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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

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

The Fleetwood I Left Behind

I was born in Fleetwood in 1947 but seemed to oscillate between there and Malaya for a number of years up to the age of 12 just before dad died. My first memories are of starting at Stella Maris convent and then ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1970 by Pat Corrigan

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 Roger Davies

Colerne In The Second World War Continued

Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1940 by John Bunting

Broad Parade Shops

My parents bought a house in Willow Walk, which is on the right of the photographer, in August 1954. At that time there were no shops, no pavements, just muddy concrete roads. We were the first to occupy a house in the road, ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1955 by Tony Wood

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 Paul Townsend

St John's Gate Broad Street

St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

18 Happy Years

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

Evacuation

We were evacuated to North Molton during the Second World War, I remember going to the school and being billeted in various homes, one on the hill near a baker's shop - what lovely smells. I also remember the Lysander plane that ...Read more

A memory of Swimbridge in 1940 by Dennis Broad

Captions

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Caption For Tarring, The Church 1890

This mainly 13th century church, with its broad tower and slim spire, has fine stalls and misericords, as well as some modern mosaic work.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Square C1955

We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street.

Caption For Pontrhydfendigaid, The Memorial C1950

Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left.

Caption For Dublin, Viceregal Lodge 1897

The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.

Caption For Cranbrook, High Street 1901

Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.

Caption For Southwold, High Street 1892

Broad pavements and a dirt road characterise this turn-of-the-century view.

Caption For Salhouse, Boats On Salhouse Broad C1940

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.

Caption For Hastings, The Beach 1925

On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.

Caption For Bellerby, Village 1929

Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre.

Caption For Wroxham, On The Bure 1921

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

Caption For St Helens, The Green C1955

Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland.

Caption For Norwich, The Wensum And Prince Of Wales Bridge 1935

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

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Caption For Brasted, C1955

Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.

Caption For Wroxham, Cross Roads C1940

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

Caption For Torquay, Fleet Street 1906

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.

Caption For Hickling, The Pleasure Boat Inn C1955

The young coxswain in the skiff has misjudged her three-point turn, and is wedged between the quayside and the cruiser.

Caption For Penzance, Promenade 1906

This breezy walk is one of the finest in the western counties, and promenaders enjoy broad vistas of the sea and boats plying between the fishing villages of Mounts Bay.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street 1923

During the early 1920s, Broad Street was a busy part of Reading, bustling with cars, trams and shoppers.

Caption For Horsforth, The Green C1965

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.

Caption For Wroxham, Cross Roads C1940

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street C1960

Somerton was once a thriving medieval town with fairs, markets, trade and inns.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.