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Fond Memories Of Old Friends In Nairn

My wife Carol was a Highland lassie by birth and when we split up she left Leeds. She lived at Trades Park and eventualy married again up there. I visited Nairn a lot on trips to see my four kids, it was an 800 ...Read more

A memory of Nairn in 1987 by Paul Leavett

Tinshill Crescent

I was born in 1951 at Tinshill Crescent. I had an older brother Rodney (b 1946). I attended old Cookridge School (as previously described by Paul Leavett). It also had 2 prefab classrooms as well as the wooden hut. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1956 by Clive Bennett

Molly Keeler

Myself and my 2 sisters and my brother lived in cottages at Hall Road near Aldborough Hall. We all use to walk all the way to Aldborough School in all weathers. My brother's name was Alan and my sisters' names were Ann ...Read more

A memory of Aldborough in 1930 by Molly Brown

Neolith

This was around 1968 and I lived in 21 Millfield Lane. I got auld Mrs Bradney's downstairs flat and me Nanna lived in No. 25, so nice and handy to pop in for a cuppa and a chat as me Ma 'n Da 'n two sisters had moved to Pegswood, Morpeth, ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1968 by Jimmy Burrows

Growing Up In Woolton

My family from many generations back have liven in Woolton and Gateacre. I grew up in a house opposite the English Rose pub and went to Out Lane primary school. We spent our summer days playing in the orchard by Watergate ...Read more

A memory of Woolton by Lynda Barlow

My Favourite Place (God's Country)! Ystrad Mynach & Hengoed.

My most vivid memory of Hengoed Viaduct was when I travelled by train over the viaduct (Hengoed High Level) to Stoke on Trent in the summer of 1961. The whole family went and we stayed at my ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed by Barrie Evans

1967 To 1968 Al Forrest

I was on H&R working on the old Shackletons. We did a detachment to Aden where we were the back up aircraft for 42 sqdn who were in Majunga at that time doing the airborne blockade of Rhodesia as Smith had declared UDI.

A memory of Mawgan Porth by Al Forrest

Purfleet Primary School

I started at Purfleet Infants & Primary School aged 4, I put my head on the desk and cried for ages, but there was a lovely elderly lady teacher (I can't remember her name?), she blew my nose and washed my face, I'd ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet in 1952 by Maria Westbrook

My Ancestors The Ormes

Just found out my grandad was born in Derby and lived at 45 Colville Street with 8 other siblings. Joseph the father worked at Midlands Railway as a wireman. Violet and Blanc worked as weavers. My grandad Bernard enlisted ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover in 1890 by Karen Villadsen

Safe Fun In Childhood

I was born in 1962 in my family home, number 36 (now 116) Hammonds Place. It's not so common these days to be born at home. There was a community spirit on the estate, all the kids addressed adults as auntie or uncle or ...Read more

A memory of Gobowen by Andrew Davies

Captions

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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 Standon, High Street C1965

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

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 Portsmouth, Victoria Pier And The Sally Port C1960

On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth. That evening Crabb went to Havant and caught a train back to Portsmouth.

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 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 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 Tintern, Abbey 1890

It is difficult to imagine from this idyllic scene, including the parish church of St Mary on the hillside (right), that Tintern was once heavily industrialised.

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 Royston, The Roundabout C1965

The roundabout is situated at the crossing of the Icknield Way (the A505) and the A10.

Caption For Salford, Peel Park, Peel Statue 1889

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Caption For Gisburn, Main Street 1921

The road running through the village is the A59 from Clitheroe to Skipton. Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was.

Caption For Easthampstead, Church 1901

Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping

Caption For St Neots, Brook Street C1955

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

Caption For Exeter, In The Port 1896

Exeter City Basin opened in 1830 as the final stage of a canal development going back to 1563.

Caption For Chelmsford, Queens Head Inn, High Street 1892

The town was getting bigger. It began to spread westwards along Brochole Street (now Duke Street). The High Street itself was filling up.

Caption For Chelmsford, Tindal Street 1906

The town was getting bigger. It began to spread westwards along Brochole Street (now Duke Street). The High Street itself was filling up.

Caption For Baldock, White Horse Street 1925

The Icknield Way was a pre-Roman, Iron Age trading route running along the northern border of Hertfordshire. At Baldock it formed the length of White Horse Street and Hitchin Street.

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

Stonehenge is the most well- known stone circle in the world.

Caption For Ayot St Lawrence, Shaws Corner C1955

The home of George Bernard Shaw has remained unchanged since his death: his hat still hangs in the hall, whilst his typewriter stands on his study desk where he wrote 'Pygmalion', 'Back to Methuselah'

Caption For Chieveley, The Manor And Church C1965

The church is unbuttressed, with a west tower and Perpendicular bell-stage and a very fine chancel all dating back to the 13th century.

Caption For Ware, Amwell End 1925

This seemingly quiet street has a bustle of yards and courts behind the facades of the shops and dwellings.

Caption For Churchtown, St Cuthbert's Church C1965

The relics of St Cuthbert are alleged to have rested in twelve places, in what is now Lancashire, during the 9th century.

Caption For Epsom, B Division, Woodcote Park 1917

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.