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Busk Crescent

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Delamere By Sid Grant

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

Pier Walk

When we were at Shoebury on holiday Mum and Dad always took me on the pier. We went out by train and usually walked back providing the weather was good. I can still remember the platforms either end and the green trains with the ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Alan Perry

As A Boy

Mum and I would take the 112 bus from Norris road thro' Sale Moor and up to Sale station, then walk down School Road to "Woolies" where I was allowed to browse amongst the toys and confectionery. Fine days

A memory of Sale in 1955 by Mike Evans

The Old Bell Hotel

Well not my memories exactly, but those from my father's diaries. He was John Welch and married a Peggie Richens who had grown up in Warminster. They married in the Minster Church and he left immediately for the war. When he ...Read more

A memory of Warminster in 1940 by Penelope Welch

Happy Days

I have many fond memories of Bodiam and the Castle, from when I was 1 year old in 1943, until I was 15. Along with dear Mum and my two sisters, our whole extended family on my mum's side consisting of several families would move to ...Read more

A memory of Bodiam in 1950 by Barry Strange

Stonehurst Five Ashes

We lived at Stone Cottage, and then Stonehurst on the road between Five Ashes and Jarvis Brook for 7 years whilst I was a child. Wonderful freedom absorbing the Wealden countryside. We used the grocers shop, run by Mr ...Read more

A memory of Five Ashes in 1959 by Barbara Bryant

Wallingford During The Second World War

I arrived in Wallingford as a 10 year old boy with my sister and mother on a cold winter February night. We had been bombed out from our house in Dagenham just a few days before and my brother, who was ...Read more

A memory of Wallingford in 1943 by Leslie Nash

Runaway Train

The day of my nan's funeral, a goods train from Newbury's brakes failed, and the signalman switched the train to another track, thus averting a major disaster as a passenger train that was nearly full was heading into ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1955 by diana506

Happy Days

I was born at number 4 john Newton court in 1954. Although it was a small flat which I shared with brother Terry we were lucky to have wonderful parents ( Joan & Binty ) spent every moment playing football on the green and up Danson ...Read more

A memory of Welling by stirmas

Captions

1,403 captions found. Showing results 1,033 to 1,056.

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, View From Belsfield Hotel 1896

The boat station is immediately below, with clustered rowing boats for hire. A steam launch passes by.

Caption For Polegate, High Street Looking North C1965

We are looking north from the railway station and level crossing, and there is little of distinction in the architecture.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Dalton Road 1912

R Spencer at No 242 is a stationer, whilst at No 240, R C Sykes is a 'draper, hosier and glover'.

Caption For Greenock, Princes Pier 1904

The pier and railway station were rebuilt and extended between 1892 and 1894 at a cost of over £62,000.

Caption For Charlton Kings, Charlton Hill From Cirencester Road C1955

Until the 1960s, Charlton Kings railway station stood half a mile up the hill from this spot - its site is now an industrial park.

Caption For Ainsdale, Station Road C1965

Freshfield sta- tion is still open, though it lost its goods traffic in 1968.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Golf Club, Barnet Way C1955

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

Caption For Birmingham, Corporation Street 1890

Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Caption For Haywards Heath, Jireh Court C1965

Jireh Court has been a particularly successful development, primarily because of its location, just a five-minute walk to either the bus or railway station, yet only five minutes from the Broadway

Caption For Penarth, Alexandra Park C1955

The 1950s proved somewhat of a flat period for the park. 1951 witnessed the scrapping of its bandstand – a £62 repair estimate was deemed too costly, while 1956 saw the removal of its weather station.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Vale C1955

Beyond the poplars was the old London and North West Railway station on the line from Cheddington. The staion, by 1955 only for freight trains, was demolished in 1960.

Caption For West Horndon, Dunmow Gardens C1960

The railway station—formerly called East Horndon—stood in the middle of nowhere when it was first built in 1886; the Railway Hotel was previously a coaching inn.

Caption For Cockfosters, The Underground Station, Cockfosters Road C1965

Simply elegant, this is the last of a superb series of 1930s underground stations extending along the northern section of the Piccadilly Line, including Arnos Grove, Southgate and Oakwood, all designed

Caption For Caterham, The Square 1902

These enterprises all sprang up in a new settlement around the station.

Caption For Twickenham, London Road C1955

The railway station at Twickenham was opened in 1848, and the shopping district quickly developed nearby; it was gradually being improved with new shops in the late Victorian and early Edwardian

Caption For Bowness On Windermere, The Promenade 1925

We can see the back of the boat station, with 'cushion huts' peeping out behind the strolling crowds, whilst to the right 'Schneider's gate' is flanked by the bold 'Belsfield Hotel' sign.

Caption For Horsham, Cottages In North Street 1907

This substantial timber-framed house was part of the hamlet of North Chapel; unfortunately for the hamlet, it was decided to build the railway station here.

Caption For Grantham, St Peter's Hill C1955

The 'bus station next to the library and museum has moved – and so has the library. The privet fence around the green has gone, and the grass has been replaced.

Caption For Huddersfield, The George Hotel, St George's Square 1957

He also built the station - a great achievement for a man who could barely write his own name. The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

Caption For Daventry, The Police Station C1965

Around 1960 redevelopment started in New Street with the demolition of the old police station. This view shows its replacement in the functional style of the day.

Caption For New Haw, Woodham Lane C1965

Woodham Lane, between New Haw and Woodham, is semi-detached country served by two railway stations: Byfleet and New Haw, and West Byfleet.

Caption For Bourne, North Street 1952

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Caption For Grantham, St Peter's Hill C1955

The 'bus station next to the library and museum has moved – and so has the library. The privet fence around the green has gone, and the grass has been replaced.

Caption For Blackburn, The Boulevard C1955

1770 there were 5,000 people living in the town, and by 1811 there were 15,083, three times that number; by 1835 the population had doubled again.The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the station we