Books

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Memories

455 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.

Dads Panic

Dad was village copper for several years (our old Police House is now "Peelers" in Thorneydown Road) and had a number of people he got on well with.  He tended not to panic too often but one day a message came through that ...Read more

A memory of Winterbourne Gunner by Graham Francis

My Great Granny Barker

At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the ...Read more

A memory of Heighington in 1944 by First Name Last Name

Bute Hospital, Dunstable Road, Luton

Later to become part of the old St Mary's hospital, Dunstable Road. Luton. I was born there in 1948.

A memory of Luton in 1948 by John King

Looking Back

I was born in St Peters St, Islington, 1935, bombed out late 1943, with nowhere to go, had a makeshift home in Aloysius College for a time until we were given a place in 4 Montague Road, Honsey, N8, that's where I knew what it was like ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1944 by George Burton

Happy Times

As children we were very priviliged to be part of the village community. We spent many carefree hours playing and making camps in the woods and fields, sometimes we would venture further but had to keep a watchful eye for the ...Read more

A memory of Turners Hill in 1965 by Tim Fieldwick

Cowes From 1937 To 1955

I was born in Cowes, so many lovely photos! I left for Canada in 1957, Vancouver Island. Sidney, BC, reminds me of a Canadian Cowes. I know all the locations that you display. Things changed a bit over the years, but on a ...Read more

A memory of Cowes by Caroline Houston

Kennylands In 1959/60

My parents taught at Kennylands in 1950/3. I have photographs of their time there. My Godfather was John Delves who taught history and also there was a Mr. Dicky deWanderler who had been a ballet dancer. He chain-smoked ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common by Adrian Wood

Bramcote Children's Hospital

I was placed in Bramcote 1983 at the age of 9 for a year. I liked it a bit but only as I was getting physically abused by my step mum at home daily,it was a break from the beatings for a week,we would all go ...Read more

A memory of Bramcote by Georgina Brack

My Chatham

Born and bred in Grove Road off Luton Road, went to the schools of All Saints and Fort Luton. I found Chatham to be a friendly town with memories of seeing Arther English at the Empire, seaside at the Strand, being a 19th Medway west ...Read more

A memory of Chatham by Kenneth Blackman

The Good Old Days

I was born in Luton in the 1940s and remember well the shops in Manchester Street with WG Durrants butchers on the corner of Manchester Street and Bridge Street. Next door in Bridge Street was a garage and further along Manchester ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

Captions

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Caption For Hitchin, High Street 1903

Next-door-but-one to Barclays is the establishment of William Payne, an agricultural, veterinary and dispensing chemist.

Caption For Hitchin, St Mary's Church From Market Place 1908

J Shipley Slipper, a dentist, held a surgery at Waldock's on the left, but only on alternate market days - a long wait if you'd just missed him.

Caption For Hitchin, St Mary's Church From Market Place 1908

J Shipley Slipper, a dentist, held a surgery at Waldock's on the left, but only on alternate market days - a long wait if you'd just missed him.

Caption For Fleetwood, The Pier From The Mount C1950

As a crowd-puller it coincided with the sight of a lifetime - the last of the convict ships raised from Sydney Harbour (The old convict ships were scuttled, but one, renamed 'Success', was raised from

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate C1965

Next to the bank is Boothroyd's TV and radio shop, and next door but one is the Orange Café, the venue of many a wedding reception, coming of age party and funeral tea in the town.

Caption For Haverfordwest, St Mary's Church 1890

Theories as to its use are plentiful but one strong contender is that it was a 'charnel vault' to store bones from the overcrowded graveyard.

Caption For Stafford, Remains Of The Town Walls 2005

The street names survive to this day, but only a tiny section remains of the walls themselves, moved and repositioned near the former East Gate.

Caption For Margate, The Harbour 1906

Prior to the building of Jarvis' wooden jetty in 1824 the stone pier around the harbour was the main landing point for most visitors, but only at high water.

Caption For Clitheroe, From The Castle 1927

The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

Carpenters were on 2s 6d a day at the start, but only on 1s 3d during the last couple of weeks or so.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

Caption For Richmond, Willance's Leap And The Monuments C1965

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

Caption For Walsall, The New Art Gallery 2005

Leather working still goes on in the town but on a much smaller scale. Workshops are hidden behind the main streets and often people don't even know they are there.