Maps

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Memories

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Hyde So Many Fond Memories.

Nightingales on the corner opposite the post office. What a wonderful smell when you walked in. The cafe (Booth's?) just up from CABLE shoes where I started work at age 14, best chips and gravy ever! Ibbotson's bakery ...Read more

A memory of Hyde by John Taylor

Belmont School

We lived in Earlswood Avenue, Thornton Heath from 1949-52 and used to walk or sometimes catch a 16/18 tram to Galpins Road, on the border of Th Heath and Norbury, where my brother and I attended Belmont School. It was run by a lady ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Edward Hamer

J Cousins Hairdressers

My mother was apprenticed to the ladies' hairdressers in George Street, circa 1934. She did well and was made manageress of the salon in the late 1930s. Her name was Betty Cowling, she was born and raised in Bickleigh and ...Read more

A memory of Plymouth in 1930 by Caroline Elkington

Welfare Gang

I grew up and played around the Welfare Hall,r ows of pit houses were situated behind it, Pretoria Street, Earle Street, Kimberly Street. We would watch the shows in the Welfare put on by the Featherstone ADS, and I attended the ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1963 by John Barker

Widnes Baths

How brilliant to find this website. I am a Widnesian born and bred and loved this photo of the baths. I lived across the road in Princes Street and used to go every night after school, I went to Kingsway School.

A memory of Widnes in 1970 by Kimberley Kennaway

Palmers Green

My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Christopher Liddle

Mitchell Family

I have been tracing my maternal grandmother's family for some time now. My grandmother was born in Shoreditch in 1908, and my mother was born there too in 1929. My nan was born in New North Road, and I found out that ...Read more

A memory of Shoreditch by Lisa Rust

Beck Road South Now Waterside Road

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

John Braithwaite Tailor

My great-grandfather had a tailoring business in the mid 1800s. I am trying to find out more details of where the family originated from. I found out that in an 1890 directory of Whitby there was a Tom Braithwaite, tailor, in Church Street or Grape Lane. Maybe a relative?

A memory of Whitby in 1860 by Lorna Davis

Greengate And Irwell Rubber

Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

Captions

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Caption For Banks, Hoole Lane C1955

Along the street on the left stand St Stephen's Institute and the village school; beyond, on Ralph's Wife's Lane, is the church of St Stephen in the Banks.

Caption For Botley, All Saints' Church C1955

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints Church has dormer windows with carved barge- boards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

Caption For Newcastle, High Street C1951

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Caption For Newcastle, High Street 1951

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Caption For Romford, North Street 1908

Leaving the town by North Street the traveller was soon in the country, passing Marshall's Park on the right.

Caption For Gidea Park, Hare Street C1950

Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street C1955

The suspended electric street light was one of Petersfield's first.

Caption For Petersfield, Lavant Street C1965

The pitched roof to the tower has gone and street lighting shows an advance on the following picture (p. 60-61), here it is fluorescent!

Caption For Abingdon, St Helen's Church 1890

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street C1965

By the 1960s there has been much rebuilding, but Broad Street is still recognisable.

Caption For Bromsgrove, The Church And Council House C1955

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

Caption For Barnt Green, Hewell Road C1965

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Main Street 1891

There is no traffic on Main Street, which at this time had a problem caused by a dog-leg in the road by the tree visible in the centre background.

Caption For Accrington, Baptist Chapel 1897

Cannon Street Baptist Church was built in 1873. Constructed on sandstone, this handsome church is a Grade II listed building. The spire is very much a feature of the townscape.

Caption For Thaxted, Stoney Lane C1955

This was the original course of the high street. The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1920

Towards the west end of Fore Street, a gilded glass sign advertises Hepworths the tailors beyond Reuben Rogers` grocery stores (right).

Caption For Chigwell, Grange Farm Centre C1965

As the young princess said at the centre's opening, 'No community, especially that which lived its daily life in and among the streets of a city, could thrive without open air and exercise'

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1970

Considerable changes to the street frontage have occurred since 1906.

Caption For Romford, The Trinity Weslyan Chapel 1908

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

Caption For Nottingham, The Market Square 1923

Trams, which were last seen on the streets of Nottingham in 1936, have been reintroduced into the city.

Caption For Nottingham, Theatre Square 1927

The Theatre Royal on the left was built in 1865 by William and John Lambert, and designed to dominate the view up Market Street.

Caption For Luton, George Street C1950

Street furniture is on the increase, and Luton's planners show innovation for the period with the first example of a mini-roundabout, just visible behind the vehicle in the middle of the photograph.

Caption For Chesterfield, Holywell Street C1955

Holywell Street presents a rather pleasant picture of 20th-century half-timbered revival buildings, some of which would not appear out of place in Chester.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street 1888

This side of Bridge Street in the 1880s and 90s could quite easily have been renamed Ironmongers Row.