Books

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Memories

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Mitcham

Great site, brings back a number of memories. I went to Bond Road School in 1962ish with my twin brother Robert. We left at about 1970 and went Alphea in Merton before going on to Pollards Hill High School. Mitcham has changed so much, who ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Desmond Stevens

Of Beaches, Giant Snow Balls, Sniggery Woods And Little Crosby

I spent my infant years in Crossender Rd. In the winter we had hills nearby adjacent to the Southport to L'pool line. We used to roll little snow balls until they achieved a massive girth ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1955

Childhood Visits

My family built and lived at Merthyr Mawr. My grandfather was a younger son, so left there when he grew up and married, to another Nicholl. However he managed the estate and when I was a small child we would regularly visit ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr in 1940

Coronation Year

I moved to Holme on Spalding Moor, just after Easter 1953. My gran had a pub in Hull called The Black Boy, and she retired to Holme to run the Railway Inn in Holme and as I then lived with her I moved too. I was very ...Read more

A memory of Holme by Beryl Frances

St Paul's Cray 1970

I have great memories of growing up in Normanhurst Road - have been in Australia since turning 21. Going down the road to the brook, catching newts and minnows, walking up the hill to go to Walsingham School. Buying ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Cray by Jason Cartmell

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

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

Childhood Freedom

My brother and I spent very important years in Theydon Bois. We were only there for 5 years but they were probably the most formative. It was a very simple village. There was the school, far too small for the many children ...Read more

A memory of Theydon Bois in 1953 by Lesley Parry

My Days In Rosedale Abbey

My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by fichrist

Bull Farm

Hi - does anyone have pictures of Bull Farm Estate being built?

A memory of Mansfield by nick

Captions

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Caption For Streatley, The Village 1904

This is now the busy A329, and the B4009 Newbury road is between the Bull at Streatley pub on the left, where the Three Men in a Boat lunched, and the Georgian Elm House beyond.

Caption For Battle, High Street 1927

This triangular piece of ground contains the old Bull Ring, and lies immediately north of the abbey gatehouse (out of picture, bottom left).

Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921

The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.

Caption For Countesthorpe, Main Street C1965

The remainder step down the street in chronological order: later 19th-century shops, and the Bull's Head Pub built around the turn of the century.

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1960

The painted corner building has a superb Art Nouveau stone bank façade, designed by Frederick Wheeler in 1902; it is now a pub, called The Cock and Bull.

Caption For West Burton, The Village 1909

The Black Bull dates from the early 18th century; it was a pub until 1924, and is now a house.

Caption For Woolston, Portsmouth Road C1960

On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

Caption For Brookhouse, Bull Beck C1960

The inn on the right is the Black Bull, and Leslie Speckling was landlord at the time.

Caption For Hartlepool, Memorial Gardens C1965

The open space behind the trees on the left was known as the Bull Field.

Caption For Syston, High Street C1955

The turn of the century Bull's Head pub is now in use as the Syston District Social Club; as is so common in the village, over half the buildings in the middle distance have gone to make way for unattractive

Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.

Caption For Market Deeping, Market Place 1900

As its name implies, Market Deeping is a market town with a large, triangular market place, lined with pubs such as the Bull for the farmers and coaching inns for travellers, including the Deeping Stage

Caption For Ware, Baldock Street C1955

Next door was the Royston Crow, and opposite was the Bull's Head, which is still open for business today.

Caption For Kegworth, St Andrew's Church C1965

The church is built of a grey sandstone; the scraping of the interior has left it somewhat dull, but relieved by the royal arms dated 1684 above the chancel arch.

Caption For Gristhorpe, The Post Office And Memorial C1955

The new post office is in the Bull Inn, to the right, next to the tin-roofed church of St Thomas.

Caption For Royston, High Street C1965

The Bull (right), once the scene of disreputable activities, was by this time a respectable hotel offering accommodation and facilities for banquets, as well as snacks and lunches.

Caption For Enfield, Market Place C1950

The earlier cross was moved to the gardens of Myddleton House at Bulls Cross.

Caption For Slaidburn, Old Bridge 1921

The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.

Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921

The Brown Cow public house is on the right, and the Black Bull Hotel can just be made out further down the road.

Caption For Cliffe, High Street C1950

On the right are two public houses - the Victoria and the Black Bull.

Caption For Horncastle, Bull Ring C1965

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

Caption For Pitsea, Pitsea Road C1955

Its social centres were the old Bull public house, situated on Bull Road (now Clay Hill Road), Holy Cross Church, and Fairview Hall in Timberlog Lane.

Caption For Leyburn, Market Place 1914

In the market place is an iron ring said to date back to the days of bull-baiting.

Caption For Leyburn, Market Place 1914

In the market place is an iron ring said to date back to the days of bull-baiting.