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A Great Pub, Fit For An Emperor!

Ah the Forum! What a fine and individual pub! I often wondered why the brewers, Ind Coope, called their pub this! Anyone any ideas????? I was at Croydon college around the time this photo was taken and rather than going ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Keith Andrews

Memories Of A Young Girl.

Was born in Waterhouses 76 years ago at North Terrace, enjoyed the freedom of playing out in the street and fields . my father worked down the mine like all the other men and boys, my mother stayed home and cooked ...Read more

A memory of Waterhouses by donnagreaves5

Tosh And I And Easy Pickings

Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Herbert Avenue Pontymister

This is a lovely historic photograph showing the backs of the houses in Herbert Avenue in Pontymister. The Avenue was built roughly between 1922 and 1932. Herbert Avenue is now to be found under postcodes NP11 6JS AND ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister

Queen's Road L6

This was my grandparents home for many years and I visited it many times with my dad. My recollections of it were firstly, the size of the house! In it's heyday, it was considered posh and my grandparents employed a maid. The ...Read more

A memory of Everton by Andrew Pettigrew

Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

The Village Was Home

I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Chris Doggett

Such Memories

I lived in 14 west street from birth 1962. to 3 years , My great Aunt Jane Penny (Davies) lived there for years looking after a lady. When she died, the house was left to My aunt Jane. My mum and brother and me, moved just up the ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook by Carina Smith

The Only Television Set In The Street.

I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow by Howard Hill Lines

25 Years In Beaconsfield.

Born in Wembley, I arrived in the New Town of Beaconsfield in 1957 aged 5. With my younger sister and my parents. I left home at 17 but returned occasionally until 1981 when my parents moved to Scotland. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Beaconsfield by Gordon Cooper

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Caption For Basildon, Blenheim House And The Bus Terminus 1961

In the 1960s the Dave Clarke Five played in the Mecca in Blenheim House. The nightclub was later called Raquel's - it closed in the 1970s.

Caption For Peterborough, St Mark's Church 1890

A parish to include New England was created in 1857, and St Mark's Church was built on the edge of Spital housing estate in Lincoln Road.

Caption For Hutton Le Hole, The Village 1957

The Quaker connection with the village was very strong and a Meeting House used to exist on the site, which was later occupied by Brookside Cottage.

Caption For Honiton, West End 1904

It closed as a pub in 1972, and is now a Quaker meeting house.

Caption For Wimborne, From The River 1899

The earliest religious house here was a nunnery founded by Cuthberga, the sister of King Ina, between 704 -723. The Danes destroyed it in the late 10th century.

Caption For Billesdon, General View C1955

Many houses have their front doors opening directly onto alleyways and paths, all apparently higgledy-piggledy, saying much about the layout and texture of medieval village life, always under the shadow

Caption For Haworth, General View C1955

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

Caption For Haworth, General View C1955

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

Caption For Sandringham, The House 1896

The house was built a decade later in the Tudor style, a cumbersome confection of stone and red brick.

Caption For York, The Treasurer's House 1908

In this, the most interesting of all the houses in York, a young apprentice plumber stated that while he was working in the cellar, he heard a trumpet playing; then he saw an army of Roman soldiers marching

Caption For Leeds, Parish Church 1891

Back in Victorian times it was surrounded by a degenerate Leeds, including drinking-houses and prostitution.

Caption For Torquay, Compton Castle 1890

Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.

Caption For Billingshurst, The Village 1928

Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.

Caption For Acock's Green, Olton Boulevard East C1965

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

Caption For Knott End On Sea, Post Office And Methodist Church C1960

Knott-End was once a fishermen's village with a small white customs house, and brave attempts were made to turn it into a resort renamed St Bernard's-on-Sea with an improved promenade and a high-walled

Caption For Assington, The Village 1907

At the end is the School House, occupied by Richard Cobb. The school was built in 1844 and closed in 1984.

Caption For Great Barton, The Round House C1960

The drive now gives access to areas of housing.

Caption For Bilsborrow, The Roebuck Hotel C1960

Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

Caption For Dolphinholme, Pennine View C1950

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

Caption For Porlock, The Ship Inn 1923

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

Caption For Camberley, High Street 1936

This picture clearly shows how the shop fronts were added on to the fronts of the houses, when the town grew in size to warrant more shops to cater for the needs of a larger population.

Caption For Southwold, High Street C1955

Jack O' Lantern's trendy espresso coffee house (right) is now a private garage. Times change.

Caption For Brent Eleigh, The Street C1960

Beyond is High Bank, a medieval hall house.

Caption For Nether Alderley, Potts' Shop C1955

The half-timbered house beyond used to be the village pub, the Eagle and Child, before the Muslim third Lord Stanley closed it in the early 1870s.