Maps

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Memories

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The 2010 Oxford Folk Festival

This view shows just one of the many venues for the 2010 Oxford Folk Festival, a weekend long festival of music, song and dancing including a grand parade through the city on Saturday morning. Thousands of residents ...Read more

A memory of Oxford in 2010 by John Howard Norfolk

Memories Of Thornley

Having read Kenneth Ortons' memories, it brought back visions in my mind of the good times growing up in the loveliest little village I know. When I was born in 1947 my mam and dad lived with my grandma at 60 Thornlaw North ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1947 by David Thompson

St Von Tromp (Public House)

Hi there, just wondered if anyone knew any information or of any photos of a pub at 70 Church Street called The St. Von Tromp, which closed in December 1922? There would have also been a theatre/music hall in the area...? If anyone can help it would very much appreciated. stellabellatak@aol.com

A memory of St Helens in 1910 by Tracey Kirkby

Preston Market

It was a great market gaff to stand on, what a buzz. I had the time of my life there. The majority of the stallholders were legend and the locals were spot on. Times were good then and so were markets, unfortunately times and ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1994 by Ged Dolanbrown

Ancestry From Luddendenfoot

I am trying to find out about my family who came from L/Foot, The person it all starts with is called John Henry Musgrove wife Amy and daughters May & Dora, John moved from Nottingham, John who was my ...Read more

A memory of Luddenden Foot in 1910 by Richard Kendall

St Mary's, Gravesend

I think it was about 1970 /71 that I worked in a children's home in Gravesend, I am sure this was called St Mary's, it was a big old building run by nuns near Eco Square. Has anyone got any info on this home or photos? Iused ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1970 by Pam Turley

Lister Street /Clifton Park

I also remember the tree lined Lister Street. I have spent hours throwing sticks up the Horsechestnut tree in Lister street for chonkers. I used to cut thro' Brashers Alleyway (we were customers and allow too) from ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham in 1950 by Stephen Charles Garner

Happy Days

Goldenhill (Happy days) My first memories of Goldenhill are visiting my grandparents during the terrible winter of 1947, the snow was said to be five feet thick on Oldcott Drive where it had drifted from across the fields. I ...Read more

A memory of Goldenhill in 1940 by Tony Carter

Nostalgia

I lived in Dorset Road, Mottingham from birth, 1947. I have so many happy memories of what was then a real village. I can remember that no one owned a car in our road and it became our playground with hopscotch, marbles etc. I ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham

Grammar School And All That!

I remember the Grammar School well - I got transferred from Mexborough Tech because I had failed my 11+ Then I actually got to TEACH at the Grammar School whena student when the music teacher was ill for a ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by Terry Ladlow

Captions

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Caption For Norwich, Davey Place 1922

This tiny street of small shops offers a glimpse of the city's gleaming white castle, which rises from a great mound raised in prehistoric times.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Cornhill 1898

Here, a few street vendors have set out their stalls.

Caption For Aylesbury, Castle Street C1955

There was a castle at Aylesbury, but its location is unknown: only the name of Castle Street commemorates it. Here the photographer looks uphill towards Temple Square.

Caption For Salisbury, Blue Boar Row C1950

The traders' stalls can be seen on the Market Place, and there is far more activity in the surrounding streets.

Caption For Sawbridgeworth, The White Lion Inn 1903

This junction of two streets marks the site of the former market place, with the stolid red-brick White Lion, on the extreme right, and the King of Prussia pub along the road on the left, ready to slake

Caption For Poole, The Harbour Offices 1904

Wedged behind is the part of the Town Cellars which was cut in half by Thames Street.

Caption For Penryn, Market Street 1897

This photograph was taken a little further up the street from No 27648; Moon's outfitters, seen in the earlier photograph, has been given a second storey.

Caption For Wainfleet, Main Road C1955

In this view we look back towards the Market Place along High Street with the Angel and the Red Lion in the middle distance on the left.

Caption For East Grinstead, Tooth's Shop 1927

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

Caption For Chelwood Gate, From Beaconsfield Road 1930

Today it is centred on a long main street.

Caption For Old Swinford, The Castle, Church Road C1960

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

Caption For Bolton, Deansgate 1895

The track along the centre of the street was for horse-drawn trams, which began operating in 1880.

Caption For Middleton, Ye Olde Boar's Head C1955

One is this 16th-century inn which stands on the corner of Long Street. Half-timbered and built upon a stone plinth, it was apparently once used as the courtroom and jail.

Caption For Southwold, Market Place 1906

On the corner is Robert Critten, 'chymist'; further along the High Street are Stead & Simpson and the Crown Hotel.

Caption For Congleton, Bridge Street C1955

The first English branch of Woolworth's was opened in Liverpool in 1909, and before long there was a branch of F W Woolworth on virtually every high street in the country; but many have disappeared

Caption For Garstang, Church Street C1955

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

Caption For Great Dunmow, Braintree Road C1955

Once called Stratford (the `street ford`), this was where the Roman road crossed the River Chelmer.

Caption For Strood, High Street C1950

Early chain stores, including Home and Colonial Stores, International Tea Stores and Boots the Chemist, were all represented in Strood High Street by now; but older shops, like Mence Smith (on the left

Caption For Chagford, Market Place 1906

With its jumble of streets and pleasing buildings of local moorstone, it has long been popular with visitors.

Caption For Church Minshull, St Bartholomew's Church C1955

The previous church had been timber-framed and the village still has a number of timber-framed buildings; there is a particularly pretty one just across the street from the church.

Caption For Brentwood, High Street 1903

A further view of the High Street taken eight years after photograph 35669, this time from closer to the columns of the Town Hall.

Caption For Accrington, Bus Station C1965

The 'Gordon' tram shelter have previously stood on Peel Street, and was demolished in 1953. After many delays the new bus station was constructed in 1963.

Caption For Stockbridge, High Street C1955

This wide street has many handsome buildings. In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.

Caption For Castleton, Main Street C1955

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.