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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
Croxley Station 1940 1945
Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by
Llanhilleth
I was born in my aunt's [Ciss Smith] house in Caefelin Street, Llanhilleth, during late 1944, early in the morning. At the same time a girl named Angela [Simpkins] was born in the house opposite at the same time. My Aunt Ciss was ...Read more
A memory of Llanhilleth in 1944 by
Lost Times
My memories are of Okenden in the early days, my father was born there and was from a family of 11 children, he was called Arthur Oakley, he lived there when the local bobby walked the streets pushing his pushbike, and if he did ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon in 1959 by
Miners Strike
My father (Robert Summers born Dec 1916) was 6 months old when his father was killed in Ypers. A few years later my gran remarried a miner, James MacLachlan, an ex Cameronian. My father told me a story of how, during the strike and ...Read more
A memory of Twechar in 1920 by
Happiest Days Of My Life 1947 1966
I was born in Glenavon Terrace in 1945, my parents moved to Cambridge in 1946. Every year since I can remember, I spent all my holidays, Xmas, Easter, summer, every spare moment I could back in what I believe is ...Read more
A memory of Caerau by
Summertime
When I was a girl we used to make dams in the river, and climb the mountain at the back of Duffryn Hotel at Coegnant colliery. It was a magic place to grow up in. I lived in Glanafon Terrace, and went to Tonna Road School. Horn was the ...Read more
A memory of Caerau in 1957 by
Wonderful Memories
What an unexpected pleasure it was stumbling quite by accident upon this website this evening! I was born in Croydon in 1948 and lived in West Croydon till 1955. I have very vivid memories of the high street, even of being ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1954 by
Happy Memories
I was born in Foregate Street, the home of my grandparents, in 1951. I left Stafford in 1953 and returned in 1960 to live in the north end of the town. I well remember playing on the 'Witches hat' with my friends, paddling in the ...Read more
A memory of Stafford in 1960 by
I Was Born In The Shop On Left Hand Side, White Fuller (Kent)
The shop on left hand side is White Fuller (Kent) Ltd, 68 High Street, Deal. My father, Cecil Prime, was the owner. Our mother, Phyllis, my brother John Prime and myself lived there. John and ...Read more
A memory of Deal in 1947 by
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Horning main street runs parallel with the river. On the left is the rear of the Swan Inn; a car park has replaced the buildings ahead.
This is a busy scene looking down the High Street.The photographer appears to have persuaded almost all the people in the street to pose for the camera.The only wheeled traffic is the bicycle on the
Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing
This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.
The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.
The large house with four bay windows, on the corner of Queen Street (Horn Lane) was built after 1870.
Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights
This is Loves Lane leading off the Main Street and heading for Horn Mill. There is a mixture of housing from thatched and tiled to prefabricated postwar styles.
Paying on the nail - the brass pillars, or nails, in Corn Street, outside what used to be the Bristol Corn Exchange, were used by merchants when striking a bargain.
Paying on the nail - the brass pillars, or nails, in Corn Street, outside what used to be the Bristol Corn Exchange, were used by merchants when striking a bargain.
The junction of Wine Street and High Street. High Street was where Joseph Cottle opened a bookshop and publishing house in 1791.
On the corner of Silent Street and St Nicholas' Street we see this impressive group of Tudor buildings with a carved corner post. Cardinal Wolsey is reputed to have been born here.
We are looking down the High Street from Castle Street, where Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving was born.
Silver Street originally stood just outside the city walls, linking Lowesmoor with Corn Market, until it was cut off from the latter by the construction of City Walls Road.
much an archive photograph, for only the bank on the left survives from 1890: Queen Victoria's statue, commemorating her Golden Jubilee of 1887, was moved to the abbey park in 1946, while the gutless Corn
The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.
Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.
Three of Church Street's five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right.
This view from the Mansfield Road junction looks uphill along Nottingham Road, the principal shopping street, lined by mostly 19th- century buildings.
Now further down Bridge Street, Frith's photographer was looking south uphill past the Newcastle Street crossroads.
Chapel Street and Duke Street run down towards Bildeston Hall (right). The burial ground of the Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1844, is opposite the Hall.
This view of the Crown & Anchor shows Dartford's narrow streets. The Crown is paying homage to the town's celebrated rebel, Wat Tyler, who was born here in the 14th century.
The Greek Doric columns and pediment of the old Corn Exchange of 1832, now a McDonalds restaurant, are astonishingly out of scale in this quiet street of smaller-scale Georgian fronts.
In 1863 the boxer Bob Fitzsimmons was born in a thatched cottage at the top of Wendron Street.
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