Photos

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Memories

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Our Ladies High School 1950 1960

I was born in 1943 and lived in Wilmington. I initially went to an infant school in Oakfield Lane, however, my mother was told by the Sisters of Charity that they should pay for me to go to a Catholic school ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Pat Mc Loughlin

Late 40,S Early 50's

I grew up in West Reading but had relatives in Westwood rd and Armor rd. Would go to visit them on the bus and always remember what we called "the buckets" which went across Norcot Hill. I guess they are what carried the ...Read more

A memory of Tilehurst by Tony Gosden

Birkenhead In The 1950s

Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it does’nt even look the same. Most of the places I remember are gone. The streets where I grew up have gone – the geography of the place has ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by mcgraa

Harts Hill, Brierley Hill, West Midlands

Before Gordon Crescent and Terrace Street estate was built my Great Grandfather owned a cottage at the end of Terrace Street. It was called Harts Hill Cottage and was quite substantial and was double ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill

Vague Memories Of Waterlooville

I was born at the Bransbury Nursing Home, Jubilee Road, Waterlooville, during the war in December 1943. I lived with my grandmother Eva Hill (nee Redman) and my mother, Joyce Hill (nee Lewis) at 56 Hambledon Road ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by vesitrix

Middle Rainton Part 4

Pathways were made up of compressed dirt, West Street (facing West Rainton), Back Row (facing the Meadow’s Pit), Lewis Street running parallel with Back Row) and Cross Street running parallel with West Street). Krone ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by John Harvey

Childhood To Marriage

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

The Old Jolly Waggoners, 1940 ...1960

Is there a photo of the original pub.? We lived a few yards away on Kingston Road. The old building had two bays with the door in the middle. It opened on to the road and the bus stop was right outside the front ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1900 by Chris Bragg

Buckhurst Hill Primary School

I was at Buckhurst Hill primary school between 1970 to 1975. Mr Carr was the headmaster in the beginning and later Mr Willy took over. The first teacher I had was a MrsPayne, than a Mrs Nelson-Ward, then a Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1974 by Kevin Roberts

School Days

Having moved from Shropshire in Jan 1962 this was the school where I finished my education, so I was only there for a few months. Our house was just behind the house in Burrow Hill, but the we moved to Lighterwater and I had to catch ...Read more

A memory of Chobham in 1963 by Maxine Pickett

Captions

198 captions found. Showing results 169 to 192.

Caption For Avebury, The High Street C1950

This view looks from within the circle, west to the High Street which continues outside the henge.

Caption For Malmesbury, View From Daniel's Well C1955

In the distance, high on the hill, stands the abbey, and to the west is the Old Bell Hotel.

Caption For Seatown, Village And Beach 1922

A classic west Dorset view, showing Seatown and Golden Cap which, at 618 feet above sea level, is the highest cliff on the South Coast of England.

Caption For Stourbridge, King Edward Vi School C1950

Our pictures of Brierley Hill were taken in the 1960s, a time when Round Oak was one of the most modern steel plants in the West Midlands and capable of producing in excess of 250,000 tonnes a year

Caption For Twickenham, The Fox Inn 2005

In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

Caption For High Wycombe, Queen Victoria Road Looking South C1955

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

Caption For Margate, Hotel Metropole 1892

From here he painted watercolours of golden sunsets over the sea to the west and the misty dawns to the east.

Caption For Stafford, The Windmill, Broad Eye 2005

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Caption For Stafford, Former Library, Grapes Corner 2005

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Caption For Dorking, Denbies Mansion 1905

On the top of Ashcombe Hill (now Ranmore Hill) there was a farm; here, perhaps, John Denby lived, a one-time farmer who was referred to at a Court Baron held in 1555.

Caption For Prestbury, The Church 1898

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

Caption For Epsom, Derby Day 1928

Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.

Caption For Dorking, Rose Hill 1906

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

Caption For Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery C1965

workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Sands From Britannia Pier 1922

Unlike King's Lynn, which remained predominantly a port, Great Yarmouth was able to embrace the functions of both port and holiday destination, with its harbour channel to the west and its holiday

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

The Meadow was eventually built on, and is now known as Fig Tree Hill.

Caption For Hitchin, View At West Mill 1901

The Oughton flows to West Mill, feeding the millpond.

Caption For Hitchin, The Waterfall 1901

At Westmill the Oughton falls from the millpond into the river course.

Caption For Newbury, The Church From West Mills C1950

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

Caption For Warlingham, The School 1904

Warlingham School is seen from Westhall Road one hundred years ago.

Caption For Newbury, St Nicolas' Church C1955

This view of the parish church of St Nicolas is from the corner of Bartholomew Street and West Mills.

Caption For Westmill, The Village C1960

Peeping behind the pump cover is the unique timber-framed Village Hall - a monument to the Arts and Crafts movement.

Caption For Braughing, Gatesbury C1960

Although originally part of the parish of Westmill, Gatesbury is now firmly within the parish of Braughing; it is named after the Gatesbury family, who held the manor from the late 1100s up to the 1400s

Caption For Westmill, The Village Green C1955

If, as has been reported, it is not the most beautiful village in Hertfordshire, Westmill is certainly among the most photographed.