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Books
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Memories
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Prisoners Of War
I can remember a POW camp just inside Boldmere Gates. The Americans used the inmates to destroy lots of things at Jubillee Hill(?) at the sand pits, when war ended. This was material from the Streetly Camp area. Lots of ...Read more
A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1945 by
Crambe In The Early 50,S
My fathers side of the family (Wood) lived at Low Moor Crambe according to the Census, which is where I presume I spent a couple of holidays in the early 50' probably 52 or 53 just after my Grandfather died and before my ...Read more
A memory of Crambe in 1952 by
Childhood Memories.
I was born at 50 Nancy Road, Grimethorpe on the 12 December 1944. At this time this address was the White City police house and had the West Riding police crest attached to the front of the house. My dad, Robert Cox, had come ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1944 by
Only A Year!
My name is Elena Zoerman. We were the American family that lived in the cottage right the across the street from the church. I loved that cottage. I remember one winter being snowed in and my sister and me playing in the snow. My ...Read more
A memory of Mixbury in 1986 by
1960's
I lived at 117a Mitcham Road, above Coombes the Bakers, next door was David Greggs and Soloman's Greengrocers. Other shops on on the road were Smith Bros (either end of the block), David Kaye Butchers, Dewhurst Buthchers, Boots and a Gent's ...Read more
A memory of Tooting by
Growing Up In Fazeley
I spent most days winter/summer taking Lassie the dog down the brook at Brookend, loads of mates there. We made dams and had rope swings. I learnt to swim in the brook. I also had a friend at Tom's farm at the end of Tolson ...Read more
A memory of Fazeley in 1967 by
The Baldock Methodist Church
The towers at the back of this picture are of the Baldock Methodist Church, by the 1960/70's the shop in front was a gentleman's outfitters. I and my sisters, were christened in the Methodist Church here, and my Mum ...Read more
A memory of Baldock by
Moston
My grandparents, Horald and Edith Hughes, lived in Moston Cottage, Booley. Also living in the cottage were 3 of their sons; John, Douglas and Tony. My father, Basil, was no longer living at home. John and Douglas worked on the ...Read more
A memory of Moston in 1957 by
When We Were Kids: Part 2
My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left ...Read more
A memory of Fishcross in 1950 by
My Birthplace
I was born at Orchard Bakery Cottages which is beyond the trees to the right of this photo. Many generations of my family attended the school. My great Aunt May (Skilton) in the early 1900s; various of my Uncles (Pat & ...Read more
A memory of Holmwood Corner in 1958 by
Captions
2,501 captions found. Showing results 913 to 936.
This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.
The River Avon flows serenely through Ringwood, and not far away is Fridays Cross.
On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex
The Royal Crescent looks out over a field which drops away to Victoria Park beyond, also fields when the Crescent was built.
Two buses are making their way along the street towards the camera; the one nearest us is on its way to Westgate.
The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.
This is one of many ferries across the river, now almost all gone. The ferryman's cottage remains, but is now inaccessible and very private, with the river path blocked by a gate to its east.
Situated at the top of Lythe Bank, about four miles from Whitby, this charming 17th-century coaching inn still serves beer and refreshments to the public.
On the right is the Albany Hotel and the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.
Today the whole focus of the shopping centre of Widnes has moved from the area around Victoria Square about a mile away so that it is now centred here and the street has become a pedestrian
Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.
In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.
Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the
This is the reverse view of U10054 (above), looking towards the town. On the right, hidden by bushes, is West Bank; further down West Deyne protrudes.
This photograph was taken midway down the High Street.
On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.
Moored alongside the far bank in this photograph is a floating tea room; the rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well, a popular tourist attraction.
The headquarters of the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank, on the edge of the North York Moors high above the Vale of York with views to the distant Pennines, must be one of the most spectacular in
This view down Whitehall shows the yet-to-be-cleaned Nelson's Column. The two buildings to the left are banks, with the modern Whitehall Theatre between the two.
Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of
Waldringfield is very much the place for yacht sailors, with its thriving boatyard, yacht club and pub.
On the opposite corner from the Yorkshire Bank was Redman's the grocer's (centre right), beloved by local housewives for their selection and good value.
Shefford's title derives from the name 'Sheepford', an indication of its origins.
This Georgian promenade around the base of the castle provides impressive vistas of the river below and across to the other side.
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