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Memories

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Hare Park Terrace

My uncle and aunt, Frank and Lilian Simpson (nee Wilson)used to live over looking the Spen Valley in a terraced house on a hill at the bottom of which was Rawfolds Mill. Is the photo H199022 this road and is the wall on left ...Read more

A memory of Rawfolds in 1920 by Eunice Wilson

Happy Days

I was just reading 'Formative years in Kirn'. Yes they were good. I used to fish off Kirn pier for cat fish for Mrs Drovandi's cat and in exchange she would give me an ice cube. I remember Reggie Brooks and the boats - We used to live in ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1950 by Elizabeth Lewis

Memories Of Sneinton

Betty and I were brought up in Davidson Street, Sneinton just before the Second World War. It was a small back-to-back terraced house with an outside toilet. One of my first recollections was being bathed in the small kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Sneinton in 1930 by Fred Pearson

Grand Parents

I never knew my dad's parents, as they had both died by the time i was a baby. I enjoyed my time there as i often had friends calling in. I also had friends in the neighbouring streets [Wardle st, Muriel St & Oswald Terrace.] ...Read more

A memory of Old Cassop by David Darwood

Washington Brady Square

One of three children who lived at Hillthorn Terrace, just next to the railway lines. I can remember as if it was yesterday when the coal train used to travel from Washington "F" Pit down towards Brady Square, through ...Read more

A memory of Washington by Jim Beresford

Childhood

In the 1960s I lived in Ogilvie Terrace and spent lots of days wandering happy and safe in Deri. I remember the nut wood, picking whinberries, Doreen's shop, the gas pipes where we balanced and luckily did not come to harm, the horse-shoe ...Read more

A memory of Deri in 1960 by Lesley Kavanagh

A Walk From Shotgate Baptist Church To The Nevendon Road Part 2 See Part 1 And 2 Below

Continued from Part 2 On the south side of the fire station were a few houses and then a footpath that led to the other entrance to the recreational ground. ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

Evacuated To Coedpoeth 1944

My older brother and two other boys were taken in by Mrs Jones in Roberts Terrace. I was seven and had my 8th birthday there. She was a wonderful lady and looked after the four of use. I remember going to find logs ...Read more

A memory of Coedpoeth in 1944 by William Schofield

James Joseph Irvine (Autobiography) 1911 1990

Stretching over about a mile on the A68 road to Edinburgh from Darlington, lies the small mining town of Tow Law. Approaching it from Elm Park Road Ends, on a clear day, as you pass the various openings ...Read more

A memory of Tow Law in 1930 by James Irvine

Woolen Mill

My grandparents George and Sarah Ruddick lived in Heads Nook. He worked as a guard on the railways, she worked in a small room repairing woollen blankets in the Mill. They lived in Glenn Terrace, Heads Nook. I have many happy ...Read more

A memory of Heads Nook in 1940 by Anne Hirst

Captions

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Caption For Southend On Sea, From The Pier 1898

Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.

Caption For Southend On Sea, From The Pier 1898

Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.

Caption For Plymouth, Tavistock Road 1890

Queen Anne Terrace (right) remains intact, and is home to university offices.

Caption For Belsay, The Village C1955

The new village was in fact one long terraced row featuring an arcaded ground floor; this was a reflection of Sir Charles Monck's taste for things Italian.

Caption For Kings Lynn, High Street 1908

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

Caption For Llanfairfechan, The Sands 1890

The more recent terraced buildings can be seen rising behind the few smaller cottages that remained when this photograph was taken. The beach vans indicate where the sands actually start!

Caption For West Hoathly, The Village 1895

The churchyard consists of six terraces, each one characterised by a retaining wall. The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.

Caption For Netley, Victoria Road C1955

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece'; its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated ter- raced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

Caption For Chalford, The Golden Valley 1910

Many of the wealthy clothiers' houses were built on terraces cut into the hillside.

Caption For Plymouth, Tavistock Road 1890

New substantial terraced buildings mark the march of the residential area out of the old city into the fields outside.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Clifton Terrace 1898

Terraces of solid Victorian houses overlook the cliffs, with brick walls and wrought iron railings protecting the gardens.

Caption For East Runton, High Street 1921

The Edwardian terraces in the foreground, with their bay windows and neat, walled gardens and railings, harmonise with the simpler cottages beyond.

Caption For Seaford, Esplanade 1906

The Esplanade represents one such attempt after the railway arrived in 1864, but sadly only two of these imposing late-Victorian terraces survive.

Caption For Richmond, From Terrace 1898

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town.

Caption For Yelverton, Green Bank 1910

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

Caption For Binfield, Terrace Road C1955

The corner shop at the junction of Terrace Road and Forest Road displays numerous advertisements, including those for Walls Ice Cream, Cadburys, Digger, and Turf.

Caption For Eastbourne, Carpet Gardens 1912

On the left is one of the finest stucco terraces in Eastbourne, the Burlington and Claremont Hotels of 1851: worthy of Brighton.

Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Caption For Kings Lynn, High Street 1908

This street of small distinctive shops and handsome 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

Caption For Barry, The Parade 1910

The terraces of houses on the Parade, previously broken only by Charles Place, is now broken by the building of a pair of detached properties (right), which were later joined to become the Gwalia Hotel

Caption For Cheltenham, Promenade 1923

It was for the building of the Promenade and the surrounding crescents and terraces that many of the quarries were opened in the neighbouring hills.

Caption For Cheltenham, London Road 1906

Cheltenham quickly became a retirement home for officers and colonial administrators, who occupied its Regency terraces and purpose-built villas.

Caption For Winchcombe, Jacobean House And Church C1955

Winchcombe's long central street becomes in turn Hailes Street, High Street, Abbey Terrace, Gloucester Street and Cheltenham Road, showing off a great variety of magnificent architecture along the way.

Caption For Blackdown Camp, Married Quarters 1906

Two rather grim terraces face each other like advancing armies, so that even the children playing happily and the horses pulling the cart with its wicker baskets cannot quite dispel the bleak atmosphere