Maps

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Books

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Memories

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Cwa Factory Or County Clothes, And Charlesworths Staff

My mother was Betty Brownell, nee Fleet. She started to work at the clothing factory when she was 12 and left to come to Australia in 1966. I remember going to the Christmas parties for the ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Pamela Fawcett, (Brownell)

Heath Road

I was born in 1944 and I was then, Pat Wilson. I lived in Heath Road and attended Chatsworth School, when Mr Killick was the headmaster. Miss Milner was head of the infants school. I remember swimming lessons at Hounslow Baths. Myself ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Pat Marks

Langley Moor, County Durham

I remember like it was yesterday, there was Walter Wilsons where we got our shopping, they used to serve the butter onto greaseproof paper and wrap it there and then. Opposite was the little sweet shop and I still ...Read more

A memory of New Brancepeth in 1963 by Gillian Rouse

Wembley Recalled

I grew up in Wembley (Monks Park area) and attended Oakington Manor Primary and then Wembley County Grammar. After school I worked and trained as a nursery nurse at Roundwood Park nursery in Willesden. I was married at Park Lane ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by Elaine Delaney

Greenacres

I was taken to Greenacres in 1956 I hadn’t done anything wrong & was totally confused as to why I would be put there which dished out such cruelty. I’d had a terrible childhood & let down by Hampshire county council ! I arrived on the ...Read more

A memory of Calne by ggbreakspear

Childhood

I used to go to school in Cleeve Prior, we lived in one of the cottages over the road from the village school. I was friends with two girls who lived just outside on the road to Evesham. We all went to Blackminster County Modern after. I ...Read more

A memory of Evesham in 1963 by Jean Hope Pears

Rob Hardy

I was born in the County Hospital in Haverfordwest and for the first week I was looked after by my aunt at Park Place. From that time, I was riased and loved at the Bush Inn, St George St. Does that make me a Tenby Man or a man of Tenby? I ...Read more

A memory of Tenby in 1963 by Robert Hardy

A Wartime Memory

I was born in Forfar in 1928, and in 1940 after the fall of Poland, I was taken by my mother to see a march past of Polish troops at County Buildings, Forfar. I seem to recall that General Sikorski was taking the salute, but I might be mistaken.

A memory of Forfar by Robert Simpson

Pilgrims Hatch/Childhood.

I was born in London in 1937 and moved to Days Lane, Pilgrims Hatch in that year,so all my childhood years were spent around the Pilgrims Hatch area. Dad was always sharp of the mark and a couple of steps ahead so ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1940 by Brian Taylor

Greenford Sixties And Seventies

I was born in 1958 in the Perivale Maternity hospital off the Western Avenue. I lived for my first few years in Goring Way and then Queens Avenue until leaving the area in 1973. Memories etched on my mind: ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Ian Buck

Captions

741 captions found. Showing results 673 to 696.

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Caption For Bangor, 1897

For most of the century there had been daily steamers from Belfast to Bangor, and as the holiday traffic increased the County Down Railway took over the service.

Caption For Wootton Bassett, The Town Hall C1950

At one time the building was used as a court house; it has subsequently been used as a branch of the County Library and as a museum.

Caption For Daventry, Grammar School C1965

This building at present houses the County Library, but redevelopment plans are afoot!

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1960

Lloyds' building was built for the old City and Counties bank, and the superb coat of arms sculpted on the side is plain to see.

Caption For Abergavenny, Holy Mountain 1898

Archdeacon Coxe, who wrote a famous account of his travels through the county in 1801, reached the summit of the Skirrid 'with animation and lassitude, horror and delight'.

Caption For Gargrave, The Lock, Eshton Road C1955

The canal opened up trade between the two counties, and was used extensively by the lead mines in the Dales. A cotton mill stood here until 1932, and a sawmill was also driven by water power.

Caption For Bangor, The Front 1897

The Belfast & County Down Railway was running to Newtownards by 1850, but did not see any reason to bring Bangor into the system until 1865.

Caption For Thursley, The Red Lion 1907

Lion was a popular stopping point on the London to Portsmouth road before the stage coaches began the long haul up to the wild and treacherous wastes of Hindhead Common, the second highest point in the county

Caption For Newtown Linford, Bradgate Park C1965

Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house.

Caption For Whitwell, High Street C1955

In the 1830s, the Bull's sign spanned the High Street, but this was removed after a number of accidents in other parts of the county. The Bull provided food and accommodation as well as beer.

Caption For Broxbourne, The Parish Church C1955

The town of Broxbourne runs along the old north road, and was originally one of the largest parishes in the county.

Caption For Wareside, The White Horse C1955

So often forgotten by travellers through Hertfordshire, Wareside is one of the county's prettiest villages.

Caption For Chailey Green, The Village C1965

the nationally recognized school for handicapped children, whilst on the opposite side of the road is Chailey Common with its windmill (supposedly sited at the geographical centre of the county

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1950

Webbs had branches in ten other towns, so they could safely claim to be 'The Midland Counties Outfitter'. The Old White Horse (right) would become Burton Menswear in 1962.

Caption For Boroughbridge, The Devil's Arrows 1895

They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket C1955

In 1829 it became Oakes and Bevan, in 1899 the Capital and Counties, and in 1918 Lloyds. The bank sign has a beehive for Bevan, and an Oak Tree on top for Oakes of Nowton Park.

Caption For Cardiff, 1893

The Cardiff and County Club, later to find a home here, is a new venture founded only three years previously.

Caption For Kibworth, The Grammar School C1955

Leicester City and the County were pleased to put their backs into the task and they have rid themselves of schools which have yet to be replaced.

Caption For Berkhamsted, Ashlyns School C1955

Unfortunately, the organ was removed when the County Council completed the purchase of the school in 1955.

Caption For Cardiff, General View 1893

The Cardiff and County Club, later to find a home here, is a new venture founded only three years previously.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate 1903

G Sutton, Hosier & Glover is first on the left, then the County Hair Dressing Saloons.

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan's Statue 1898

Legend has it that it is possible to trace Pilgrim's journeying through various locations within the county, and the establishment of the 'John Bunyan Trail' attempts to add substance to the possibility

Caption For Epsom, High Street 1902

On the right is a branch of the London and County Bank, with Dorset's shop next door exhibiting a gleaming display of light fittings.

Caption For Holt, The Methodist Free Church And Milestone 1896

The Norfolk architect Thomas Jeckyll used contrasting materials, which the Victorians adored; the building made a huge impact in the county when it was opened in April 1863.