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Come For A Stroll Back In Time Through South Hackney

Hi Guys , I recently wrote on this site about the childhood memories I have of South Hackney, apparently it triggered quite a lot of interest on Facebook by people who connected with my ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

Suntrap School, Hayling Island

My Dad Ray New recalls being sent to Suntrap School, Hayling Island round about 1948, as he was "delicate". He would have been about 9-10 years old. He recalls helping to manually drain the chests of asthmatic ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by lochlevenjen

Lost School Friend

For a time, my best school friend in Gomersal County Primary School was Colin Chapman. He lived at the children’s home in Little Gomersal. He had a walking impediment and wore a steel leg brace on one leg. At a certain point in the ...Read more

A memory of Gomersal by tigrussell

Sainsbury In Tonbridge

I may well have a poor recollection here as I would have been only 3 or 4 years old at the time but wasn't Sainsbury's first Tonbridge store located on the west side of the high street just south of the old post office / just ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by m102691

Cambridge Terrace Shops

Bush Hill Park had so many interesting characters back in the 70's when I was young. I loved going to the shops in Cambridge Terrace, just off Dehli Road. My favourite one was Stewart's, the sweet shop, owned by ...Read more

A memory of Bush Hill Park in 1972 by Sharon Kenealy

Wonderful Memories Of Living Down The Browney

I was born in Harle Street, daughter of Alan an' Ruth White. The Browney was a lovely friendly place to live, all the neighbours in the streets got on so well. Everyone knew each other and would ...Read more

A memory of Browney Gill in 1962 by Janice White

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

Captions

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Caption For Burnley, Duke Bar 1906

It belongs to St Andrew's church, which dates from 1867 and cost £5,000. St Andrews School, opened in 1866, is directly behind the Duke of York.

Caption For Manchester, Free Trade Hall C1885

When the subscription list opened for the cost of the building, it was referred to as the City Hall.

Caption For Liverpool, Hms Hercules 1890

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

Caption For Perth, Post Office And New Scott Street 1899

Blair was the postmaster-general, and in the letter he details the establishment of a postal service in the city.

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street C1950

Clothes were still made at home, and Thoday sold patterns, often by Vogue, which could cost as much as 7s 6d, and also the more humble and easier designs selling for 1s 9d.

Caption For Potters Bar, Church Of The Vincentian Spanish Fathers C1965

In 1960 a new church, designed by Felix Velerde, was built at a cost of £40,000 and dedicated to St Vincent de Paul and St Louis de Marillac.

Caption For Maiden Newton, Riversdale 1906

Its bell tower housed a carillon of 35 bells, cast at Louvain, and installed at a cost of more than £2,000. People would gather on the surrounding hills to listen to its peal.

Caption For Huddersfield, The Station C1955

The station was built at a cost of £20,000, and its classic grandeur still dominates St George Square. The foundation stone, laid in 1845, weighed an incredible six tons.

Caption For Liverpool, The London And North Western Railway Hotel 1890

The corporation thought that this area was so important that they paid towards the cost of the Storeton stone from the Wirral for this French Renaissance-style building.

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Caption For Rhyl, Donkeys On The Sands 1891

The Victoria Pier behind them cost £23,000 to build in 1867; in 1891 a grand pavilion was built at the entrance, capable of seating 2,500 people, and one of the largest organs in Britain was installed

Caption For Newark, The Ossington Coffee Palace C1965

The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

Caption For Charmouth, 1922

A poster in the shop window is for the re-opening of the organ and choir gallery in St Andrew's Parish Church.

Caption For Teddington, St Alban's Church 1899

The vicar of St Mary's, F Leith Lloyd, wanted a larger church for his congregation, and engaged William Niven to design this enormous church at a cost of £30,000.

Caption For Manchester, Ship Canal 1895

The MSC, some 36 miles in length, was one of the great civil engineering projects of the late 19th century; it was completed in 1894 at a cost of £14.3 million. Construction began in 1887.

Caption For East Dereham, The County Schools 1893

The neat and commodious building was erected in 10 acres of land at a cost of £1,000, and received several endowments.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle 1906

demolition); Flint (extensive demolition); Harlech (demo- lition of outer curtain); Haverfordwest (some demolition); Monmouth (dismantle works); Montgomery (demolish, material to be sold for paying costs

Caption For Newark, Appleton Gate 1906

The function of a chantry priest was to say a mass every day for the soul of some departed citizen, the costs having been provided for in the dead person's estate, often in the form of rents from property

Caption For Kettering, Library And Sheep Street C1965

The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

Caption For Rochdale, Town Hall 1892

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Moor Park 1897

It apparently cost Styles £130,000, several millions in modern money. It is now a golf clubhouse.

Caption For Warrington, Town Hall And Fountain 1901

Manufactured by Walter Mcfarlane & Company of Possil Park, Glasgow, it cost the princely sum of £1,000.

Caption For Tring, The Zoological Museum, Top Floor C1955

The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300.

Caption For Preston, County Hall 1894

A further block was built in 1934 (at a cost of £130,000) on Pitt Street and Marchand Street.

Caption For Huddersfield, The Parish Church C1960

This church cost £10,000; it used much stone from the previous church (1509) on the site, which was demolished on 28 April 1834.