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Post Office Sports Field

When I was a child in the 1940s, this sports field belonged to the Post Office. Occasionally there would be a horse in residence and this is where I had my first and only ride on such an animal. The stadium on the left ...Read more

A memory of Beddington by Norman Langridge

Charnwood Forest Children's Convalescent Home, Summer 1950

It was July/August of 1950 when I was sent here from my home town of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at the age of eight, to convalesce after a serious post-operative infection. My first ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Eric Brass

Wokingham Shops

Anyone remember the petrol station ,next to saint Crispins school called Bourne and Thomas,a real traditional garage ,the thames trader tipper trucks moving the soil from the A329m ,green in colour ,think the company name was harry ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham by chrisnash

Priestwood Square 1960s And 70s

I can remember the square not only for its shops but also as a meeting place . Most of our games back then involved huge amounts of our friends either playing war games or football matches over on the field opposite ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell by Lance Belsham

Wexham Rd Post Office

Hi Kevin, I think a Mr P.R.Poter ran the Upton Lea post office he wasthere in 1950s

A memory of Slough by Paul Wallis

Heston As A Young Lad

I was born in West Middx Hospital in July 1942 and lived in Vicarage Farm Rd from then until about 1960. Went to Springwell Infants then onto Heston Junior School. Failed the 11+ so went to Heston Secondary Modern.Great teachers ...Read more

A memory of Heston by George Eyles

Evacuee In South Petherton

My Mother Joyce Ladbury was evacuated to South Petherton at the beginning of WW2 aged 9 years. She stayed with a few families but most of all loved the Gaylard family. Mrs Gaylard and twin daughters Gwen and Cis ( or ...Read more

A memory of South Petherton by m.wethey

Post Office And Telephone Switchboard

I still have my post office savings book stamped Mere Warminster Wilts. I deposited 5/-. The telephonist use to sit almost in the doorway with a little switchboard our number was Mere 282. I think it was the shop with the blind next to the arch.

A memory of Mere by brianneparker

Timperley Village

As a child I can remember my mum shopping in the Co-op, the shop on the right between the two parked cars. Next door was the toy shop and next door to that was the Midland Bank. Coming back the other way towards Mayfield Road, there was the post office and a new small Spar supermarket

A memory of Timperley by mchlpilling

Western Esplanade, Alexandra Y.C. Dinghy Park. A Post Ww2 Facility.

As the classic 18ft long local dayboat classes became more expensive to build and maintain, there was an explosion of smaller, cheaper racing dinghy classes all round the UK, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

Captions

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Caption For Newbury, The Broadway C1960

The Clock Tower pub on the extreme left is now called Broadways, while next door to it A W Luff is now a post office and convenience store.

Caption For Upper Dicker, Coldharbour Road C1955

The openness on the right has now given way to modern houses, and the post office and general store on the left is now a private house.

Caption For Shalford, The Village C1955

The post office survives here, with the garage converted to be part of it, while the rather fine late Victorian butcher's shopfront to the right has now been rebuilt as Wing Hung Chinese restaurant

Caption For Chesham, Church Street C1965

that view were replaced by Dawes Close, a group of single storey cottages, built in 1959 for the Mary Gertrude Davies Trust, set around a small green whose access can be seen by the lamp post

Caption For Aspley Guise, The Square C1955

The motor car in the centre of the picture is a Jowett Javelin - arguable one of the very best vehicles designed in post-war Britain.

Caption For Hogsthorpe, High Street C1960

The first house on the left is named The Old Post Office, and the Old Cobblers Shop is further up the street.

Caption For Rochester, College Gate C1955

In this picture, there is a television aerial attached to the chimney, and the sign on the pillar box points the way to the Post Office.

Caption For Oakham, High Street 1932

The post office is on the left then Corney Manufacturing Jeweller.

Caption For Polperro, Harbour 1901

These post- gale craft have small cuddy decks forward. This late 19th-century improvement afforded the fishermen some protection from the weather.

Caption For Debenham, Cross Green C1955

The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.

Caption For Laxfield, The Street C1965

The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.

Caption For Pirbright, The Pond C1955

The trees, the bench and the post office remain.

Caption For Tilford, The River C1955

Across the bridge is the Post Office and Store, the building with the two gables, while between it and the bridge, just discernible, is a concrete World War II concrete pillbox.

Caption For Hale, Victoria Street 1907

Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

Caption For Coolham, Post Office And Stores C1950

Good's Stores, bakery, Post Office and café was fire-damaged in the 1970s. The site has now been redeveloped for housing.

Caption For Barcombe, The Village Sign C1955

They were replaced soon after the war finished, in time for the great expansion in post-war tourism.

Caption For Netherbury, Village 1902

Standing outside the village Post Office on the left, the bewiskered elderly man leaning on two sticks and wearing a bowler hat was probably a figure of some status in the village, where there were a

Caption For East Grinstead, London Road 1890

On the right are Elm Cottages, of which four were later altered to shops and one pulled down to make way for a new post office (1896).

Caption For Kildwick, View From Church C1965

From the elevated position of St Andrew's Church we look down the Aire Valley, where now a dual carriageway leads into Keighley.

Caption For Tickhill, Market Place C1955

In medieval times Tickhill, which lies 4 miles south of Doncaster, was more important than Sheffield; its castle, built about 1130, was one of the most important in the north - we can just

Caption For Dorking, The White Horse Hotel C1960

Dickens's brain than Sam himself, but its counterpart in our everyday world is said to have lain in North Street, the King's Head, a vast establishment in the 18th century, now vanished, like the Post

Caption For Herstmonceux, Gardner Street C1965

Round the bend, past the old garage, the A271 continues as Gardner Street, the main shopping street of the village.

Caption For Otterton, The Village 1906

The King's Arms now serves as the post office and village store as well as a public house.

Caption For Lindfield, Bower House And Church 1957

The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.The Tiger public house was once Church House—behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.