few weeks later head office ...Read more

A memory of Solihull by john

Childhood In Fulham.

I grew up living in Kingwood Road in the flats, firstly the last block 25a then when I was 5yrs to the first block 1f,which hold most of my memories. We would as kids in the street roller skate,play hopscotch,stretch our skipping ...Read more

A memory of Fulham by teresamary

Memories Of Skelmersdale 1973

I taught at Glenburn High School, Skelmersdale in 1973. I found lodgings with Mrs Smith, a retired lady, in a terraced house in High Street, Old Skelmersdale on the basis of bed and ...Read more

A memory of Skelmersdale by michaelpeterpeyton

Captions

3,593 captions found. Showing results 505 to 528.

Caption For Cheshunt, C1965

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

Caption For Dartmoor, Fingle Glen And River Teign 1910

The cliff in the centre is Sharp Tor which, unusually for Dartmoor, is shale rather than granite.

Caption For Pitsea, London Road C1955

For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

Caption For Pangbourne, The Bridge And The Old George 1899

A late 19th-century advertisment for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers

Caption For Basildon, Kingswood County Primary School C1960

Keay House - centre left - was named after the first Chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

Caption For Gloucester, Infirmary Arches 1891

The Gloucester Royal Hospital now stands away from the city centre, and its architectural style might be described as modern and daunting.

Caption For Brighton, North Street C1950

Between the wars, North and West Streets and Queen's Road developed as Brighton's shopping and commercial centre.

Caption For Peak Dale, Peak Forest Station C1955

A steam locomotive waits at left centre.

Caption For Pegwell, Bay, Convalescent Home 1907

A further view of the Working Men's Convalescent Home, showing the sunken gardens, laid out on the dry bed of the former lagoon of the Belle Vue Hotel, which can be seen in the centre of the

Caption For Christchurch, The River Stour 1918

The circular estuary of the Stour and Avon, where the two rivers penetrate far inland, and the shores of Christchurch Bay, attract thousands of sea and wading birds, particularly during the winter months

Caption For Hinderwell, West End C1960

Note the motorbike and sidecar which is parked up in the centre of the view, and the milk churn on a wooden stand, presumably waiting for collection.

Caption For Burton Agnes, Hall 1908

The large statue in the centre of the view is a gladiator wielding his sword.

Caption For Powerstock, The Village C1960

Brookview is the house with Powerstock Primary School behind it (left of centre) and Sunnyside is further up the hill.

Caption For Wymondham, Market Cross C1965

It replaced the original after yet another Norfolk fire gutted the town centre.

Caption For Caversham, Bridge Street 1908

This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crosses the Thames.

Caption For Ingoldmells, Beacon Restaurant C1965

We are in the village centre on Queensway. The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.

Caption For Purfleet, Botany Cottages C1955

This row of twelve cottages bears a large crest in the centre with the date 1905.

Caption For Sway, Forest Heath Hotel C1955

Sway is a good centre for visitors to the New Forest who wish to explore the southern coastline without staying in a busy resort.

Caption For Kettlewell, The Village C1955

The Methodist chapel in the centre of the photograph is now converted into houses.

Caption For Chelmsford, The Public Library 1906

From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre. Just beyond it stands the 1930s library.

Caption For Calne, The Strand 1957

The building in the centre has gone and a massive redevelopment is under way, although the Lansdowne Arms Hotel has been spared so far.

Caption For Maidstone, St Faith's Church 1892

centre with interpretative displays about the households and lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury who lived here.

Caption For Pontymister, Twm Barlwm From Canal C1955

Note the bollard strategically placed in the centre of the towpath, presumably to prevent vehicular access.

Caption For Okehampton, Fore Street 1895

It was built to serve the town after development took the main population centre away from the original area of settlement, where the church was built.