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Memories

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Childhood Memories

I first visited Weymouth as a small child during the second world war to see my rather strict widowed maternal grandmother who lived at 10 Carlton Road South, within walking distance of the beach. I particularly recall the ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth in 1945 by Barry Sterndale Bennett

My Birthplace

I was born at Coullie Udny on 8th September 1941 in my grandparent's house, their name was Burnett and he was a grieve at Coullie. The Cottar House they stayed in is now called Burnett Cottage. I lived there for 17 years and ...Read more

A memory of Udny Green in 1941

Friends In Swindon West Midlands

I used to ride my horse through Swindon when the steel works RTB was there. The offices looked over the little bridge and my friend Derek Williams used to work there and wave through the window to me and my mates on our ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1965 by Christine Turner

Before The Motorway

I was born on Boxing Day 1941 during World War II at an address in Maylands Road. I started school at 5 years of age at Bedhampton Junior School and my teacher was Mrs Davies who also lived in Maylands Road.  On Sundays my ...Read more

A memory of Bedhampton by Margaret Watts

Sidcup Memories ( 1970's )

Mr Father Charles Edwin Gillmore was born in Sidcup in 1942. He lived at home with his brother David Gillmore and sister Maureen Clarke also their Mother Florence Ada Gillmore ( Nee Eustace ) at 22 Alma road Sidcup, just down ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1972 by Neil Gillmore

My Teenage Years

My family and I moved to Withybrook in 1960 first of all we lived in 2 all saints close later we moved yo 4 Kirby Lane. 2 All saints Close was the place where I met my future wife she lived at No3 next door. I was ...Read more

A memory of Withybrook in 1960 by Peter John Buckby

Evacuation

I was evacuated here with my sister during the war and we lived at 19 Canning Street with two elderly ladies. They kept hens on a piece of land opposite. I used to go across the road and across a bridge over a stream to the local shop with ...Read more

A memory of Padiham by David Cawley

A Very Dangerous Route In The 1950's.

It was the late 1950's and we were travelling in a motorbike and sidecar. Mum and dad were on the bike and the two children (my brother and I) in the sidecar. We started to descend slowly down the hill, all ...Read more

A memory of Countisbury by johndavison10

Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

Westwood Secondary

I lived at 111 Danson Crescent right by the gates to Danson Park, I went to Westwood School and played for their football team this would have been in the early sixties. I used to sell the Evening news and Standard papers on the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by bblaker

Captions

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Caption For Gloucester, The Docks 1912

Here we see the Gloucester and Sharpness steam packet office outside Warehouse Number 1 on the left.

Caption For Lymm, The Canal C1960

Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, whose chimney we can see behind the tiller. On the right, in front of the bridge, there is a lifting winch.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And Bridge 1892

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

Caption For Newark, Great North Road And Castle C1955

This seems a quiet day, for my childhood memories of passing through Newark are of nose-to-tail crawls and relief on crossing the bridge.

Caption For Chelford, Macclesfield Road C1955

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

Caption For Molesey Lock, The Lock C1955

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

Caption For Warrington, Latchford Locks 1894

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

Caption For Downham, The Village 1894

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Caption For Penrith, Askham Bridge 1893

Forming a picturesque scene near Askham, the bridge arches over the River Lowther whose waters have their origin in the north-east Lakeland fells above Shap.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

This view was taken fromthe river bridge seen in photograph 27007, and looks towards the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, perched on the cliff edge above the river.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

Bridge Street is bustling with Saturday afternoon shoppers. Next to Singleton's the butchers is the Midland Bank's fine facade.

Caption For Worcester, The Cross 1899

This view looks along Foregate Street; the bridge carrying the Great Western Railway lines to Hereford and South Wales can be seen in the background.

Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921

In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn. The Brown Cow public house is on the right, and the Black Bull Hotel can just be made out further down the road.

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Canal 1897

Here, utilising the course of the River Colne, the canal goes left of the island under the bridge.

Caption For Chester, St Mary Without The Walls 1906

Nestling on its sandstone ridge in a loop in the Dee, Chester is closely framed on two sides by water.

Caption For Burton Bradstock, The Village C1960

Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.

Caption For Houghton, The George And Dragon C1960

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.

Caption For Barnstaple, The Square 1935

Cars replace horses on the taxi rank, traffic lights control movement over the bridge, Prideaux's have expanded hugely, adding Morris and Austin to their dealerships, and the gazebo has gone, demolished

Caption For Worcester, The River Severn From The Cathedral Tower C1960

We are looking upstream, towards the Abberley Hills in the distance, with the tower and spire of the otherwise demolished St Andrew's Church prominent on the right.

Caption For Hoveton, The Village 1921

The capital of the Broads is Wroxham which is just across the bridge. It is a popular starting point for boating holidays which grew rapidly in the early years of this century.

Caption For Southport, The Pier Train C1960

Obviously still viable in these photographs, Southport Pier was closed in the 1990s; it was demolished and rebuilt at a total cost of £7 million, and was reopened in 2002.

Caption For Sandy, Railway Station 1925

This view is looking down from the road bridge; things have changed greatly at Sandy.

Caption For Lymm, The Canal C1960

Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, whose chimney we can see behind the tiller. On the right, in front of the bridge, there is a lifting winch.

Caption For Abingdon, Old Mill 1925

This photograph was taken from the old bridge that led onto the island, and now leads to the Upper Reaches Hotel and its car park.