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Childhood Days

Being born in Sowerby Bridge as a family we would often visit Ladstone Rock. I had numerous happy hours there as a young lad, picnics and gathering Bilberries' for mum to bake pies. Why did the summer days then never seem to ...Read more

A memory of Sowerby Bridge in 1951 by Barry M. Whisler

Childhood On Castleford Road

I remember the fields and Beckbridge prefabs. I and my sister attended the infants school , set back from Castleford road sadly no more except the walls remain .Swam in the old Baths where asda, s store now stands.I ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1961

I Dare You...

One summer afternoon, aged about 10, I was playing on and around this bridge with a group of boys. I was a bit of a tomboy! Some of the older boys decided to jump off the bridge and then jeered that I wouldn't be able to do this because ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham in 1953 by Maureen Cate

Alan Cobham

In 1932 at the age of eight years old I enjoyed the thrill of an airborne flight, Alan Cobham, later to become Sir Alan was giving demonstration flights on the field by Merrills Bridge, now the site of Bentley Motors, my father paid the ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1930 by Ken Wood

Bradley St

I was born in 1953 and went to Bradley St Primary. I recall there were three girls who dressed the same; the Pearl triplets. I remember going on a school trip to Heathrow Airport and losing my souvenir cast metal model plane on the ...Read more

A memory of Uttoxeter by Robert Cooper

Tea Leaf Alley Gertrude Street

Yes, I'm almost certain people will remember Gertrude Street. My name is John Howard and I lived at No.31 Gertrude St. Went to Mount Carmel RC, I also went to the Cad on Regent Rd many times. I'm always bumping into ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1948 by John Howard

Growing Up In The Pit Houses

We were raised in a pit house on Springfield (sometimes 'Avenue') near the far end of Ings Lane, in the fifties. It was a small street, only 6 houses. 2 or 3 keys would open both front and back doors (and ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Peter Wraith

Battersea

I was born in 1930 in Chelsea but moved to Haines Street, Battersea (demolished to make way for New Covent Garden in the 1960's) in 1933. Moved to No.3 Sleaford Street Battersea in 1935 and went to Sleaford Street School until 1939 (Mr ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1930 by John Dorking

The Barton Road Swing Bridge

This photograph shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, taken from the Bridgewater Canal Aqueduct, which stands alongside this bridge and carried the Bridgewater Canal over the ...Read more

A memory of Barton Upon Irwell in 1950 by Julia Skinner

Lost And Found In Bristol

Our family had returned to England at the very end of 1948 from a short overseas BOAC posting in Montreal. My father, a BOAC pilot, was due to begin training to fly Boeing Stratocruisers at Filton in 1949, and along with ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1951 by John Liles

Captions

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Caption For Market Rasen, Queen Street C1960

This view looks eastwards towards the railway bridge that carries the line from Grimsby to Lincoln. Again, the buildings have hardly changed, but the occupants have.

Caption For Market Rasen, Queen Street C1960

This view looks eastwards towards the railway bridge that carries the line from Grimsby to Lincoln. Again, the buildings have hardly changed, but the occupants have.

Caption For Thorp Arch, Church 1893

Much of the woodwork was commissioned in 1938 from Robert Thompson from Kilburn, and his mouse trademark can be found on the pews and pulpit. The building to the right is the old hearse house.

Caption For Box Hill, The Summit 1906

The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian

Caption For St Ives, The Broadway 1901

It is three years after No 41278, and little has changed; the memorial is still a year away. On the left is the North Hunts Constitutional Club, now the offices of Ewing Reeson, photographer.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn C1965

Pleasure prevails, with the Riverside Café and an amusement arcade next to the river. The commodious launch Amo is waiting to fill up with tourists for a river cruise.

Caption For Monmouth, St Thomas's Church C1965

This view shows the Monnow Gate that stands on the bridge of the same name to the left.

Caption For Stourport On Severn, River Severn And Bridge C1955

From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river.

Caption For Abridge, Market Place C1960

The Blue Boar, the building on the left with the two columns, is mid 19th- century, and was probably built to sell the products of the Anchor Brewery, which became the Abridge Brewery and

Caption For Dartmoor, Ponies C1965

In the south, huge pits were dug for china clay, an industry that continues today, and all over the moor granite was quarried for building stone.

Caption For Abridge, Market Place C1960

Abridge was always well-supplied with pubs and tea-rooms. Here we see The Blue Boar with its fine Tuscan porch (left), and opposite, The Retreat (now the post office).

Caption For Gisburn, The Ribblesdale Arms C1950

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

Caption For Huddersfield, Westgate 1982

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

Caption For Belfast, The Harbour Office 1897

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

Caption For Liverpool, Sefton Park Bridge 1887

Prize money of 300 guineas was announced for a competition in 1866 to design and lay out an area for 'the delight and pleasure of the public'.

Caption For Cowes, Birmingham Road C1965

It was once Shergold's grocery, and still has beautiful tiles on the walls.

Caption For Malmesbury, The River And Bridge C1960

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

Caption For Twickenham, The River 1899

The local population in the Middle Ages made a living from agriculture, fishing, boat-building, and ferrying traffic up and down the river.

Caption For St Donats, 1937

It was built by Sir William Stradling during the reign of Edward III, and remodelled during the Tudor period. There are two wards, the outer defended by a gatehouse with a portcullis.

Caption For Stafford, Victoria Park 2005

AND SO, with the new millennium, to modern times. It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

Caption For Belfast, Castle Place 1897

The horse-drawn trams were a long-established feature of the city, and the system was still being extended up the Cregagh and Anderstown Roads.

Caption For Chelmsford, Roman Road 2005

This had already been the capital of the Trinovantes, the tribe whose territory covered Essex and east Suffolk.

Caption For Carlisle, Shaddon Mill From The Victoria Viaduct 2005

The new mills and factories not only changed the skyline of Carlisle: they had a radical impact upon the very nature of the city.

Caption For Dorking, Pixham Mill 1931

The estate dates to the early 13th century, and was owned by William de Polesdene. It was later occupied by Thomas Slyfield, and was granted to John Norbury in 1470.