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Maps

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Memories

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1970's 80's, Around The Arndale Centre

Moved into a council house near King George's Park in 1978. My grandparents lived in Santos Road. I used to play as a kid around the bandstand in the park. I remember the shire horses making their way through ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth

The Singer Shop

The Singer Shop, at 11 George Street, had a record department upstairs. You can just make out the 'S' of their name at the extreme right of the photo and also a display rack below it, with a notice that says 'Budget Price Records'. I ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by d_harwood

Baby Boomers In The 60s

I was born in 1947 and moved to Welling in 1951. I feel very lucky to have been a teenager in the 60s when music for us really started to take off. I was a massive Beatles fan but loved the other stuff as well. Went to the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by edwin.burkett

Anything For A Dare!

As a family we moved into house in Perivale in the early 1930's.Our house was situated in Conway Crescent . It was a new estate of privatly built Houses . A brand new school was at the centre of it .This was Selbourne School. I ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Harry Fairbairn

John Quinn

I wonder if anyone might remember my father who was a teacher in and around Worcester for many years. He began his career at a primary school in Claines, probably in the late 1940s. Thereafter he worked at St Paul's Secondary, in a ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by gerr.quinn

My Early Years In Ferniegair By Edwin Allsopp Living With Grandma Margaret Simon

I lived with my grandparents in the late 1940s at 201 Carlisle road Ferniegair, known as the huts which was opposite the gatehouse to the duke of Hamilton estate.My ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair by eddieallsopp

I Join The Railway.

I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

The Sound Of Bells...

Working on my bungalow today in the ancient, beautiful Dorset town of Sherborne, I kept on hearing the tolling of the local Abbey bells. Not really unusual, except today, the sound seemed to 'resonate', and take me 'way back' ...Read more

A memory of Acton by alangtaylor

Ymca British Boys For British Farms 1932 To 1968

The YMCA had a British Boys for British Farms (BBBF) Training Centre in Burscough at Williamson House from 1941 - 47. I would like to know where it was and to find people who were in or had connections with BBBF. My email address is: stephenmilner222@btinternet.com.

A memory of Burscough by stephenmilner222

The Curzon Cinema

This is the Curzon cinema, with the old Swimming Baths at the left of the shot. I remember Saturday afternoon childrens matinees and also watching 'Zulu' at the Curzon when it was first released. The other local cinema was ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by Roger Hare

Captions

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Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr,

Caption For Bingley, Five Rise Locks C1900

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

Caption For Malton, Market Place 1959

Malton stands at the junction of several roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Caption For Biddenden, The Village 1901

houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth trade centred

Caption For Leominster, Broad Street C1950

Notice the horse- drawn wagon in the centre of the photograph.

Caption For Penarth, The Walk To The Beach 1893

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

Caption For Wrotham, St Mary's Road 1903

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

Caption For Haslemere, High Street 1931

The High Street is unusually wide for a Surrey village, with the Town Hall of 1814 in the centre.

Caption For Ware, High Street 1925

Motor traffic had yet to make its impact on the town centre, and the forage business run by John Page & Son on the left was still in demand along with its advertised supplies of pet foods.

Caption For Bingley, Five Rise Locks, The Leeds & Liverpool Canal 1894

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

Caption For Aldeburgh, Moot Hall 1894

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

Caption For Nottingham, Clumber Street C1950

In the background is the Milton's Head Hotel, a Victorian public house which seemed to be a fixture until the construction of the Victoria Shopping Centre.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors "P" Block C1950

'P' Block was the home of the Production Engineering Department, and was therefore seen by many as the nerve centre for car and van production in Luton.

Caption For Plymouth, Bedford Street 1904

The imposing Prudential Building (centre) was damaged during the war, but still stood in 1945.

Caption For Nelson, Scotland Road And Leeds Road C1955

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

Caption For Salisbury, New Canal C1950

Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The large four- storey timber-framed building in the centre

Caption For Ramsgate, Victoria Parade 1901

Note the children playing in the centre of the picture, and the sun awnings over the first-floor balconies.

Caption For Margate, Harbour 1908

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

Caption For Abergavenny, From The Canal 1893

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr, a mere eight

Caption For Widnes, Technical School And Public Library 1900

Originally constructed in 1895-96, it is has now been re-modelled and refurbished, and opened as a Lifelong Learning Centre.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, From Sands 1906

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

Caption For Folkestone, Sun Bathing C1950

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).

Caption For Grange Over Sands, The Grand Hotel 1927

During the Second World War it was a training centre for RAF officers.