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Memories

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Downshall Secondary School

I have very fond memories of Downshall Secondary where I was between 1958 and 1962. I used to live in Downshall Avenue, and we used to walk everywhere, to school, to Seven Kings Park and the park up Meads Lane. We ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings in 1960 by Pauline Garlick

Nefyn Primary School, War Memorial, Doctor's Surgery

This is a photo of all three named "institutions" with the Red Garage and Church Hall just off to the left. I thought this was an ENORMOUS road and we never crossed it by the Memorial! That is ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn in 1960 by Janet Kaiser

Down The Slide And Off The Diving Boards

I was a grateful and keen swimmer as a child at the village. It was a delight to go and spend long summer days at Martins pool. I taught myself to swim dive and nearly drown. Many of my friends ...Read more

A memory of Waltham St Lawrence in 1957 by Janet King

Kiddy Times And Shuffle

In the fifties Kiddy bristled from dawn to dusk and back to dawn again as the Lowry-folk on 'six-'til two' grumbled and tumbled out of their beds and either cycled or 'legged it' (if they couldn't afford the ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

Small Town Outlook In Shipley.

Grew up in Moorhead Shipley and what even struck me then was the snobby and small town attitude of some of the residents! I had a Jewish father and a socialist non-believer mother who were both brought up in the area. ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1960 by Jane Smith

My Memory's Of Bampton & Going To School There Ect.

My mum & dad & three brother's lived in and around Bampton in the 1950 & 1960, I & my brothers went to the primary & secondary modern schools, My mum & dad went back to live ...Read more

A memory of Bampton in 1950 by Ernest Curtis

Waiting For The Bus

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

Emigration From Tyldesley

Hi I live in Auckland New Zealand, but my grandparents came here from Tyldesley in 1922 with their three young children. Both my grandfather Fred Needham, born in 1889, and my grandmother Charlotte Dutton, born in ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1920 by Sharyn Arthur

My Army Day,S

I was a National Service Concript , January 1947 . ( Coldest Winter for years ) . I was posted to Lydd camp with the 30th Light Ack Ack , Regiment Royal Artillery . 18yrs of age . When I saw Romney Marsh on the Postings Board . I was ...Read more

A memory of Lydd in 1947 by David Miller

School And Work In Fareham

I attended Fareham Secondary School at Southampton and Harrison Roads from 1950 to 1954. Then I started work as an apprentice at Croker and Farrell, who was the Ford dealer, which was situated right next to Trinity ...Read more

A memory of Fareham in 1959 by Harry Crook

Captions

5,111 captions found. Showing results 745 to 768.

Caption For Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Caption For Boston, Market Place And Church 1890

Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise.

Caption For Biggleswade, Market Square C1955

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

Caption For Penarth, The Esplanade 1896

Its creation was vital to form a refined loop around which the wealthy and fashionable could travel.

Caption For Cartmel, The Cross And Market Place 1894

This most attractive of towns is sets amongst woods and gentle rolling hills.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, Vesey Cottage And St Peter's Church 2005

The saviour was a young girl whose family had been dispossessed of their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union

Caption For Petersfield, The Maltings 2005

The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,

Caption For Blackburn, The Boulevard C1955

There were many Lancashire towns going through the same revitalisation, but in the frenzy of change many of the grand Victorian buildings were lost.

Caption For Chelmsford, Roman Centurion 2005

And fair enough - the road signs to Chelmsford do not shout 'Historic Cathedral City' - they say things like 'County town since 1250', or 'The birthplace of radio'.

Caption For Sutton Coldfield, The Walkway By The Gracechurch Centre 2005

The saviour was a young girl whose family had been dispossessed of their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union

Caption For Worth, St Nicholas's Church And The Lychgate C1960

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage. The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Fountain And Clock Tower C1950

They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions. The Prideaux garage remains, although their agencies now seem to be Jaguar and Austin.

Caption For Barnoldswick, Church Street 1952

Church Street leads down to St. Mary-le-Gill Church.

Caption For Stafford, County Buildings, Martin Street 2005

On the other hand, in a town where immigration has been below the national average, multi-culturalism has made comparatively little impact.

Caption For Amersham, High Street C1950

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

Caption For Wetherby, Weir On The River Wharfe 1909

Behind the disused mill was the Wharfedale Brewery, which supplied many of the town's fifteen taverns. The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.

Caption For Laindon, The Fortune Of War Hotel C1960

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

Caption For New Brighton, Pier And Parade 1892

The row soon became known as 'the ham and egg parade', and very popular it was too. But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

Caption For Guisborough, Church, The Font And Lady Pease Memorial Window 1913

The window was glazed by the Pease family in memory of Lady Pease of the nearby Hutton and Pinchinthorpe estate.

Caption For Twickenham, War Memorial, Radnor Gardens 2005

The impact on Twickenham of the carnage of the First World War can be seen by the many local names on the war memorials around the town and neighbouring districts.

Caption For Aberystwyth, Terrace Road 1964

The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street C1955

'A town built for pleasure' is possibly the best description for Southport.

Caption For Nailsworth, View Of The Town C1955

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Grazing Sheep In A Field Versus Sellergarth 2004

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.