Maps

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Memories

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Redditch Town Centre.

I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

The Day I Was Born

74 High Street was the special place I was born into. My lovely Nan (Florrie) and Gransha (Will) were lovely loving grandparents who managed so much in their little 2 up 2 down, they brought a family up there - Mair who ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1951 by Tanya Harris

Sc Cummins Martin Street Off Earle Street

Does anybody there remember this company (S C Cummins) who built ice cream vans, and was Martin Street where the new shopping centre is in Earle Street? Happy days.

A memory of Crewe in 1968

Braintree Friends

My mum Eileen Ardern, nee Clark, was born at 59 Notley Road, Braintree in 1925. She married my dad Roy in 1944 and shortly afterwards moved north to Altrincham in Cheshire. She would dearly love to hear from Peggy Potter (age ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1930 by David Clarke

Station Lane

I was born on Albert Street in 1936, so I have seen a few changes in Featherstone, I still live on Albert Street, I don't think I could live anywere else! Just a few houses down, nearer Station Lane, Station Lane was a lovely ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1940 by Florence Willis

Troedy The Place Of My Birth

Firstly, Troedy was in Glamorgan not Gwent or Monmouthshire as it was then known. However, the postal address was New Tredegar, Monmouthshire. I was born at 1 Chapel Road in my grandfather's house. Sam and ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch

Small Heath

I lived on Muntz Street, Small Heath from 1963-1973 at number 143. It was right on the bend, a three-storey house with three bedrooms, two reception rooms, a small kitchen and an outside loo in a concrete yard. I have loads of ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham by Gerry Cook

A Schoolboy's View Of Bexleyheath In The Early 1950s

I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by John Howard Norfolk

Living In Fitzgerald Street 1938 1956

Were they happy years? I suppose they were, although we were very poor as kids we made the best of it, my memories were of the trams clattering up manchester road, which we used to take to go to the swimming ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1950 by Frank Broughton

Im An Essex Girl And Proud Of It

I was born in late August 1949 in Joan Gardens..a banjo off of Joan Road. Yes we lived on the big council estate but we didn't know. All I remember is the wonderful tmes we had playing in the banjo and the streets ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1949 by Patricia Arnold Nee Treadway

Captions

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Caption For Horsforth, Town Street 1901

There was probably strong competition between the Black Bull and the Old King's Arms across the street - the latter boasts a billiard room and is the meeting place for the Horsforth Harriers.

Caption For Hove, The Drive 1898

The Drive is typical of the development of the Stanford Estate after 1871: yellow brick semi-detached villas with cement dressings, slate roofs and bay windows in wide tree-lined streets - totally different

Caption For Ashford, Marsh Street 1903

This street is now known as Station Road, and is part of the ring road. Almost every building we can see here has since been demolished.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1904

The east end of the High Street, looking east.

Caption For Southwold, Gun Hill 1896

Queen's Street is in the middle distance, and the lighthouse to the right. White Lodge with its balconies overlooks the sea (right).

Caption For Lyndhurst, Crown Hotel 1890

The Crown in Lyndhurst (left) survives in the 21st century, but the street running along the front of it is very different today.

Caption For Denbigh, High Street C1955

The building at the end of the High Street is the old Town Hall, which dates from 1572; it was remodelled in 1780 and is now used as a library and museum.

Caption For Daventry, Market Square C1955

The buildings that run on down Abbey Street have long since been demolished and replaced by The Abbey Centre and a new leisure complex.

Caption For Barlborough, High Street C1955

The ancient Market Cross with its sundial dominates the High Street in Barlborough, opposite the Rose and Crown public house, which is on the right of this 50s photograph.

Caption For Sheringham, High Street 1901

Some of the High Street shops and houses reveal a Dutch influence, with mansard roofs and ornamental gables. The blinds are down, it is a hot day.

Caption For Caister On Sea, High Street C1955

Although there are many pleasant cottages in the vernacular brick and flint, the modest village street does not reflect Caister's illustrious history.

Caption For Wolverhampton, Darlington Street 1890

In the days of horse-drawn trams Darlington Street was considered wide enough for a single line only, and here inbound and outbound cars have made use of the passing loop.

Caption For Whitworth, Facit 1951

To the left of Market Street, Thomas Houghton`s cotton waste mill has the smaller Spodden Mill to its right- hand side.

Caption For Cirencester, Cricklade Street C1955

F W Woolworth's on the right was built on the site of a wholesale ironmongery business founded in the 19th century by Henry Alexander, who also owned a foundry in Cricklade Street. A

Caption For Bisley, The Seven Springs 1910

Dressing and blessing the wells on Ascension Day is a colourful village affair: the schoolchildren process through the street carrying garlands, and the wells are decorated with spring flowers.

Caption For Netherbury, And Lewesdon 1902

The cottages and trees in New Inn Street are overlooked by the parish church (right). Lewesdon Hill, topped by beech trees, was given to the National Trust in 1943.

Caption For Nantwich, The Square C1965

The rebuilding of Nantwich after the fire was so effective that in 1620 the town was described as 'very fair and neat and every street adorned with some special mansions of gentlemen of

Caption For Overstrand, High Street 1938

Pictured on the corner of the high street is the Engadine private hotel, run at the time by Mrs E G Edwards.

Caption For Swindon, The Civic Offices, Euclid Street 1948

Here we have a picturesque view through the trees towards the Civic Offices in Euclid Street.

Caption For Bromsgrove, High Street 1949

The High Street was still predominantly Georgian at this time. On the right-hand side is The Golden Cross Hotel, rebuilt in 1932 on the site of one of Bromsgrove`s oldest coaching inns.

Caption For Newquay, Cliff Road 1918

A few horse carriages and carts, a bicycle and one distant motor car are the only vehicles in the street during the last year of the Great War.

Caption For Wellington, The Square 1912

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

Caption For Maidenhead, Clock Tower 1903

Maidenhead only secured a station in 1871 and this spurred the development of King Street. The station approach became a sort of square, finally embellished by the Clock Tower.

Caption For Congleton, The Canal C1965

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.