Maps

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Memories

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Astley Street Park

My grandfather Thomas Elliott was the Park Superintendent and appeared on early Frith Photographs.

A memory of Tyldesley in 1930 by Dorothy Lee

Everret's Corner (1)

This the South Est Corner of the junction on the A4 known as Everret's Corner. Just around to the right from this position are some lock-up shops that I remember from the early 1950s which included a Gents Barbers. Further ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1965 by Patrick Butterly

Topcliffe Fair

I lived on Long Street in Topcliffe 1958-1972 - opposite the old school, which is now a post office, and therefore on the other side of the road from this photo. I was excited by the fair, horses trotting along the road, smells, ...Read more

A memory of Topcliffe in 1969 by Jan Dickenson

Childhood In Waltham Cross

I was born in Waltham Cross in 1941, right in the middle of an air raid.  My dad was yelling up at the planes saying "Not tonight Adolf, not tonight!" Waltham Cross back then was a wonderful village to grow up in. ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Cross in 1950 by Madeline Rees

East Ham From 1958

I was born and raised in East Ham and was very proud of it.  We lived in Friars Road off the Barking Road and moved to Lincoln Road off High Street North.  The postcards brought back memories of home.  East Ham used to be a very ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1958 by Rosemarie Lee

Stone Street, Boxford

William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1870 by anne

Lanfranc School For Girls

Yes me too! Having just stumbled across this website and having read your stories. My dad was born in Bute Road just off the Mitcham Road and then moved to Albion Street number 7! He is now 99 and lives in Ewell. I was ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1961 by Glennis Spencer

Red Lion Pub High Street Life

My grandparents lived in Brant Broughton in the cottage next to the "Old Red Lion". I remember the farrier shoeing the horses, the cows going home to be milked at the dairy and then watching them being milked. ...Read more

A memory of Brant Broughton in 1958 by Janet Sale

Lancaster Road.

Henry Waits the butchers, small shops that sold sweets from a jar and fireworks. Penny for the guy, small children waiting at bus stops with the 128, 231 and 144B to try and pry a penny towards fireworks. Girlfriend (Rose Gritty) ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1950 by Roger Davis

Lower High Street

This picture is taken from the junction of Kinver Street and is looking up towards Church Street on the top left. At the bottom right is the Rose and Crown pub (Davenports house) next to which was a shop that sold everything and ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley by John Lampitt

Captions

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Caption For Castle Donington, The Methodist Church C1955

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Caption For Dunoon, Argyll Hotel, Main Street 1904

The view looks toward Cowal, and it is mandatory that every Pipe Band which takes part in the Cowal Games, held each August, must march from the Castle gardens along the street to Cowal, playing most of

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Bridlington, Prince Street 1897

This view shows one of the principal shopping streets for this town of around 13,000 people.

Caption For Streatley, The Village 1904

This peaceful unmetalled street is now the busy A329; the B4009 Newbury road emerges between the Bull at Streatley public house on the left and the Georgian Elm House just beyond.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Station Road 1914

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

Caption For Flimwell, The Village 1903

Here the photographer looks west along High Street; the picket fence on the right has been replaced by conifer hedging.

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1904

At the west end of the High Street, London Road curves away north-west downhill.

Caption For Ripley, High Street C1955

North-east of Guildford and now by-passed by the A3, Ripley has a long wide High Street and was full of coaching inns in earlier days.

Caption For Southend On Sea, Civic Centre C1967

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.Where once Prittlewell Church dominated the skyline now this massive Civic Centre building

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

But wool was not Kendal's only industry, and many other trades set themselves up in the many yards which lead off the main street of this southern gateway to the Lakes.

Caption For Conwy, Castle Street 1913

Built by Edward I, Conwy Castle glowers at the head of this street scene as it dominates the town.

Caption For Sherborne, Half Moon Street 1903

drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned and built as we see it today, set back from the road and occupying a large part of this side of the street

Caption For Lyme Regis, Old Walls 1922

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

Caption For Otterton, Church And Bridge 1890

A little further upstream we come to the village of Otterton, built around one long main street. A

Caption For Knaresborough, The Viaduct And The River 1921

The picturesque gardens of the houses on the hillside rise in tiers over the rocky cliffs, and flights of steps climb up into the streets of the town from the river below.

Caption For Harrow On The Hill, Station Road 1914

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

Caption For Glanton, The Village C1950

Consisting of little more than one long street running east to west, Glanton enjoyed a reputation for the healing properties of the water from the Keppin or Keppie Well situated behind the old school

Caption For Edinburgh, The Castle From The Grassmarket 1897

The site of the Marquis of Montrose's execution was not here, but at the Mercat Cross in the High Street. Having been declared a traitor in 1644, Montrose was not given the benefit of a trial.

Caption For Huddersfield, The George Hotel, St George's Square 1957

The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

Caption For Gloucester, Southgate Street 1891

A host of street lamps, which were erected in late 1890, chase their way down the road. The closest is the lamp outside Frederick Wright's County Cigar Store.

Caption For Broxbourne, The Station C1960

The coming of the railway to Broxbourne in 1840 had further stimulated the growth of the village, and demand from London-bound commuters heading for Liverpool Street and St.

Caption For Bourne, North Street 1952

Here we look from a bustling market place with the stalls spreading into North Street; the three gables of The Angel Hotel are on the left.

Caption For Ashford, Rowlands Hill Almshouses 1895

The prominent non-conformist preacher Reverend Rowland Hill and his congregation originally had their almshouses built in Hill Street, Blackfriars in 1811 to provide comfortable accommodation for 'respectable