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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

Martin Street

I remember S C Cummins quite well, their factory was close to the corner of (I believe) William Street. My grandparents lived at 55 Martin Street for many years and my aunty lived on Earle Street. My uncle lived on William Street and ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1970 by Raymond Kennedy

Ann Street Memories

Having been born in Ann Street in 1962, my memories of the surrounding area are quite vivid, including Waddles Foundry; the metal beating from the works would often wake me in the morning. It was on land just behind the Bull ...Read more

A memory of Llanelli in 1969 by Julie Hart

My Childhood In Meopham Green

I came to live in Meopham in May 1953 when I was 5 months old. I lived in a house called Kesteven right on the bend in the road at Meopham Green. Derham's the bakers was opposite, where Ken Derham used to bake all ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1953 by Melanie Everett

My Welling Family

Both of my parents lived in Welling. Mum was born there and dad's family moved there later. Sadly all my mum's family have passed on with the exception of my Uncle John who is now 88 years old. He would love to hear from ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1930 by Pauline Bajic

Former Pupil 1957 1963

My maiden name is Lynda Roworth, and I have fond memories of attending Rotherham High School for Girls. I played hockey (right wing) for the school team - Christine Cutts was the first captain I remember. We rarely had ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham by Lynda Roworth Parziale

The Angel

I was about 13 or 14 and was deeply in love with the daughter of the pub. They had a table tennis room behind the pub, very narrow and small. I was terrible at tennis so I used to keep score on a small notepad. One time my pencil ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1958 by Nicholas Haffenden Baldwin

Barrow Hill School

I went to Barrow Hill School in the early fifties, Mr. Rees was the Headmaster. On a Friday evening we would go into his home and watch the Cisco Kid on television, the first television I ever watched. I also remember ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1951 by Daniel Wright

Memories Of St Peters And Broadstairs

I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Ronald Taylor

Wartime

I have wartime photos that match the distinctive window patterns and with the back marked 'Aveley' must almost certainly be Belhus House. Does anyone have any information as to what the house was used for by the army in 1940 when my father would have been stationed there?

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Graham Hutt

Captions

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Caption For Chigwell, Chigwell School C1955

It was originally called the Tercentenary Hall, but as this is a bit of mouthful, it quickly became renamed New Hall by the boys.

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1965

The centre was opened on 12 July 1951 by the then Princess Elizabeth, now the Queen, accompanied by Winston Churchill, the local MP.

Caption For Mortehoe, The Church Of St Mary Magdalene 1935

The chancel arch in the church sports an enormous and very striking mosaic, put up in 1905 in memory of the churchwarden`s wife, and made by the craftsmen who had worked on St Paul`s Cathedral.

Caption For Slapton, Sands 1930

At the end of 1943, the whole area was requisitioned by the military, and US forces practised the D-Day landings.

Caption For Lymm, Arley Hall 1897

It is still owned by the Egerton-Warburton family.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street C1965

By the 1960s there has been much rebuilding, but Broad Street is still recognisable.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1931

In the distance the encroaching modern era is further evident by the tennis courts and bowling green - both installed around the time of the First World War.

Caption For Bromsgrove, The Church And Council House C1955

The Council House is now called St John`s Court, and is occupied by the Somerset Redstone Trust.

Caption For Barnt Green, Hewell Road C1965

The Council House is now called St John`s Court, and is occupied by the Somerset Redstone Trust.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1891

There is no traffic on Main Street, which at this time had a problem caused by a dog-leg in the road by the tree visible in the centre background.

Caption For Uppingham, Brooklands C1955

A half-mile south along London Road, it was built in 1861 by the school usher, Rev W J Earle, in brick with a subdued polychromatic treatment by a Birmingham architect.

Caption For Windermere, Rigg's Hotel 1929

The 19th-century entrepreneur Richard Rigg had this spacious hotel constructed by the local Pattinson building company.

Caption For Ulverston, The Cross C1950

By the Farmers Arms is G H Mackereth, seedsmen, also selling manure. In 1900 they owned the chemist's and were then also agents and enquiry office for the Furness Railway.

Caption For Shap, Abbey 1893

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

The Cottage, as it is known, was built on the site of three cottages by the owner of the adjacent house.

Caption For Paisley, High Street 1900

Further along the street is the opulent Thomas Coats Memorial Church, built and endowed by the famous Paisley weaving family.

Caption For Horsham, East Street C1955

It was improved in the late 18th century, and had become the principal inn at Horsham by the 1830s.

Caption For Warnham, Church Street C1960

To the right is an old house, formerly occupied by the village boot and shoe repairer.

Caption For Chartham, The Church And Green 1903

St Mary's Church by the charming village green is home to a famous brass dating back to 1306 of Robert de Setvans portraying a military knight.

Caption For Edgbaston, Birmingham University Medical School C1955

Construction began in the early 1930s on land donated by the Cadbury family, and the first patients were admitted in 1937.

Caption For Stourbridge, High Street C1965

Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

Caption For Cleveleys, Jubilee Gardens C1950

In the arena by the clock tower, Charlie and the Follies and the Jolly Jack Tars were popular concert parties every summer.

Caption For Painswick, High Street C1960

In 1905 the world opened up to isolated villagers when a motor bus service from Stroud to Painswick was started by the Great Western Railway.

Caption For Burnley, Ormerod Hall 1895

By the 1940s, mining subsidence had left the structure dangerous and it was dismantled and subsequently taken to America.