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Astwood Bank Co Op......Remember It?

It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more

A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by Sue Ford

Childhood In War Time Silsden

I grew up in Silsden and also worked in Silsden, as a weaver at Stocks Mill. I lived at 52 New Rd or shed side, as it was known. We lived almost opposite Fletchers mill gates, in a back-to-back two bedroomed terraced ...Read more

A memory of Silsden in 1943 by Gordon Cooper

A Very Unusual Bank Building In Style

The bank's origins relate to Blackburn, Lancashire, then moved to Manchester where a later generation of the Cunliffe Brooks became a very wealthy local landowner. Opened an Altrincham branch on 7th April ...Read more

A memory of Manchester in 1870 by Trevor Jones

Living In The Cpa Mill On Commercial Road, Godley.

I lived in the CPA or Calico Printers Association mill for about 12 years, where my dad was a foreman who worked in the batiks for many years. We had a huge flat which was knocked down many years ago. ...Read more

A memory of Hyde in 1963 by Stephen Durr

My Love Of Brynowen Continues

I do not remember my first visit to Borth as I would have been a few months old around about the spring of 1963. As a family we then returned every year staying at Brynowen, sometimes twice a year, until I turned 18 at ...Read more

A memory of Borth in 1963 by Andy Scott

Happy Youth

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

Plums And Custard For Tea.

I remember every fine Sunday afternoon dad and I would set off from White Cross Avenue, Tideswell to Little Hucklow to visit my auntie and uncle, Alwyn and Alice. We used to walk there and back, I would have been 4 ...Read more

A memory of Little Hucklow in 1940 by Elsie Hollis

The Westerham 'flyer'

I travelled with my father on the Westerham branch-line in the summer of 1959, and as we were the only passengers boarding the empty train at Dunton Green, we were invited by the driver to accompany him and his fireman in the ...Read more

A memory of Westerham in 1959 by Bill Curtis

Oh For Thing Past.

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

O J Brown & Son Butcher

I have no memories of Blackwood as such. My interest started when I retired and took on my Genealogy! Anyway, I knew about Ossie Brown and the family butcher's shop in High St but especially his father, Arthur J Brown, my ...Read more

A memory of Blackwood by Cherryl Wharton

Captions

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Caption For Newton Valence, St Mary's Church 1907

It can just be seen on the west wall of the tower, through the branches of the tree.

Caption For Talaton, The Village 1906

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

Caption For St Germans, The Quay C1955

Now derelict, this was once an important commercial quay on a tidal branch of the River Lynher.

Caption For Cuckfield, Broad Street C1960

At this road junction is the Cuckfield branch of J W Upton (the Haywards Heath furniture store), next to Lloyds Bank (right).

Caption For Amble, The Beach C1965

Amble became a centre for coal exports, and was served by a branch line of the North Eastern Railway.

Caption For Northampton, Mercers Row C1955

The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

Caption For New Mill, The Canal C1955

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

Caption For Braunston, The Green C1955

After the new school was built in 1967, part of this building was used as a branch library for Braunston.

Caption For Great Yeldham, The Old Oak C1960

The branches have now gone, with only the trunk remaining. Its origins are unknown, but by 1777 it appeared on maps as the Great Oak.

Caption For Newport, Allt Yr Yn, Above The Lock 1893

The Monmouthshire Canal ran from Newport to Pontymoile, with a branch to Crumlin. Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance.

Caption For Wotton Under Edge, Kingswood Abbey 1897

It has shallow pinnacled buttresses and a skilfully-carved canopy above the mullioned window, whose central motif is carved in the shape of a branching lily; the symbol of the Virgin to whom

Caption For Kettering, Gold Street C1950

On the right, Gordon Thoday, with branches throughout East Anglia, sold dress fabrics.

Caption For Wisbech, The Octagon Church 1901

To the left of the chapel is 'Glan Dyfi' house: formerly a school for young ladies and now known as Astral House, a branch of the RAF Association.

Caption For Blackpool, From The Pier 1891

After a second spell as a theatre, it became the local branch of C & A.

Caption For Headingley, St Michael's Church And The Shire Oak 1897

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

Caption For Windsor, Romney Lock 1906

The Thames Path reaches the lock from Windsor via Romney Walk, sandwiched between the river and the railway which arrived at Windsor as a branch line in 1850.

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle Gardens, Bowling Green 1927

Close by in 1970, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the first Charter, celebrations on Saturday 7 August included musical rides and spectacular events staged by the Mounted Branch of the

Caption For Clitheroe, Castle Gardens, Tennis Courts 1927

Close by in 1970, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the first Charter, celebrations on Saturday 7 August included musical rides and spectacular events staged by the Mounted Branch of the

Caption For Redditch, Huins Shoes, Market Place C1955

James Huins also had shops in Evesham, Northfield and King's Norton, but the main branch was here at Redditch, along with the head office. It was advertised rather grandly as Boot Metropole.

Caption For Chipstead, Valley C1955

The sinuous valley of the Tattenham Corner branch- line threads its way through the contours at the foot of Banstead Downs on the right.

Caption For Gidea Park, Main Road C1960

The branch of the London Co-op grocery on the right dates back to pre-war days.

Caption For Kettering, High Street C1960

Timpson's Shoes were a chain store with branches all over Britain. The shoes were made just round the corner in Market Street until the 1930s.

Caption For Maiden Newton, The Village 1906

It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.

Caption For Leeds, The Headrow C1965

Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders. The top floor was added at a later date.