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Memories
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Merland Rise Infant School
I remember well receiving the Silver Jubilee coin (still have it!) when my sister and I had just started at Merland Rise Primary School. The headteacher became Mrs. Pepper but I can't recall the name of the ...Read more
A memory of Tattenham Corner in 1977 by
Hms Ganges
Until the mid '70s Shotley Gate was the home of HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training establishment. As 15 year old boys under training in 1964 we were allowed to visit the Post Office (see photograph in this collection) to draw money ...Read more
A memory of Shotley Gate in 1964 by
My Wife
I was posted to Latimer in 1968 where I met the woman I loved for 53 years. We met on the first day I was posted there, her name was Private Barbara Peckett. I lost her to cancer in October 2022. Latimer was a great posting and all the joint ...Read more
A memory of Latimer by
Looking Back At My Life Growing Up, And Working In Fareham Plus More.
Leaving Southampton Road School in 1954, I started working on the outskirts of Titchfield for Sanders & Sons in their tomato glass houses, which was a good working start for me. ...Read more
A memory of Fareham by
The Lost Wildlife Of Welling
Who can remember the cheerful chirping of house sparrows appearing as if from nowhere and landing en masse on a tree or fence, only to fly off again in a moment's notice. Or the wonderful murmeration patterns from clouds ...Read more
A memory of Welling by
Memories Of West Hendon
I was born in 1946. I lived in Stuart Avenue opposite the large floral clock of Edmunds Walker co. The clock was adorned with flowers all through the year. There was a field at the end of our road adjacent to the Edgeware ...Read more
A memory of West Hendon by
Sharpenhoe Clappers & Sundon Hills Bedfordshire
In the post war years, as families rebuilt their lives again, Sundays really were special leisure days and those who were able, bought a small car and enjoyed their afternoon going for rides on quiet ...Read more
A memory of Tralee by
Fishing In Vernon Park Lake.
As a boy I often fished in Vernon Park Lake. I'm now eighty-six and now living in Bingham. However, a year ago I paid a nostalgic visit to the Park to see if there had been any changes.Of course there had. Through the ...Read more
A memory of Old Basford by
Bovington Camp. Mid ‘60’s
I come from a military family, am what you would call an ‘Army brat’. My father had served as an officer in the Far East during WW2, where his Navy brother had died. After demobilisation & a failed career in the ...Read more
A memory of Bovington Camp by
Granny's Home
The Micheldever cottage with the steps facing the camera is where my mother Evelyn Rogers (nee Chalk) grew up with her brothers Alfred and Charles, and sisters Maude, Ivy, Kate (Kit) and later Ruby Hansford. Henry Arthur Gale Chalk ...Read more
A memory of Micheldever by
Captions
1,653 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.
In the post-war years, many eating places were established to cater for the new influx of affluent tourists.
In a small village, the post office and general store was always important.
The sign on the lamp post indicates that the Post Office can be found in Quay Street, to where it was moved from the corner of High Street and Dark Street in 1936.
The main crossroads at Hindhead, with the A3 London to Portsmouth Road descending the hill, is still recognisable today although the delightful and quaint cupola surmounting the post office on the corner
This deceptively simple photograph captures the spirit of Moore in 1955: the road curving out of the village; the essential Post Office; and an absence of menfolk, who were probably hard at work on the
Barry was to become one of the busiest of resorts on the south coast of post-war Wales.
There are no smooth tarmac roads; few family cars dominate the gardens; there are no telephone poles, and above all no television aerials in this snapshot of post-war suburbia.
Note the fire station and post office also seen in picture 21343.
On the corner of Silent Street and St Nicholas' Street we see this impressive group of Tudor buildings with a carved corner post.
The post office and shop are at the junction with the Haverhill Road and the village green.
All the buildings shown still exist, though the Post Office Stores is now the Tandoori Cottage Restaurant.
Many of Slough's town centre buildings are relatively new, dating from the post- and pre-war periods.
The Post Office and stores, now painted white, is still a lifeline in this village south-west of St Austell.
On the left is the post office, and babies in coach-built prams.
This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring
On the right, the old Crown Bank of 1866 became the post office.
Not far away from the Bull Ring are displayed the town stocks and whipping post.
It is still the village post office.
The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.
Not far away from the Bull Ring are displayed the town stocks and whipping post.
In the distance is the 620ft Post Office Tower, now called the BT Tower, which was added to the capital's skyline in 1965.
Stanley's the confectioners (right), with the Strand Café above, housed in the former post office and telephone exchange, was popular with locals.
Not so attractive, though doubtless functional, is that typical example of post-war village architecture, the bus shelter.
Post horses were still available for hire from George Fell at the King's Arms when this photograph was taken.
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