Places
17 places found.
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- Luton, Bedfordshire
- Stopsley, Bedfordshire
- Luton, Kent
- Luton, Devon (near Ottery St Mary)
- Luton, Devon (near Teignmouth)
- Leagrave, Bedfordshire
- New Town, Bedfordshire
- Bury Park, Bedfordshire
- High Town, Bedfordshire
- Woodside, Bedfordshire (near Luton)
- Park Town, Bedfordshire
- Biscot, Bedfordshire
- Sundon Park, Bedfordshire
- Limbury, Bedfordshire
- Winsdon Hill, Bedfordshire
- Hart Hill, Bedfordshire
- Round Green, Bedfordshire
Photos
163 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
91 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
455 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Kent Meters
I attended the Luton technical College during the years 1952/55 and elected to take the "engineering" route not really giving much thought as to where I might eventually apply my newly acquired skills. To assist with our journey we were ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Colindale The Early Years
I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a ...Read more
A memory of Colindale in 1958 by
Warden Point
I used to live in Cherry Tree Cottage, Warden Point in 1930, my father was Jock Martin, a sergeant in the R.A.F. stationed in Eastchurch. My mother was Phylis Woollett, daughter of Frank Woollett, mine host of the Crooked Billet. ...Read more
A memory of Warden in 1930 by
Hollybush Lane
When I was a child in the early 1950s Hollybush Lane, from Woodhall Lane to Great Ley, was quite literally a lane. On one side the council had built houses, but on the other were the farm cottages that were built around ...Read more
A memory of Welwyn Garden City by
Spanish City And That Very Old Car On The Links
This is an iconic picture for me in two ways. First it shows the Spanish City somewhere near its heyday (spring/summer of 1955), bringing back memories of the great band of Harry Atkinson (the ...Read more
A memory of Whitley Bay in 1955 by
Caddington
I remember as a lad, when Elm Avennue was split in two,where the bungalows start there was a solid bar across the road,and the same in the Crescent. You could only get the bus at the Green, the 360, it was sixpence to Luton, and the ...Read more
A memory of Caddington in 1960 by
Les Wilde Dancing Lessons
Yes Yes Yes!!! I remember Les Wilde. My mum and dad used to go there every Wednesday evening. and my brother and I were sent along there for the childrens dance classes, I think on a Thursday evening. I remember the ...Read more
A memory of Ealing by
Circa 1950s
I was born in 1939 and remember the war years vividily. However, I was draughted into the army in 1948 and because of my knowledge and interest in explosives, became an Ammunition Examiner. During this period, I knew I liked music ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1948 by
Happy Memories
I grew up in Eltham but one of my fondest memories was being a member of the backstage team at Eltham Little Theatre. We had a lot of fun backstage especially during the Pantomime season! I also spent a lot of my childhood at Eltham ...Read more
A memory of Eltham in 1963 by
Captions
157 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
This was a feature of the old village of Letchworth, but one which was brought into the master plan for the new garden city.
Pevsner describes the building as 'large, with an angle turret, Jacobean with shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows, irregular and picturesque, but on a scale excessive for Bradford
This is not actually a Roman bank, but one constructed in Saxon times to protect the villages in the fens from flooding.
H Absalon offered bathing huts, but only for the use of ladies and children.This was where they could discreetly enter the water, hidden from prying eyes.There were other huts for men.
Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.
Next but one is Stead and Simpson's shoe shop and Dewhurst the butchers, then Cleale's garage with its Ford and AA signs.
Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here
Next door is Woolworths, and next but one is Westminster Bank at No 4. These three businesses are still in Petersfield at the same addresses.
Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.
H Absalon offered bathing huts, but only for the use of ladies and children. This was where they could discreetly enter the water, hidden from prying eyes. There were other huts for men.
The present building was constructed in the 18th century, but on the site of a mill listed in the Domesday survey of 1086.
The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.
Stow is not only an attractive town, but one steeped in the riches of English history.
Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days
The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that he made his way here in order to hire boats in which to escape from England.
The Post Office c1960 Buckland St Mary Post Office is still a post office, but one wonders for how much longer.
This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.
A church is known to have stood on this site in the 14th century, but only the base of its tower survives.
He tells of the bedlam at Molesey, where 'you could not see any water at all, but only a brilliant tangle of bright blazers, and gay caps, and saucy hats, and many-coloured parasols, … and streaming ribbons
Sometimes salmon nets or baulks were fixed, but only by licence.
The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international
The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international
These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.
Over time a hostelry developed, but only a hundred years ago, a dairy stood where the back bar is today.
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