Maps

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Memories

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My First Day At Work

I can never pass through Maids Moreton without recalling my first day at work as an apprentice electrician for The East Midlands Electricity Board, Buckingham. It was April 14th 1958 and I was assigned to Mr Jack Holland, ...Read more

A memory of Maids' Moreton in 1958 by Rick Brock

Living In Bubwith 1966 1970

During the late 1960s I lived in the large house on the left of the main street in this picture. The shop just before it on the left was called Whittakers. My husband bought some land at the back of the shop to extend the area behind our house where we had some stables.

A memory of Bubwith in 1967

Wonderful Memories

I visited Grange Farm on a week's holiday with my school in 1960. It was my first real holiday, away from the streets of St Helens, Lancs. We slept in what looked like barrack rooms with about a dozen bunk beds which looked like ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell in 1960 by Steve Greenall

Music And Dancing In The Streets Of Teignmouth

Teignmouth Folk Festival attracted crowds who filled the sunny promenade and town centre streets to watch the many Morris Teams at this 2009 event. Musicians and dancers formed a procession at ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

My Grandad

My mother used to tell me about my grandad richard field he was a footballer in hes younger days and he used to play for norwich city football club He was allso the head foreman in doxford s shipyards in pallion But my mother told ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland by Linda Barella

Not A Care In The World

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

Black Dog High Street

My great uncle, William Henry Fynn had the Black Dog Inn in the High Street from the late 19th century until about 1912. He was also a blacksmith. His wife was Rosanna and his daughter was Grace who was born about 1878. Does anyone have any knowledge or information about them?

A memory of Horndon on the Hill in 1890 by Bernie Fynn

Broadway

I used to live in 'The Nine Gables' pink painted house in Woolwich Road opposite the Graham Road Secondary Modern School for boys and was the only boy caned for hitting the headmaster with a snowball full in his face ! My house was not ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by Raymond Bossom

Old Shops In Warwick

I grew up in Warwick in the 1960s. These are some of the shops I remember from my childhood, nearly all of which are gone now unfortunately. The Saltisford and North Rock. Summers the  butchers, Maydays the bakers, Hobdays the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick

Arthur Smith Was 12 When This Picture Was Taken

My dad was born Headcorn in 1891, grew up in the village. He served in the First World War and, later, moved to other areas in the south. He ceased travelling after arriving in Bedfordshire with my ...Read more

A memory of Headcorn by pashburner

Captions

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Caption For Frome, Oldest House 1907

At the south end of Cheap Street, seen on the right, were the premises of H R Hughes; the building has a narrow three-sided front and a stone-tiled roof, also with three planes.

Caption For Preston, Cheapside C1960

It is nostalgic to see the cars parked in the street - the Morris Minor and mini- vans for example - and no yellow lines and no parking meters. Those were halcyon days.

Caption For Lindfield, High Street C1960

The pond, which is basically circular, is situated at the southern end of the High Street, with the Common beyond.

Caption For Capel, The Kings Head C1955

The King's Head in The Street in Capel, a village now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road, is now a private house, and its once sterile car park is now an attractive front garden

Caption For Chobham, High Street C1955

Standing opposite the start of the churchyard, Frith's photographer looks back along the High Street to the Vicarage Road junction and the A319 main Bagshot to Chertsey road.

Caption For Marcham, Church Street C1965

West of the crossroads, Church Street runs north from Frilford Road, behind the camera, to the church, glimpsed to the left of the big tree at the far end.

Caption For Marcham, North Street C1965

This view is at the village crossroads, looking across the main A415 Frilford Road from Mill Road into North Street.

Caption For Sudbury, King Street C1955

Unlike most photographs of King Street, this view is virtually unchanged.

Caption For Southport, New Infirmary 1902

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

Caption For Tenterden, High Street 1900

The town, a prosperous agricultural centre, consists mainly of this long street, with its attractive lines of trees, which widens at its west end into a picturesque boulevard with grass verges.

Caption For Potter Street, The Junior School C1955

Potter Street Junior School and the infant school were on the same campus, and were typical of the many schools that had to be provided quickly for the very large percentage of school-age children in Harlow

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1955

tucked round the corner in Myddylton Place and can only be seen by those who explore the town on foot, for the apparent cul-de-sac leads through a twitchell (a local name for an alleyway) into the High Street

Caption For Launceston, Boys' College 1890

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

Caption For Launceston, Boys' College 1890

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

Caption For Batley, Commercial Street 1952

A double-decker bus brings trade to the town's main shopping street. Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

Caption For Tewkesbury, Church Street 1907

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

Caption For Staithes, Church Street 1925

Though the old man could be delivering milk, yokes were used for carrying all manner of things up the steep streets.

Caption For Northampton, Abington Street C1955

Abington Street, now partly pedestrianised, saw considerable changes after this view was taken.

Caption For Lincoln, The Glory Hole 1910

Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.

Caption For Devizes, Long Street C1965

Next to St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church (left of photograph) is No 8 Long Street, originally the home of Joseph Needham, a surgeon who was described in his obituary as 'perhaps the most

Caption For Exmouth, The Esplanade C1955

Much of the street furniture was removed by the start of the 21st century, leaving a more traffic-dominated Esplanade.

Caption For Andover, The Park C1965

This quaint scene beside the aviary yielded to a new roundabout where Eastern Avenue/Newbury Road crosses the old coach road to London, New Street/Vigo Road.

Caption For Wellington, Church Street 1907

Hesba Stretton is a little-known writer who was born in New Street, to the left of the timber framed building at the far end of the square.

Caption For Sleaford, Southgate C1950

the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house on the corner of Handley Street