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Memories

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Holidays At "Shoreside", Seaview I.O.W

Our September holidays were spent at "Shoreside", the grand old house in the centre of the photo. Back then it was owned by Colonel and Mrs Farquhar and Colonel Summers, my nan worked for the Farquhars in Wiltshire ...Read more

A memory of Seaview by Mary Maillou

A View From Doomsday Book Swells Hill 47364

Swells Hill is mentioned in the doomsday book where very little else in this photo is. the row of a few houses in the foreground are the top part of Swells Hill, perched on the "Knoll" Looking east up ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker

Plympton Ambulance Station

I was resident in Plymouth up until 1963 when I moved to Exeter. However, between 1959 and 1963 I was a Red Cross volunteer at the Plympton Ambulance Station and did duties at weekends. The old Devon County Ambulance ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by john.wickens

Holmfirth And The Holme Valley

My name is Jeffrey Turner and I have lived in the Holme Valley all my life. I was born in a little cottage up Goose Green in 1927. Later we moved into a Council house at Cinderhills. I lived there until I was called up ...Read more

A memory of Holmfirth by Jeffrey Turner

Dewhurst Butchers

Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Donald Jay

My Childhood.

I was born in 1961. I moved away in 1986. Looking back at the pictures reminds me of the fun I had as a child. We used to play at a place we called 'the splash', down by kennel Lane. I spent hours down there, you could look at the farm ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by hughgoodden1

Hounslow High Street

We moved to Hounslow in 1966 when I was 5. Apart from 3 years when I was at Leeds University and a couple of years in South London I have lived in Hounslow and Isleworth all my life. I remember Hounslow High Street before the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by misra98

Childhood Cannock

I started school at The Croft in High Green next to WG Smiths. This was near to the Danilo - Queen of Cinemas of the time and fascinating to visit. Later from Walhouse School we spent lunchtimes playing cowboys and Lone ...Read more

A memory of Cannock in 1951

Hyde In The Late 60's

I attended Greenfield Street Boys School from 1965-6, until I moved to another school. Shops around that time included, Woolworths. Hyde Sports Centre on the corner of Newton Street and Manchester road. Garbutts shoes, ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1969 by Alan Hesketh

St Bede's School

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

Captions

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Caption For Wallasey, The Village C1965

Tesco (centre) is now an interior design shop.

Caption For Barnt Green, Hewell Road C1965

Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.

Caption For Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Stores C1955

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.

Caption For Havant, East Street C1960

Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Caption For Topcliffe, Annual Gypsy Fair C1960

Dealers cast a critical eye over a pony as it is led past them outside The Angel Hotel in the centre of the village.

Caption For Soham, Churchgate Street C1955

Of the two public houses shown here on the wide main street leading up to St Andrew's church, only the Fountain (centre right), originally known as the Crown and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, is still

Caption For Saltburn By The Sea, The Toll Bridge C1955

It stood 120ft high at the centre. It cost a halfpenny for pedestrians when it opened - hence it became known as 'The Ha'penny Bridge'.

Caption For Teesside International Airport, C1965

Originally built as a Second World War base for heavy bombers flying to Europe, the airport has gradually developed into a busy centre for UK domestic routes, holiday flights and scheduled flights into

Caption For Debenham, Market Square C1955

The Victorian brick building (centre) was Carter's cycles and Wells's electrical shop. Next is Bond's fish and chips, with a sweet shop at the end of the row.

Caption For Haworth, Main Street 1958

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

Caption For Bath, Roman Bath, King's Bath, Main Spring 1907

The ornate stone wellhead in the centre of the bath copies that in a well-known 17th-century print showing scenes of uninhibited mixed bathing.

Caption For Bridgwater, The Bridge 1903

The wrought and cast iron span shown here was opened in 1883 and still carries traffic into the town centre.

Caption For Puncknowle, Village 1906

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).

Caption For Bridport, From Allington Hill C1960

Here there is a sliver of sea (right of centre) and the plateau of the Golf Links on East Cliff.

Caption For Ottery St Mary, Broad Street 1938

In the centre of Broad Street is Granger's Stores. In 1938 the proprietor was W D McClymont.

Caption For Bardsea, The Beach 1895

Visible amongst the trees is Wellwood (background, centre right). Bardsea once had a pier where pleasure steamers from Fleetwood landed.

Caption For Newquay, Towan Beach 1901

Towan Beach is the closest to the town centre; here, wheeled bathing machines have been drawn down to the edge of the sea, while a few beach tents and deckchairs are also provided for visitors

Caption For Thaxted, The Church Interior 1906

The pulpit, with its sounding-board and slender oak stem (centre right), dates from the 1680s.

Caption For Thaxted, Newbiggen Street C1955

The triple- storeyed house (centre left) is where the Thaxted Morris Ring was constituted in 1934.

Caption For Polgooth, Village C1955

The girl (centre) stands outside the post office stores, which is still a lifeline in the village.

Caption For St Austell, Market Street C1960

A lorry (centre) is delivering Corona soft drinks to The Queen`s Head beyond the Market and Town Hall, while on this side of it is the hanging sign of The Sun Inn.

Caption For Great Bentley, The Red Lion Inn 1902

Grassington was once a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 relied on agriculture and quarrying. In 1902 the railway came to the village, with the opening of a line to Skipton.

Caption For Brockham, Green And Church 1900

Christ Church, Brockham was built in 1846 and sits proudly in the centre of the village.

Caption For Studley Royal, Fountains Hall C1885

It was then acquired by the National Trust, who use it for an exhibition centre on this World Heritage Site.