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Memories

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Sweet Shop

We used to go into a sweet shop in the High Street and buy Wagon Wheels. I am sure they were bigger then than they are now! One of the children whose parents owned the sweet shop had a snake! We were fascinated. Snakes as pets were ...Read more

A memory of Billingshurst in 1953 by Susan Francis

Good Old Days

I remember Elite fish and chip shop. Went to Colmers Farm 1957-1967 Fine Fare was opened by the Dagenham Girl Pipers. Avery’s was the shoe shop. Hadley’s we went for bags. Delaney’s toy shop. Dowlings for veg and straw for the ...Read more

A memory of Rubery by susancripps

My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's

I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by ian.blundell

Magical Dysart

we lived at 15 relief st dysart in the early 50s moved there from kirkcaldy we had to move out when they started to demolish the place so sad it was great place to grow up in I was about six or seven yrs old when we moved there, ...Read more

A memory of Dysart

Ww11 Factory, Llanfaes.

If you walk North along the beach from Beaumaris to Llangoed you pass both the old lifeboat station & you will see some large buildings to the left, (on the right in this photo, just after the road junction) on the other ...Read more

A memory of Llangoed by bru.enzer

Fairdene School

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock

House Disappeared

We have purchased Harbour Sails, Overgang. In the picture you can see that once upon a time there was rather large house sitting in front,which is no longer there, (where the boats are in corner of quay, there’s 2 masts that point to the old house). What happened to it?

A memory of Brixham by Sharon O’reilly

Happy Days Growing Up In Barnes

The picture of Church Road where it ran parallel with The Crescent with all those familiar shops brings memories flooding back. I started life at 33 Glebe Road in 1944 and spent 5 happy years there before moving to ...Read more

A memory of Barnes by Andrew Taft

Schooling

We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent by Claire Suzanne Izard

Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I was born in Moorland Crescent in the 1950’s. This council housing estate was built a few decades earlier and has a variety of different style good quality houses. Most people had nice gardens with flowers etc ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by James Cooper

Captions

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Caption For St Ives, The Harbour 1908

Fishing boats lie at their moorings on the left, while a small cargo carrier lies moored just off the beach.

Caption For Barry, Knap Boating Lake C1960

Knap is located in the quieter area of Barry, and here we see a very genteel-looking boating lake.

Caption For Potter Heigham, The Bridge Hotel C1955

This hotel serves the tourists who come to this popular boating centre.

Caption For Minehead, The Harbour C1950

However, most trips from the harbour were pleasure trips, for which the fishing boats had been converted.

Caption For Barnstaple, From South Walk 1894

However, the pleasure boats no longer anchor here, and youngsters do not play in the tidal mud: far too risky these days.

Caption For Kettering, The Boating Lake C1955

The boating lake covered 30 acres.

Caption For Plymouth, The Pier 1913

Modern excursion boats are diesel rather than steam, and have propellers instead of paddle wheels.

Caption For Burwell, The Lode C1955

Boats were loaded at Hythe Lane.

Caption For Acle, Upton Dyke C1965

As late as 1965 the great majority of boats are still sail, though some hulls are made of fibreglass.

Caption For Newby Bridge, The Swan Hotel 1914

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.

Caption For Colchester, Castle Gardens 1904

Beyond the boating pool and outside the park was Middle Mill, demolished in the careless 1950s.

Caption For Dover, The Beach 1890

Pleasure boats are in evidence, and holidaymakers are clearly enjoying a day in the Victorian sunshine.

Caption For Wroxham, On The Bure 1921

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

Caption For St Ives, The Wharf 1890

Cars pass by today where boats were once pulled up on the beach.

Caption For Boscastle, The Village 1906

Hawsers 'thick as a man's thigh' check the impetus of boats entering on the tide.

Caption For Yarmouth, The Pier C1955

It was built originally as a landing stage for local boats and ships.

Caption For Newport, On The Canal 1898

With so many canals recently restored for leisure purposes, this is a scene that is still very familiar to fishermen, walkers and boat people all over the country.

Caption For Lytham, The Children's Boating Pool And Promenade C1950

Charlie's Mast overlooks the boating pool, which seems to be the only form of children's entertainment left on the beach area.

Caption For Penzance, The Esplanade C1883

A particularly bad one on 7 October 1880 destroyed the promenade and also killed seven men on the Mousehole boat 'Jane'.

Caption For Skegness, The Boating Lake C1955

The boating lake, with its little wooden rowboats (made by Thickett's, the Grimsby boatbuilders) opened in 1924, the first major work in the great 1920s foreshore development plan transforming what until

Caption For Bradford On Avon, View Near Old Tithe Barn 1900

Boats moored by the Rowing and Canoeing Club are visible on the right.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, Ferry 1893

The steam ferry boat of 1870 makes its presence felt as the smoke drifts across the woodland of Claiffe Heights; it has apparently just left the slipway beside the Ferry Hotel.

Caption For Shoeburyness, The Childrens Boating Pool C1955

Here children tentatively set out on a journey across the boating lake at Shoeburyness.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Harbour Beach C1965

Pebbles and sand extend below the Royal Standard; we look eastwards from deck-chairs, boats and canvas shelters to the North Wall of the harbour and the coast from Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill to Golden