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Back In The Day

1 was a pupil at common road infants approx. 1954 to 1956. We had recently moved from South Elmsall, the area was strange and I knew no-one, my parents bought the corner ship on Currieville at the end of Carlton Street, it was ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby by Trish Holloway

My First Kiss

My name was Sheila Moore and I lived in Nelson Road, Crouch End, Hornsey. I went to Rokesley Infants and Junior School until 1958. My best friends were Linda Firkins and Jant Miller but the kiss was from a boy called Gordon Thickbroom. I often wonder if he changed his name

A memory of Crouch End by Sheila White

Lancing, Sussex.

When I was 5, my family moved to Lancing in 1952, from a flat above Elliott's Shoe shop, Brighton Road, Purley (London), to a rented a shared home "Suva" on the Brighton Road, Lancing - a stones throw from the beach. In 1953 we moved ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by janus2

Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

Hounslow East

I was trying to remember Hounslow around 1980. I used to live on Avonwick Road and found this site. I was trying to remember which supermarket was on the High Street. I remember Mr Dixon's delicatessen, there was also a fishmonger near Hounslow East underground station.

A memory of Hounslow

Ilderton Road

I became a Bermondsey boy after moving from a prefab where I was born in the big snow in 1947. We lived at 14 Caulfield Road, Peckham, just around the corner from Jordans Dairy in Lugard Road s.e.15. (The last dairy farm in London). ...Read more

A memory of Bermondsey by Terry Baker

Kidderminster And Bromsgrove

Hi, I was at Shenstone (Maths and Science, 1962-5, the same group as Gerry) and will forever be grateful for the excellent training we received. My name was Gerry Martin (now a more formal Geraldine Hammonds) and my ...Read more

A memory of Bromsgrove by Geraldine Hammonds

Join The Navy And See Wiltshire

In 1962, whilst in the RN, I was posted to a Joint-Service organisation at Erskine Barracks in Wilton. The Army said that they would provide temporary accommodation in Bulford for my wife and I. Knew it would not be the ...Read more

A memory of Bulford by David Jones

Devonshire Baths

I was born in Eastbourne, Upperton Road Nursing Home. I have fond memories of being taken by my Father to the Devonshire swimming baths. This would have been between 1964 to 1967 I would have been 5 or 6 years old. Through the ...Read more

A memory of Eastbourne

First Assembly Of New Year, Princes’ Road School, September 1960

Now Andrew Goatley will sing the blessing: “Lord, receive us with thy blessings Once again assembled here. Pardon all, their faults confessing, Year by year, a richer ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by David Browne

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Captions

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Caption For Clydebank, Glasgow Road C1900

Here we see another view of this main road.

Caption For Oundle, Benefield Road C1950

Picturesque stone cottages line Benefield Road. At the far end of the street, dominating the picture, is Jesus Church, built in 1879 by Arthur Blomfield.

Caption For Monaghan, Rossmore Castle C1900

This fine estate is about one and a half miles south of the town, on the minor road to Newbliss and Cavan. Little now remains, but the park is very popular.

Caption For Calver, Cliff College C1950

Located on the main road between Calver and Baslow, the college was built a hundred years ago and still functions today.

Caption For Rowde, The Village 1899

Today the main road (the A342) is thronged with traffic travelling between Devizes and Chippenham.

Caption For Cowbridge, High Street C1949

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

Caption For Abbotsbury, Market Street C1955

Even in the 1950s cars did not dominate the roads of Dorset, except during holidays and at weekends.

Caption For Pevensey, Royal Oak Hotel 1890

It stands across the road from the old Mint House, now an antique shop, seen here when it was three cottages.

Caption For Three Legged Cross, The Village 1903

An admiring crowd of children - one with a hoop - and some adults linger at this cross-roads hamlet in the High Weald near Ticehurst.

Caption For Porthtowan, 1925

It boasted four tea-rooms just inland from the beach - they are visible on the right fork of the road in this picture.

Caption For Leverington, Gorefield Road C1960

The tree-lined road still runs straight past the refurbished village hall in the distance, whilst the building hidden behind the trees on the left was demolished and the site redeveloped as a small housing

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, View From The Common C1955

Many of the townís older houses in London Road can be seen in this view from Mount Ephraim.

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1936

The wall on the right would be that of the Police Station, near the junction of the High Street with Portesbery Road.

Caption For Mithian, The Village C1950

Mithian lies just off the Perranporth to St Agnes road. Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside.

Caption For Lancaster, Market Street C1950

The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street. The Post Office and the King's Arms Hotel on the right are still there today.

Caption For Gisburn, Main Street 1921

The road running through the village is the A59 from Clitheroe to Skipton. Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was.

Caption For Stokenchurch, The Common C1955

Looking across Bowling Green to the south side of Oxford Road, these houses are mainly early and later 19th century.

Caption For Breage, The Queens Arms C1955

Just up the road on the right is Breage House, once the home of the local squire but now, like so many big old houses, a residential home.

Caption For Uley, The Green C1965

The narrow road on the right leads to the hamlet of Owlpen, and is called Fiery Lane.

Caption For Winchcombe, Abbey Terrace C1955

The narrow road on the right leads to the hamlet of Owlpen, and is called Fiery Lane.

Caption For Beckenham, Cottage Hospital 1899

The original 1877 Cottage Hospital building survives in Croydon Road as part of Beckenham Hospital.

Caption For Andover, Ladies' Walk 1904

The road behind the cart leads to Wherwell, and the horse is looking up the track to Bere Hill Farm.

Caption For Charlton Kings, Cirencester Road C1955

These bay- windowed houses in Cirencester Road were built in the 1930s to meet the needs of Cheltenham's growing population.

Caption For East Harting, The Village 1906

Rose growers in these villages must have benefitted from passing horses if the state of this road is anything to go by!