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Entertainment In The 1950''''''''s

Uxbridge was blessed with 3 cinemas; The Odeon, the Regal and the Savoy (the oldest of the three it stood on the corner of Vine St and the High St). The Odeon, I think, had the biggest productions as it had a wider ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

Memories Of Cannock

These photographs remind me of Cannock and how it was when I was a child, ten years old in 1965. It's an odd thing to remember and I wonder if anyone else remembers the public toilets that were downstairs beneath the ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1965

1950 1956

I am sorry to read some of these descriptions of your time there. Mr. Maddison, McTavish, Jones, Peart (GYM teacher) Wheeler ( Woodwork) and one who lived in between Grenville & Drake Dorms, I found very fair, firm yes, Mr Bowles, ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1950 by Brian Kirtley

Cement Works Holborough Road

I too went to Holmesdale secondary, it was called Snodland Secondary when I first went there. My Dad and Grandfather, Peter and Henry Buss both worked as lorry drivers at the cement works and we lived in a factory ...Read more

A memory of Snodland in 1964 by Carole Hooper

Return To Aveley With Glenda

Hello Glenda, my dear. I remember that name - Lighten. Where is Eastern Ave? Is it the road where Trevor Johnson and David Warren lived? Michael Cox there too. Remember him? Now I remember our dads - good mates - ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Colin Newberry

Wood End Schools

Both my wife and I went to Wood End schools. In our day, a girl who did not pass the 11+ exam would spend her whole school life in the one school, going through Nursery, Infants, Junior and Senior schools. As there were no senior ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1948 by John Bowring

Park, Fields And The Ivy House

I was born in 1947 - youngest of five (4 girls and a boy) lived on Seaforth Avenue. Motspur Park was a great place to grow up, we had such a wonderful childhood. As well as "The Park" at the end of Marina Avenue - ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park

The Ideal Village

I lived with my grandparents for a short while in the late forties and visited often over the next fifteen years or so. Their home was one of the wooden bungalows that was Ewden Village. My grandad worked on the reservoirs ...Read more

A memory of Ewden Village in 1948 by John Hattersley

Bexleyheath Growing Up

I used to live in Oakland Road off of the High Street. I also used to go to Uplands Road infants and Junior School. Saturdays were spent at Saturday Morning Pictures at the ABC cinema. I also remember Hides department ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1961 by Sue Molloy

Captions

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Caption For Margate, Clifton Baths Promenade 1897

In the centre is the white façade of the Cliftonville Hotel, where now stand Thorley's public house and a bowling alley.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion. Pleated skirts, of the type worn by the two young ladies at the front of the picture, were fashionable at this time.

Caption For Burgh Heath, The Sugar Bowl C1955

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Caption For West End, Swaythling Road C1950

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Caption For Ashford, Station Road C1950

Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion. Pleated skirts, of the type worn by the two young ladies at the front of the picture, were fashionable at this time.

Caption For Glen Wyllin, Viaduct 1895

The glen was purchased by the IOMR in the 1930s, who added a boating lake, bowling greens and children's play area.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Caption For Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle C1965

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

Caption For Crewe, Queen's Park C1965

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

Caption For Morecambe, The Tower From Central Promenade C1950

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

Caption For Sutton, High Street 1902

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

Caption For Woodhall Spa, Jubilee Park Swimming Pool C1965

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

Caption For Berkhamsted, The Castle C1960

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling

Caption For Newark, The Ossington Coffee Palace C1965

As well as the coffee tavern, the building provided clubrooms, a library and a bowling alley to distract the citizens from the Demon Drink.

Caption For Rothley, The Park C1955

Over-arm bowling arrived officially in 1864, and the first Test Match was played in Australia in 1877.

Caption For Burnley, Queen's Park 1895

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds. The picture shows three buildings — the central one, a shelter, is still with us.

Caption For Oving, Post Office C1955

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

Caption For Bingley, From Altar Row 1894

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

Caption For Alderley Edge, Liberal Club 1896

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

Caption For Bognor Regis, The Parade 1892

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Caption For Normanton, Hawhill Park C1955

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.