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This photo shows my great grandfather's shop, nearly opposite the one owned by Jesse Boot. The shop has (on the left hand side of the photo) the name S. Page (Samuel Page) just above the wooden statue of Jonas Hanway ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham by Claire Allen

This is a photo of The Duchy Hotel. This later became Dartmoor Prisons' "Prison Officers Mess". It has now become The Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre. My dad was an officer or "screw" at Dartmoor Prison for many years and we ...Read more

A memory of Princetown in 1976 by Ian Sutton

This photo brought back so many memories my Dad, Ralph Catchpole, bought the the Mount Stores in 1952 he owned and ran the shop until about 1965. I have so many memories of my life in Dinas Powis, my Dad's Morris Minor ...Read more

A memory of Dinas Powis in 1955 by Clive Turner

I was born in December 1939 in Redhill Hospital which then changed to Edgware General. My parents Bill and Gladys Wyness lived in Marlow Court, Colindeep Lane and my maternal grandparents lived in Chalfont Court also in ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by sandymills03

I was based here in 1972, as a very young RN Radio Engineer. Antony’s memory sparke a few of my own. Long nights in the transmission hall monitoring an old B&W TV to make sure we weren’t ...Read more

A memory of New Waltham by starplots

I love this photo of London Road Reigate. There was a sweet shop just after Yorke road on the left - leading on to a chemists. I'd love to see a photo of them. Maybe folk didn't realise it was the shops that would be of ...Read more

A memory of Reigate by baxfilmore

Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well.  Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself.  I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more

A memory of Wigan in 1930 by Thelma Hurly

From the early 1900s to the mid 1960s my family, the Coopers, owned Thompsons Bakers, Confectioners and Restaurant at 34-36 Tavern Street.  If you turned left into St Lawrence churchyard - just where the person on the left of the ...Read more

A memory of Ipswich in 1960 by Suzanne Dawes

I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn by John Weeks

I too worked here as a school girl in the holidays. I remember Heidi and Suzi well ( have a photo of them) Also a very nice Dutch girl, and an Australian called Margaret. Rowena, who worked in the kitchen with one of the sisters. Margaret ...Read more

A memory of Kirn by Irene Mc Goldrick