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Childhood

Walmersley Road Recreation ground was later renamed Clarence Park. This is the bandstand where on summer Sunday afternoons there would be a band concert and deck chairs (strictly for the older generation of course). The house in the distance ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Janet Robinson

Opposite The Majestic Cinema

I remember this beautiful church standing opposite the Majestic cinema with the church hall to the right & St Marks steeple behind. Tragically torn down to make way for an ugly row of concrete shops! Typical Wrexham!

A memory of Wrexham in 1957 by Jim Clarke

Growing Up

I was known as Digger Dawson back in the days. My mates and I used to have a crafty fag on beehive bridge when in our early teens. I will always remember Armfield Crescent, Fair Green, the cricket green, leo's lollies, broken biscuits, ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by James Dawson

Pretty Little Ainstable

I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. ...Read more

A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by Kate Walker

Jackson Boat Platt Fields

I too remember Jackson's Boat. Living off Derbyshire Lane in Stretford, we would make the mammoth walk down the canal to Jackson's Boat on a Sunday and have a drink sat outside, then walk all the way back. At Platt ...Read more

A memory of Stretford in 1960 by Sandra Bunker

Cinemas In Croydon

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

Great Memories

I lived with my family in Windsor Avenue after 2WW. Oak Farm Primary was the school I went to which was just down the road. In 1951/52 the school had a choir, Mr. Roberts was the Head Master. I was in this choir. There was a record ...Read more

A memory of Hillingdon by Valerie Wagstaff

Growing Up In Cold Ash

I spent the early years of my life in Cold Ash and Thatcham. We lived in a detached house on Cold Ash Hill called Midway. I believe it has since been renamed. The house was built by my grand father Alfred Gadd, the carpenter, ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

The Visitation Convent Bridport Dorset.

For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1948 by Rex Duffy

Village Life

I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1940

Captions

2,242 captions found. Showing results 793 to 816.

Caption For Swansea, Wind Street 1902

Circuses, including Barnum and Bailey's, once passed down this street on their way to the Vetch field.

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Square C1955

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

Caption For East Runton, High Street C1955

The sea is immediately to the right of the caravan park; there are steep steps down to the beach here, as at several other places on the Norfolk coast.

Caption For Souldern, The Village C1960

We can see it in this photograph, down near the high wall, centre right. He started by selling potatoes and milk, but he soon widened his range. He moved to new premises in 1972.

Caption For Filey, North Beach C1960

Filey is a popular coastal resort, and its broad bay runs down from the prominent coastal feature of Filey Brig jutting out into the North Sea.

Caption For Barnsley, The Town Hall C1955

The Town Hall took twenty weeks to complete; it was officially opened on 14 December 1933 by HRH Edward Prince of Wales.

Caption For Calne, High Street C1960

This view looks down the High Street towards the Strand.

Caption For Romford, The Market C1950

Further down, Stones, founded in 1864, acquired adjoining properties and built a new store. The company merged with Debenham's in 1959.

Caption For Sennen, The Village 1908

This bleak, wind-blasted village, the most westerly in England, is known locally as Church Town. The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

Caption For Ilkley, The Moors 1914

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

Caption For Launceston, Market Clock 1906

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.

Caption For Launceston, Fore Street 1893

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

Caption For Northchapel, The Village 1902

the Petworth to Guildford main road.The church of St John Baptist was rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.The Swan Inn can be seen down

Caption For Lynmouth, By The River Lyn 1932

This pretty village was the scene of a major disaster in 1952 when the East and West Lyn rivers, swollen by torrential rain, cascaded down demolishing all in their path.

Caption For Alton, Market Street C1965

If one needed refreshments, the Tea Cosy Cafe was a little further down the street. All the buildings on the right-hand side were soon to be demolished and the site redeveloped by Boots.

Caption For Glyndyfrdwy, Post Office C1955

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

Caption For Exeter, Fore Street 1896

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

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Caption For Burslem, 1956

Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns.The last of the bottle kilns to be used commercially closed down in 1967

Caption For Cleeve Hill, C1960

The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.

Caption For Countesthorpe, Station Road C1965

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

Caption For Ilminster, The Crown Hotel And Triangle C1950

To the right, there is still a fish and chip shop by West Street, which runs down to the Minster.

Caption For Stonehouse, Quietways C1960

The large, stone building down Quietways, on the right, was the vicarage.

Caption For Horley, Station Road 1905

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

Caption For Belfast, The Isle Of Man Steamer, Fenella 1897

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.