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Salisbury Road

Hello, this will seem an odd memory’s as it isn’t a memory of my own. For years I have been aware that my mum together with parents and siblings lived at a house called TUAN Salisbury rd, Amesbury. I would so like to find it and ...Read more

A memory of Amesbury

Happy Days

I came to live in Northwood Hills in 1946, aged 16 months. I attended Pinner Road Primary School and then on to Potter Street where I was a prefect in my final year. I had my tonsils out, aged 6 in the lovely old Cottage Hospital, ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills by Barbara Rayment

Eels In Tooting Market . 1950’s

I’ve just read a detailed account of a person who recounted a memory of a fish shop in Tooting market in the 1950’s. As well as fish the lady owner (who was missing front teeth) sold eels. Some customers preferred that ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Derek Wadman

When Victor Value Came To Town

One sunny day in the late 1950's the next door neighbour came knocking at our door with some exciting news. A big new food store had opened on the Broadway, Bexleyheath,. It's a Supermarket, she said. It's Victor ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

Memories Of West Hendon

I was born in 1946. I lived in Stuart Avenue opposite the large floral clock of Edmunds Walker co. The clock was adorned with flowers all through the year. There was a field at the end of our road adjacent to the Edgeware ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by Derek Holder

Studley Grange Road Old Friends

I often wonder about friends I knew in Studley Grange Road. Terence White at no 72. Peter Dawson whose mum and dad owned the shop and ran a mobile shop that used to serve Northolt. Christopher Barnes whose dad ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell by Nick Beard

Holiday

I was born in 1953, so I think it must have been 1958/59 when we had a holiday in Mundesley - but what may seem strange is we had an old scout ridge tent but it was put up at the back of a pub. Cannot recall what the pub was called. ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley by Robert Wilkins

Holidays In Polzeath

In the 50‘s we (my family and my mum’s sister’s family) spent two holidays in rented holiday houses in Polzeath. The first house was “The Hermitage” and was situated on the cliff overlooking the sea with no buildings in front. ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Janet Völcker

Growing Up In Temple Fortune

I grew up in Temple Fortune between 1959 and 1974. There was a school outfitters called Pullens in Temple Fortune, in Finchley Road near the junction with Temple Fortune Lane. We always bought our school uniforms ...Read more

A memory of Temple Fortune by Michael Zucker

Anyone Remember The Original Cabin Shop/Cafe At The Bottom Of Northdown Hill?

The Cabin was a significant part of my childhood. We first moved to St Peters, into a rented house opposite the church, then up to a council house in Hugin Avenue. As I ...Read more

A memory of St Peters by djacarr

Captions

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Caption For Rickinghall, The Village C1965

On the right is the butcher's shop. In the distance, above the car, is the high-class draper's and grocer's shop of Aldrich and Bryant.

Caption For Staverton, Oakham Lane C1955

The gap after the first house on the right hides the site where the Co-operative shop and the post office were. The shop has closed, and the post office is now run from a private house.

Caption For Oswestry, Llwyd Mansion C1960

Today the building is called the Heritage Gallery, and houses a gift shop.

Caption For Mold, High Street C1955

This is a splendid county town; we see awnings shooting over the shop fronts and a number of cars dotting the kerbs. Bicycles propped up against the curbs predate modern bike racks.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road 2004

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, The Shambles C1945

Notice the lamp and sign for Payne's, the silversmith's and jeweller's (left), and the signs on the right, which show the variety of services and goods on offer at the half -timbered shop which is

Caption For Easebourne, Village 1906

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed

Caption For Dovercourt, High Street 1954

This busy High Street scene shows many well known shop names. The Home and Colonial (right) was a popular grocery store.

Caption For Basingstoke, Winchester Street C1960

Will the Austin A40 driver stop and buy some cigarettes from Hankin the tobacconist, the second shop on the left?

Caption For Watford, High Street 1921

On the left is the now sadly demolished Parade, a splendid Gothic construction which, with its intricately patterned brickwork, housed a number of prominent businesses and shops.

Caption For Stafford, Market Square C1965

Underneath the stained glass windows of the council chamber we can see the arcade of shops leading to the Market Hall, flanked by Marley Modes, a ladies' dress shop, and Bradleys, a gentlemen's outfitters

Caption For Wellingborough, Market Street C1955

The shop next door used to be Green & Valentine, a draper and milliner. Today, this is an office stationers. Modern shops and banks now line both sides of the street.

Caption For Andover, Bridge Street And The Post Office C1950

In 1950 people going to or from the station would also be shopping. Built in the 1920s, the Co-op had its own cafe. Across the road were two others. The Bedford bus would leave from here for Amport.

Caption For Barry, Broad Street 1899

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, Bentalls Corner C1960

Kingston is well renowned as a shopping centre of excellence, with Bentalls department store in Clarence Street at its hub.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1965

Trott's closed in 1968, and is at present a mobile phone shop.

Caption For Whitby, Baxtergate 1923

This was the older of Whitby's two shopping streets. Puckrin's chemist's shop (the white building on the right) stood for a further forty years.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1913

Southport's residential make-up was reflected along Lord Street, where quality shops abounded.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road 1899

Boots & David Lewis had led the way by being cash-only shops; by 1899, the trend of negotiating over a reduction in the marked price had almost died out.

Caption For Long Ditton, Portsmouth Road C1955

This view, along the Portsmouth Road, formerly the A3, shows the late Victorian expansion of Kingston past Surbiton.

Caption For Chelmsford, Moulsham Street 1919

Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

Caption For Stamford, Maiden Lane 1922

Many of the buildings on the left-hand side of the street are now run as shops, including two art galleries.

Caption For Street, High Street 1896

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

Caption For Hawkhurst, Colonnade 1902

This fairly graceful early 19th-century shopping arcade, with its weatherboarded houses with large shop windows under a colonnade of thin cast iron columns, included a general hardware and implement