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Wrotham, Old Palace Photo

In doing family history research I discovered my Grandfather, George Crowhurst, was born and grew up in this beautiful home from 1895 til 1920. His father, Isaac, leased the house and the land to farm. They lived on the farm ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham by Holly Parker

Halfway House ...

After two ''BIG C'' scares and an operation I finally managed to get back to the HALFWAY HOUSE (Sept 09)....seemed just like yesterday Steve and Kim were so friendly...How the area had changed oxton school had gone also Birkenhead ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 2009 by Mike Dennis

Boyhood Memories Of Ivanhoe Aston

I have very fond memories of Ivanhoe Aston. My Aunt & Uncle Tom & Florence Boanson moved there from Sunderland in 1939 along with their 2 sons George & Tom. To my knowledge they were the first ...Read more

A memory of Ivinghoe Aston by Stan Kershaw

Durham Buildings

The pub over the road did a singalong every Saturday night ending in a very long finale of "Hit the Road Jack - Don't you come back no more, no more ,no more, no more", and so on. I don't know about the pub but I doubt if anybody ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

Ashby Broadway

I lived in Ashby as a child, and when I started attending Ashby Girls' School on Ashby Turn, I had to walk from the bottom of Ashby to the top every day, rain or shine. When I was 11 in 1948, Broadway was nothing more than an ...Read more

A memory of Ashby in 1958 by Vivienne Johnson

Chapel Street

Hi, We moved into a cottage in Chapel Street about 1952. The building was on a sharp bend at the top of the lane that led down to the mere. Many a motorcyclist came to grief on the corner and it would not be unusual to ...Read more

A memory of Rockland St Peter by Alan Gardiner

Years Gone By

I was born at 22 Victoria Street, Harthill and went to Harthill Primary School. I lived with my mum, Mary Carson, and grannie and grandad Margaret and Jimmy Carson until we left for England about 1954-55. I ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1947 by Catherine Foster

Portwrinkle Beach

My parents used to take me there after school sometimes on their half day off from Menheniot C0-Op in the 1950s and early 1960s when I was a child. It was a steep climb down to the beach from the road but worth the effort. ...Read more

A memory of Portwrinkle by Noreen Keenleyside

Going To Junior School In Radcliff On Trent In 1960

My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by John Reid Wilkinson

My Place Of Birth

I was born in one of those prefabs halfway down on the righthand side, number twenty three in fact. My mum and dad must have thought they`d gone to heaven, moving from a blitzed east end tenemant with a shared outside ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by Glenn Spicer

Captions

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Caption For Abingdon, East St Helen Street 1890

Note the house halfway down the street on the left with six windows and a central pedimented doorcase.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road 1899

The boot sign halfway up the road on the right is the Golden Boot, the premises of Fred Dugdale, whose shop was equipped with ' a private fitting room for ladies'.

Caption For Eastwood, Nottingham Road C1955

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

Caption For Eastwood, Hilltop C1960

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

Caption For Dunham Massey, St Margaret's Church C1955

St Margaret's sits halfway between Altrincham and the estate of Dunham Massey (now maintained by the National Trust), hence the title given by Frith's to this photograph.

Caption For Nottingham, Upper Parliament Street C1950

This end of Upper Parliament Street, with the Theatre Royal halfway along and out of sight on the left, has seen many changes since the 1950s.

Caption For Abingdon, Bridge Street C1955

On the right half way up the hill is the Crown and Thistle Hotel.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.

Caption For Stafford, Church Lane 2005

Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town (Nick Thomas) A view of St Mary's Grove, opposite the Church.

Caption For Liverpool, Ranelagh Street C1950

The station concourse now houses a small shopping centre, and the entrance has been relocated to halfway between the sign shown in the picture and Lime Street.

Caption For Chailey Green, Village Green C1965

About five miles east of Haywards Heath (and halfway to Lewes) is Chailey, a scattered village whose centre is shown in the photographs.

Caption For Weybridge, Portmore Gateway 1903

These pillars are situated about halfway between the Thames and the town.

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

The village store is on the right halfway down the road.

Caption For Heysham, Main Street 1947

The Royal Hotel on the right, half-way up Main Street, is still there; like the village, it seems to have resisted change and modernisation.

Caption For Ferrybridge, High Street C1955

Half way between London and Edinburgh on the busy Great North Road, Ferrybridge was a hub, with smaller roads branching off into West Yorkshire.

Caption For Eastleigh, High Street C1960

Half way down on the right is Eastleigh Museum.

Caption For Great Harwood, Church 1897

The church nestles halfway up the hill, surrounded by trees, and facing outwards to the town.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Hart's Yard 1919

This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.

Caption For Formby, The Village C1960

roundabout has now been joined by several traffic-calming devices to cope with traffic volume, and at the beginning of the new millennium a set of pedestrian-operated traffic lights was installed halfway

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899

The west end was boarded up, and the aisle was left with five rather than the seven bays initially planned; the pulpit ended up more than half way down the church.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

These included the lodges which were built on the High Street at the end of the carriage drive (their sites are now the Library Gardens), by 1901 re-erected half way up Marlow Hill, and the lodge

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church, The Interior 1899

The west end was boarded up, and the aisle was left with five rather than the seven bays initially planned; the pulpit ended up more than half way down the church.

Caption For Warwick, Guy's Cliffe House 1892

In the 1920s domestic staff at Guy's Cliffe worked a six-and-a-half-day week.

Caption For Rugby, Market Place 1932

Market day was held on Saturdays, and half day closing was on Wednesdays.