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Pontrhydyrun Avondale Road
I am Roger Davies of 11 Avondale Road, DOB 19.09.43. Went to Sebastopol Infants school 1948 and then to Griffithstown Junior Mixed - Bryn Jones prior to 11+ ! West Mon 1954. - Harrison, Garnet, et al. Recall ...Read more
A memory of Pontrhydyrun in 1948 by
Bombing Raids In 1940
Bristol's premier shopping centre was turned into a wasteland of burned out buildings after major bombing raids in 1940, during the Second World War. Bridge Street Summary Bridge Street ran from High Street, rising up a ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Tales Of College Green
This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
I have lived in Mitcham all my life. I was born at St Helier Hospital in 1955 and we lived in the nissan huts opposite what was then Pollards Hill High School in Wide Way, we lived next to a family called the Butlers and I went ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1955 by
A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...
Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1947 by
Grimsby Bull Ring
I was a teenager at the time of the photo. I remember cycling through the Bull Ring at a heck of a pace having picked up speed coming down Deansgate Bridge, then having to brake hard to negotiate the chicane into Victoria Street. ...Read more
A memory of Grimsby in 1965 by
The Real Winters Of The 1940s
I recall, with the occasional shudder, the freezing cold winters of the 1940s. I spent Saturday evenings earning a couple of shillings (that's 10p to you youngsters!!) working from 4.30pm to 6.00pm selling ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park in 1948 by
Pastures Avenue, Nottingham
I remember Clifton in a different light. We lived at 17 Pastures Avenue during 1966/7, my brother or one of them, he's the youngest, was born there. I met my half sisters and brothers there. I have always liked ...Read more
A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1967 by
Mixed Feelings
I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more
A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
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This beautifully proportioned stone bridge (Y Bont Fawr means 'the big bridge'), built over the Afon Conwy in 1636, has been a well-known beauty spot and subject for artists for centuries.
Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road.
Atherton was a cotton-spinning town, and for 200 years a mining community.
Abingdon Bridge, built 1416-1417, is classified as a listed monument.
Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.
Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge.
White stone from Tadcaster was used to renovate York Minster; this stone was the reason for the Roman name for this town, Calcaria - meaning 'the white town'.
The bridge on which the boys are standing was relatively new when this photo was taken.
Stone proclaims itself to be a 'Canal Town' and reaching it from this river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal.
The Town Bridge was designed by James Clarke at a cost of £700.
However, in Victorian times the town became a popular spa, complete with pump room and baths and around 100 lodging houses.
The town is almost completely surrounded by the River Severn, so that most visitors to Shrewsbury enter it over one of its bridges.
The bridge was designed by the splendidly named Marriott Ogle Tarbotton, the Corporation Engineer, to succeed a medieval stone bridge, itself a successor to the first wooden one built in
A major fire destroyed many properties in 1702, but today the town is a popular holiday base for tourists.
The village takes its name from a corruption of the words 'Frome Town'.
This view captures the essence of the town.
Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.
The Red Horse Hotel is where Washington Irving penned his paper on the town.
One of Windsor's most famous view shows the town's bridge in the distance, which was erected in 1822.
The iron bridge, for which the town is now named, was built in 1779.
In 1924, this compact little town had (and still has) its own town council.
Conwy was already something of a tourist attraction by 1898 with its castle and remnants of the planned medieval town.
We are looking from the Nag's Head Island side towards Bridge Street and the town.
The Red Horse Hotel is where Washington Irving penned his paper on the town.
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