Maps

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Memories

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Thoughts Of This Lady.

Can anyone remember a teacher called Miss Miriam Roberts? The first class teacher for girls in the junior school Brynteg. The boys would have left infants school for Blacklane school in Pentre Broughton. She used to ...Read more

A memory of Brynteg in 1950

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

Eastwood Nottinghamshire

I lived with my grandmother (Elizabeth Jones), mother and sister at 72 Church Street Eastwood until I was about 7 years old (1956). My grandmother owned 4 (possibly 5) cottages in a row (ours being number 72) in Church ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1954 by Diane Elizabeth Hobson

My Memories

There is a museum inside this building which is only open to the public on certain days. This is one of my early memories of Healton Park, when I was a child my parents took me and my sister for a day out, to the park. Later we ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich in 2011

Family

I had a step sister who lived in Grimesthorpe, her name was Lily. I can't remember her married name but she was married to a man called Joe who was Irish and she had a son called John. I can't remember what road they lived on but I ...Read more

A memory of Grimesthorpe in 1970

Living On Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport. We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a ...Read more

A memory of Pool in 1945 by Ian Scott

Childhood Holidays

I will never know why, but we used to take the train to Lundin Links, and then taxi to Lower Largo. I don't know when these holidays started (I was born in 1957 and there are certainly photos of me around 3 years old). ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1965 by Keith Palmer

The Bakery In Ealing Broadway

This is for Gwynne Tilley. The bakers shop you refer to was 'Pauls', a family business not far from the church and roughly opposite Woolworths in The Broadway. Pauls was a family business delivering by horse and ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1948 by Dudley Parker

Boyhood Memories

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

Things I Remember

Greenford market, that's where the buses terminated. If you were quick you could jump off the back of a bus at the corner when it turned into Windmill Lane, that way if the bus was going further than the market it saved you ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1975 by Terry Tomlinson

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Captions

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Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

This narrow road is still the main highway along the north Norfolk coast. The caravan site on the right is on top of the Runton cliffs.

Caption For Bath, View From Warminster Road Bridge 1914

Further along the towpath, past the section through Sydney Gardens, the canal passes under the Warminster Road, almost converging with the Great Western Railway line.

Caption For Cawthorne, Taylor Hill C1955

Cawthorne is a village on the edge of the Pennines west of Barnsley on the Holmfirth road in the valley of the River Dearne.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street C1950

All were not only shopping streets, but a key part of the regional road network.

Caption For Newmarket, The Jubilee Clock Tower C1955

On the left is Moon's cycle depot, connected with the garage in Bury Road. Mace's wireless shop is in Aberdeen House to the left, but their TV department is on the right-hand corner.

Caption For Coulsdon, Public Library C1955

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

Caption For Chipstead, Hogs Cross C1955

The signpost does not notify the traveller that Hogscross Lane is in the foreground with High Road running left to right, and White Hill runs downhill towards Mugswell and Kingswood.

Caption For Cuckfield, Broad Street C1960

At this road junction is the Cuckfield branch of J W Upton (the Haywards Heath furniture store), next to Lloyds Bank (right).

Caption For Nottingham, Old Market Square C1950

A busy and sunny square with vehicles parked on the road in front of the Council House, although the forecourt was for official cars only.

Caption For Emery Down, C1955

Roman legions marched this way on the nearby Roman roads, Norman huntsmen chased the deer through the nearby woodlands and Civil War soldiers skirmished on the nearby heathlands.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1910

As we look east from near London Road, we can see the layout of the wide 13th-century market place.

Caption For Petersfield, The Grange 2005

To aggrandize the entrance to the family home as it was approached from St Peter's Road (New Way), William Jolliffe provided £500 in his will, together with any further sums considered necessary

Caption For Porthmadog, Harbour 1894

In the middle ground, a substantial stone bridge supports the road connecting Greaves Wharf with South Snowden jetty. This man-made harbour was built originally for exporting slate.

Caption For Hampton Wick, High Street 1961

Here we have a reminder of those quiet days on English roads when motorists could park wherever they liked, and when trolley- bus lines adorned many an urban street.

Caption For Weston Super Mare, Trinity Church 1887

It was the centrepiece of the “Cliftonville” area around Shrubbery and Atlantic Roads.

Caption For Shaftesbury, Salisbury Street C1955

Shaftesbury had, and still has, though not to the same extent, a large number of ancient inns, catering as it did for travellers on the London Road.

Caption For Tetbury, Church Street C1949

Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.

Caption For Alford, Five Sail Mill C1960

This is a beautifully proportioned Lincolnshire ogee-capped windmill, which is located on the A1104 road to Mablethorpe.

Caption For Welford On Avon, The River And Church C1960

This viewpoint must be just outside Welford on the Bidford road, where the land rises slightly.

Caption For Menai Bridge, Suspension Bridge 1891

This elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

Caption For Mobberley, The Victory Hall C1955

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

Caption For Par, Par Green C1955

Par Green begins to look narrower and congested with the addition of more cars, wandering pedestrians and a white line in the road. A

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

The town centre of Coniston shows a quieter scene than today, with just one car on the road and a pair of ramblers (right) setting out purposefully for the hills.

Caption For Millers Dale, C1862

Untouched by roads because of its precipitous limestone crags, Miller's Dale remains a sanctuary known only to walkers even today.