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Junior School

I attended the C of E Junior School in High Street earl Shilton opposite the old Working Mens Club there were about 7 classrooms the Headmistress was a woman cannot remember her name two teachers I remember were Mrs Sidey and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton by rli33112

The Awakening

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

Wood Green In The War Years

Does anyone remember the fire station on Bounds Green RD ?? well that is where I lived from 1939 to 1948..#8 Firemens Flats. My father was a fireman and drove a huge Leyland Merriweather shining brass engine... There ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green by rlinhart

My Mum

I have this photo hanging on my wall as my Mum Isobel McNaughtan nee Hair taught here for 6yrs till having to leave when she and Dad were married on 6/9/1939. Such a shame I can no longer see this lovely building.

A memory of Greenock by isobelhthomson

Tottington Generations.

My Family of Shepherd's have lived in Tottington for four generations. My Great Grandfather was Joseph Shepherd, born in 1924 in Bury. He married Emily Bennett whose family lived at 16 Club Row, Tottington. Her father was ...Read more

A memory of Tottington by louise_birtwistle

37 Ashburnham Road From 1955 To 1966

I spent my first eleven years in the above address. The houses were all council houses. There was an Anderson shelter in the back garden from the second world war. The houses were quite ordinary but Ham was a very ...Read more

A memory of Ham by Lesley Winkworth

Wargrave In Berkshire About 1966.

I used to work for a company called David Greig, they had provisions shops in many towns with the flagship shop at that time (mid sixties) being the one at Reading. I worked mainly in the Orpington shop and was asked ...Read more

A memory of Wargrave

Moulds My Dad's Old Shop

After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Brian Simmons

Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s

I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left ...Read more

A memory of Dunmurry by carole.chambers19

Life In Rock Street Aberkenfig

I was born in 1943 and lived at Ely Cottage, Rock Street. The house was built by my Grandfather around 1920, I have a page from a 1926 telephone directory stating that the house was a business address of the Adams ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by wiclad

Captions

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Caption For St Ives, Draycott Terrace 1901

This is a steep site, and the road along the front of Draycott Terrace is supported by a substantial stone wall. The terraced cottages in Primrose Valley below are still intact.

Caption For St Blazey, Church And Cottages 1893

The cottages have small gardens, walled enclosures, sheds and washing lines. The line of the Par to Newquay railway can be seen across the valley.

Caption For St Blazey, The Church C1965

This is how the church is seen by motorists coming from St Austell, before the road passes below the solid churchyard wall on the right.

Caption For Oakham, The School Chapel C1955

The gate in the wall opposite the church gate was not there in the 1927 photograph. The school chapel was designed by Mr G E S Streatfield and built by Messrs Bowman of Stamford.

Caption For Cardiff, Catherdal, Nave East 2004

These once stood in the niches of the choir stalls and, unlike much contemporary interior decoration, survived the landmine dropped near the South Wall.

Caption For Chepstow, Town Gate 1936

It was then that Roger Bigod III built the town wall, which was some 1200 yds in length and had a number of semi-circular towers.

Caption For Fonmon, The Castle 1899

The castle was founded in c1200, and the initial design is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square keep and a curtain wall.

Caption For Offord Cluny, The Village 1906

Some work is being carried out to the walls of the gateway, and there is a pony and trap waiting patiently beside the house on the corner.

Caption For Stanmore, Village 1906

Here are buildings of the second half of the 19th century, with an object lesson to be observed in the treatment of boundary walls and railings - all neat and carefully designed.

Caption For Fonmon, The Castle 1899

The castle was founded in c1200, and the initial design is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square keep and a curtain wall.

Caption For Totnes, High Street 1896

Totnes had a medieval wall around the centre, much of it still intact.

Caption For Denbigh, Castle C1960

Both town and castle were put to the torch; the damage to the former was such that when reconstruction started much of the town was built outside the old walls.

Caption For York, The Multiangular Tower C1885

Inside, there is a small ruined tower.When this stretch of the wall was excavated, the archaeologists found that the ramparts dated from Roman, Saxon,Viking, Norman and medieval times, and that the

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

On the east bank, beyond the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its 'cruck' construction, the large curved timbers in the gable wall, and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome commends it in 'Three Men

Caption For Cricklade, St Mary's Church C1955

Cricklade, ten miles from the Thames source, is an ancient town with evidence of Anglo-Saxon town walls as well as of Roman occupation.

Caption For Frome, Willow Vale 1907

T Walls, whose sign advertises the livery stables, was closely associated with the Misses Bull, who ran a restaurant in the Bull Hotel.

Caption For Launceston, South Gate And Castle 1893

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1904

The trees and low wall in the distance belong to the grounds of Sackville College, a wonderful quadrangle in mellow local sandstone, founded in 1617 as almshouses.

Caption For Southerndown, Dunraven Castle, Palm Court From Stairs C1955

The castle was founded in c1200, and the initial design is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square keep and a curtain wall.

Caption For Bishopsbourne, The Church 1903

With its Norman doorway, medieval wall paintings and 17th-century Flemish glass window, St Mary's Church sits in an idyllic rural setting.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, The Abbey Gateway 1898

The earlier gate stood further to the left, and the join in the wall shows its position. The portcullis is a Victorian replacement.

Caption For Tideswell, Church Chancel 1896

This lightness is the result of the large, plain glass windows on either wall.

Caption For Brentwood, High Street C1955

On the wall next door is a large Guinness advertisement.

Caption For Jaywick, Chester Chalets C1955

Some of the much-loved deckchairs of the period are leaning against the wall, with bicycles for transport.