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Caravan Holiday At Cliffsend

My Aunt owned a caravan on Danes Nursery site Cliffsend. It was called "Endevour". It was built by may Uncle, then when completed towed to Danes Field. It was sited in the far right hand corner of the ...Read more

A memory of Little Cliffsend in 1955 by Jill Ottley

Post Office Garden Village

The photograph is of Garden Village Post Office which was then in Cambrian Ave. The couple standing together are my parents, Stan & Mary Watts, I believe the man standing on pavement is a neighbour Bob Davies. ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by David Watts

Saturday Morning Pictures

I lived in Caversham Avenue in the 1960's near Janet, Heather, Pauline and Lorraine. I used to go to Cheam Park Farm Infants School and also Cheam Park Farm Juniors. Each Saturday morning my sister Frances and I would ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1964 by Neil Mach

Memories Of Netherton

We lived in the Old Manse at the end of Manse Road; our dad spent all his spare time doing it up. When we moved in it was antiquated and stinky but it ended up a nice house. Our dad was a music teacher at Larkhall Academy. I ...Read more

A memory of Newmains in 1959 by Carol Dobbie

Northcliffe County Secondary School 1965

Does anyone remember or attended Northcliffe County Secondary School in Shipley during the early 60's. I can remember the Headmaster being Mr Bartholemew. Our RI teacher was Mr Scott, Geography teacher Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1965 by Liz Matthews

Halfords Cafe And Outside Caterers, Castleford Rd.

Hi everyone. I was born in 56 and lived in Normanton and Altofts until moving to Pontefract when I was 7 or 8. My grandad had a cafe down Castleford Road called Halfords. Funny how this works ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1959 by Shawn Halford

Royal Navy

It was the long hot summer and I'd been posted to HMS Inskip. We moved into married quarters at 6c Nelson Gardens, don't know if it's still there? We loved it there one of our better postings, we'd love to visit again, we always talk ...Read more

A memory of Inskip in 1976 by Arthur Fraser

Blackwell!

I once found the long lost "Blackwell" in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster......It was very large, and very deep..... it was around 1967-68 time! We had to locate it as it was somewhere beneath the location of the proposed Swan ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968

Dancing Classes At The Alhambra Palace

I used to go to Bob Dale's ballroom dancing classes. That would have been around 1956-1959 when I was 13-15 years old. I loved it there and, of course, fell in love with him! If was thrilled in later years when ...Read more

A memory of Droylsden

We're My Roots Lay

I was born in Kelstern 1954, the house I was born in my gran and grandads was next door to the school, sorry to say neither of these exist today, but times move on as they say. My grandparents were Bert and Margery Vickers. My ...Read more

A memory of Kelstern by johnh.appleton

Captions

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Caption For Heswall, The Village C1955

The small, ornate castellated building in the centre of the row of shops used to be Heswall Village Post Office, but that later moved to its present position in the building to its immediate right.

Caption For Cowes, Birmingham Road C1965

At the top of Shooters Hill there is a sign-post. To the left of the sign-post between the buildings can be seen a lovely view of the harbour and the boats of the Yacht Haven.

Caption For Blackboys, The Post Office C1960

The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was sited by the main road. The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently restored after fire damage.

Caption For Horsforth, Town Street 1901

Also on Town Street was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

Caption For Wetherby, Market Place 1909

Finally, on the left is the old Post Office.

Caption For Morley, The Grammar School C1965

Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period.

Caption For Morley, The Grammar School C1965

Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period.

Caption For Aylesbury, Westmorland Avenue C1965

Our tour of Aylesbury peters out amid the post-war expansion to accommodate London's overspill.

Caption For Sturry, Street And Post Office 1899

This interesting picture of the village street and the post office shows the village postman about to mount his bicycle.

Caption For Mildenhall, Mill Street 1925

are Harry Webber, hairdresser, in the former Oakes Bank of 1885, the International Stores (Frederick Riches was manager), who traded here from 1909 to 1976, and Eccleston's, draper and grocers, now the post

Caption For Morley, The Grammar School C1965

Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period.

Caption For Rhymney, High Street 1967

There is no longer a post office next to the ornate and elegant Scala Cinema (second from the right), and the Rhymney General Stores (extreme right) is now a chemist`s.

Caption For Chideock, Village 1930

We are looking eastwards down Main Street from Chideock House (left) and what is now the Old Post Office (right). It was run by Charles Gibbs and his daughter Hilda.

Caption For Bishopstoke, C1965

In the distance can be seen a small shopping centre with a post office at the point where Spring Lane branches off from Riverside.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway 1897

Beyond, the building with the four-shaft 17th-century chimney stack was used as the Post Office until recently and is now a clothing shop.

Caption For Pinner, High Street And The Queen's Head C1960

At the centre, secreted away within an 18th-century brick skin, is a superb late mediaeval hall house, complete with a fine crown post roof and an original window on the rear elevation.

Caption For Rickmansworth, High Street 1897

Most of the buildings on the right have since been rebuilt, while on the left all up to the three-storey brick building with the parapet, now the Abbey National, have also gone (and some beyond).

Caption For Anchorsholme, Anchorsholme Lane C1950

On the left are a fish and chip shop, the post office and a baker's shop.

Caption For Ash Vale, Shawfield Road 1908

It was also the post office, William Brinkworth having been appointed postmaster in 1897.

Caption For Peaslake, The Cross 1939

This is the centre of this secluded little hamlet tucked away on the north side of Hurt Wood, with its modest stone war memorial isolated on a triangular green, opposite the village shop and post office

Caption For Sapcote, The Post Office C1965

All this is now reduced to the anonymous, all-purpose architecture of the post office and similar expanding contemporary development, particularly on the north side of the village.

Caption For Revesby, The Green C1955

The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

Caption For Fairford, The Market Place C1958

But the cars are getting bigger, and the Vauxhall exudes the post-war General Motors influence - Britain is going to get a lot more American yet!

Caption For Dormansland, The Post Office C1965

The village itself expanded too, but here there were older buildings, such as the Post Office, seen here amid an irregular terrace of brick and tile-hanging.