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Barrow Hill

My father bought the land on Barrow Hill, and built a house called Carrick Lodge (1961). I am not sure that everyone at the bottom of the hill were totally impressed with the house although it did not effect the view. We did have ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1946 by Marian Hogan

Bath Time

My memories of bath times goes back to when Mum would once a week fill the copper again, in the corner of the scullery. The copper was built of bricks if I remember, with a tin liner, below was an opening, where you would light a fire ...Read more

A memory of West Ham in 1949 by Joan Doble

Battersea Dogs Home

I don't really have much of a memory of Battersea but lived there with my mom and her friend Charlie, who I believe was a big man and very loud and kind. He had three children; Carolin, Marylin but I forget the boy's name. I ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1972

Battersea Town Hall

The impressive entrance on Lavender Hill actually led into the Council Offices, where I started work when I left school in 1966. At that time they had changed very little since their Victorian origins; there was a grand ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1966

Beach

I was born in Torquay in June 1954 in Shrublands Hospital (can anybody remember that hospital, it was in the Warberrys). I left Torquay when I was 23 and came to live in London, my heart is still there. Who knows, I might retire back there. ...Read more

A memory of Torquay in 1860 by Andy Wells

Beechholme

I grew up in the Children's Home, Beechholme that was only a few yards from Nork, where children from the home went to spend their pocket money. I lived at Beechholme from 1956 to 1962. I spent much of my time in the home wandering over the ...Read more

A memory of Nork by Roger Armstrong

Beginnings

My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My ...Read more

A memory of Crantock by Dianne Christopher

Belgians In Birtley.

Few people are aware of the part Birtley, Tyne Wear, (part of County Durham in those days ) played in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Belgium in 1914 was occupied by the German Army, and thousands of refugees fled to Britain where ...Read more

A memory of Birtley by ranorwood

Bensham In The 40s

I was born in 1934 in Southill Rd, Bensham and went to Lady Vernon School, my name in them days was Sheila Lucas. I had a wonderful life in those days. My life revolved round Bensham, the baths in Mulgrave Terrace were ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill by Sheila Mcintyre

Bernard Cummins Salford Evacuee

Hello, my grandad and his sister Kathleen were both evacuees from Salford during the war and I am trying to gather information on him and his sister - also the people that he stayed with and where he stayed during ...Read more

A memory of Scorton in 1940

Captions

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Caption For Shrewsbury, The Old Mint 1891

Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.

Caption For Earith, High Street C1955

Opposite is a pair of brick cottages with doors and windows in a pretty segmental arch, and on the pavement outside are some children's tricycles.

Caption For Abersoch, The Village C1955

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

Caption For Launceston, Southgate Street 1906

The south gate with its twin arches is a remnant of the walls which once enclosed the town.

Caption For Mortehoe, The Church Of St Mary Magdalene, Interior 1935

The enormous mosaic above the chancel arch was created in 1905 in memory of the churchwarden's wife.

Caption For Cardiff, From Penarth 1893

With their ground floor bay windows, they could be from a much later period, and would not look out of place in the 1930s.

Caption For Bollington, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

There are any number of pictures of the mills in the archive, but not a single one of the twenty-three arched railway viaduct straddling the valley of the Bollin.

Caption For Matlock, Bank Road From Crown Square C1949

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

Caption For Tideswell, Church Nave 1896

The nave of Tideswell church dates from the 14th century, and its size and standing give the building the air of a much larger church or even a cathedral.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.

Caption For Seahouses, The Harbour C1936

After the trade finished in the 1860s some pre-1825 kiln arches on the quayside saw service as fishermen's stores.

Caption For Aysgarth, The Village 1908

The upper falls can still be viewed from a 16th century single-arch bridge over the Ure.

Caption For Canterbury, St Peter's Street C1955

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

Caption For Shillingford, Swan Hotel 1890

The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river. The road was turnpiked in 1764.

Caption For Leatherhead, Bridge Street 1899

Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782.

Caption For Whitby, The Viaduct 1884

The first brick was laid in 1882 and the first locomotive crossed the thirteen-arched viaduct in 1884.

Caption For Ironbridge, The Bridge 1904

It is a single-arched structure weighing 380 tons, with a span of 100 ft and an overall length of 196 ft. Today the bridge is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Caption For Lostwithiel, The Parade 1906

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

Caption For Burnsall, The Bridge 1926

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

Caption For London, Waterloo Bridge 1895

Canova considered the old Waterloo Bridge, with its nine elliptical arches, to be one of the most magnificent in Europe.

Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen And Apsley House C1908

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

Caption For Staines, The Bridge 1907

The graceful three-arched bridge over the Thames was rebuilt in 1832 by John and George Rennie, close to the site of the many bridges that have crossed the Thames since the Romans first spanned it.

Caption For Sonning, Bridge 1904

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

Caption For Accrington, Christ Church 2004

Without the finials and pinnacles seen in earlier photographs of Christ Church it looks a much plainer building.