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Air Raids

These memories are as fresh in my mind as if they happened last week. Boston had its share of air raids, the first one was on a rainy Monday, it was July, the first day of our summer school holidays. It would be about 7.15 am when we ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Best Days Of You Life?

I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1967 by Dot Laird

Keep Off The Grass

I remember sitting under these trees in the summer of 1976, with my mates and smoking some grass. Funny thing was, the only thing we got told off for was being on the grass, not smoking it. Obviously the New Towns Commission had their ideals in the right places...

A memory of Welwyn Garden City

From Woodland Road To Cheshire Via The Penllwyn

On June 11th 1952 in the front downstairs room, (or close by) of 14 Woodland Road I let out my first cry. My early days of Pont are blurred, because they were not happy days. But I do remember ...Read more

A memory of Pontllanfraith by Garnet Marshall

More Of Enfield

Swimming at the open air pool was so compulsory at George Spicer and then Kingsmead schools but then we grew a little and in the holidays worked at Pearsons and danced at the Court above Burtons in the market square. Those days it ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1970 by Gordon Thompson

Pig Sty Peache Road

I'm not sure of the year, but a pig sty used to stand where there are now flats on the left hand side of Peache Road on the corner going towards Downend. I used to hear the pigs squealing when I was quite ...Read more

A memory of Downend by Julie Mainstone Smith

How Good Barking Was In The 1950s

I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Shirley Bates

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

St Albans Summer Holidays In The 1950s

A child from Thanet taking annual last week of August holidays with an adored great aunt at Chiswell Green, travelling by train to Victoria Station, London, taking the Greenline to ...Read more

A memory of Frogmore in 1953 by Sandra Dudley

Before The Town Centre Was Built ...

My family came to Basildon in 1957 as part of the overspill from London. My late father was a toolmaker and was offered a job and a house. Money was tight and we made out own entertainment. Collecting wood from ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1957 by Susan White

Captions

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Caption For Seaford, Esplanade 1906

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

Caption For Aberaeron, The Harbour C1955

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

Caption For Neston, High Street 1939

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Tor 1896

East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.

Caption For Stirling, The Bridge Of Forth 1899

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions.

Caption For Stirling, The Bridge Of Forth 1899

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions.

Caption For Tunstall, Town Hall 1956

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

Caption For Bournemouth, The Square And Gardens 1925

In 1925 the Square was beginning to show the degree of traffic problems that were to blight the town in future years.

Caption For Cockerham, The Old Rectory C1965

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

Caption For Amersham, St Mary's Parish Church 1958

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

Caption For Mill Hill, The Broadway C1965

Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.

Caption For Lewes, High Street 1898

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

Caption For Honiton, Lace Maker (Mrs Freeman) 1907

Honiton's lace production was at its peak during and in the years after the reign of Elizabeth I.

Caption For Silchester, St Mary The Virgin Church C1965

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.

Caption For Edgware, Station Road From Edgwarebury Lane C1950

Dated 1923, the neo-Georgian terrace of shops and flats was built to coincide with the arrival of the Northern Line in that same year.

Caption For Northampton, The Drapery 1922

Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.

Caption For Chesterfield, Parish Church Interior 1919

It grew to become a powerful organisation within the town, and there was intense rivalry between wealthy local families for membership.

Caption For Kings Lynn, South Gates 1891

Friars Fleet winds along the back of the town and joins the Ouse close by the quay.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Batchworth Lake 1921

Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.

Caption For Ilkley, St Margaret's Church 1900

This fine church in Queen's Road was consecrated on 10 September 1879 and was named after Margaret Snowdon, the daughter of the vicar of All Saints' Church.

Caption For Bexhill On Sea, West Parade 1904

Like Eastbourne, there was an old town up the hill, and like Eastbourne, Bexhill as a seaside resort is Victorian, but even later in starting.

Caption For Hitchin, Market Place C1965

Apart from the ubiquitous Minis, Morris Minors and Ford 105E Anglias, we can see not one but two examples of the rare Austin Metropolitan, two Jaguar Mk IIs, a Vauxhall VX 4/90 and a Vauxhall PA Cresta

Caption For Southend On Sea, Churchill Gardens C1966

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

Caption For Wisbech, View From North Brink 1901

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals.