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Beanz Dreamz...

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

Greenwich In The 1940s And 1950s

I was born, during the Battle of Britain, at 8, Roan Street. Our back yard bordered St Alfege's churchyard. The house is not there any more because it had to be pulled down after the war. We had several 'near-hits' ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich by marionlangham

Kilburn House 1973 1976

I lived at 25 or 26 Kilburn house my name is Tony I loved the Bay City Rollers and a Scottish family from Glasgow I think lived upstairs and my friend Scott gave me a Bay City Rollers bag …..his brother jimmy was ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Tony Nicholson

Progress And Change

Being raised in Buckhurst Hill was a childhood experience I feel very lucky to have enjoyed. I was raised in the small cottage at 58 Epping New Road aptly named "Ivy Cottage". Located on the edge of the yard owned by ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1940 by Denman Lalonde

Wrotham, Old Palace Photo

In doing family history research I discovered my Grandfather, George Crowhurst, was born and grew up in this beautiful home from 1895 til 1920. His father, Isaac, leased the house and the land to farm. They lived on the farm ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham by Holly Parker

Growing Up In East Ham

I lived in park avenue, in a block of flats in the middle between market street and Langdon crescent. There were families of every age group in the 2 blocks and you couldn't have wished for a better community growing up. ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by William Butler

My Eli Memories.

Just found this site. I was born in Euxton in the early 50s, went to school there for a while and finally left in the early 70s. My dad's family had lived in the village since the late 19th century. They came from Wrightington and ...Read more

A memory of Euxton by haydocks

The Bushey Arches Traffic!

I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

1 Station Road

I lived at the address which was the house on the corner of hogmoor Road and Station Road. The house was wood not tin as stated and was painted cream. Corrals coal were the owners and a coal yard was at the rear of the house,. . adjacent ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by John Watts

Lancing Children's Convalescent Home.

In 1952 or 1953 I was a sickly 5 year old. I had 2 brothers, they were twins and one, unbeknown to me was dying of leukaemia. I was sent on a train with a lady and some other children, for a holiday in Lancing. I ...Read more

A memory of Lancing

Captions

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Caption For Pin Mill, The River Orwell 1909

Esther Garrard, one of three boat builders, has her yard over on the left.

Caption For Pembroke Dock, The Car Ferry To Neyland C1960

He constructed a railway yard on a platform of floating pontoons.

Caption For Eastleigh, Leigh Road 1951

For so long Eastleigh has been synonymous with marshalling yards and the grime of the railway age.

Caption For Chalford, On The Canal 1910

The retaining wall on the right was part of Chalford Station yard.

Caption For Inveraray, Castle C1955

The new site was 80 yards or so from the old castle.

Caption For Stamford, Old St Peter's Gate Bastion C1955

St Peter's Gate (demolished in 1770) stood a few yards further down the hill, near the end of Rutland Terrace.

Caption For Burton On Trent, C1960

The 32-arch, 470-yard-long bridge of character was built in 1864 to replace a medieval crossing of the Trent's flood plain, which featured in the Civil War during 1643.

Caption For Colchester, Scheregate

Much has changed hereabouts, and the dual-carriage- way southern bypass, Southway, is a mere 50 yards to the south.

Caption For Knutsford, The Rose And Crown 1898

Elizabeth Gaskell taught at the local Unitarian chapel Sunday School, and she and her husband William are buried in the chapel yard.

Caption For Kidderminster, The Church And Canal 1931

To the right, an ancient lorry is just visible, loading coal from the Baggeridge Colliery yard.

Caption For York, College Street C1960

The covered way at the side of J Todd's Grocer and Tea Dealer was built for the vicars-choral, so that they could cross from where they lived in Bedern to the Minster Yard without being molested.The

Caption For Inveraray, Castle C1955

The new site was eighty yards or so from the old castle.

Caption For Braintree, Rayne Road 1900

The Methodist church on Sandpit Road corner was demolished in July 1988 to make way for the George Yard shopping precinct.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1896

The distance between the building lines on Lord Street is 88 yards, which makes it much wider than either Union Street, Aberdeen, or the Headrow, Leeds.

Caption For Welford, West Street C1965

Michael Ventris, the great archaeologist and decipherer of Minoan 'Linear B' script, is buried in the church yard at the end.

Caption For Hemswell, Dawnhill Lane C1955

Opposite the houses is a very busy horse-training yard - well over twenty horses go for walks down the local country lanes.

Caption For Penrith, Cornmarket C1950

Like Kendal, Penrith has a series of yards behind the street buildings which were used as an added defence against Scottish raiders.

Caption For Dublin, The Chapel Royal 1890

It was completed in 1814 by Francis Johnson, and is situated in the Lower Yard, on the site of an earlier, smaller, chapel.

Caption For Chigwell Row, Manor Road C1955

F Harman & Co, whose sign we can just make out on the gate next to Morgan's, were builders, and this was their yard.

Caption For Brampton, High Street 1964

Next door and in the yard behind is Windsor Motors.

Caption For Stowmarket, The Cattle Market C1950

The sale yard was run by R C Knights until its closure in the mid 1980s.

Caption For Bristol, The Docks 1953

Though it was less than one mile long, it was expensive to build, requiring three bridges, a viaduct and a 282-yard-long tunnel under a burial ground, the cutting of which entailed the digging up of numerous

Caption For Rugby, War Memorial Gates 1922

In 1987, despite vigorous opposition, the gates were moved a few hundred yards to the left to make way for the access road to the new Ken Marriott Sports Centre.

Caption For Callington, Station 1908

Note the engine shed and the load gauge in the goods yard.