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The Happy Days

I was born in Maceado Square, Hunslet, not a blade of grass to be seen, the small house was behind Winterburns store, everyone shopped there, along with Cardis's pork butchers. Pub opposite. Trams stopped at Balm Road, Miggy was not ...Read more

A memory of Hunslet in 1930 by Roy Brining

Chelmsford, High Street 1955.

This photo shows the view from the bottom end of the High Street leading up to the Shire Hall in the very far distance. One can clearly see the blinds on the shop on the corner of Springfield Road, and the Boots ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

Tivoli Picture House

I remember my Uncle Keith taking me to Saturday morning pictures at the Tivoli. I used to have a 'birthday' every 3 weeks so we would get the free sweets they gave away on your birthday. Great times. I miss him so much.

A memory of Hednesford in 1957 by Robert Archer

Wreck ('wrack') Hall Farm

My grandmother's family originated on Canvey Island, farming at Wrack Hall from some time in the early 19th century until the death of my great great grandfather, Edward Morley, in 1863. Wrack Hall was so named because ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1880 by Mike Dean

Incidents Remembered

Doe Lea was near to Hardwick which during the Second World War was an Airborne training camp, we could go into Hardwick and watch troops jump out of a balloon, they had to jump from a balloon a few times before jumping from a ...Read more

A memory of Doe Lea in 1943 by Ernie Martin

Pinewood, Bagshot

The house in the background is Pinewood, built by my great grandfather, Sir Howard Elphinstone, VC, KGB etc. He was one of the first soldiers in the Crimean War to win a VC. His VC is now in the Imperial War Museum. He was born ...Read more

A memory of Bagshot in 1880 by Sylvia Wright

I Lived Here

I lived in number 42 between 1953 and 1957. My dad was a corporal in the Military Police at the time and even though I was very young I still remember living there. I remember the swing park at the end of the road that had a maypole ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1953 by Lynne Sheridan

Midwifery Training

I did my midwifery training at Perivale Maternity Hospital, 1981/82. It was a lovely little hospital with two post-natal wards, one ante-natal ward, a delivery suite and out-patients. I did my community placement in Southall, ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1981 by Beverly Graham

I Was Here From 1957 1970

I had good and bad memories of the hall. I don't remember Brendan. The house was demolished around 1965/6 and the ground it stood on was sold and a school was built. I remember helping the gardener take geranium ...Read more

A memory of Glenfield by Tony Russell

Stanwick, The Duke Of Wellington

My memory of The Duke is that this was the public house that I first ever got drunk in. I was 17 and had just joined up in the Army in Boy Service. That Christmas I was on leave and went with family friends to the ...Read more

A memory of Stanwick in 1958 by Trevor Morris

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Captions

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Caption For Basildon, C1955

In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1955

The Three Horseshoes public house is behind the parked cars (centre).

Caption For Aylesford, The Countless Stones C1960

Now known as Little Kit's Coty House, the stones were believed to help barren women to conceive.

Caption For Southport, Cambridge Hall 1902

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

Caption For Laindon, The Fortune Of War Hotel C1960

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

Caption For Pitsea, View From Church C1955

Today there are 34 listed buildings in the Basildon area, including the raised pool with Mother and Child Statue and Brooke House in the Town Square; both of these are listed Grade II.

Caption For Petersfield, Path From Workhouse To Town 2005

Every morning some of the inmates would wend their way into the town to work in the houses or the inns.

Caption For Symondsbury, Village C1940

Here Symondsbury may be deficient but it can boast the thatched Ilchester Arms Inn (right), which is named for the Strangways family, owning lands from Abbotsbury Swannery to Melbury House

Caption For East Barsham, Sheep On The Fakenham Road 1929

They are about to pass East Barsham Manor, a gloomy, Gothic house which is said to be haunted.

Caption For London, The Docks, Thames Wharf C1900

All contributed to make London the busiest port in the world: this era is long past, for now Docklands is all smart housing, flats and offices, symbolically dominated by the 850-foot-high Canary Wharf

Caption For Stockbridge, High Street C1955

Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side. Only recently has development begun in well- concealed pockets.

Caption For Belfast, Royal Academy 1897

During the course of the 19th century, the street filled with the homes of skilled workers, along with a variety of yards and a wash-house. The numbers of pupils fell dramatically.

Caption For Bangor, Terraces 1897

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier 1898

Towards the bottom of the hill The Gaiety Bazaar may be seen, a treasure-house for holiday gifts. Nearby the well-known Rossi ice creams are sold.

Caption For Bedford, County Schools 1897

Long demolished, its site is now occupied by Technology House, a rather good 1960s building, long and well-proportioned and in generous grounds, the remnants of the school site.

Caption For Ampthill, St Andrew's Church C1955

On the left is the cliff-like Dynevor House, with 1725 on the rainwater hopper-heads, three storeys of box sashes and a corniced parapet.

Caption For Leeds, Victoria Hall 1888

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including The Bell and The Chequers Hotels.

Caption For Ruthin, Clwyd Street C1955

the real timber-framed buildings that remain in the town, although most would have been destroyed when Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince of Wales in 1400 and sacked the town 'leaving only three houses

Caption For Rolvenden, Village 1901

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Caption For Dursley, Market Place C1960

Owing to an unfortunate one-way traffic system foisted on the town since this photograph was taken, Dursley's Market House and Town Hall is now isolated on a roundabout.

Caption For Shillingstone, C1955

The view looks northwards from Shillingstone Hill over Eastcombe Cottage (bottom left) and its beehives (bottom centre) to Eastbrook Farm and the council houses at the east end of the

Caption For Botesdale, The Village C1960

The next house beside The Bell Hotel has been demolished.

Caption For Edwinstowe, High Street C1955

This has now been replaced by a 1960s version of little merit; its building involved demolishing the house beyond.