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Leven In The 1950s

I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion ...Read more

A memory of Leven in 1957 by Dorothy Millar

Warners

As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1965 by Michael Gough

The Orchid Ballroom Purley

Ah yes, I remember it well.  It was magical to go there and dance the evening away.  So many great bands in the 50's.  The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Pauline Wells/Neff

The Stone Family Of Margate

What wonderful memories I have of my childhood holidays in Margate. Reading others memories bring them all racing back. The children born just after the war were so lucky. Although we really had nothing as regards money ...Read more

A memory of Margate in 1880 by Pauline Stone

A Wartime Child

I was born in 1935 at 25 Cambridge Road, maiden name Lee. There were six of us, parents, 2 older sisters, Beryl and Gwen, and grandmother. I remember many of the shops from the late 30's to the early 50's when we moved to ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow in 1930 by Margaret Waddingham

I Remember It Being Cold At Those 8.30 Swimming Lessons

I remember it being very cold when we had 8.30 swimming lessons before school. The teacher used to shout at us and I got my bronze certificate because I was too scared not to jump in the deep ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1966 by Pat Patt

Crosby Rosedale Aveune

I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1947 by Ann Hamlet

Boxing

When I was a young lad my father Gwilym Jones and Joe Collins of Avondale Street (Joe was, during the 1939-45 war, the army lightweight boxing champion of India) My father had been a professional boxer in his earlier years.They opened up ...Read more

A memory of Ynysboeth in 1948 by Royden Jones

Growing Up In Easebourne

I went to live in Cowdray House, aged 4, in 1951. My father worked in the accounts office in Easebourne village, and I attended Easebourne Primary School (Headmaster was Mr Bevan) along with Barbara Fisher, who also ...Read more

A memory of Easebourne in 1956 by Roger Mills

Childhood

I went to Dogdyke Primary School until i was 13 years old, I lived at Tattershall Bridge. Dogdyke was split by the River Witham, on the Tattershall side was The Packet Inn pub, where the ferry used to cross, and the Dogdyke pumping ...Read more

A memory of Dogdyke in 1954 by Christine Lawson

Captions

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Caption For Cooling, Castle, The Gateway C1960

Cooling Castle was built in the 14th century, and was once owned by Sir John Oldcastle, on whom Shakespeare based his character Falstaff.

Caption For Cardiff, St John's Church 2004

Golden masonry radiant in the sunshine and the cool green shade of the old cemetery make the area a city centre oasis. It now even boasts a café popular with both workers and tourists alike.

Caption For Chee Dale, 1914

The limestone cliffs overhanging on the left of the photograph shade clumps of water-loving butterbur, the leaves of which were once used to keep butter cool and fresh.

Caption For Coltishall, The River 1902

It is late afternoon and at last there are long, cool shadows to refresh the weary.

Caption For Teesville, Eston Recreation Ground Gardens C1965

We are looking east towards some of the cooling towers of the huge Imperial Chemical Industries Wilton Site.

Caption For Wisbech, The Hope Inn C1955

Before the days of refrigerators, patrons often suspended bottles of beer in the canal to keep it cool - one can only hope that the seals were sound!

Caption For Hothfield, On The Common 1921

Many villagers sought out the cool of the local school (centre) or the medieval church, which sits a mile from the common.

Caption For Sutton On Trent, The River Trent C1955

Cattle still graze here, but beyond the left-hand dredging barges the view north is now dominated by the cooling towers and chimneys of High Marnham Power Station, opened in 1962.

Caption For St Margarets Bay, The Undercliff 1918

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Caption For Addlestone, Pyle's Farm 1904

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

Caption For Ramsgate, The Beach 1907

light their lamps, and the hotels and cafes around the harbour are alive with visitors, one might almost fancy that one was in a lively foreign seaport, especially as all the world is abroad to take the cool

Caption For Dorking, Boxhill, The Wimpy Bar C1965

I seem to recall that we thought beefburgers and thick milk shakes the height of sophistication and 'cool'.

Caption For Westgate On Sea, Hotels And Beach 1890

of St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment; one can only speculate at the discomfort these ladies and children must have endured in the summer heat in their voluminous clothing, even with a cooling

Caption For Sutton Courtenay, High Street C1965

One of Berkshire's finest villages is Sutton Courtenay, with the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station a constant companion to the south.

Caption For Ferrybridge, The Power Station C1955

Eight massive cooling towers dominate the site today, and look out over the old graveyard of St Andrew's Church.

Caption For Parkgate, The Boat House 1939

It originally functioned as a café, serving visitors who chose to stroll along the promenade from the town or those who braved the cool seawater at Parkgate baths.

Caption For Ewell, The Pond 1903

On the far side of the pond a smartly-attired coachman in a top hat has diverted from the foot of the High Street to allow his equine companion, and the wheelrims of his trap, to cool in the water.

Caption For Stafford, Church Lane C1960

The cooling towers of the new District Hospital in Weston Road became the source of the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease ever to occur in this country, possibly in the world.