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Family Of Fowler

Not a memory but an historical fact.  I have traced my family back to Leigh circa 1750.  The patriarch was Anthony Fowler, a carpenter from Bishops Cleeve.  He married Mary Attwood of Bishops Cleeve in 1749.  They had 10 ...Read more

A memory of The Leigh by N Kelly

1948 Olympic Games

My father represented Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games. He (Thomas Patrick Holt) and his brother John and two sisters were on the swimming team. Unfortunately, Thomas came fourth in his event, as he was struck down with a ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1948 by Marice Saunders

Broadway Lido.....My Home

Yes.....the Broadway Lidi was my home. I am Stuart Smith, my father Gordon Smith was the first manager (well, they called it superintendent then) at the Lido. We moved there when I was about 3 years old, and lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Bridgwater in 1960 by Stuart Smith

My Mother My Birth Place

I know very little about the start of my life at the warren i was born in the summer of 1965 at chatsworth house in prestatyn and my mother was resident there in a converted bus belonging to my aunt she had 6 a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by Tracy Thomas

The Taylors Of Well Street

My father was Arthur Marsden Taylor born in Elton 1896, he had two brothers William (1900) and Benjamin Aaron (1890), their mother was Sarah Ann Taylor (no father named), and her mother I believe Elizabeth Taylor, daughter ...Read more

A memory of Elton in 1890 by Gwendolyn Cooper

Lion Garage

I was working at the Lion Grage then, Mr & Mrs Ros in the Tantivy. First thing in the morning I would go to Mr Ross for our fags (pay him on Friday - pay day), the garage then was open seven days a week for petrol (Esso), Sundays ...Read more

A memory of Dulverton in 1962 by Colin Needs

Rainbow Trout

Now a resident of Australia, I still have fond memories of catching a train to Kildale as a 13 year old and walking over the moors, and later, cycling from Thornaby through Commondale and back home. I remember laying down near a ...Read more

A memory of Kildale in 1963 by First Name Last Name

School Days

First school London Road Infants, a short time in Scotland and then the Church Infants, each school day walking from Theatre Street (two doors up from 'The Cherry Tree') through the market place and down Church Street. I moved on to ...Read more

A memory of Dereham in 1940 by Iain Innes

First Trip To Fathers Hometown

My father Leslie Edgar Simpson Smith was born in Askam-In-Furness at Greenscoe Cottages in 1902 and he passed away in Canada in 2003. My grandfather William Smith was also born in Askam in the Vulcan Hotel ...Read more

A memory of Askam in Furness by First Name Last Name

Such Great Holidays!

I remember as a child the great holidays in the 60s on the beaches at Holland. We hired a beach hut for 7/6 a week near the deck chair and paddle float hire. Who can forget the pretty girls who pushed the ice cream ...Read more

A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1960 by Kevin Chapple

Captions

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Caption For Manchester, Exhibition From Talbot Road 1887

This is a good close-up view of the main exhibition building that backed onto Talbot Road, which got its name when Sir Humphry Trafford married Lady Annette Talbot in 1823.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Caption For Morecambe, The Beach 1888

The broad, stone-built jetty included sheds as shelter for passengers, as well as loading and unloading facilities, and trains could also back onto the pier, as we see in our photograph.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Silver Street C1955

Visit the museum and step back in time among the mahogany counters, the coloured bottles and rows of medicines.

Caption For Standon, High Street C1965

It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was.

Caption For Portsmouth, Victoria Pier And The Sally Port C1960

That evening Crabb went to Havant and caught a train back to Portsmouth. A frogman was seen entering the sea at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour.

Caption For Guisborough, Westgate 1913

The private houses on the left are now commercial premises, and the cottages set back a little further along were demolished in the late 1960s to make way for two retail units.

Caption For Bibury, Swan Hotel C1960

Parts of the hotel date back to 1640, and would have been known to the famous and infamous, royalty and riff-raff, in the heady days of Bibury Races, frequented in their day by Charles II and Nell

Caption For Walsingham, Old Houses 1929

A large number of religious houses exist, and there was an Augustinian priory here as far back as 1061. The half-timbered jettied building has a steep roof of cascading pantiles.

Caption For Blackburn, Sudell Cross 1895

Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall.The Sudell family can be traced back

Caption For Northleach, The Green C1960

The Ford Thames van bears a DD Gloucestershire registration; behind it we can just see the back of the latest Thames van which superseded it.

Caption For Aspley Guise, The Square C1955

The checkerboard finish on many of the buildings fronting the square is traditional and, in this case, dates back to the 18th century.

Caption For Tunbridge Wells, The Pantiles C1890

We are looking back from Bath Square, with the General Post Office on the right.

Caption For Tintern, Abbey 1890

Records of an iron and wire works here go back to the 16th century, and production continued until around the end the 19th century.

Caption For Downham, And Pendle Hill 1921

This ancient and beautiful village dates back to Saxon times. The beacon on Pendle Hill is said to be Saxon, and the field known as Kirkacre was in existence when Alfred the Saxon was chieftain.

Caption For Llanasa, The Village C1955

The village was once the seat of the diocesan church of St Asaph (Llanasaph), which dated back to the 13th century.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Caption For Manchester, The Royal Exchange 1889

James Murgatroyd was the architect, and it was he who was invited back in April 1892 to oversee the taking down of the portico entrance and the bringing out of the front of the building to the pavement

Caption For Askrigg, Cross 1914

The TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed here, which put the village back on the tourist trail in the 1970s.

Caption For Coxwold, The Village C1955

In nearby Newburgh Priory possibly lie the headless remains of Oliver Cromwell - his daughter is reputed to have brought the body back from Tyburn after the hanging of his corpse in 1660, following the

Caption For Charmouth, The Beach C1960

Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth with its high ground and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs where fragments of low rock

Caption For St Neots, Brook Street C1955

The business goes back to the 17th century, and was started by the landlord of the Bell, who was also a blacksmith.

Caption For Salford, Peel Park, Peel Statue 1889

The Manchester & Salford Parks Committee bought the Lark Hill Estate from William Garnett for £5,000 in 1845, who then gave them £500 back for their funds.

Caption For Royston, The Roundabout C1965

Although our picture is remarkably free of traffic, during holiday times cars, buses and lorries backed up for two or three miles in each direction, and the congestion was only relieved by the construction