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Chapel Lane Milford

In 1944 a bomb dropped not too far from our home in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, so Mum and I went to stay with her Mum and Dad, Alice and Bill Tulett at 3 Chapel Lane, Milford (now No.10 I think) where Mum was born in 1907. ...Read more

A memory of Milford in 1944 by Barbara Owen

Shopping In Newmarket On Saturday

SATURDAY MARKET DAY IN NEWMARKET, exactly how I remember it as a 5 year old. On the left next to the Rutland Arms in the center left of the picture was a small street called Palace Street. My father was born ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket by Sealia Dean

East Ham From 1958

I was born and raised in East Ham and was very proud of it.  We lived in Friars Road off the Barking Road and moved to Lincoln Road off High Street North.  The postcards brought back memories of home.  East Ham used to be a very ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1958 by Rosemarie Lee

Memories Of My Childhood In Rossington.

My story starts on the 1st of March 1950, the date of my birth at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.  My parents Jack & Mary Flather lived in Old Rossington at 65 Haigh Crescent, living with relatives (Guy) ...Read more

A memory of New Rossington in 1950 by Sandra Faulkner

Once An Idyllic Dorset Village.

Since about the 1960s, Child Okeford became a totally different community from the one I first got to know in the early 1930's. The Watts (Harry and Dorothy) had farmed out of Laurel Farm for many decades and ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1930 by Pauline Bullen

Smallbridge And All That

The place name comes from a narrow bridge over a stream that forms the boundary between Rochdale and Wardle on Halifax Road, by The Red Lion pub as it was then. Folk who lived in Smallbridge were once called ...Read more

A memory of Smallbridge in 1940 by Peter Butterworth

My Chldhood Times

Hi, I was born and brought up in Dipton, I lived in Annfield Street with my dad, Tom Bell, and my nanna, Maria Bell. I went to St Patricks RC School and have good memories of my time there with a few of the teachers being nuns. My ...Read more

A memory of Dipton in 1956 by Alice Bell

Buckhaven In The Late Thirties And The 50's

In the late thirties, my mother worked as a dispatcher in Stuarts Bakery in Church Street just down from the junction with Randolph Street. This building has been closed down now for many years. In ...Read more

A memory of Buckhaven in 1950 by David Gillies

The Snooty Fox

Hello Ted I was just looking through the old photos of Warminster when I saw your comment. You may well have found out by now that the Snooty Fox was indeed the Globe public house at the junction of Fore Street and Chapel ...Read more

A memory of Warminster in 1962 by Julian Butler

School Days

We lived in Langrish village, but seeing there was no school there we had to take the public bus to East Meon School. I remember the first and last days at junior school in East Meon. The school building was made from local ...Read more

A memory of East Meon in 1950 by Maureen Gartry

Captions

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Caption For Abingdon, High Street And Lion Hotel 1893

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

Caption For Gloucester, Eastgate Street 1949

Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village 1904

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

Caption For Redhill, The Earlswood Lakes C1950

Moving west, the route passes through Merstham, a village of two parts: the older part lies west of the railway, and to its east is a large former London County Council housing estate of the 1950s

Caption For Bedale, From The Tower Of St Gregory's Church 1896

The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

Caption For Whitby, East Cliff 1923

This panoramic view of Henrietta Street and East Cliff was probably taken from the West Pier extension.

Caption For Penzance, Alverton Street 1908

We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

Caption For Greenock, Union Street 1899

The East India Harbour was completed in 1806-07, the Victoria Dock opened during the 1850s and the Albert Dock followed a decade or so later.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway C1955

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1915

There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway. As well as having three railway lines, the town also had three turnpike roads.

Caption For Newnham, The Village C1955

East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

Caption For Ticehurst, Church Street 1903

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

Caption For Sutton, Grove Road C1960

This view looks east towards the High Street, past the Post Office on the right.

Caption For Dunwich, The Village 1909

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

Caption For Hemswell, Weldon Road C1955

East of Gainsborough the Market Rasen road climbs the Lincoln Cliff, the limestone ridge which runs due north from Lincoln at about two hundred feet above sea level.

Caption For Richmond, Frenchgate 1913

This street, where we are looking towards the town from the east, still possesses this fine mixture of architectural styles.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street 1920

The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

Cranbrook's High Street, entering the town from Hawkhurst, and Stone Street, leading on towards Tenterden and Maidstone, form a L-shape with the tile-hung fascia of the 15th-century George Hotel at

Caption For Ware, High Street C1965

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Caption For Congleton, The Canal C1965

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

Caption For Cranbrook, Stone Street 1902

Cranbrook's High Street, entering the town from Hawkhurst, and Stone Street, leading on towards Tenterden and Maidstone, form a L-shape with the tile-hung fascia of the 15th-century George Hotel at

Caption For Abingdon, County Hall (The Town Hall) C1960

In this view the photographer was looking left into East St Helen Street and right into the start of the High Street.

Caption For St Annes, Fairhaven Road 1901

Here we see a clean and spacious street with no traffic. The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.

Caption For Uppingham, West End, High Street C1955

This view looks east as in U10017 (p37) from the area known as the West End. Here, the High Street splits into three roads: to Leicester; to South Back Way and to Stockerston.