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Camping With The Red Cross

Some of my best memories of growing up are the camps I attended at the Red Cross camp site over the field (past the farm) and right on the River Wey at New Haw. I actually lived in Brookwood at the time. We did hiking, ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1982 by Andrew Powell

Ann & Vic Norman's Shop

My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1960 by Julia Stannard

Fair Oak As It Was

My first day of school was September 1965 at Fair Oak Infants. It wasn't too bad the first day as my Mum was allowed to stay at the back of the classroom, but after that I was left on my own. I became very ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1965 by Gary Houghton

Snowing And Floating

Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by Raymond Gee

Ladies Hairdressers At Instow

My mother - Hilda Florence Allen - worked as a hairdresser in Instow for a time during the Second World War. At the time she was married to Douglas Steer although the marriage did not survive long and she later joined ...Read more

A memory of Instow in 1940 by John Howard Norfolk

My Wonderful Childhood Days

I remember the day we moved into this little village. It was freezing cold, must have been February, mum had put a heater on in the lounge & I was riding round it on my little tricycle, but I was only 18 ...Read more

A memory of Fernhill Heath in 1969 by Claire Bowler

Goldthorpe In The Fifties

I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by swamidhyan

Rivacre Baths.

For those who never saw (or may have forgotten), the photo shows the view you had after coming in through the main entrance. The large fountain can be seen in the foreground, and was enjoyed by many children as they ran around ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1947 by David Copnall

Kent Butchers

Year: 1930s Kent Butchers Does anyone have memories of the Kent Butchers during the 1930s in Lewisham Market? I have a photo taken about Christmas time 1936 of their shop. It is decorated with rows of turkeys and other meats, with ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1930 by Susan Howard

Growing Up In Hawkhurst

I have so many happy memories of growing up in Hawkurst in the 1940s /1950s  and although Hawkhurst has changed a lot over the years it's a lovely place to visit. I still remember all the shops along the colonnade and the ...Read more

A memory of Hawkhurst in 1950

Captions

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Caption For Bourne, Market Square 1955

1860 has been relocated to the cemetery in South Road, presumably to save it from the traffic, while the good stone-tile-roofed building beyond on the corner of South Street is still Harrison and Dunn's shop

Caption For Ingoldmells, High Street C1965

This part of the village has not changed: the Ship pub is still there on the right, and the line of little shops still stands on the left, but all with different owners.

Caption For Ravenscar, 1901

Billboards on the side of the Station Square shop advertise land for sale, and the board on the fence advertises the same for Robin Hoods Bay.

Caption For Whitby, Fish Quay 1923

For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

Caption For Herne Hill, Railton Road C1951

It is unusual that many of the shops have not changed. The laundrette is there today, and The Fruiterers (centre) has become the Fruit Garden.

Caption For Manchester, Victoria Building And Gateway C1890

When completed, the Victoria Buildings had 31 shops on the ground floor and numerous suites of offices above.

Caption For Bedford, High Street 1921

None of the trading names above the shops, nor the theatre- cum-cinema, have survived into the 21st century. The last to go was the Cadena Café that certainly existed in the 1960s.

Caption For Chatburn, The Toll House C1955

The secret recipe was devised by Margaret Hudson, daughter of the butcher who then owned the shop.

Caption For Botley, The Junior School C1955

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.William Cobbett was equally fulsome, maintaining that Botley had everything in it

Caption For Hanley, Town Centre C1965

It is now the principal shopping centre for the surrounding area, enhanced by recent one-way traffic systems and pedestrian schemes.

Caption For Coventry, Cross Cheaping 1892

Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of Coventry's main shopping thoroughfares.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, Upper High Street C1955

Humphreys hardware shop next door spanned a hundred years before it ceased trading.

Caption For Flookburgh, Market Street 1903

The shop on the left was J Slater & Sons, a tailor's and draper's. The only person on the street is a girl holding a baby by the house opposite the barn.

Caption For Bridport, West Street C1955

In more recent times it has become the shopping centre for West Dorset and a development site for light industry.

Caption For Wimborne, Minster, North Side 1899

This view of the minster's north side from the High Street also shows the railings which once surrounded it.

Caption For Beer, The Village 1898

Little has changed in more than a century, though the cottages just past Northcott's shop (left) are no longer thatched.

Caption For Wyre Forest, Hawkbatch Visitor Centre 2003

Wyre Forest has a popular visitor centre with a restaurant and shop. It specialises in woodland displays, and organises outings with children in mind.

Caption For Ulverston, Market Square 1921

A pillar box has now appeared between Mackereth's and John Neale's shop on the right. By now there is both horse-drawn and motor traffic on King Street.

Caption For Kersey, The Village From The Church C1965

On the right, beyond the thatched cottage, is Goymer's pork butcher's shop, which closed c1950.

Caption For Frome, Cork Street 1957

The Gaumont Cinema and the Tool and Gauge Centre were demolished when the Westway shopping centre was built in 1974.

Caption For Acock's Green, Olton Boulevard East C1955

Here we have another view of the shopping parade, looking west towards Shaftmoor Lane.

Caption For Willenhall, Stafford Street C1965

It is difficult to understand how such a structure could be allowed to replace decent Victorian shops, especially in a street where many of the buildings are listed, but it was probably a source of some

Caption For Wordsley, High Street C1965

The shop next to the post office used to belong to E C Whitney, a manufacturer of clerical clothing such as cassocks, surplices and stoles.